Long time no see...

Seriously, I think its been a little over a week since my last post.  I apologize, life just seemed to get really hectic and sprialing faster this week than I could juggle - especially in the work career/area (long days, lots of fuck-ups, and a bunch of paperwork).  Here's the summary of the primal comings/goings of that week:

24 hour fast followed by an unhuman sized binge (shown above). 

Switch from normal breakfast routine to large servings eggs + meat with veggies, and a smaller lunch.

Duck salad with grilled veggies and mandarin oranges

Roasted Nuts

Chipotle meatballs

Chipotle Lime Salmon with Roasted Veggies

Stuffed Tenderloin

Farmers Market Sausages (I just want to say that they were awesome - it was the sunshine farms cranberry pork sausage.  SO EFFING GOOD.)

I'll only touch on a little bit of it b/c I'm an uuber failure at blogging this week.

24 hour fast and unhuman sized binge

I've been doing 12-14 hour fasting about once a week on average since October - usually a thursday when the contractor plans a huge concrete pour.  That means that I'm too busy at work to think about food, let alone do anything else.  I've also done a couple 20 hour  since starting to eat paleo - as long as I kept busy, I didn't think about food, and if I didn't think about food I was okay.  Oddly though this was a bit different, as it wasn't coincided with anything at work .  I ended up done work that day earlier than expected and just didn't eat.  It wasn't too bad - I did notice that after about 16 hours I got a bit of a chill that stuck around and hunger was kind of a gradual onset - I wasn't ravenous, but I was ready to eat.   

I've been calling it my warrior's feast - but my wife just looks at me strangly when she hears that.  It comprised of:

-Home made salmon Jerky (garlic, tabasco, cherry wood for smoking, onion powder, worschecishshhire (sp?) sauce, oven on 250 F approx 6 hours)

-Whiskey and Carmelized Onion Turkey Quarter (Stove top - fat for cooking, whole onion, about 1/2 cup whiskey, tobasco sauce & cook on low - slow cooker would work beautifully approx 3 hours)

-Roasted Asparagus and Broccolini (Olive oil & salt)

-Swiss Chard (Butter + steamed)

-Kale chips (Olive oil and oven, approx 45 min in oven with salmon)

-Sliced veggies (Just for crunch - peppers, carrot, celery - served with a little home made guacamole)

-Spiced Yucca Root (Don't do it.  Its so dense, totally made it difficult to dominate the rest of the meal.  Has a weird texture too.  Yucca root, rosemary, parmesan, garlic, butter.  Boil & mash like potatos)

-Grilled japanese egg plant - Not my favorite apparently. 

Desert was Primal Pumpkin Square topped with walnuts, pumpkin seeds, coconut and iced cream

I made a good showing, and downed about 3/4 of it, my wife helped a little bit, but she wasn't as into it (except for the Turkey and Salmon).  Some of the kale chips, sliced veggies, and salmon were left for the morning, and I ended up chucking about 1/4 cup of the spiced yucca. 

Morning Shake Up

This week we've switched up our breakfasts a bit - instead of smoothies or berries and fruit we've pretty much been eating egg scrambles, fried veggies and meat primariliy.  My wife started losing weight towards the end of the week, I guess.  I'm still sitting at about the same weight & all.  I noticed that I can last a little later in the morning before I'm ready for lunch now.  We'll see what happens this upcoming week as we continue doing this. 

Duck Salad with roasted veggies + Mandarin Oranges

I think that this was a recipe found through Marks Daily Apple - Weekend Link Love.  I just want to say that it was really stellar & you probably should.  I couldn't find Tangerines, so I used Mandarins + Mandarin Juice instead.  It is a beautifully flavoured, summery salad.  Duck is a bit tricky because if you do it wrong, I think it will get tough - this didn't so I got lucky.  Health bent was also a place where we found the Chipotle Meat Balls Recipe.  When the meatballs were paired with cauliflower rice I nearly died they were so good.  We're making it again this week. 

You're going to love my nuts

I tried roasting my first set of roasted nuts this week as well.  I really liked them - but they have kind of a cold weather feel to them.  I think I'll most definately make them again though.  They have nutmeg, cloves, allspice, cayenne, honey, butter, and salt.  It takes about 25 mintues to make a batch (approx 1Kg of almonds?)

Spicy Sweet Nuts I used almonds, the recipe called for pecans, I used honey, recipe called for maple syrup. 

That's probably enough about food, you're probably nearly chewing your arm off. 

Workouts since last post:

Friday - 3K barefoot run + Sparticus
Saturday - Off

Sunday - Ultimate Practice with S&T (for the record, I've never played before and they did a phenominal job teaching me.  I'm really excited for our upcoming season.)

Monday - Off

Tuesday - 8K slow Barefoot Run + weights

Wednesday - Off

Thursday - 8K barefoot run in bad mood (translated to much faster + harder than I probably should have)

Friday - Long long walk + some frisbee practice

Saturday - Back the Truck Up

Sigh, I ended up running more than I wanted this week, unfortunately.  Its a good outlet for work stress, and it doesn't require me to be mindful.  Weights require a mental presence, that you don't need when you're running most of the time.  Upcoming this week - some playground time, some gardening, ONE RUN, and an ultimate practice. 

Have a good one!