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[GillianS25]

Shopping List - New Good Foods
4 Punnets of Strawberries
8 Tins of Tuna in Olive Oil - John West Brand
6 Bottles of Water
3 x 210g Paramount Pink Salmon
2kg Chicken Breast
2kg Chicken Thighs
900g Fresh Brocolli
3 Hass Avocados
600g Fresh Mushrooms
Organic Rib Eye Lamb
Atlantic Salmon - 2 fillets
1 Bunch of Silverbeet
3 Bunches Bok Choy
1 Bunch of Fresh Spinach
2 Coconuts
18 x 700g Eggs
2 Red Capsicums
1 Green Capsicum
1 Yellow Capsicum
1 Cucumber
100g Macademias
1/4 Cabbage
2 packs of Baby Spinach

Pretty good?

[Dan]

Post more details.
I want to see full ingredients (read the labels) of the following 2 items.
8 Tins of Tuna in Olive Oil - John West Brand
3 x 210g Paramount Pink Salmon

18 x 700g Eggs (brand, what type, any more information)
100g Macademias (are these plain?)
1/4 Cabbage (red?)

Also how long is this to last and what is your meal plan and training plan this week.

[GillianS25]

John West Tuna:
Ingredients: Tuna (70%), Olive Oil (12%), Sunflower Oil, Water, Salt

Paramount Pink Salmon
Ingredients: Pink Salmon (99%), Salt

Eggs
Sunny Queen Farms XL Eggs
Hens Fed Natural Grains
Feed is free of animal protein
Laid by healthy hens
Eggs have no added hormones or antibiotics

Macademias are plain

1/4 cabbage was green - Rob didn't specify colour???

Rob has asked me to try this for a month and see what results I get.

Meal plan is basically eggs, protein and vege's and planning to train Monday, Tues, Thurs, Friday and Saturday

[GillianS25]

Food Diary

No Breakfast
I never eat Breakfast before the 8am WOD on a Saturday just can't stomach anything before doing the WOD- and especially today being a 10km run. I might have to try having some strawberries or berries or something

Finished the WOD at 10.30am - didn't feel like eating at all - felt like vomiting some more after the run!

Lunch was around 150g chicken with spinach and brocolli

Snack
Punnet of Strawberries
180g Tuna

Dinner
White Fish with mixed herbs and garlic

[Dan]

John west tuna = fail. Taught you better.
Eggs look like a very well thought out choice.
Dissapointed that your first meal today was lunch but if you cant you cant.
Always go for colours, if your looking at a green cabbage and there is a red one next to it, more colour the better. Rob cant specify each individual thing, and its not a deal breaker, just more start thinking about colours.

[GillianS25]

Alright the most of the Tuna in Coles has extra things added, I don't normally shop at Woolworths but if they have a different style of tuna, I'll see if I can pick some up with only Olive Oil in it.

Yeah I can't eat before I do a WOD- so I never have breakfast on Saturday normally I'd have something on the way home, but just didn't plan ahead which is completely my fault and I do take responsibility for it. Plus after being sick on that run today stomach didn't feel like eating anything.

Sorry about the cabbage - I don't really cabbage- but I'm willing to try it, I just knew cabbage as being green, so I just kind of stuck with what I know

[GillianS25]

Food Diary

Breakfast
3 Egg Omlette with
3 Mushrooms
Spinach Leaves
Chicken - around 60-80g- 5 small pieces - Because I need to include more protein
1/2 Avocado

Snack
Punnet Strawberries

Lunch
130g Chicken
1 Hardboiled Egg
3 Mushrooms
Handful of Spinach Leaves
1/2 Avocado

[GillianS25]

WOD

Breakfast
3 Egg Omlette with 3 mushrooms, handful of spinach leaves + 1/2 an avocado

Snack
Punnet of Strawberries
90g Tuna in Spingwater

Lunch
3 small pieces of Kangaroo - approx 200-250g with little bok choy, choy sum, capsicum and brocolli

Snack
90g Tuna
2 Hard Boiled Eggs
210g of Pink Salmon

Dinner
2 pieces of Chicken Thighs

Water - around 3.5L

Meds - 2 Inderal

[GillianS25]

Rob went through my food diary - basically got ticks on everything from the above food log, except my fat content - he said it wasn't near high enough need to try and include more fat.

I'm having a few problems coming to terms with the fact that I need more fat. One of the reasons I got the way I am is from eating too much, and I'm feeling a little hesitant about putting more fat into my body - I know that good fats like Avocado and Nuts are good for you and I'm having half to a full avocado per day. + 9 almonds or some macademias. But I'm just really struggling to eat these foods - I'm worried that once I start eating them I'm not going to be able to stop.

I am going to talk to Rob tonight - but any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated

[Dan]

Gill,

You absolutely dont have enough fat in your diet. Rob is 100% correct.
Paleo works because it works, bastardised versions of paleo will not work.

Your headspace is the reason all this is not working.

If you dont listen to us your not going to get there, it really is that simple.
If you do listen to us you will learn to eat foods that make you full, that fuel you better, that dont promote an insulin response leading to weight gain and disease, and will allow you to live a long and fruitful life.

If you continue to tweak it to a version that suits your thinking you will screw it all up. It cant be tweaked like your trying to do.
All your doing is trying to join bits of dietary advice from people with the equivilant of a 3rd grade education on the topic.

You can either do something radically different and change your life or you can maintain your struggle. If you talk to Rob tonight I am sure he will say the same thing as he did last night, eat more fat, if you dont you will fail. No fat no fuel, your body wont burn its own fat stores as fuel, and it will just go into stress mode and you will put more weight on.

How hard is it, seriously, to eat like we are asking for 1 month? Just 1 month. We have been going back and forth for quite some time, and you have barely done a week proper paleo.

All I want you to do is high protein, high fat, and low carb for 1 month.

How fat do you think your going to get in a month if I am wrong?

Just try it for a month. Please!