November 27th

Paleo is over guys...

I was over in North Vancouver today and of course HAD to stop at a persian food market to pick up some lunch.... koobideh with persian rice... so tasty and delicious!

For dinner, my family decided to go out to eat... My food stock at home has completely depleted (save for some lemon grass... what am I going to do with JUST lemon grass?) lol... seriously now.

So I agreed to go out to Chen's for Shanghai-nese food...

Observe the non-paleo madness!

x 1 bowl of spicy beef schezuan noodles

x 1 shanghai noodles

x 1 basket of juicy steamed pork dumplings

- Deep fried bread with condensed milk.... oh gosh, heavenly!

- x 1 chicken smoked in chinese tea leaves

- x 1 giant "assorted" soup... vermicelli, beef balls, ham and cabbage

Who am I to say that I'm on paleo... haha.

November 25th-26th

My attempts to revert back to a paleo... gradually, lol

Observe! Egg scramble with enoki mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes and half a whole wheat pita (hate me now)... it was pretty darn good and balanced!

The following is my super protein quinoa dish... It's comprised of eggs, tuna and quinoa... super protein-licious! I made enough to snack on whenever I felt hungry

I also warmed up more of that left over tumeric chicken breast and baby bok choy with enoki mushrooms... mmmmm

During my night shift, I snacked on a helluva lot of tamarinds and fruit... got my co-workers to reminisce on their own childhoods growing up in south east asia and their exotic fruits. I want to try green mangoes and green tamarinds!

Night shift finally over, so I came home to some deliciously marinated steak, a hard boiled egg and a piece of brown toast to balance my diet.

I woke up in the middle of the day to brush my teeth but in the process, decided to warm up more of my protein quinoa with added pike! I love the bones! High in calcium... mmmmm

Then dinner! x 1 filets of salmon lightly pan seared with just black pepper

And the dish on the top was comprised of x 2 onions, x 3 large tomatoes and cilantro all sort of sauteed together... YUMMY!

Unfortunately that left me hungry 2 hours later... so I snacked on a whole bunch of nuts... I mean, LOTS of nuts. And took a bite of my sister's midnight ramen. Oh, and I might've eaten a whole mini lindt 70% dark chocolate bar. And a glass of almond milk.

I have no shame.

November 23rd-25th

Okay, paleo is just ridiculous when there's no preparation at home. I think I am going to downgrade to 50-70% paleo during my meals because this is silly. Night shifts make it impossible and lack of preparation leaves me to temptation ++.

Observe, my breakfast/lunch/dinner prior to the start of my night shift:

- x 1 small bit of brown rice (I KNOW IT'S NOT PALEO... NO CHOICE)

- x 1 small pan seared mahi mahi fish with bourbon and black pepper

Okay, so night shift rolls in and I start it with x 1 tall cup of black coffee.

The following was taken at like 3:30 am ... one of my co-workers had brought in balut eggs as per my request (balut in Filipino is a nearly-developed chicken embryo). Never had this before... apparently it's believed to have aphrodisiac effects... (like I need any more of that)

NOM! NOM! NOM!

Oh hells yeah... if this isn't paleo, I don't know what is... you can still see the feathers and definitely taste the bone!! It tastes like chicken!

So morning rolls around and our shift has ended. One of the long-standing students with us wanted to go out for breakfast as her farewell... because breakfast (aka my dinner) was at Denny's how can I say no to eggs benedict with HASHBROWNS.

That's right, paleo... you have won.

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As an addendum to the above posts, I did eat like hella more than what's posted above... night shifts just result in me losing track of what I've eaten. I warmed up tons of left over quinoa, baby bok choy with enoki mushrooms and tumeric chicken breast.

November 22nd, DAY 1

Unfortunately I had to start off the day with a day shift at work so no "Fran" WOD for me.

Breakfast:

- x 2 hard boiled eggs

- x 1 black coffee

- x 1 fuji apple

Lunch:

- Succulent slices of beef on quinoa... loaded with spices of course :)

Dinner:

- x 2 handfuls of mixed nuts

- x 1 small fist of dried green mangos

- x 1 chicken breast baked in a special rub of spices (and mayo, haha)

- A huuuuuuuge heaping pile of sauteed baby bok choy with enoki mushrooms and sliced onions

November 21st, Pre-Paleo

Alrighty, the 7 pm crew at the box has proposed another paleo challenge from November 22nd - December 22nd (before the holiday madness kicks in) and I've agreed to take part in this madness AGAIN.

Epic meals of dumplings and heaping piles of pasta have severely taken a toll on this poor body in the past month... combined with the fact that I've barely had a chance to workout, I just feel like a big butterball. Time to modify things a bit! I just don't think I'll be as strict as in the previous challenges because it's impossible not to have a little salt in the diet.

To top it off, this challenges also asks for 10 wall balls and 25 unbroken double unders everyday.... in other words, time to make up tons of missing days since I can't make it to the box as much as I want to.

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PRE-Paleo treats:

- x 3 bowls of chocolate cheerios with milk!

- x 1 haagen daaz ice cream bar on a stick

September 22nd, DAY 22

Sooooo, I finally broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years... yikes, long time. I need time for myself for the next few days. Paleo will be out the window until this weekend.

After doing the WOD, I wandered off to Vancouver for some random but delicious food!

Letsee, for lunch I had the following:

- Bread with olive oil and vinegar to dip

- Bocconcini salad with BUFFALO CHEEEEEESE - ohmygawd, delicious!! I need to find this vinegar glaze to use for my own cooking because it is so thick, sweet and marvelous!

- Minestrone soup with tons of beans!

- x1 chocolate cookie!

Later on I wandered over to Commercial Drive and treated myself to a Malt drink and a cream horn from an Italian bakery

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Moving on! Dinner time was dinner out at Viva City for the Mid-Autumn Festival! Mooncakes and lanterns!

To start off, I brought a bottle of Barolo wine - highly recommended if you like dry red wine!

And like every traditional Cantonese meal, we had traditional soup to start... today's special was fish soup with roots and pork meat

The next cold appetizer was spicy BBQ pork, cucumbers and those fried little numbers were DEEP FRIED MILK balls! You have to dip it in sugar and mmmmmm, yummy!

Next on the menu was deep fried chicken (chinese style) with dragon puff chips

- PEKING DUCK on the menu! So for those of you unfamiliar with this dish, it's basically duck cooked in two servings...

For the first, it's duck skin wrapped in flour wraps served with the below chive and special sauce

(duck skin)

(flour wrap)

The result of it all together!

Sweet and sour filet mignon with onions, Chinese style

So what happens to the rest of the peking duck... well it gets converted to this little kick ass number... peking duck wrapped in lettuce!

Yes!

This dish was steamed soy sauce tilapia! Notice how the fish is being cut up? In Chinese culture, we never flip the fish... it's bad luck (almost like flipping a boat over)

The veggie dish was beancurd with sauteed pea tips! (my favourite chinese veggie)

Dessert = coconut cookies and in the middle, those were "smiling" sesame cookies

Aaaaand traditional red bean soup

Dear paleo... see how delicious real food is? I enjoyed this meal. HAHAHA

September 21st, DAY 21

Okay, that night shift is over. Time for a nap!!

Breakfast pre-WOD:

- x1 smoothie - strawberries, bananas, orange juice

- x1 hard boiled egg

- x1/4 slice of avocado

Did the morning WOD. Couldn't do V-Sit ups for the life of me because I look like a dying animal.

Post WOD:

- x a zillion vegetable straw chips (daamn you costco!!)

- x 2 cups almond milk

- x 2 handfuls of raw almonds

- x half a jar of chocolate covered almonds (costco again)

In preparation for the next little while, I thought I'd make some sort of curry soup.

- x2 yellow onions

- x6 celery

- x1 zucchini

Cooked those down in olive and canola oil with oregano, granulated garlic and black pepper and added

- x 3 roma tomatoes

- x1 can of coconut milk

- curry powder

- x1 head of broccoli

- x1 can of chicken (rinsed out in water beforehand)

Bedtime

Woke up at 20:30 and ate x 2 huge bowls of my curry soup

Followed by globe grapes

- x1 can of pike eel

Screw you, paleo... I'm eating dessert!!

- x1 triple chocolate mousse cake :D

September 20th, DAY 20

SWITCH OVER!! From Days to night!

Woke up early this morning after a hectic night of barely eating anything... my WOD performance was really weak because of the lack of substantial food in my tummy.

Breakfast post WOD:

- x 1 banana

- x 1 bunch of steamed broccoli

- x 1 dobble of yummy delicious fantastic beef stew

- x 1 dabble of mashed potatoes (sorry paleo... I think I deserve it)

- x 1 spoonful of lemon flavoured omega-3 fish oil

- x 1 herbal energy drink

I sorta slept.. not really for the rest of the day. So in preparation for tonight's night shift, I made myself a huge dinner which was comprised of:

- x1 huge steamed fennel bulb with olive oil and lemon juice and pepper

- x1 huge broccoli bulb (with the above stuff)

- x1 banana

- x1 can of smoked oysters... so oily and delicious!

So off to work I go with a cup of black coffee (thinking I'd be fine!)

Ohhhhh shiiiii..... I'm hungry. I didn't pack anything for the night shift other than a little bit of almonds. My co-workers brought in SUN CHIPS... SUuuuuuuuuuuuun CHIPS and chili and lime flavoured cheeeeeetos! I partook in the madness.

:(

By 4 am I was still ravenous. Desperate, I started looking through old patient trays and stumbled upon this sad little number below... "squash soup"... so... sad.... :(

September 19th, DAY 19

Okay, another day shift which means CRAP. I didn't prepare any food whatsoever the night before = potential day for starvation.

So for breakfast:

- x1 banana

- x1 cup almond milk

- x1 black coffee

- x2 slices of dijon turkey (cheating I know)

Lunch:

- x1 can of tuna

- x1 kiwi (I had to throw out the other two because they were rotten)

- x1 HUGE CANTALOUPE (it was hella over-ripe and sorta moulding on the side but I ate it anyway because there was no food otherwise)... I unfortunately stunk up the nursing station with the smell of too ripe cantaloupe, lol

- x1 small handful of nuts

By the late afternoon I was still feeling ravenous so I ended up going through old patient lunch trays and ate x1 sad navy bean soup.... it wasn't too salty but was hospital food nonetheless :(

By the time I got home, I had a bunch of personal issues come up. I think I ended up drinking more almond milk and snacking on veggie chips (I'm starting to slip on paleo)

September 18th, DAY 18

Day shift which means:

- x1 black coffee

- yesterday's zucchini, tomato and crushed up turkey patty for lunch

- x 3 bananas

- x 3 baby cucumbers

- x 2 cups raw almonds

- x 3 cups almond milk

- x 1/2 chocolate bar

There's probably more but I'm back posting so I've forgotten much.

September 17th, DAY 17

Breakfast:

- x 1 yerba mate tea

- x 2 small prunes

- x 1 banana

Lunch:

- x 1 banana

- leftover bok choy from yesterday

- x 4 leftover steamed turkey patties from yesterday

.... and this is where it gets messed up. I've run out of food to munch on for the rest of the day... I ended up eating a small serving of bean soup from one of my chucked out patient trays (I know, sad)... :(

By the end of my shift, I was growing increasingly hungry and just when I was about to leave guess what decides to hit the fan.... CODE ORANGE (aka MASS freaking CASUALTIES).... aka Jane can't go home and has to stay behind to help out.

I seriously didn't get home until 22:00 and by then I was feeling ravenous! I quickly made:

- x1 mushroom and egg white scramble

- x 1 cup of almond milk

- x 1 cup of acai berry juice (I know, sorta cheating because it contains cane juice for flavouring)

- x 1 handful of roasted almonds

- x 1 small handful of chocolate covered almonds (guiiiiilty)

- x 2 turkey patties (baked)

- The leftover raw zucchini shreds were destined to be my substitute pasta but I had no time to make any sauce so I cooked it down to be for tomorrow's lunch.

- The finished product below for tomorrow's consumption... basically cooked down baby grape tomatioes and x 4 turkey patties

Knowing me, I felt that deserved at least one small dessert. I opened up the freezer and this is what I fooooooound!

- Haagen daas, mousse shooters and mini mousse cakes!

I couldn't help it and ate x1 mini mousse cake. Ohhhhh lordy!

It's wrong to eat so late but I can' really do much. G'nite!