As I was chopping veggies for cream of vegetable soup this evening, I had to snicker at the reputation traditional foods has (especially Nourishing Traditions!) as being "meat heavy."  I've even seen people try to claim that NT tells you not to eat vegetables!  Too funny.  I admit my veggie consumption was never the best, but it wasn't awful, yet I feel like I'm eating more fresh produce now than I ever have!  And not nearly as much meat as I had expected.

Still feel like I'm spending all day in the kitchen, but I guess I'm getting used to it!

Here's todays stats!

Calories-  2,355
Fat- 155.5 (79.9 sat fat)
Carbs- 151.7
Protein- 100.1

59% fat, 24% carbs, 17% protein

1 week down!

One week down, and I've lost 3 pounds!  Which gets rid of my holiday weight, so hopefully I can lose another 2 or 3 next week and get past this 236 plateau!  I think 2-3 pounds a week is a good aim, since I am nursing.  That would be 8-12 pounds a month, not too bad.


Here are my averages for the week-

Calories- 2507
Fat- 173.8 (93.3 sat fat)
Carbs- 128.4
Protein- 114.6

61% fat, 20% carbs, 19% protein

Day 5

Oops, got busy and skipped over day 4 there, didn't I?  Well, don't worry, here's my stats for yesterday!

Calories- 2,647
Fat- 199.7 (92.1 sat fat)
Carbs- 78.7
Protein- 139.5

67% fat, 11% carbs, 22% protein

Cutting down on the coconut oil has helped a lot with the nausea.  I've been doing 1/2 tbsp before meals, tomorrow I think I'll try to up it to 1tbsp and see how it goes.  My husband commented last night that he feels like he's eating a lot!  It's 3 meals a day, no snacks, so the meals are pretty filling.

English Breakfast this morning.  Any diet where I get to eat eggs fried in lard, bacon, and then toast soaked in bacon grease and fried in lard is pretty freaking awesome.  We get our bacon from a farm just a few miles down the road, how awesome is that?

Lunch was some roast beef, parmesan shavings, and lacto-fermented pickles.  Yum!

We were out of town for dinner, but I was good this time and got a Greek chicken salad from McAlister's Deli.  They said the dressing was made from olive oil, I hope they were right!  I know you're only supposed to do the 3 meals and no snacks, but since my dinner was light, I was only at 1800 calories and starving.  Not good for a nursing mom, so I'm having another round of roast beef and parmesan along with some herbal tea to take my coconut oil, since I didn't get it in earlier.

So, including that, here are today's stats!

Calories- 2,218
Fat- 151.4 (65.5 sat fat)
Carbs- 97.3
Protein- 115.5


61% fat, 17% carbs, 22% protein

Day 3

I had a nice evening out to celebrate my husband's birthday.  I was looking at the menu and in my brain saying "okay, salmon, salad, veggies, yes" but then the waitress came and I opened my mouth and "chicken tortellini" fell out.  How did that happen??  Oh well, thankfully I did great for breakfast and lunch, so my overall calories and fat weren't bad, considering!

Calories- 2984
Fat- 170.4 (88 sat fat)
Carbs- 224.6
Protein- 141.7

50% fat, 30% carbs, 20% protein

Day 2

Lamb, nom nom

Day 2 was a bit hectic, we had our homeschooling co-op today (which means we're gone for 5 hours!) so I had to prep ahead. I made lunch (chicken salad with curried mayonnaise) last night, and then prepped tonight's dinner before I left (roasted leg of lamb with root vegetables...I LOVE lamb! But I discovered I am NOT a fan of turnips, yuck!)  I have a hard time cooking lamb.  It kind of scares me.  It's expensive and if you over cook it sucks, which just makes you sad and angry.  But it's hard for me to tell when to take it out!  I thought it was done and took it out for my husband to cut up, it was basically raw in the middle.  Gah.  Irritating, plus I was tired from a long day and hungry.  I threw my fork down on the counter and yelled "That's it!  I'm done!"  One fo those days.  But, my husband put the half cooked pieces back in the oven with the veggies that were cooking in beef stock, and it all turned out okay.  Kitchen hissyfits are sometimes necessary to preserve one's sanity.  At least, that's what I tell myself.

I also read elsewhere on the web that too much coconut oil can cause intestinal issues, if you're not used to it.  Which explains the awful nausea I had all night last night after consuming the EFLF recommended dosage of 6 tablespoons through the day!  I did 2tbsp today before breakfast and lunch and couldn't bring myself to do the dinner dose.  So I think tomorrow I'll reel it in and try 1/2 tbsp before each meal and see how I feel with that.

Tomorrow is also my husband's birthday!  So we're probably going to go out for dinner, but I don't think it will be too hard to eat something EFLF approved, thankfully.  I'll just have to restrain myself when it comes to dessert!

Today's stats-

Calories- 2,560
Fat- 168.5 (108.4 sat fat)
Carbs- 153
Protein- 121.8

57% fat, 24% carbs, 19% protein

Day 1 down!

Day one is done and I am BEAT!  I'm used to spending a lot of time in the kitchen, but geeze!  I feel like I spent all day cooking.  I sure hope my time in kitchen eases up as I get used to the routine. 

Lunch- Coconut Corn soup, kombucha, 1 oz raw cheddar cheese, and one multi-grain wasa cracker.  The soup was decent, not something to drool over, but I'd make it in the fall after I harvested corn (actually, I made it with corn I canned from last year!)

Taking the coconut oil is more difficult than I thought.  Not physically, I mean, just trying to remember to take it 20 minutes before I eat.  I actually found the easiest way is to just dissolve it in some warm water and gulp it.  I've tried putting it in with herbal tea, but didn't really care for it that way.  It's like "oh yum, tea!  Oh god, what's with the oil slick on top?!"

Dinner was delicious!  Mesclun salad (which I figured out is just mixed baby greens, now I feel like a dolt) with blue cheese, toasted pine nuts, and balsamic salad dressing.  And a yummy triangle crouton made from some Ezekiel sprouted grain bread and fried in lard.

Dinner was so good, actually, that I was halfway through devouring it before I realized I forgot to take a picture!  Oh well, here's my $25 chicken dressed up in some delectable coconut peanut sauce.  Also some buttered green beans and there's some fermented kimchi hiding in there somewhere.  The coconut peanut sauce was totally awesome.  Something I would happily make again.  And, since my kids wouldn't eat the sauce (it was a bit spicy) I had about half of it left over.  So I froze it to use later.  I'm assuming if you're reading you have Eat Fat, Lose Fat, so I won't post the recipe unless someone asks :)

I tracked all my food today on fitday, and here's the breakdown-

Calories- 2,683
Fat- 221.1 grams (133.3 saturated)
Carbs- 104.8g
Protein- 86.9

72% Fat, 15% carbs, 13% protein

Starting stats

Okay, this is hard for me!  But I'm putting it out there so that a few months from now when I've shed a bunch of weight and inches and I can brag about how much I lost :)

Weight- 239 (though I only gained 3 pounds over the holidays, so that's something, right??)

Bust- 47"
Bicep- 15"
Waist- 41"
Hips- 52"
Thigh- 26.5"

Doubling for biceps and thighs, that's a total of 223 inches!!  I will weigh once a week, but I'll only measure once a month.

I'm pretty sure I ate more for breakfast today than I ever have in my life.  Which actually isn't difficult, since I've never been good about eating breakfast, come to think of it.

Grapefruit with coconut sprinkles.  So pretty, but grapefruit is every bit as disgusting as I remember it being as a child!  I was hoping my adult taste buds would appreciate it, but apparently not.  It tastes fine going down, but the aftertaste is unmistakably vomit.  Not appealing.  So I think in the future I will substitute a whole orange, instead.

The bacon, eggs, and toast were delicious though, of course!