My daily food.

For those of you who are a bit baffled by the term "paleolithic diet" or are perhaps wondering the origins of  my latest recipes, this is a normal day of food for me.

Salad with chicken, avocado, tomato, onion in a lime cilantro vinaigrette. 

Breakfast
2 strips of bacon
2 scrambled eggs
1 cup milk or orange juice
1-2 cups coffee with cream and stevia

Lunch
Smoothie or deluxe salad.

Snack
choice of...
piece of fruit
greek yogurt parfait
greek salad
trail mix
hummus and raw veggies
( I usually have my choice of two)

Dinner
A piece of meat or fish
raw veggies
OR
Recipe of the day

Before Bed
Large glass of water

Italian soup with sausage, kale and white kidney beans.  Lentil and spinach salad on the side. 

Theory behind it all. After being a vegetarian for year and a vegan for a few months, I found out exactly how important fruits and veggies (especially raw ones) are. I filled my diet with them and learned to love them. They are a giant part of my diet, just because I love them and feel much healthier when I eat plenty of them. I still really don't like meat that much, but being pregnant, I need some meat in my diet. I especially fatty meats as part of the paleolithic thing. Problem is, I like fatty meat even less than normal meat. Thats where the bacon comes in. Just a few strips of bacon in the AM, and not only do I feel full for ages, but I get the fat in my diet that is horribly lacking in all my other meals. Notice the no grain? Paleolithic diets reckon that grain is not only bad for our physique, but literally addictive AND poisonous. YIKES! I don't know if I buy the "poison" thing, but I definitely feel a lot worse when I eat grain throughout the day, and it does seem to have the same addictive properties that my coffee has. (I'm a totally addicted coffee snob)

I try not to be a calorie counter, but I just did an average count on how many calories this is per day
Breakfast about 390
snack max 168
lunch max 300
Dinner 400 max

Totaling a max of 1,258 which is pretty much exactly what I should be eating for my height and weight to maintain my "normal weight" of 120..... wow. I'm actually kind of impressed. I got my average cal count pretty much spot on without obsessing about counting calories. VICTORY!
 While pregnant and breastfeeding I need about 300 extra calories a day. All that means is I get two snacks instead of one...which I am already doing. **happy dance**
I'm not feeling so bad about my recent weight gain all of a sudden. I know it was due to the change in my diet for a few weeks, and not because of anything I am doing wrong at home. Therefore, if I keep eating that way I naturally do (while staying away from the pasta) I should healthily and steadily get back to my pre-pregnancy weight without a problem. Of course that's not even counting the yoga I'm dying to do again or the Zumba I'm looking forward to trying out.

I know I'm teasing ya'll with pictures of food and no recipes. I will post the recipes soon if all goes well.