Keepin' It Pure Challenge

[spirittalker]

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I didn't get to work out yesterday. I know, no excuses but literally I let my house for work at 10 til 5 and did not return home until 10 after 8. I am going to call it my rest day I guess although I was totally bummed about having no time as I was really pumped to work out.

[Lori41]

Tuesday:
1 cup coffee with 4 tbls cream

Omelete: 2 eggs with onions, green and red pepper, 1 tsp sour cream and 2 shakes Tabasco sauce (1 tsp olive oil, low salt)

Salad: 1 cup chopped boiled dark meat chicken, 1 stalk celery, 1 ring onion, 3/4 pickle, 1 Tsp mayo, 1 tsp olive oil, pepper (mmmmmm)

Chicken and soup: 1 cup boiled chicken in lemon/egg/ chicken soup (Greek Avgalemeno soup-no rice)
Salad: 2 cups romaine, onion, g. & r. pepper, 1 T ranch

5 pepperoni crisps

30 minutes stepper, 3 mile walk

[sharon62]

Tuesdays Menu
brunch-2hb patties,mustard
supper-2hb patties,mustard
water,tea
was busy all day just had time to nuke ewwwwwwww........I make 4oz sirlion patties and freeze them..............

[spirittalker]

Sharon,
You shoud try to get some veggies in sweety :yes It's important to make sure you are eating at least half of your carbs in veggies.

Good job guys on Keepin' it Pure!

Here's my fitday link.

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[Moochiecat]

I agree with Spirittalker about the veggies!!

When I see that someone isn't getting their veggies, all I can think about is "Holy Constipation, Batman!!" :yikes
I think keeping it pure means no frankenfoods, but it also means eating a balanced menu.

So hack up a bunch of veggies and keep them handy, folks!!

[Lori41]

I have a question...

I know in the book (2002 DANDR) it says decaf coffee but on page 127 it says "should try to avoid caffeine", not must. So, I know what I should do and I'm working on eliminating that last cup of caf. Some days I have decaf, some days I have 1/2 & 1/2 and some I have a whole.

So, my question is...should I not post here since some days I do have caf? Is that considered "not pure"? Everything else I eat is by-the-book.

[Moochiecat]

Of course you can post here!! :yes

You are making the effort to go decaf.

If you had the attitude of "I'm not giving up my caffiene, and nobody can talk me out of it, gosh darn it all to heck!!"...then that would be different.

Personally I don't find that I can tell it's decaf, and I'm as excited about my morning cup as I ever was.
I sometimes think that I need an energy boost in the early afternoon and I'll think about a cup of regular, but I think about the sugar/caffiene rollercoaster I used to ride and it's just not worth it for me.

[Lori41]

Thank you. I know what you mean about the roller coaster...my day is much more stable...lower keyed by far :yikes , but stable!

I truly believe in the wisdom of it and feel much better every time I lower the cupage (is that a word?). I just didn't want to cheat anyone out of their "pure" by occassionally listing coffee on mine.

[sharon62]

I know i need my greens :sadblinky ..I have to get to the store,have so much going on the dogs eat better lol............I will go tonight and get some romaine i would like a faux taco salad yum
So far today
b-tuna,tomatoes
no lunch yet.............
supper,hamburger large,sugarfree pickle relish,mayo,little onion
never went to the store..................

[Lori41]

Waking:
16 oz water
1 cup coffee (1/2&1/2caf) with 4 T heavy cream

Breakfast:
4 sausage patties
(didn't feel good all morning - not good breakfast!)
16 oz water (spread out over morning)

Lunch:
Salad: 1 cup romaine, 2 hard boiled eggs with 1 Tbs mayo, 1 tsp olive oil, 1 tsp vinegar, 1 tsp flaxseed (felt much better!)
16 oz water (spread out over afternoon)

Snack: 2 piece chicken, boiled

Dinner: 1 Bratwurst (felt awful afterward- maybe tummy can't handle sausage?)
Salad: 2 cups romaine, g & r pepper, 1 Tbs ranch
16 oz water (spread out over evening)

Cals 1600, carb 14 - 3 fiber (75%/23%/3%) - dont' know what happened here today but you can see my carbs are way down, too much fat and not enough protein. Didn't really feel great - can see why percentages are SO important!

No exercise at all :sadblinky

[sharon62]

I did better today
B-scrambled eggs with cheese
l-cheese burger
supper-green salad,2 pieces of tomato,greenbeans,2 small filets of flounder
water

[Lori41]

Thursday Waking:
16 oz water
1 cup coffee (1/2 caf) with 4 T heavy cream

Breakfast:
Omelet: 2 eggs, r pepper, onion, olive oil/butter
16 oz water (spread out over morning)

Lunch:
16 oz water (spread out over afternoon)
Soup: Chicken with egg, 1 cup chopped chicken
1/2 cucumber

Snack:
1 Tbl cream cheese, 2 stalk celery
16 oz water (spread out over late afternoon)

Dinner:
Salad: Egg Salad over 2 cups spring mix, celery, onion
16 oz water (spread out over evening)

Cals 1200, carbs 22 - 5 fiber = 17 (65%f/6%c/27%p), Lifted Weights

[Carotan]

i'm on induction so...

b-2 eggs, cheese w/ some sausage
L-2 cups salad w/ cheese
snack-left over sausage and some cheese sticks
dinner-ribs and a cup of califlower

[Moochiecat]

You guys are all doing so well!!

I'm in OWL and I had:
decaf and 2 boiled eggs for breakfast
leftover jambalaya (peppers, celery, onion, hot sausage, chicken, tomato) for lunch
I baked some pepperoni rounds and had a handful for a snack. (I've tried nuking them to make crisps, but the oven at 350 or about 12 minutes works best for me)
Dinner was chicken soup with kale, cauliflower, broccoli, celery, bok choy, mushrooms and onion.

I made a 3 minute chocolate cake from Linda's LowCarb website http://users3.ev1.net/~fontlady/index.html
AWESOME website...she tests and gives her opinions on all the recipes there, and you can trust that her Induction-labelled recipes are really legal for Induction.
I usually divide it into 4, and have one piece a day but I think I'm full enough from dinner that I won't want any tonight.

[sharon62]

B-flounder baked ewwwwwww
supper-stir fry,chiken,bokchoy,brocoli,greenpepper,onion,bambo o shoots