GAPS Food Journal: Day Seven
I tried making almond milk today. It came out great. And it did help my coffee taste better.
But it’s just not the same as real milk. When I was looking for a recipe online, all these raw vegans say that almond milk tastes better than milk. They must be on crack. The almond milk is good — but it’s not anywhere near as creamy and delicious as real milk.
I am still sneezing some — but I notice that it is only after I take my probiotic or drink something fermented.
Before Breakfast:
1 cup beet kvass
2 Biokult
Breakfast:
2 cups organic half-caf coffee, black with homemade almond milk (made from soaked and dried almonds, filtered water, raw honey, vanilla extract and sea salt)
Lunch:
3 pieces of Applegate Farms turkey
Iodoral, adrenal gland, cod liver oil and other supplements
Afternoon:
2 Biokult
Dinner:
1 cup butternut squash soup (made with chopped onion, coconut oil, roasted butternut squash, homemade chicken stock, sea salt, and freshly ground nutmeg)
1/2 cup soaked & dried raw almonds with a little sea salt
1/4 cup organic raisins
1 glass Trader Joe’s sauvignon blanc
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19/11/2008 at 12:50 pm Permalink
Dang girl, I’d be starving!
. I guess I like to eat a lot… I still feel like I’m losing weight even though I’m up to 10 srvgs of fat a day!
Any ways, I miss the dairy too. I’d kill (ok, maybe that’s a little strong) for homemade egg nog with raw cream, milk, eggs, nutmeg, honey, etc. Yummmmm…..
Ah, all in due time.
Have a great day!
G
19/11/2008 at 2:58 pm Permalink
I was surprised to learn almond “milk” was commonly made during medieval times, as a way around the restriction of dairy foods on the frequent Catholic religious days that peppered the calendar back then. The technique came to Europe via Arab and Turkish culinary influences that spread throughout Southern and inland Europe, beginning in Italy and the Mediterranean region. But it didn’t really take hold in Northern Europe, for the most part.
Can you post your method for making it?
19/11/2008 at 2:59 pm Permalink
Annie, I think you’re overdosing on sugar:-) fight the cravings! I added ghee today I bought it from greenpastures they sell a blend of coconut oil and raw grass fed ghee.Yum! I am having 3 eggs in the am with half an onion fried in beef tallow and lots of coconut ghee over the whole thing. lunch and dinner is chili with beef stock from us wellness onions and garlic again with alot of ghee and some olive oil. If I get hungry I repeat what I have for breakfast. Strangely enough I find it really satisfying. No sugar cravings whatsoever. Do you think that half an onion is enough to balance the acidity?
19/11/2008 at 3:51 pm Permalink
I’m hungry but I don’t feel like eating most of the things allowed on GAPS. So I don’t eat as much. I wish I could eat more but I’m (a) just not interested and (b) too busy!
19/11/2008 at 4:51 pm Permalink
Ya, I’d be starving too, haha. I eat that much at one meal, I am still breastfeeding also. You are doing so well sticking with the diet. It’s worth it in the end, I can understand both reason A and B
My husband has done fairly well on cutting out dairy and grains. He is having a hard time with it too, and it’s not nearly as restrictive. But I have to report, he hasn’t been sneezing or having a runny nose since he started.
He has had butter here and there and the other day had a glass of milk. He started sneezing and had a runny nose and I think he noticed it and realizes he has some issues there!
19/11/2008 at 7:25 pm Permalink
wow, that is a little amount of food! I just started my version of GAPS today, i’m not doing the intro, i know it would be better to start with that but i have to be realistic right now and i just don’t think i could handle it.
Just cutting out all dairy is big and i had gotten used to it again so giving it up is a wee bit hard. Whenever you can have coconut milk again you could try to get more cals in by making coconut milk eggnog if you like eggnog. I just made some: 4 eggs, 1/3c coconut milk, 1/2c water, dash of sea salt, fresh ground nutmeg, vietnamese cinnamon, oh soo good and a great way to get in the raw eggs!
On my version of GAPS i’m leaving out ALL fruit and all honey because of candida overgrowth, i’m really focusing on the probiotics, i.e., eating kefir grains and taking the bio-cult down at the other end(posted about that on the forum). I really want to kill off my candida!
19/11/2008 at 7:31 pm Permalink
It looks like your calories are dropping dangerously low — rmember you need to give your body fuel if you want it to heal, and that means plenty of protein.
20/11/2008 at 2:23 am Permalink
I agree. Eat more! I am hungry just looking at your food journal.
20/11/2008 at 1:19 pm Permalink
yeah that is too little calories, remember, as humans we need about 1000 calories just to stay alive! that means our organs, etc..
also, its been said that your metabolic rate could slow to compensate for the lack of cals.
i still feel the best diet should be plenty of variatee, veggies, fruits, protien and good amounts of exersize and activity. eat more, do more.
20/11/2008 at 1:40 pm Permalink
Easy for you to say you guys! I know I should eat more but it’s not so easy when the choices are so limited.
Anyway, I’m trying!
I did better yesterday — I am posting yesterday’s food journal now… It was a LOT easier to eat more when I could have a salad (raw veggies) and coconut milk and almond milk and nuts.
20/11/2008 at 2:08 pm Permalink
Just to piggy-back onto Joe’s comment about minimal calories for mere continued existence, it really annoys me when I see stuff in the newspaper health section and articles and in health magazines & on TV about various activities and exercises and how many calories they burn.
What they fail to do is subtract the larger number of calories we burn just sitting on our caboose existing (Basal Metabolic Rate), which greatly inflates the significance of any calories burned in activity. Joe’s estimate of 1000 calories would be for a fairly small woman, and would be higher for taller or more muscular women and men (BMR is estimated at 60-70% of calories consumed, depending on % of lean body mass and method of calculation).
There are a lot of good reasons to exercise (if one’s normal daily activities aren’t active enough) to stay strong, fit, and active (anaerobic exercise raises BMR higher than aerobic exercise), but burning calories has got to be about the dumbest and nonsensical reason (manual laborers work hard and can eat a ton, but I see quite a few with “wheat bellies” and “HFCS bellies” so clearly just burning calories isn’t enough for weight management). More likely overweight manual laborers caloric intakes don’t have well-proportioned macronutrient ratios (too high in insulin-raising sugars and starches and too low in natural fats and high quality proteins). And we all know people who have hit the gyms and treadmills/stationary bikes steadily for years but have never been able to shed the pounds they’d like to (good way to qualify for joint replacement, though).
Appetite is suppressed perhaps in the short-term with vigorous activity, but over time appetite increases (“working up an appetite” a la lumberjacks, Olympian Mark Phelps, Tour de France cyclists, etc.). Many people don’t realize that post-exercise “energy” (carb) bar or Gatorade they consumed more than made up for any extra calories they burned compared to not having exercised, so it’s a net gain of calories, not a loss.
I admit, I’d be very hungry on this eating plan, too, not to mention bored (I crave food variety). Doesn’t seem like enough protein or fat , which could result in lean mass and bone loss instead of weight loss due to stored body fat loss (dietary fat especially goes a long way towards feeling satisfied between meals and curbing/taming hunger, sugars and starches increase insulin production which increases hunger and makes hunger feel more urgent).
Are you hungry after and before meals? How’s your energy level? How you feel is a better gauge than counting the calories, yes?