Truths: Day 1

Truth: I ate half of a lemon Bundt cake last night by myself.   My biggest weakness is sugar, so I struggle with the lack of baked goods and ridiculously sugary candy while on Paleo. So, in preparation for a month of no "real" sweets I decided to make and consume almost an entire cake. However, I did not frost it.  I do have some will power.  I wish I could say I was ashamed of myself, but I'm not. It was delicious. 

Truth: This morning I weighed in at 128.2 lbs.  I cannot believe I just admitted how much I weigh and then sent it out into cyber world, but I want to be able to hold myself accountable for weight loss, and this sure as hell is one way to do it.  Truthfully, I was damn pleased with this weight since I only gained 1oz after eating all that cake.

Truth: Today was a really, really hard day to start Paleo.  Paul was home. We couldn't leave the house. It was freaking freezing.  I was craving comfort foods all day. I wanted grilled cheese and creamy tomato soup.  I wanted hot chocolate. Who are we kidding? I wanted to finish off that Bundt cake.  BUT, I didn't do any of these things. I stayed strong except for eating probably more dark chocolate chips then I should have. Although, I decided that if eating those kept me from finishing off the cake I was still better off.

Truth: My children had cake for breakfast. Parent of the year over here.  I needed that cake gone, but thanks to my Nana Ruth's and my Grandma Pat's voices in my head, I could not with good conscious just throw it away.  The kids may have also had another piece midday with hot chocolate.  There is still 1/4 of the cake left. Most likely they will have cake for breakfast again tomorrow. You can judge me; I am judging myself right now.  But, they will still eat cake for breakfast.

Truth: After much consideration(really none at all), I have decided that I am not giving up my coffee mate creamer in my morning coffee.  It's too hard when it's this cold out.  One of the things I enjoy most is my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to give it up.  I only used cream, and I used far less then I normally would.  I will switch to the natural bliss stuff to cut out more of the unnecessary ingredients, but for today I thoroughly enjoyed my girl scout thin mint cream in my cup of steaming hot coffee on this -17 day. 

Truth:  I felt up a chicken today or at least part of one.  The recipe for dinner tonight said to rinse and pat dry the chicken breasts. I can honestly say that I have never rinsed my chicken before. Is that bad?  Does rinsing it remove some of the salmonella? Any who, after rinsing it, I began to pat it dry by holding it in my hands, and frankly I was appalled at how much it felt like a real breast.  Not that I go around feeling breasts, but really, now I understand why people refer to their own or other people's boobs as cutlets.  I am seriously considering putting chicken cutlets in my bridesmaids dress for Eric and Michelle's wedding.  However, seeing as how I am extremely afraid of being poisoned by salmonella, I may stick to the ones they sell at Target.

Was that TMI?  No worries, that's all the honesty I want to share today, so here is what was on the menu today:

Breakfast:  I had three scrambled eggs(2 whole, 1 egg white) that I cooked in a pat of REAL butter.  I also enjoyed two cups of coffee with about a tablespoon of forbidden cream in each.

Lunch: I had a salad with baby romaine, cucumbers, craisins and a few green olives with a homemade avoziki sauce that was a little lemony but over all delicious. 

Avoziki sauce:

1 ripe avocado

1/4 of a peeled and chopped cucumber

1 clove garlic chopped

Juice of 1 lemon

2 TBS olive oil

salt/pepper to taste

* Put all ingredients in food processor to blend.

 
Dinner: I made a recipe from my favorite Paleo peeps.  Below is the link to the recipe as well as their blog.  They are so creative with their recipes and explain Paleo in really easy terms.  I have their 30 day cookbook, and I love it.  I need to go buy their first cookbook: Make it Paleo.

I made Rosemary Balsamic Chicken.  This was really big time big girl stuff for me because anyone who knows me knows that I call any lettuce other than iceberg or romaine "front lawn lettuce." All the spring mixes look spikey and like they are a bunch of weeds picked from my front lawn.  So, you can imagine how I felt/what I thought when I pulled out the fresh rosemary that the recipe called for out of the package and saw this:

I'm sorry but that looks like a mini tree/bush, not an ingredient I should put in my food. Clearly, I knew to strip the leaves(sprigs) off of the stem, but still I was not happy.  Truthfully, I was not confident I would be able to eat chicken coated in fresh rosemary and was afraid I may cave and eat the cake for dinner instead. But then I pulled out a bottle of wine for Paul to have with dinner; and when I turned it around I saw this and was instantly reminded of why I was doing this challenge in the first place:

So I ate the chicken, and it was good. I think I just don't like the taste of rosemary though.  It is so overpowering.  Next time, I may just use the garlic.  I also had 1/2 a sweet potato with REAL butter and a little bit of cinnamon and a shitload of broccoli with nothing on it.  I was extremely satisfied and full after this meal. 

http://www.primalpalate.com/recipe/balsamic-and-rosemary-chicken/

Snacks:  As I have already admitted, I probably had 20 Ghirardelli Dark chocolate chips today.  A normal Paleo approved amount would be more like 10.  And as I am writing this I am munching on a pack of Strawberry Stretch Island Fruit snacks. 

That is it.  That is all I ate today.  I never felt hungry or the need to rummage the pantry for snacks.  I just had a little bit of a sweet tooth today which is why I decided that I will allow myself to make/bake ONE Paleo approved dessert each week.  This would not be allowed on the cleanse, but is allowed when following the 90/10(90% Paleo, 10% Paleo cheats) lifestyle.  So, I am thinking Lemon bars, bacon-chocolate chip cookies, strawberry shortcake...What should I make first? I can't decide. 

Tomorrow is another day. A day that I hope results in only my children eating cake for breakfast...