Day 2/3

Well, last night's dinner didn't go as planned. My onion from Wal-Mart was bad when I cut into it. I'm so frustrated with our Wal-Mart here, it's the worst. I used to get sandwiches on occasion and stopped because they were not very good, the bread wasn't fresh and sometimes they did not include the listed ingredients. I figured it was just a Wal-Mart thing, but I got one at a different Wal-Mart a month or so ago and it was great. Our produce is garbage and many things are not even stocked. I think Wal-Mart as a whole is going down hill as they try to maintain profits levels with increasing Amazon competition. I did have the salmon per the recipe without the veggies. I also made some Simple Mills Chocolate cupcakes that use almond flour and coconut sugar among other things with Vital Farms Pasture Raised eggs, coconut milk and olive oil. We have all three kids here this weekend and all five of us liked them. My wife took that healthy concoction and ruined it with cheap icing. Today I had a salad with chicken pieces with a homemade Caesar instead of the olive oil lemon juice dressing in the book. It was awesome. I looked at the ingredients to Kraft Classic Caesar and wow what a bunch of junk. I found the dressing recipe here: Dressing Recipe We ate breakfast for dinner and I made Simple Mills pancakes that got unanimous approval; to quote everyone, it tastes like a pancake. The girls used nasty fake syrup, my son used my old real maple syrup and I put minced 72% dark chocolate between two pancakes and that was good too. They ate the rest of the normal eggs and I had a fried vital farms egg with Crystal Louisiana Hot Sauce. I also made some snacks for me this week doing the orange-cranberry muffin recipe form the Plant Paradox book. I'm the only one that really liked them because they had so many cranberries in them and I agree it's probably a bit too much. Also realized after the fact that I got sweetened dried cranberries, so I was a bit disappointed. On the scale this morning I was down another pound, yippee! I threw together a chocolate milk experiment with coconut milk, 100% cocoa, 2 drops of stevia and two small spoons of Swerve. It's okay, but not great. I'll have to work on it. We'll see how it goes sitting in the fridge all night and adding some prebiotic in the morning. Feeling pretty good so far, had a bit of a headache this afternoon and last night, but I think it due to all the changes and drastic calorie reduction for me. Admittedly probably a bit too low for my build. This is another issue with many diets; they say eat X amount of calories or whatever and that's great for people that are not too overweight, but for obese types like myself not so much as our caloric requirement is higher. If you want a bleeped chuckle, watch the video from the Bar D farm where our eggs came from here: Vital Farms Bar D Farm That's all for tonight, we'll see how day 1 at work goes with this diet.