Wednesday

We ended up having (really?) to go out to dinner last night - Lee had a lot of bulk shopping to do.  Ended up at Applebees; I had their Bruschetta chicken, which had the tomato-basil stuff on it along with spaghetti sauce and mozzarella - sort of a chicken Meatza, I guess.  It wasn't bad.  Didn't help with the feeling of overall inflammation, though, either - toward bedtime, I was on the couch wondering what on earth was wrong with my hands - they just felt like they were misaligned, and my arms ached.  Ugh.

Here's yesterday's eating:

• Fat Bomb smoothie
• tea with coconut milk
• bacon
• the usual supplements
• walnuts
• possibly a hunk of gruyere
  
• salad with blue cheese dressing
• iced tea
• chicken with bruschetta
• chocolate blueberries
• cashews

I think that's it - realized late yesterday that I'd forgot to include coconut flakes in the list from the day before.  145.6 this morning, so down a bit more - from how I feel, it's all been water, and still is. 

Now that the house is cooler - we had a swamp cooler issue, now fixed - I'm sleeping more soundly, I think, but last night I could tell I was dreaming about discouraging things, although I cannot recall any of the substance.  People eating this way have reported more vivid dreams, and I can definitely concur with that one.

So I think we will be having the pork tenderloin tonight, and maybe some grilled peaches as well.  And a salad.  At least, I hope so.

Tuesday

Wow, did I do bad things over the weekend.  By mid-afternoon yesterday, I could feel the arches of my feet touching my shoes, which were very flat.  We went for a walk at the gym before dinner, and after doing a mile, I was so tired (sleepy!) I had to sit down and rest.  I ached head-to-toe by the time dinner was over.  I swear, I will avoid wheat better in the future - in any event, not go eating it two or more times in a short period.

Ate better yesterday, and I am starting to feel a bit better, although the soreness and stiffness from weeding has caught me up.  146.4 this morning.  Here's yesterday:

• scrambled eggs
• turkey sausage (probably full of badness)
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• gruyere
• beef marinated in yogurt, lemon juice, and spices
• vegetables sauteed with garlic-infused olive oil
• chocolate almonds

I think that was it; I ended up taking a bath with epsom salts to try to knock out the achiness, and it seems to have helped.

We tried using coconut milk in our tea/coffee this morning, with an eye toward doing the Whole30.  I think it will work - Lee was a bit more lukewarm.  I prefer the taste of heavy cream, but it wasn't that far off, really.

Pork roast with green chile pan reduction sauce tonight - trying to see if I can come up with a taste similar to La Loma green chile without the flour.  It seems possible, but we'll find out.

Monday

Swedish meatballs with gravy.
Cheese enchiladas with green chile.
Weeding.
Accumulated effects of last week's very bad snacks.

I don't know which of these did it, or if they ganged up on me, but I was at 147.8 this morning.  Yikes!  My fingers are stiff and swollen, so I have my suspicion as to the proximate cause, but not what caused it.

Yesterday's eating was something like this:

• Fat-bomb smoothie
• bacon
• turkey bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• olives
• walnuts
• cashews
• cheese snacks
• chips and salsa (twice)
• cheese enchiladas
• green chile
• some rice
• advil (first in months - the weeding made my shoulders hurt rather a lot)

I think that was it.  The swedish meatballs were from our inaugural IKEA trip on Saturday (possibly a bit early - it's still a zoo out there!), and tasted wonderful, but definitely were meat-and-something (probably bread) and the gravy was completely opaque, which says to me that there was a lot of flour in there.  Okay, so we've done that.  Probably won't do it again.

We're having beef kebabs marinated in yogurt and spices for dinner tonight - got the yogurt primarily to help one of the dogs get over her digestive upsets, but I'd already defrosted some chunks-o-beef and thought it would be a good combination.  We shall see - it smelled pretty darn boffo. 

Also going to the gym tonight - now that their seasonal maintenance is finished.  I've had the Fives on a good bit this weekend, and realized while weeding, that there would be big advantages to the KSOs - at least, for that sort of activity.  I had to stop and empty out the dirt twice.  Oh well - they're truly broken in now.

Friday

And I thought Thursday was bad eating.  Yesterday was, I think, worse:

• scrambled eggs with ham and cheese in them
• turkey sausage
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• potato chips
• AND M&Ms
• cheese
• flank steak marinated in oil and vinegar and spices (very good - and it was Whole30 compliant - we're starting to practice)
• salad with homemade zesty italian dressing - also Whole30 compliant
• chocolate blueberries - rather a lot
• walnuts
• cashews - eaten in a sort of manic way for probably half an hour - I just needed to chew on something

I am fasting this morning - probably not all day, and I have two Babybel goudas with me, to forestall any forays into the machine again.  Despite all that (all that being the sense that my stomach and inflammatory systems are cursing me), I'm still at 144.2 this morning.  Shocking, really.

Thursday

Wretched eating day - wanted chocolate mid-day but convinced myself that potato chips were less evil than M&Ms.  Are they?  I don't rightly know.  I was quite hungry by the time I got home, and had been trying to figure out how to get a flank steak marinated in a half-hour; ultimately, we decided that it wouldn't be possible, and opted to go out.  For Mexican.  3-stack flat cheese enchilada, chips, salsa, and guac.  Tasted wonderful, but so not good for me.  Lee had some tacos, and mostly didn't eat the shells, although he had chips and salsa and guac.  I won't list the day's eating, since I've just covered most of it - for breakfast we had the fat bomb smoothies and bacon again, and our handful-o-supplements, and my usual tea-with-cream, and I believe we had chocolate almonds.

After dinner, we went for a walk outside in the neighborhood - not sure how far, but at a decent pace.  It felt really good, just being outdoors, moving, using muscles.  Muscles that, as of this morning, I am aware had been a bit under-utilized.  The arches of my feet.  Ankle muscles.  Calf-stabilization stuff.  All very good, I do believe.  I'm really liking the shoes.

144.2 this morning; Lee said he lost 3 pounds overnight.  He was feeling skeptical of the smoothies yesterday morning because he'd put a goodish bit on since the weekend, but most of it is now gone.  I bought and printed out the Whole30 success guide last night, and got him started reading it.  We'll only do it if he really wants to, because I'm in good shape these days - don't need to lean out and feeling crazy-young, physically - so it would be for him alone, and I see no point in dragging him through it.  I read a good bit while it was printing, and it looks fairly doable - the guidelines are a little different from other paleo programs and feel much more like a structured "diet", which maybe makes sense, given that it's meant to be sort of a whole-body cleanse, I guess.  We shall see.  Can't start until 9/12/11, but if he's a "go", we can start the planning part now.

Wednesday

I don't think we ate all that well yesterday - I slept like a well-built pile of rocks, though, and dreamt a bunch, but woke up stiff, swollen, and achy.  143.6 today, so something took weight off.  Here's the list:

• Fat bomb smoothie (the real blender is a big improvement, although it leaves whole strawberries in the mix)
• bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements, with double fish-oil
• walnuts
• cheese (baby-bel gouda snack)
• Olive Garden salad without croutons (seed oils in this, possibly)
• Olive Garden mixed grill - and I ate some, but not all, of the fried potatoes
• Glass of sweet sparkling red wine - a very odd combination
• chocolate mint
• chocolate almonds

I had hoped that the fat bomb smoothies would help Lee with his stall - they are changing his weight, he says, but for the worse.  I do not know what's going on with him; no matter what we eat at home, his best is a sort of stasis around 200 pounds.  And that is not his best weight - he still has a fair quantity of visceral fat.  He was at the docs yesterday, briefly - and found that his BP and heart rate were both very good - and that's definitely something.  But my way of eating does not seem to be his way of eating, and for the life of me, I do not know what his way might be.

The Whole30 is looking more and more inevitable.

The Fives continue to work well - I can feel some changes in the mechanics of my feet and ankles as I walk - and they're starting to persist into times when I don't have them on.  By Labor Day, I ought to be in fine fettle for a 5K with them.

Tuesday

Semi-epic fail.  We had every intention of going to the gym last night to work out and (for me, at least) break in the new shoes.  Got dressed, found our IDs, grabbed the iPods and earphones, drove down there.  And the parking lot was strangely empty.  Sign on the door - they're closed for "seasonal maintenance" until Friday.

Bugger.

We ended up going home to eat, and then went out so I could buy new gymshorts (I wanted pockets, but couldn't find any), and we could get a blender, to make the smoothies less of a mess-in-waiting.  Here's the day's eating:

• fat bomb smoothie, no eggs
• bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements, plus K2
• walnuts
• brats
• mustard
• cheese
• salad with ham and blue cheese dressing
• a hard cider
• chocolate cherries

For what it's worth, the smoothie and bacon held up as well as eggs and bacon do - I wasn't really hungry until about 2 pm.  And didn't feel compelled to snack in the evening, either - although that may have had more to do with my sewing project than with what I'd eaten earlier.  144.2 this morning - I know my feet were very swollen yesterday (Sunday, I'd contemplated cutting off some of the straps' length on the shoes; last night I didn't need to), so I'm guessing it's still water.  Took an extra fish-oil this morning to see if that will help.

The shoes are working out well - I'm having a few mild aches and pains in my feet, ankles, and lower legs that I attribute to the position my feet are in when I'm walking in them.  That's definitely all good.

Monday

Well, I caved.  I bought the "funny-looking shoes", as the cashier at REI put it.  Vibrams - the Sprints, to be exact.  Wore them about 5 hours yesterday, including the drive home from REI.  I'm hooked - they're much nicer for walking on uneven surfaces than the moccasins are, while still letting me feel the unevenness.  Much more flexible in the soles than the Merrells were, and they seem to position my feet differently - on the outer soles, as I believe they are supposed to go.  So I will be doing the 5K on Labor Day in my new Fives, probably the only grandmother at the event to be wearing such things.  I like that.

Eating yesterday started with cleaning up the kitchen - I made a version of a smoothie from the Free the Animal blog, without the egg yolks, and with unflavored whey protein and a splash of vanilla.  At least, I started to make it - got a strawberry hung up in the blade of the immersion blender and lost my grip on the glass, and the physics did the rest.  20 minutes worth of wiping things off and rinsing them in the sink and swearing.  About half of it was left, so I added one more strawberry and that was breakfast.  They're pretty good, and I'm hoping the coconut milk will help Lee break his stall-from-hell (so we had them for breakfast today, without the drama).  We're also discussing doing a Whole30 in September - after we get back from a weekend in Santa Fe.

So, yesterday's eating

• most of that fat-bomb smoothie
• cheese chunks - gruyere, for the most part
• walnuts
• a very few chocolate blueberries
• couple of chocolate almonds
• a square of Lindt's 85% chocolate
• Red Lobster skewered garlic grilled shrimp
• Ditto's scampi
• broccoli with the butter sauce from the scampi
• salad with blue cheese
• glass of Riesling

I think that's everything.  144.0 this morning, and feeling swollen and achy all over, so I imagine some of that number is misplaced water.  Going to the gym tonight to break in my feet for a 3-mile walk in 3 weeks - before dinner.

Friday

Yesterday was a kind of down day, so I had a cheat dinner - crispy chile rellenos, which involve wonton wrappers, and I'm sure they're made of wheat.  They were beyond delicious, and I'm paying a little this morning - so be it.  144.6 - another side-effect.  Here's the day's eating:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• potato chips (got hungry mid-day)
• chips and salsa
• chile rellenos smothered with green chile
• some spanish rice
• iced tea
• chocolate almonds

I think that was it.  I'm not fasting this morning, but Lee's out of town, so I had three pieces of cheese for breakfast.  Not sure how long they'll last me - but I have to avoid the machines today, because I don't have anything smaller than a $20, and they don't take those.  One way or another...

Thursday

Fasting yesterday lasted until about 1 pm, give or take, when I decided that my stomach's growling might disturb others at a meeting.  I had a bag of turkey jerky, with soy sauce and sugar in the marinade, and then nothing else until dinner.  Here's the summary:

• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• turkey jerky
• salad with ham and cheese
• homemade blue cheese dressing
• baked chicken (deli-made; I cannot roast a chicken to save my life)
• iced tea
• chocolate almonds and cherries
• walnuts

143.2 this morning as a result.
Sleep was a bit disrupted again last night - the dog needed to go outside around 12:30 am, but fortunately, that was her only need.  I had what I hope is my final MAT treatment on my shoulder yesterday, so I was a bit sore and it took a while to get back to sleep, but once there, I stayed asleep until just before the alarm went off.

My sister has convinced me to do a 5K fundraiser for my niece's high school gymnastics team.  I'm debating as to the shoes - very tempting to grab the moccasins and go, or to buy some minimalist shoes for the occasion; I really don't want to use my CW walking shoes.  One day last week, we were at the mall and I'd worn Crocs again, and my knee got so out of position that once outside, I took them off and walked barefoot to the car, and it felt much better.  I think I'm hooked.  Maybe that will be one of my excursions this weekend - investigating minimalist athletic shoe options.

Wednesday

Worlds. Longest. Night.

We had a sick dog - at least, one that needed to go outside roughly every 90 minutes, starting at midnight last night.  Makes for a rough sleep, to say the least.  Top that off with bad eating yesterday and I feel like roadkill this morning.  Here's my confession:

• scrambled eggs
• turkey bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• M&Ms - it degraded quickly
• Potato Chips
• Cheese Snacks and bits of gruyere
  
• Walnuts
• Chocolate cherries and blueberries
• Salad with blue cheese dressing (commercial)
• Pre-made commercial anti-pasto salad with salami and cheese and balsamic vinaigrette
• cream of chicken soup - probably had a flour-based roux in it
• fat free frozen yogurt with sprinkles on it

We are fasting this morning - my stomach insisted, and it bought us an extra 15 minutes before we absolutely had to get up.  Nasty.  144.2 this morning, and no surprise there, either.

Tuesday

Sorry! 

That's me, apologizing to my digestive bacteria.  I think they are unhappy with me today.  Something about the meatloaf at Country Buffet last night, I think.  Here's yesterday's eating:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• the usual supplements, plus K-2 and double fish-oil
• tea with cream
• cheese snacks
• country buffet salad (from the salad bar - greens, spinach, mushrooms, carrots)
• commercial ranch dressing
• cottage cheese
• meat loaf
• green beans
• fudge
• dark chocolate
• walnuts

The fudge was very sweet, and left me wanting to eat more, so I did.  Shouldn't have had it to start with.  But the meat loaf almost certainly included a panade of some sort, and it was likely bread-based, and I'm paying now.  143.8 this morning, to boot.

I need to focus on eating recognizable meat items when out to dinner - nothing made from ground meat and re-formed, or I run this sort of risk.

Monday

Very productive weekend - I am noticing that they're all getting that way these days.  I get fidgety just sitting around, unless I'm actually tired (like I was on Wednesday).  This weekend, I had a haircut, bought more fabric to make clothing from, ran errands (dry cleaners, groceries, etc), made pickle relish, made a skirt, and had my parents over for dinner.  That, on top of the normal weekend stuff like changing sheets and doing laundry and watering plants.

Yesterday's eating went like this:

• "Southwestern" omelet at a local restaurant - probably gluten free, but I didn't actually ask what was in the green chile
• bacon
• tea with cream
• a cheese snack
  
• 1/2 pound turkey with mustard BBQ sauce
• cole slaw
• ribeye steak (big - don't know how big)
• salad with blue cheese dressing (homemade, but with commercial mayo)
• baked sweet potato with butter and sour cream
• a glass of wine
• chocolate almonds/cherries/blueberries (not very many - it was a very un-snacky day for me)

I'm sore and stiff all over this morning, so I suspect some systemic inflammation from something, although I can't really see anything in yesterday's eats that would have caused it.  142.8 today - over the weekend, I was 142.2 and 142.4, so holding pretty steady.

Friday

Here's yesterday's eating:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements (doubling up on fish oil just now)
  
• smashburger classic, no bun (cheeseburger with tomatoes and pickles, catsup and mustard)
• smashburger strawberry shake
• chocolate almonds
• chocolate cherries
• walnuts

142.8 this morning, and an upset stomach.  I don't see anything from yesterday that would have been an issue, except that I was taking extra magnesium Wednesday night (and then again yesterday morning); maybe that caused a slight imbalance.

Sleep was choppy - not sure if this was it or not, but I was on my laptop right up until we went to bed. F.lux on it, and working, but maybe it was still an issue.  I wasn't sleepy when we turned the lights out, I know that. 

I don't know if this is the case or not, but even with the stable weight, I seem to be getting thinner.  My wristwatch is looser than it was at Christmas, for sure, and seems looser than it was earlier in the summer.  I've taken a pair of pants in for the second time - and I am pretty sure that the first alteration was in early spring, when my weight was in this same vicinity.  I have not done a bodyfat % measurement in a while, so maybe I'm hallucinating, but I thought I'd note it.

Thursday

I didn't end up fasting yesterday - got peckish, and there was cheese in the fridge.  Oh, well.  Here - more or less - is what I ate yesterday:

• cheese (Kerrygold Dubliner, sliced cheddar, swiss)
• walnuts
• cashews (maybe a handful at most)
• (dark) chocolate cherries
• (dark) chocolate almonds
• (dark) chocolate blueberries
• brats boiled in Bud Light
• sliced tomatoes
• tea with cream
• fish oil
• mag citrate (more as a sleep aid than anything)
• tea without cream
• a hard cider

142.2 this morning, so I guess it wasn't fat-o-genic.  Spent the day mostly reading, in a recliner with an afghan.  I was sort of functional, but very lethargic, and it was a nice indulgence not to push myself into doing anything in that state.

I really wanted a cookie last night, but was too tired to do anything about it.  Some days, I guess laziness pays off.

Wednesday

Ouch. Due to a confluence of events, we spent the hours of midnight to three am at the local emergency room - not our illness. So I'm rather tired today.

What I ate yesterday:
Scrambled eggs
Bacon
Tea with cream
The usual supplements
Several handfuls of dry-roasted peanuts
A handful of plain m&ms
Chips and salsa
Cheese enchiladas with green chile
Walnuts
Chocolate cherries
Iced tea

143.2 today - up a little from yesterday (142.8), but considering the bottom half of that list, not bad. I'm fasting this morning, I think, to let my stomach rest after the toxins of yesterday. I'll also be resting.

Tuesday

At one point, yesterday, I seriously considered a 24-hour breakfast-to-breakfast fast, but since Lee had been waiting for me to get home in order to go to dinner, I didn't do it.  We went to Red Lobster instead.  Here's yesterday's eats:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon (a new variety, with maple syrup involved - smells like pancakes, tastes vaguely of an off-brand sweetened cereal - and we bought it in bulk at Costco.  Oh, well.)
• the usual supplements, plus the weekly K-2
• tea with cream
• tea throughout the day, without cream
• two nasty stale breath mints (they're all gone, now)
• a skewer of garlic-grilled shrimp
• a skewer of grilled scallops
• broccoli
• some rice pilaf
• a glass of Chardonnay
• chocolate almonds and blueberries

142.8 this morning - rather unexpected, as I thought my weekend's gain would be hanging around a bit longer.  Not that I wanted it to, particularly.  Lee said he gained 4 pounds yesterday after much the same breakfast and dinner as I had, and something in teriyaki sauce over lunch.  Water, I imagine, but very discouraging for him.  If he starts getting antsy about his weight again, I will propose doing the Whole 30 with him, but only if he reads their e-book cover-to-cover and is able to explain it to me.  I'm not going on his diet for him.

Monday

I ate bad things over the weekend, apparently.  Not really sure what, but I know we ate out more than anticipated, and at least one meal included gravy and mashed potatoes.  I was up considerably over the weekend - maybe as high as 145.  Down to 144 even this morning. 

I'm feeling very snacky right now - I tend to think that's a hormonal signal of some sort - so I'm not too worried about the extra pound and some.

Spent a good bit of Friday following along with the Ancestral Health Symposium via Twitter - which is a great way to get the pithy bits as they occur.  I wish I could have come up with a good reason to be there - but the fact is, I'm a computer geek, not a nutrition geek, and that would have been a tough sell to my husband as a vacation (of which I have no allowance left at work, anyway).  Maybe someday.

Friday

Yesterday was one of those long workdays that you truly believe are never going to end.  They tend to make me eat things I shouldn't, and yesterday was typical.  I demolished an old, very stale, tin of what I think are breath-mints.  The mint flavor was somewhat blunted by age, so they actually tasted fairly nasty, but I ate them anyway, out of boredom.  Them and a package of teriyaki turkey jerky. 

The day eventually drew to an end and we went out for steak, which was an improvement.  Here's the day's eating:

• turkey sausage (out of eggs, so we just had that - 3 pieces)
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements (doubling up on fish-oil to help my shoulder calm down)
• breath mints
• turkey jerky
• ribeye steak
• southern-style green beans
• baked sweet potato with butter and sour cream
• chocolate cherries
• a handful of cashews

142.6 this morning, I think it said.  Sleep last night was better for me than the night before, but still not good - sick dog interrupted it once (and should have interrupted it a second time, but Lee handled that one and I never woke up).  Lots of vivid dreaming, as well, and I woke up at 4:45 for a bit, but was asleep when the alarm went off 45 minutes later.

Got the weekend coming up - nothing big planned, not even a movie, I think.  We should be able to eat pretty well.  I think Lee said that he was back under 200 either yesterday or this morning, so that's also good.

Thursday

Things are settling back to normal.  Here's yesterday's eating:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements
• teriyaki beef jerky - with soy sauce and sugar
• Kerrygold pub cheese - quite a few pieces (this was "dinner")
• chocolate cherries and blueberries (total of 5)

143.0 this morning; looks like much of the weight I put on while Elizabeth was here was pretty transient.  Dinner last night was sketchy because I got home at 7:00 after my MAT session, and by then, I wasn't really hungry.  Big improvement in my shoulder so far - the way MAT works, though, it will degrade a bit over the next few days and I'll have to repeat treatments until my muscles start behaving without the reminders.  Not a particularly pleasant experience, but it does work.

I heard this morning on the radio that the owners of Lipitor are working to create a non-prescription version, since their patent is about to expire.  Ugh.  I cannot describe how bad that is.  We should NOT be medicating away our cholesterol, dammit!  And I can't help thinking that the kidney/liver side-effects are not free-for-all since a non-prescription version won't come with the doc's advice to test blood chemistry.  Disaster in the making, if you ask me.

Better!

Yesterday's eating was an improvement in multiple ways over our weekend.

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• the usual supplements
• tea with cream
• grilled sirloin patty
• green chile from Trader Joes (chilis and tomatillos and not much else)
• salad with ham and salami and blue cheese dressing (my version, with homemade mayo)
• iced tea
• chocolate cherries (probably close to 10 of them, all told)

I had a dentist appointment yesterday as well - I can't say for sure that I had less tartar, but it did seem like she didn't have to cause as much pain in order to remove it, and the sensitivity level of my lower front teeth had reduced, I think.  I'll thank Vitamin K for the latter.  No cavities - but I haven't had cavities for quite a long time.  No gum disease - ditto.  So I guess all is well on that front.

I'm going in for MAT (muscle activation technique) therapy on my right shoulder today.  I've had it before to get my legs loosened up - several months' worth of being prodded with the T-shaped stick to target very specific places on various muscles, to remind them that they're still alive.  It causes incredible bruising, but does seem to work, and my right shoulder has been sub-par for over a year now, with massage never quite able to get it to release.  Massage helps, but does not cure.  I'm hoping that this will release whatever is locked up in there, and give me full mobility with that arm.  And once I get that, I'm going to the gym again.  Seriously.  But for fun stuff as much as possible - and with the intent of gaining strength.

Oh, and some of the weight yesterday was water, definitely.  144.0 this morning.

So, are Brazilian Steakhouses Paleo?

A good question - a very good question.  Based on how my stomach feels this morning, after dinner at one last night, I'd lean toward "not so much".  But it was good - wandering waiters with skewers of meat, various vegetables on a salad bar, strawberry soup.  And broiled pineapple, which is incredibly tasty.  Probably not very good for us, but we had it twice.  The nice thing about it was that I didn't have to go through a SAD menu and extract the elements of an item that I could eat and ask for custom preparation.

I cannot catalog yesterday's dinner.  The rest of the day was:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• turkey sausage
• tea with cream
• the usual supplements (plus our weekly dose of Vitamin K2)
• a cheese snack

Dinner was incredibly filling - we had it before going to a baseball game at which I consumed absolutely nothing.  Got home from that and had a few Tums - partly for mild indigestion (another clue that it wasn't Paleo) and partly to try to dull down the intense garlic taste lingering in my mouth - one of the skewers of meat was encrusted in a garlic/salt/parsley paste - smelled and tasted amazing, but it had staying power.

146.0 this morning.  Elizabeth leaves for school this afternoon, so our week of violent entertaining is at an end, and we can go back to eating meat-and-leaves for a while, get things calmed down again.

For what it's worth, I got very solid sleep last night - from about 10:15 to 5:30, I knew absolutely nothing.  May not have even moved.

Got a dentist appointment this afternoon - I'll be interested to see if the tartar buildup is less than usual - that's been a reported side-effect of eating this way.  It feels like less.

Ugh

I believe we have eaten out at every organized meal this weekend, and I can feel the effects.  Aches, pains, a boatload of unwanted poundage.  This morning my thumbs are both sore, as are both shoulders and part of my lower back.  One more meal out, and we can return to our cave - indefinitely, as far as I'm concerned.  And I will go the distance tonight to try to find something edible that won't lay me out.

Mexican food last night was the issue - chips and salsa, a margarita, cheese enchiladas with flour-based roux green chile.  Very tasty, until the indigestion hit, about mid-meal.  Got home and pounded several Tums, which helped.  But I didn't sleep too well, what with both shoulders a bit stiff.  And it was very sticky in the house - this has been a humid summer, for Denver, and the swamp cooler is mostly just adding water to the atmosphere - things are a bit cooler, but the dining room floor is adhesive, as are most solid surfaces in the house.  Nasty.

No idea what I ate this weekend, other than that a lot of it was crap.  Avoided popcorn at the movie (Cowboys and Aliens - really fun!), but ate a lot of chocolate-covered fruit instead - really not a good swap.  Chips and salsa a couple of times, including once at home.  Refried beans on Saturday - and I ordered something I thought would be okay that time. 145.2 this morning - I'm sure some of it is water - and some of it isn't.  Bad me. 

Tonight we're headed to the baseball game.  Dinner elsewhere first - and I am going for a naked meat and leaves option if I can find one.  And I have a cheese snack with me to keep me out of the machines, too.