February 25, 2009

As usual, bacon for breakfast. No carbs, 10g protein.


Lunch was a salad, grilled lemon-pepper catfish, and steamed broccoli. Yum! About 8g carbs, 50g protein.


Dinner ended up being fish again; sometimes that happens. Grilled tilapia and veggies at LJS, for 6g carbs, 24g protein.


And a day as hard as the one I had calls for chocolate. 4 squares of Lindt 85% cocoa chocolate have 5g carbs, 3g protein.

Totals for the day are 19g carbs, 87g protein.

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February 24, 2009

Bacon for breakfast, again. No carbs, 10g protein.


For lunch, I thought I'd try La Madeleine, but it was kind of disappointing. This quiche, of which I ate only the filling and no crust, was tasty, but on the small side; I had thought I'd have a salad with it, but most of them feature balsamic vinaigrette, which tends to run high on carbs, so I passed. I still think quiche for lunch is a good idea, but I believe next time I'll go somewhere that serves slices of full-sized quiche, which leaves you more filling to eat and less crust to abandon. This was about 2g carbs, 18g protein.


Since lunch was rather inadequate, I had about an ounce and a half of mixed nuts in the afternoon. 9g carbs, 10g protein.


It's Shrove Tuesday -- Pancake Day! -- so I had pancakes for dinner. Even though they rather miss the point of the tradition, which is to use up eggs and sugar before Lent, when they're made of protein powder and artificially sweetened. Still good, though! Together with the sausage, about 6g carbs, 33g protein.


I had about 3oz of Heart of England cheese as a snack, since I was protein-light for the day. No carbs, 18g protein.

Totals for the day are 17g carbs, 89g protein.

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February 23, 2009

Bacon for breakfast; no carbs, 10g protein.


Lunch was a shrimp caesar salad at Chili's, no croutons. 6g carbs, 23g protein.


We needed to run errands around dinner time, which affected the choice of restaurant. Naked tenders and a side salad at Buffalo Wild Wings have about 4g carbs, 30g protein.


I was definitely running light on protein, so I had a high-protein snack of ham strips. No carbs, about 24g protein.


And I had some chocolate -- 3 mini Toblerone bars have 9g carbs, 1g protein.

Totals for the day were 19g carbs, 88g protein.

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February 22, 2009

Still out of bacon, so I had sausage for breakfast. 4g carbs, 10g protein.


Breakfast was late, and yesterday's dinner was huge, so I didn't really eat lunch. Instead I just had some chocolate (see below), and...


...some Appenzeller cheese. I like this stuff; I bought more today. No carbs, 14g protein.


Dinner was from the Black-eyed Pea; the same pot roast, broccoli, and green beans I usually get, but the full-sized dinner portion rather than the smaller lunch portion. 13g carbs, 73g protein.


After dinner, I had some more cheese, this time 2oz of double-glouchester and stilton in layers. No carbs, 12g protein.


And some more chocolate -- together with what I had earlier in the day, 5g carbs, 3g protein.

Totals for the day were 22g carbs, 112g protein.

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February 21, 2009

I'm out of bacon, so I had yogurt for breakfast. 3g carbs, 12g protein.


I really wasn't hungry at lunchtime, so I had just some sausage. 4g carbs, 10g protein.


And a bit later I had some chocolate, Lindt 85%. 3g carbs, 2g protein.


And then I took the evening off from photographing my food, because I was out for a social event. But you'll still get my menu and my estimate of macronutrient counts.
I had two glasses of dry red wine (insignificant carbs, no protein), about a dozen shrimp with cocktail sauce (3g carbs, 24g protein), some veggies with a cream-cheese/spinach dip (2g carbs, 2g protein), about 8 broiled crab fingers (no carbs, 16g protein), 4 small plantain chips and one piece of grilled plantain (6g carbs, no protein), a grilled lamb tenderloin (no carbs, 48g protein), and cappuccino sweetened with Splenda (8g carbs, 5g protein). Totals for the meal are about 19g carbs, 95g protein; big, but you gotta splurge once in a while.

Totals for the day were 29g carbs, 119g protein.

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February 20, 2009

Started the day with bacon again; no carbs, 10g protein.


And more bacon! This is a Wendy's baconator, no bun. 4g carbs, 54g protein.


I went out with my girlfriends for the evening. We started with drinks -- a vodka martini, lemon twist, has neither carbs nor protein. I had two.


Here's an awesomely low-carb friendly appetizer -- beef carpaccio. There's a smidge of carb to be picked up in the capers and onions, so I'm going to call it 3g carbs, 6g protein (it was very thin beef).


Dinner was a fillet, with a grilled tomato, asparagus, and spinach. About 8g carbs for the veggies, 50g protein.


And then the niftiest little dessert! This is a cheesecake lollypop -- a little ball of cherry cheese cake with a chocolate and cherry candy shell. The whole thing was about an inch across, but I don't want to underreport the carbs; I'll call it 10g carbs (I don't see how it could be more), and 2g protein.

Totals for the day are 25g carbs, 122g protein.

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February 19, 2009

I started the day with yogurt instead of bacon, because I knew there'd be a big lunch. 3g carbs, 12g protein.


Lunch began with this appetizer, of freshly-made mozzarella with slices of eggplant and zucchini. Delicious! I love this restaurant. About 2g carbs, 25g protein.


And then I had this amazing dish of braised beef short ribs. Tender and flavorful beef -- great stuff. It was served with green veggies -- sauteed spinach, asparagus, and rapini (which is a relative of broccoli). I don't know if you can get the scale from the photo, but these were big chunks of beef; I bet about 4oz each before cooking, so 12oz of beef in this lunch serving (portion control, schmortion control!). Normally I count meats as 6g/oz pre-cooked weight, but this was a really fatty meat (did I mention SO GOOD?), so I'm going to count 60g protein from this. And probably 5g carbs from the greens. I didn't finish this at lunch, but I had the rest of it for dinner.


And we'll skip right to my evening snack, since dinner was covered by the lunch picture. I had 2 oz of Appenzeller cheese -- nice, very firm and sort of nutty, I'll be buying this again. It's on the dry side, so a little higher calories per ounce since there's less moisture, and the proportion of fat is a little lower than in most cheeses, so this has 7g/oz protein, where 6g/oz is more typical. In this portion, no carbs and 14g protein.

Totals for the day were 10g carbs, and 111g protein.

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February 18, 2009

Bacon starts the day, as usual. No carbs, 10g protein.


For lunch I had a salad and a roast-beef sandwich without the bread. About 5g carbs, 24g protein.


Planning is useful for staying on track -- I knew I was having a lunch meeting with Panera food, and I knew there would be cookies, so I brought some chocolate as a substitute. Two squares of 85% dark chocolate only have about 3g carbs, 2g protein.


Whoops! I totally forgot to take a picture of the beer I had at happy hour with co-workers; I drank about 2/3 of a Shiner Bock. About 8g carbs; I don't think there's any protein in there.


Dinner was at Olive Garden; no croutons in the salad, and although the picture shows potatoes on the plate with my pork tenderloin and broccoli, I didn't eat them. About 8g carbs, 50g protein.

Totals for the day were around 24g carbs, 86g protein.

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February 17, 2009

Bacon for breakfast as usual; no carbs, 10g protein.


Lunch was homemade tuna salad, enough fresh pineapple to constitute 10g of carbs (I was craving some fruit -- that's part of what had me snacking so much the day before), and 2 squares of Lindt 85% cocoa chocolate. About 16g carbs, 26g protein.


Dinner was beef brisket, with Jenny's almost-no-carb BBQ sauce, some Brussels sprouts, and one of those little lemon-raspberry mousse things I discovered a couple weeks ago. About 13g carbs, 55g protein.


And a snack; the last of the low-carb fudge, and an ounce and a half of Taleggio Dop cheese. About 3g carbs, 13g protein.

Totals for the day were 32g carbs, 104g protein.

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February 16, 2009

Started the day with bacon. No carbs, 10g protein.


It's a holiday, so a lot more snacks than is usual for a weekday. These 4 squares of chocolate are Lindt 85% cocoa, so only 5g carbs, 3g protein.


Lunch was simple; 3oz each of honey ham and Heart of England cheese, and a bit of honey dijon mustard. About 6g carbs, 36g protein.


An ounce of mixed nuts has about 6g carbs, 7g protein.


And some more of the fudge I am still trying to finish off (quadrupling the recipe results in a lot). 4g carbs, 5g protein.


Dinner was meatballs; the sauce is Jenny's almost-no-carb barbeque sauce, which is just as good as she says it is! 13g carbs, 30g protein.


For dessert, 3/4 cup cottage cheese with Torani syrup. 5g carbs, 21g protein.


And as a final snack, 2oz of beef summer sausage. No carbs, 9g protein.

Totals for the day are 39g carbs, 121g protein; running a little high on both counts, but not seriously out of line, especially given how much snacking I did.

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