Alright, this intended to be a journal entry of sorts to see how well I can pull off this paleo diet for a day. We'll see how it goes without my precious carbs.
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Well, I just finished breakfast, and I've already screwed up. Lol. First off, this is really hard. I had to google my breakfast options because I couldn't think of any that weren't a grain. Haha. I settled on eggs, and I had to cheat to make them - I scrambled them in a small amount of olive oil (better than the butter I usually scramble eggs in). And I used salt on them afterward, because I just can't go without salt on eggs. That would've literally made me miserable. And then, I made my fatal mistake. I thought, for some reason, that juice was okay on the diet (dummy) so after drinking a full glass of water, I followed with about 4 oz of v8 diet banana strawberry juice (it was the closest thing I've got to real juice, and I was kinda dying without sugar).
[[EDIT: Olive oil and salt are both okay on the paleo diet. a lot of "paleo" recipes I've been reading use olive oil and lemon juice for flavoring while cooking. Also, chicken stock in a pan is another option for cooking mediums. These seem counter productive while on a cleanse, but I'm also trying to drink a ton of water, so hopefully I'm flushing what I've eaten.]]
And now I'm dreaming of coffee with cream and sugar, and those vegetarian corn dogs I have in my freezer (they're SO GOOD) and the chicken & rice I have sitting in my refrigerator, and the goldfish in my pantry, and the popcorn that I was popping yesterday, and... I'm not sure I can do this. I think if I ever try this again, I need to have a solid plan for every meal - something pre-approved, and balanced so I can stick to it. I wish I'd had some oranges to supplement my breakfast. Fruits are a paleo approved item, although in moderation, since fruits were revered as a rare treat.
But, anyway... I'll keep trying. However, from this standpoint, even if I fall off the "wagon", I'll be landing on the relatively healthy (but not pure) foods that I've been using to lose weight all this time. It's nice to tighten the reigns occasionally to realize that all those diet sodas and fruit smoothies and healthy oatmeal carbs and vegetarian corn dogs are delicious treats themselves - things that I normally take for granted on my usual diets.
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So I've been looking around on paleo recipe sites, and I think I've found at least part of my lunch plan - zucchini cooked in a little olive oil and lemon juice. I'll keep thinking to dream up the rest.
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Made the zucchini for lunch. While it was cooking, I also decided to test out my PB2 - that's dehydrated and dried peanut butter. You reconstitute it with a little water and it becomes PB for a sandwich, but instead of 200 calories for 2 tablespoons it's only 45 calories! But anyway, i decided to experiment a little & dip some banana slices in just the powdered PB. It was delicious! (And yes, nuts are on the diet... in moderation.) Maybe I will make it to the end of today! I've got corn on the cob to cook for dinner, and not sure what else but we'll see!
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Update: I MISS CARBS. THIS IS SO HAAAAAAAAAAAARD.
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Yeah, I caved. This may be the funniest post our blog ever gets. I just ate a vegetarian corn dog & a piece of toast with apple butter on it (my homemade, healthy apple butter at least.) The whole thing without carbs became such a big deal, which is not something that should happen on a cleanse. I should be focusing my mind to get through it and feel better at the end, but instead I was taking shortcuts the whole time, trying not to fall off the food wagon but really sabatoging the point of a cleanse anyway. Splenda with my strawberry snack, sugar free gum by the packful... it wasn't helping. The only really good thing I was doing was drinking water only. I think that's what I really need to do for my version of a cleanse. So, now I'm going back to my way of being healthy. At least I tried, lol. And it put me back in perspective. And the drinking water is what's going to make me feel more cleansed. :)
This is brianna, signing off for the evening. Probably gonna go eat some carbs.
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