BarMan's Food Log

[BarMan]

So I figure I will post my first week's food log and try to get some feedback on how good, bad, or indifferent my choices are. Almost everything is organic. I'm not working on an IF time frame. My meals are spread throughout the day. As a reminder I'm not looking to lose weight I'm actually looking to gain weight and just be healthier all around.

Breakfast - 9:30am
3 Eggs
Handful of Spinach sautéed with Onion & garlic in olive oil.
1 Peach and Half cup Blueberries w/ Cinnamon
Half cup of Soy Milk

Lunch- 2:00pm
6oz Mahi Filet
Cucumber Tomato & Avacado Salad with Sesame Oil and Rice Vinegar
Half Peach

Snack 3:30pm
Hand Full of Mixed Nuts (Walnuts Pecans & Almonds)

Dinner 6:00pm
4 oz Chicken Breast
Remainder of Cucumber salad from lunch
other half of Peach

Snack 8:00pm
Hand Full of Nuts
Glass of Pinot Noir <-- Good Bad Indifferent?

I felt full most of the day save between Breakfast and Lunch. I should of had my evening snack there.

[Admin]

Looks good, although I would lose the soy.

plant estrogen
impedes nutrient obsobption
as a legume contains lectins

[BarMan]

Breakfast 9:30am
2 Eggs
Palm Sized Chick Breast
Hand Full of Spinach Sautéed with Onion & Garlic
1 Cup Soy Milk (I Know I have to get rid of it though)

Snack 12:00
Nuts Handful (Walnut almond & Pecan

Lunch 2:30
6-8oz Mahi Mahi
Lettuce Tomato Salad (Oil Vinegar Dressing)
Orange

Snack 4:30
Nuts Handful
Oi - 4 Glasses Red Wine

Dinner
Salad Ginger Dressing
4oz Steak 4oz Scallops
No Rice
Double Hibachi Veggies
Too Much Saki Wine (Friends B-day)

[BarMan]

Breakfast 9:30am
3 eggs
Spinach & Onions
Grapefruit (little Honey)

Snack 11:30am
Nuts

Lunch 2:00pm
Mahi Mahi
Cucumber Avocado Tomato Salad

Snack 6:00pm
Some Nuts

Dinner 8:30pm
Cucumber Avocado Tomato Salad
2 Pork Chops (Small)
Roasted Carrots Zucchini Squash Mushrooms
Zucchini & Squash a little Bitter??? Any one know why?
Glass Pinot Noir
Peach & Blueberries (some grapes too)

[Admin]

You are doing good!

[NatureDoc]

And soy is a goitrogen (can mess with your thyroid)

Cucurbitacins are the bitter property. Or it might have just been picked a long time ago. I know my persian friends soak their bitter vegetables in salty warm water for and hour or two before they cook with them.

[BarMan]

Breakfast 9:00am
2 Egg Omelet
Handful of Spinach Tomatoes and Onions
Grapes Peaches and Blueberries

Snack
Nuts

Lunch
1/2lb Burger
Cucumber Salad with Tomatoes & Onions
(Olive Oil & Red Wine Vinigar Dressing with Dill spice)
Grapes

Snack
No Snack Too Busy @ work

Dinner
8oz Filet
Collared Greens
Glass of Red Wine

[BarMan]

Breakfast
None Slept Late

Snack
None Slept Late

Lunch
TGIFridays Greens Strawberry & Chicken Salad (yum)

Snack
Chicken Salad on a Salad

Dinner
Beef Roast
Roasted Carrots Broccoli Tomatoes
Steamed Squash & Zucchini
Fruit Salad (Oranges Grapes Apples Peaches & Blueberries)
Red Wine

Snack
Nuts with Leftover Chicken Salad Salad

[BarMan]

Thanks for the insight I will try and soak them next time and see how they come out.

Question:
Fruit Juice and Alcohol?
What's the best way to have these on the Paleo Diet?

Also Cheat Days?
Any such thing on the Paleo? Dairy & Bread are calling my name.

[NatureDoc]

ha!! fruit and alcohol!

Fruit juice is high sugar low fiber. It spikes ones insulin just like table sugar. Better to eat the whole fruit: fiber, phytochemical nutrients, antioxidants.

Alcohol: 9 cal / g (protein has 4, carbs have 4 and fats have 7). Of course we all like to indulge. Vodka is the purest. Beer is made from grains. Probs with EOH are high calorie, tend to drink it late in the day before bed with no time to work it off (gets stored as fat), and of course the consquences that come after the liquid courage effects.

Those are my thoughts...

Cheat days are up to you. It's always your choice. I don't know what to say, it's your perogative.

ok back to the books!
hope it helps!

[BarMan]

Well I think I can do without fruit juice. As for alcohol... Well i've been staying away from beer been sticking to wine. I enjoy vodka so that should be easy enough. Cheat days I'll have to play by ear its only been a week so I'm not too worried yet. Thanks again.

[Immortal Wombat]

What about smoothies? They have more of the flesh in with the juice.

[volleyball_man]

I don't drink alcohol at all anymore. If I did - I'd drink a glass of wine with a meal now and then. I have found through a lot of experimenting that I don't have that luxury. One glass = 2 bottles for me.

Doesn't alcohol metabolize as sugar?

Tonia - you probably can answer this...

[BarMan]

Breakfast
Sleep

Snack
Salad Oil & Vinegar Dressing
Grapes
Nuts

Lunch
2 Hard Boiled Eggs
Grapefruit
Nuts

Snack
Nuts

Dinner
Rib Tips
Chick Breast & Thigh
Green-beans
Coleslaw

Snack - I got the munchies at a fancy bar, not a cost efficient place to get the munchies
Seared Tuna
Spicy Tuna Tartar & Avocado
Crab-rolls
Wine - Vodka - Tequila to go with it.

Thank for the continual insight and affirmations, I really appreciate it.

[NatureDoc]

What was I supposed to be answering?

Oh yes the metabolism of alcohol (EOH).

I have to admit that I had to dig deep into my grey matter slash my first year biochemistry text book (Champ PC, Harvey RA. Biochemistry. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1994.) for this one.

I think I made a mistake earlier, my bad:
CHO, PROTEIN: 4 kcal/g
FAT: 9kcal/g
EOH: 7kcal/g

Ok on to the meat of it:

So alcohol is processed in the liver in a two step reaction and we end up with acetate. These two reactions produce a bunch of energy carrying molecules that shunt the system away from gluconeogenesis (glucose production). I'm extrapolating that this means that the molecules are shunted down the storage pathwa - CRAP! I need to go... a string of really bad luck ... might continue later...might not...

AHH!!!
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