GAPS Food Journal: Day Two
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Before Breakfast:
1 cup Mighty Leaf Detox Tea
6 oz. beet kvass
2 Biokult
Breakfast:
1 cup homemade chicken stock with Rocky Canyon pork sausage (nitrate-free, antibiotic-free)
1 cup organic decaf coffee
Lunch:
1/4 can of Vital Choice Albacore tuna (YUM) packed in olive oil
6 pieces salami (not organic; Italian; I bought at Whole Foods)
1 glass filtered water
Dinner:
Salmon (wild, Alaskan)
1 cup homemade chicken stock
1 pear
I’m feeling a lot better today. I know the pear is not on the intro diet. The salami also has a teeny-tiny bit of sugar (less than 2%). So I was not perfect. But I did OK!
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14/11/2008 at 1:20 am Permalink
you must be trying to loose weight? you’re not eating very much?.
14/11/2008 at 9:52 am Permalink
Everything sounds good! It’s not about perfection, but you were pretty close to it haha
14/11/2008 at 10:06 am Permalink
Technically the canned tuna isn’t allowed either b/c of the BPA in the can lining. But I agree with Maria, it doesn’t seem like your eating enough! Are you trying to lose weight?
14/11/2008 at 11:20 am Permalink
Sarah –
I don’t know if the Vital Choice tuna has BPA in the can.
Their salmon cans don’t contain it:
http://www.vitalchoice.com/faq.cfm#93
So most likely their tuna cans don’t either.
Even if they did though, I wouldn’t be too worried about it. I’d rather not eat stuff from cans with BPA… BUT (1) I think you’re more affected by BPA when the container is heated and the BPA is outgassed and (2) I eat out of cans pretty rarely — maybe once a week at most.
So I’m not too worried about it.
14/11/2008 at 11:29 am Permalink
No, I’m not trying to lose weight!
I mean yeah I would love to lose 10 or 15 pounds or so but I have tried and no matter how much or how little I eat, I don’t lose.
Actually, you know what. I have not tried what my accupuncturist suggested. He suggested eating MORE food to lose weight. He said when you don’t eat enough, your body is in starvation mode and you can’t lose.
The only reason I haven’t been eating enough is because I’m so busy. I have no problem eating a good breakfast and I always eat a nice dinner, but lunch is a pain. I hate having to stop work and trying to find something to eat. It’s not easy finding something to eat on the intro diet!
Hopefully I can move on from the intro diet SOON so I can start making coconut milk smoothies for lunch.
Maybe I’ll make some butternut squash soup for lunch today. I’ll add a little coconut oil to it for some good fat.
And I’m going to enter my food journal into FitDay.com and see how many calories I am eating. I think my doc told me I’m supposed to be getting 1800-2000 per day (need to look that up but I’m pretty sure that’s what he said).
14/11/2008 at 12:33 pm Permalink
OK I just logged the last 2 days into FitDay and you guys are right. I am not getting enough calories.
On Wednesday I only got about 1450 calories (58% fat, 11% carbs, and 31% protein).
Yesterday I only got about 1650 calories (54% fat, 9% carbs, and 28% protein).
Unfortunately coconut milk is not allowed on the intro diet… it has quite a bit of fiber.
But I think I’m going to add coconut oil to the diet today. It has zero fiber. It’s good for killing off the bad bugs, too. I’ll start with 2 TBS so I don’t get too much die-off.
And I’ll make butternut squash soup for lunch.
14/11/2008 at 2:27 pm Permalink
A couple other easy foods are stirfries and soups. And stirfries make great and easy leftover for lunch if you make a big panful and divvy it up into servings in the freezer. Any veg you like can go in it, along with things like garlic, minced ginger, olive or coconut oil.
My favorite quick and easy soup is homemade broth, some chopped or ground beef, spinach, lemon juice and a bit of minced peel, garlic, salt and pepper, and some butter or coconut oil for boosting calories.
Salads with lots of veg and some hardboiled egg are good.
Oh! Hardboiled eggs are a quick lunch if you keep a few done up in the icebox. If you can have mayo you can devil them for more calories/fat.
Can you have green coconut on the intro diet?
14/11/2008 at 2:28 pm Permalink
Another quick lunch is egg drop soup. Heat up some homemade broth with whatever seasonings you can have (miso is good, if you can have it), beat and egg, and swirl it into the hot broth. Takes only moments to cook.
14/11/2008 at 2:44 pm Permalink
We can’t have eggs or salads on the intro diet. Not green coconut either. I’m breaking the rules and adding coconut oil. Actually I’m not sure if coconut oil is allowed or not. But I’m going to add it anyway because I need the calories.
I also cheated and had some scrambled egg this morning. I’m hungry!
14/11/2008 at 4:43 pm Permalink
glad you logged your cals, that looked like so little food to be eating. I think 1800-2000 is a good range to stay in. I have the same prob with loosing weight, it just doesn’t want to leave, i guess there’s so much rapair that needs to happen in my bod first.
14/11/2008 at 4:47 pm Permalink
this was a good GAPS dish i made a few nights back-
Steam cauliflower-
Once soft, drain water, puree in food processor with a few T fresh lemon juice, 3-4T coconut oil and salt to taste. It sounds really simple but it was so creamy and good and really fantastic with some fresh ground pepper.
14/11/2008 at 4:50 pm Permalink
OK this is wild! I just checked the scale and I lost weight! Posting about it now…
14/11/2008 at 4:51 pm Permalink
That sounds delicious, Maria! I will have to try it.
I’ve got my crockpot out keeping the chicken stock warm. Yum!