The jury is back. Cauliflower rice is awesome, though a bit of a pain in the ass . So it won't be a regular rotational item but on occasion ill definitely be doing it. Steam it up with some baby corn, snow peas, water chestnuts and coconut aminos. It's like a real veggie stir fry. And completely paleo and healthy. The best part being that i have tons of left overs so ill be having a good lunch tomorrow.
Woohoo
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Back in the saddle
Being offically back from vacation for 3 days...though it wasn't really sort enough to qualify as a full on vacation. But anyway. Being back for 3 days I am full heartedly back to the paleo challenge. Its been tough mainly because I did have that dip over the weekend. But I'm staying strong. So far. I have sort of come to grips with the fact that I may always want that cookie. I'm just not going to eat it. I did think of a great treat. That will be occuring tomorrow. But it will be grain, legume, dairly and sugar free (or no sugar added.
It will be banana ice cream with coconut whip cream. All I'll say for now. If the recipie is an epic fail it may be better cause then I won't be tempted to make it a bunch.
The interesting thing that I have to report is a noticed a market difference when eating the crap over the weekend. Though it tasted good and stuff it made me cravy more and more strongly then if I didn't eat it at all. Like I said before I may always want to cookie but the intensity of the want doesn't really change. Or hasn't yet. But when I derailled it just made me want to eat everything in site...and that is even harder to control.
The other interesting thing that I noticed during the weekend was just that I didn't feel as good eating non-paleo foods. They were good, but did really satisfy in the same way as the whole foods. This was admittedly a surprise since it had only been 3 days of good paleo before I left. But I guess thats enough. I definitely believe now that I have a gluten intollerance and that I feel better when giving up grains and sugar for sure. Willl I consider experimenting with things like peanut butter and greek yogurt. Probably. Because they are yummy and I question the validity that good dairy is the devil. Will I eat lots of cheese. No but that didn't happen anyway. And is probably extrememly counter indicated for someone with chronic GI issues.
But in week two of paleo land I feel less bloated, and less tired...though staying up for 20 hrs on sunday is still taking its toll. But not exsausted. So yay there.
Hopefully tonight I will try my hand at cauliflower rice. I'll report back later .
It will be banana ice cream with coconut whip cream. All I'll say for now. If the recipie is an epic fail it may be better cause then I won't be tempted to make it a bunch.
The interesting thing that I have to report is a noticed a market difference when eating the crap over the weekend. Though it tasted good and stuff it made me cravy more and more strongly then if I didn't eat it at all. Like I said before I may always want to cookie but the intensity of the want doesn't really change. Or hasn't yet. But when I derailled it just made me want to eat everything in site...and that is even harder to control.
The other interesting thing that I noticed during the weekend was just that I didn't feel as good eating non-paleo foods. They were good, but did really satisfy in the same way as the whole foods. This was admittedly a surprise since it had only been 3 days of good paleo before I left. But I guess thats enough. I definitely believe now that I have a gluten intollerance and that I feel better when giving up grains and sugar for sure. Willl I consider experimenting with things like peanut butter and greek yogurt. Probably. Because they are yummy and I question the validity that good dairy is the devil. Will I eat lots of cheese. No but that didn't happen anyway. And is probably extrememly counter indicated for someone with chronic GI issues.
But in week two of paleo land I feel less bloated, and less tired...though staying up for 20 hrs on sunday is still taking its toll. But not exsausted. So yay there.
Hopefully tonight I will try my hand at cauliflower rice. I'll report back later .
Monday, February 25, 2013
Walt Disney World Weekend recap
This past weekend was the Disney princess half marathon in Walt Disney world. Which of course meant I got to go to Disney world again after 17 years, yep the last time I went I was 12. Guess who was excited... This girl.
So I left Boston VERY early Friday morning (6am departure). Other then a crowded airport it was a very uneventful trip down. I made it to Orlando fine and met L who was my Disney running buddy and hang out buddy for the weekend. The great thing about Disney is the fact that if you stay at the resort they pretty much make life really easy.
An easy bus ride and we were at the corranado springs resort. Very nice hotel, though we didn't really get a chance to take advantage of much of it. Other then the fact the rooms were nice.
Our first stop was the race expo to pick up our numbers and tee shirts and stuff. It ended up being a really good idea because the line the next morning was RIDICULOUS. We explored the shops in the expo. I got some sweaty band headbands. They are very cute.
After we were done we headed to Epcot. For rides and dinner. We hit pretty much every ride in Epcot... Other then the really kiddie ones. And of course we did the Norway ride. I mean we couldn't skip that. We also had dinner in France which was tasty but not paleo. Which was a concern. It actually proved harder to eat paleo this weekend that I initially thought. But it's the first time I've even considered trying to ... So definitely could have planned better. It was hard too cause we didn't make reservations for dinner, fail on our part so we had to do quick service for both. Next time in Disney ill know better.
On Saturday it was Magic Kingdom day. Which was awesome. We did pretty much every ride in this park, except Peter Pan which jus eluded us the whole weekend and splash mountain cause it was closed. I even got my picture with pooh and tigger. At the Winnie the Pooh ride. They also had a few really new rides. A little mermaid ride where you got sung at, a buzz light year ride that you could shoot stuff... Though the staging area for that was tough cause the music was a snare drum. After half an hour it was ENOUGJ. Space mountain and Thunder Mountain were awesome. I also got a turkey leg for lunch which was fun and paleo. We stayed in the park for the light show parade and then I split because we ha to get up early. I got a pretty paleo friendly (steak, veggies and white potatoes ) dinner which I wanted to make sure to do. I mean the last thing I needed was extra GI issues on race day. And to bed we went.
Sunday after we made it back to the hotel for rest and showers we went to the Animal kingdom. I was excited about this one because it was just being built when I came last time. So it was a total new experience. It was great. Part disney part zoo. With rides. They actually had a brand new ride (opened either end of 2012 or 2013) called expedition Everest. It's a roller coaster and it awesome. We went on it twice. We also did the safari and some of the other rides. We caught mickeys parade and saw hippos. It was good. This park closed early, so we went to the magic kingdom for a little while. We repeated space mountain, mermaid, haunted house and the carousel and had dinner at cosmic rays dinner which reminded me of the jetsons sort of. Then the exhaustion completely hit so we went back to the hotel to do the important things like check Into our flights and sleep. Since we'd been up for close to 20 hrs when it was all said and done.
Regardless of sleep deprivation and any dietary faux pas... Of which there where many... It was an awesome weekend with Great company and a great athletic event.
Picture is from light snow at the magic kingdom
So I left Boston VERY early Friday morning (6am departure). Other then a crowded airport it was a very uneventful trip down. I made it to Orlando fine and met L who was my Disney running buddy and hang out buddy for the weekend. The great thing about Disney is the fact that if you stay at the resort they pretty much make life really easy.
An easy bus ride and we were at the corranado springs resort. Very nice hotel, though we didn't really get a chance to take advantage of much of it. Other then the fact the rooms were nice.
Our first stop was the race expo to pick up our numbers and tee shirts and stuff. It ended up being a really good idea because the line the next morning was RIDICULOUS. We explored the shops in the expo. I got some sweaty band headbands. They are very cute.
After we were done we headed to Epcot. For rides and dinner. We hit pretty much every ride in Epcot... Other then the really kiddie ones. And of course we did the Norway ride. I mean we couldn't skip that. We also had dinner in France which was tasty but not paleo. Which was a concern. It actually proved harder to eat paleo this weekend that I initially thought. But it's the first time I've even considered trying to ... So definitely could have planned better. It was hard too cause we didn't make reservations for dinner, fail on our part so we had to do quick service for both. Next time in Disney ill know better.
On Saturday it was Magic Kingdom day. Which was awesome. We did pretty much every ride in this park, except Peter Pan which jus eluded us the whole weekend and splash mountain cause it was closed. I even got my picture with pooh and tigger. At the Winnie the Pooh ride. They also had a few really new rides. A little mermaid ride where you got sung at, a buzz light year ride that you could shoot stuff... Though the staging area for that was tough cause the music was a snare drum. After half an hour it was ENOUGJ. Space mountain and Thunder Mountain were awesome. I also got a turkey leg for lunch which was fun and paleo. We stayed in the park for the light show parade and then I split because we ha to get up early. I got a pretty paleo friendly (steak, veggies and white potatoes ) dinner which I wanted to make sure to do. I mean the last thing I needed was extra GI issues on race day. And to bed we went.
Sunday after we made it back to the hotel for rest and showers we went to the Animal kingdom. I was excited about this one because it was just being built when I came last time. So it was a total new experience. It was great. Part disney part zoo. With rides. They actually had a brand new ride (opened either end of 2012 or 2013) called expedition Everest. It's a roller coaster and it awesome. We went on it twice. We also did the safari and some of the other rides. We caught mickeys parade and saw hippos. It was good. This park closed early, so we went to the magic kingdom for a little while. We repeated space mountain, mermaid, haunted house and the carousel and had dinner at cosmic rays dinner which reminded me of the jetsons sort of. Then the exhaustion completely hit so we went back to the hotel to do the important things like check Into our flights and sleep. Since we'd been up for close to 20 hrs when it was all said and done.
Regardless of sleep deprivation and any dietary faux pas... Of which there where many... It was an awesome weekend with Great company and a great athletic event.
Picture is from light snow at the magic kingdom
Disney Half princess
I am a Disney princess runner. Sort of. I made it through the half Marathon with my body And feet still in-tacked. So hurray for me.
There were definitely a few firsts for this situation. It was the first race I had to get up at 2:30 am for. Yes you read right. And because it was so early I basically woke up once an hour cause I was afraid of over sleeping. We got up and made it to the buses. It was the largest race I've ever done. The first one with corral start... We were in D. The first one with fireworks start. The first one through the magic kingdom. The first one with celebrities ( both Sean Aston and Ali (the firs female biggest loser) were there. Ok I think that's all the first. The other really funny that happened was a felt really good through about mile 4 and I started to think.. Maybe ill do this again. That could be fun. Or do the princess half again cause its definitely a very different race then any other. I mean you can take your picture with Mickey. And then around mile 5 or 6 the pain hit and I remembered why I won't be doing another big race for awhile if ever.
But a side note on the pictures with Mickey... I didn't take as may pictures as I may have liked not because I was worried about my time. But I was afraid that if I stood in a twenty minute line I'd never get started again. But I got a few goodies so I'm happy.
So anyway. I made it across the finish and gathered my ice bags. And even now a day later I don't feel too bad for wear.. All in all I'm really glad I did it. Could I have trained better and more, oh for sure. But I still did it and that is really the important thing. That even when mile 10 came and I wanted to sit down and wait to get picked up by the sweeper truck I didn't.
And I didn't walk at all from mile 12 to the end. That was tough.
But I did it :)
Ps the close up is right before mile 12... You can guess what I was thinking
There were definitely a few firsts for this situation. It was the first race I had to get up at 2:30 am for. Yes you read right. And because it was so early I basically woke up once an hour cause I was afraid of over sleeping. We got up and made it to the buses. It was the largest race I've ever done. The first one with corral start... We were in D. The first one with fireworks start. The first one through the magic kingdom. The first one with celebrities ( both Sean Aston and Ali (the firs female biggest loser) were there. Ok I think that's all the first. The other really funny that happened was a felt really good through about mile 4 and I started to think.. Maybe ill do this again. That could be fun. Or do the princess half again cause its definitely a very different race then any other. I mean you can take your picture with Mickey. And then around mile 5 or 6 the pain hit and I remembered why I won't be doing another big race for awhile if ever.
But a side note on the pictures with Mickey... I didn't take as may pictures as I may have liked not because I was worried about my time. But I was afraid that if I stood in a twenty minute line I'd never get started again. But I got a few goodies so I'm happy.
So anyway. I made it across the finish and gathered my ice bags. And even now a day later I don't feel too bad for wear.. All in all I'm really glad I did it. Could I have trained better and more, oh for sure. But I still did it and that is really the important thing. That even when mile 10 came and I wanted to sit down and wait to get picked up by the sweeper truck I didn't.
And I didn't walk at all from mile 12 to the end. That was tough.
But I did it :)
Ps the close up is right before mile 12... You can guess what I was thinking
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Paleo and travel
So I sort of wondered how going to Disney world would be on going paleo a week before would good. I've been doing pretty well with everything and then I jumped on an airplane yesterday morning to come to the most magical place on earth.... Yep I'm in Disney.
The day started good. I was armed at the airport with my Steve's originals paleo sticks... Basically beef jerky. And so fruit I got at Starbucks. But it was hard to find additional stuff and getting up that early meant my body was out of wack at bit. I rolled with it... Plenty of water and you can keep anything at bay.
We made it to disney and checked in the race expo. The T shirts are soooo cute. They are purple. Which is much appreciated in general because white T-shirts are ugly. I may get a tiara to wear around the park today. If I find a cute one that is. So far all were ugly ugly.
After check in we grabbed lunch at the hotel restaurant which is this Mexican sort of Buffet sort of thing. I was able to hunt down a salad woohoo.
Then we headed to Epcot. ( we're doing the magic kingdom today since its out one full day)
Epcot was awesome and similar to what I remembered. We road
The planet earth - the ride inside the ball
Nemo ride
Soar
A nature ride about technology developments in agriculture
Captain EO
Mexico ride
Norway ride - which was awesome and by far too short. Though I think we could say that about most rides.
We also walked around the works pavilion. Had dinner in France. Which was where the first slip up happened. Not horrible but I got a quiche and chocolate tart. And a diet coke. There wasn't any true paleo options there and I was basically too lazy to modify three different things to get what I needed. And all the lines for food were huge so I basically said temporarily fuck it.
After dinner we went to Norway and got my Norwegian skills on since Disney hires actual people from that country to work there... Pretty cool. Though there was definitely a few botched moments. Oh well. We also split and almost right Skole brød. The cream was wrong but pretty close.
We finished the night with a fireworks an laser show over the lagoon... Cause who doesn't like fireworks. And some shopping in the different countries until it started to rain.
Then we came home and went to bed.
Side note : I've included the previous two days meal logs to make documentation complete.
The day started good. I was armed at the airport with my Steve's originals paleo sticks... Basically beef jerky. And so fruit I got at Starbucks. But it was hard to find additional stuff and getting up that early meant my body was out of wack at bit. I rolled with it... Plenty of water and you can keep anything at bay.
We made it to disney and checked in the race expo. The T shirts are soooo cute. They are purple. Which is much appreciated in general because white T-shirts are ugly. I may get a tiara to wear around the park today. If I find a cute one that is. So far all were ugly ugly.
After check in we grabbed lunch at the hotel restaurant which is this Mexican sort of Buffet sort of thing. I was able to hunt down a salad woohoo.
Then we headed to Epcot. ( we're doing the magic kingdom today since its out one full day)
Epcot was awesome and similar to what I remembered. We road
The planet earth - the ride inside the ball
Nemo ride
Soar
A nature ride about technology developments in agriculture
Captain EO
Mexico ride
Norway ride - which was awesome and by far too short. Though I think we could say that about most rides.
We also walked around the works pavilion. Had dinner in France. Which was where the first slip up happened. Not horrible but I got a quiche and chocolate tart. And a diet coke. There wasn't any true paleo options there and I was basically too lazy to modify three different things to get what I needed. And all the lines for food were huge so I basically said temporarily fuck it.
After dinner we went to Norway and got my Norwegian skills on since Disney hires actual people from that country to work there... Pretty cool. Though there was definitely a few botched moments. Oh well. We also split and almost right Skole brød. The cream was wrong but pretty close.
We finished the night with a fireworks an laser show over the lagoon... Cause who doesn't like fireworks. And some shopping in the different countries until it started to rain.
Then we came home and went to bed.
Side note : I've included the previous two days meal logs to make documentation complete.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Day 2
Paleo day 2. And happy to report still going. Though I definitely have noticed the detox symptoms have started. I've had a headache all afternoon and ironically my skin is already starting to break out. I figured that would take a little longer. But whatever... It's good that its happening.
I was also Really really emotional today. Related maybe... Maybe not. But I typically don't let things bug me to the point of tears but today they did. I was a weepy mess largely just a compounded by everything else that's been going on.
I mean I guess I'm entitled sort of but randomly crying does sort of get in the way of things. And does make for awkward conversation. So lets just say it was not the best day ever.
But on the food front other then a lot of fruit... Doing well.
The one thing I need to work on is my lunch quantity. Because this is the second day in a row I've been hungry in the afternoon. While I manage to stay pretty fl between breakfast and lunch. So we'll have to think about what to do for tomorrow.
I was also Really really emotional today. Related maybe... Maybe not. But I typically don't let things bug me to the point of tears but today they did. I was a weepy mess largely just a compounded by everything else that's been going on.
I mean I guess I'm entitled sort of but randomly crying does sort of get in the way of things. And does make for awkward conversation. So lets just say it was not the best day ever.
But on the food front other then a lot of fruit... Doing well.
The one thing I need to work on is my lunch quantity. Because this is the second day in a row I've been hungry in the afternoon. While I manage to stay pretty fl between breakfast and lunch. So we'll have to think about what to do for tomorrow.
Monday, February 18, 2013
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