Something Different This Week

Michael and I both agreed that last week’s breakfast were a huge gut-bomb. In order to get 30+ grams of protein in for breakfast like the diet plan instructs, we were eating 3 egg white, 1 egg scrambled plus multiple turkey sausage links or bacon and black beans. It was huge and sat heavy (not in a good way) for hours.

This week we are trying something different. A few times this week we are having 2 scrambled eggs and we’ll split a steak. It sounds like a lot but it really isn’t. We ate 2.5 ounces of steak (grass-fed from Trader Joe’s) and that got us to the 30+ grams of protein we needed without making us feel sick!

BREAKFAST:

2.5 ounces of steak

2 scrambled eggs

Salsa and sour cream

Coffee w/creamer (thank goodness!)

Calories:   360     |    Carbs: 8g     |     Protein: 39g   |     Fiber 0g

SNACK:

Original Babybel Cheese

I figured this would be okay to eat on the diet because it has zero sugar and zero carbs in it. I kind of wished I had some almonds or cashews to go with the cheese but I’d forgotten them at home.

Calories:   70     |    Carbs: 0g     |     Protein: 5g   |     Fiber 0g

LUNCH:

Caesar Salad with

Blackened chicken (1/2 breast)

Broccoli

1/2 an avocado

Michael totally nailed the blackened chicken breast and it was so delicious with the Caesar salad!  I should have brought some more veggies to go on the salad to try and increase my fiber intake for the day but I didn’t think about it (and honestly my salad was so big I don’t know that I needed more food).

Calories:   425     |    Carbs: 25g     |     Protein: 26g   |     Fiber 11g

DINNER:

1/2 Lamb Steak

Green Beans

Cucumber, Tomato, Mozzarella Salad

I made us a salad of chopped cucumber, sliced Roma tomato and the last slice of fresh mozzarella cubed up. Add a little salt and pepper, oil and balsamic and that was it! Easy and so tasty!

I hadn’t planned on having steak twice in one day, but the way our leftovers worked out that’s what we did. Since Michael and I ended up splitting the lamb steak Sunday night, we had to split the other one Monday night too. Poor planning on our part but it was a good dinner. The lamb turned out even better than it was on Sunday night. Dinner was really low in calories but it filled me up just enough. In retrospect, I should have also steamed some broccoli to go along with the steak and beans. Next time!

Calories:   400     |    Carbs: 22g     |     Protein: 29g   |     Fiber 8g

I’m finding it difficult to really find any motivation to stay on this much longer. I just feel “blah” about the whole thing. Had I lost some weight like Michael did last week? This week might be another story. But I’m trying to stay on it to support Michael.

TOTALS FOR THE DAY:

Calories:   1,605     |    Carbs: 82g     |     Protein: 113g   |     Fiber 19g

QUESTION: How do you not lose steam on a diet? For some reason this one doesn’t appeal to me, but the counting calories worked really well.