January 3, 2009

Mmm, bacon. Today's breakfast featured 4 small strips of it, plus Jenny's awesome low-carb pancakes. This was my first time trying this recipe, and my feelings are mixed. The taste was good, but the batter was really thin and difficult to make a good pancake with; I think this may be a difference between my protein powder and what Jenny uses, since her directions led me to expect much thicker batter, so I'm going to look for her brand and try it again. Definitely a reasonable facsimile, though! And the carb cost is fabulous -- a mere 1g in this whole meal. Protein was 26g.


For lunch I had a slice of ham, some broccoli, and a slice of sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are pretty high in carbs, but they're also fairly rich in vitamins and I just plain like them, so the occasional small slice like this is worth the expenditure. I buy them pre-cut and frozen, which makes portion control easy. This meal has about 22g carbs, and 14g protein.


Party food! I was fortunate enough to be invited to see the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular today, in one of the suite boxes, and my hostess graciously provided treats for those of us in the low-carb camp, as well as the carb addicts. I had several kinds of really delicious cheese, and I also indulged in a couple of small chicken strips, although I tried to pick the ones with the least breading. There's going to be a lot of guestimating here, but I'm going to say this is about 10g carbs, and 28g protein.


Dinner was TGI Friday's Key West Shrimp -- it's one of just a couple items on their menu that's low-carb as-served, and it's really good if you like tangy. They say it's 12g carbs, but don't give the protein -- some digging on the net suggests 30g of protein for the shrimp, and broccoli's got a couple grams, so let's call it 32g.

Totals for today are 45g carbs, and an even 100g of protein. That's plenty of both, but I've got a little dose of the munchies (dinner was earlier than I'm used to). I'm going to handle that by eating some olives, which aren't a significant source of either -- and the 16 of them in my bowl are only 100 calories of fat, so if I were tracking either, I still wouldn't be moving either mark all that far.

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