's Monday Menu

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Just for some amusing or illuminating (or not) contrast, here's what I ate

yesterday. It's relatively typical except where noted. I don't actually

measure anything, though, so there's no precise summing of grams fat,

protein and carb, and no exact measure of how many calories I ate.

Lately I've been eating just two meals, a medium-sized late breakfast or

early lunch and a large dinner early in the evening. This seems to have

made a real difference in fat loss. The Warrior Diet itself didn't work

for me, though.

Breakfast:

- 4T CO

- Very rare cheeseburger with homemade ketchup.

I get grass-fed ground beef in tubes which tend to be around 1.25#, and I

eat half a tube at a time. I sear the beef, keeping it largely raw, and

soften the cheese minimally. Sometimes I'll have some completely raw

cheese separately. And usually I don't use ketchup (no added sugar, just

reduced tomato juice with some seasonings, the SCD way) but a sauce made by

deglazing the pan with a couple tablespoons of red wine and then reducing

some beef stock, a little habanero sauce and mixing in maybe 2T

butter. But ketchup makes a nice change occasionally.

Dinner:

- 4T CO

- Half a pound of raw liver

- Pint mason jar of pepper & onion beef stew

- Large bowl of yoghurt with Goatein, blackberry extract and a little

blueberry concentrate

I started dinner about half an hour after finishing my workout... about

7pm. The liver is a post-workout ritual, so I eat it 4 times a week

(MWThF, if you're interested).

I made the stew from scratch (including the stock) and while it's not

exactly low-low-carb, having a reasonable amount of red peppers and onions

in it, it has no added starch or sugar (no potatoes, no turnips, nothing to

thicken it, etc.) and it's largely stock with some vegetable matter and

stew cubes and a little beef heart.

I make half-gallon batches of yoghurt with 3 pints of cream and 1 pint of

milk and I ferment it for 24 hours to eliminate virtually all the lactose,

though that doesn't really change the effective carb count. A batch

typically lasts me a week, sometimes less, but I don't have yoghurt every

single day, so I couldn't tell you exactly how much I eat at a

sitting. Almost a pint, I guess. Sometimes I add some desiccated

unsweetened coconut (I have a tub of it from Tropical Traditions) but

probably more often I don't.

So as you can see, I get a LOT of calories from fat. Dinner in particular

has to be very fatty if I'm going to make it from 8pm or so until as late

as noon the next day without getting hungry.

Oh, and usually I have some kimchee with each meal, but I've been out for a

couple weeks and I'm only just getting around to making a new batch

today. (Yes, this time it's really today! <g>) I've been using salt

shrimp, sesame seeds and lots of red pepper along with garlic and ginger

and napa cabbage but no other vegetables, so there's some protein and a

little fat in there too.

On some days I'll have a steak instead of the burger or the stew or soup,

and sometimes I'll replace the yoghurt with creamed spinach or a few

mussels in a lot of cream sauce (mussels in cream soup, more like). On

farmers' market days lately I've been getting tomatoes and having a large

bowl of tomato and mozzarella salad. I often drink mint tea when there's

mint at the market, which is to say most of the year. And of course

sometimes I have some fish or other seafood. Yesterday was a reasonably

representative day, but if I wanted to get really exhaustive, I'd be

sitting her for quite awhile listing all the other things I eat.

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