almost had a pizza today...

Today more snow covered the land, resulting in huge traffic jams and icy roads. I was away fixing computers in remote locations when I heard about those jams and figured it might be wise to leave half an hour early and go straight home instead of going by the office.
What would normally take me half an hour by car took me 2 hours. The heating in my car is not working properly, so by the time I got home my feet where half frozen and my fingers weren't too hot either. Suffice to say I really did not feel like doing anything anymore when I got home, I just wanted to collapse on the couch and be. My boyfriend and daughter had already been fed by my mother, so they asked me what I had planned for food for myself and I replied, "I don't care. I don't wanna cook. I'll get myself a pizza!"
Next thing I know I was shoo'd off into the bathroom for a hot foot bath while my mother was frying some frozen fish and warming up some canned sweetcorn for me.

I love my mum!

Forgive me for I have sinned!

Since I have started the diet on January second I have eaten the following sinful food:
2 bites of brownie
1 chocolate tablet
200 gram of "Sinas Snippers"
4 pieces of salty liquorice

Actually not that bad for someone who was used to 2-3 bars of chocolate a week ;-) And there where mitigating circumstances for the sinas snippers and the chocolate: I was ill.

All in all it's going pretty well. I never expected weight loss to kick in soon, maybe 1 kilo a month (2 pounds?). However, I've already lost 5 kilo! I went from 113 to 108.

I've got some challenges coming up ahead though. I'm going to the sauna (welness resort) 2 times in Februari, once with my boyfriend and once with my best friend. My boyfriend and I will have a tapas menu for lunch, and I have no clue how that can be kept Paleo. I informed them upfront that I can't have grain or sugar though, and I'll just have to ignore all the E numbers and salt in the food I guess. When I go with my best friend we'll have a lunch buffet, so I can pretty much choose my own food. But then the dessert.... Maybe I'll just indulge myself with yoghurt and honey, if that's available. The fruit is probably canned, so not an option and all else is really not an option :p (icecream, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, tarts, cake, etc)

Next update I will give you a recipe, something I've been making long before I went paleo and which goes well in a paleo diet if you don't mine dairy and supermarket ham.

Over a month of Paleodining done

And I love it!!!!

I enjoy my food more, no longer the same old cereal every day. Instead I have breakfast with bacon, eggs and some mushrooms and/or tomato, or smoked salmon with creamcheese and lettuce or cucumber, or a grilled piece of fish with stir-fried vegetables. And when I'm in a rush I resort to a home-made, all-fruit, smoothie.
For lunch it can be anything, depending on what I have at hands, can I cook? Do I have a microwave? Leftovers are great for lunch, so are soup, salad, quiche (without the pastry exterior) and all things that are breakfastfood for me.
I didn't even like bread to begin with, I ate it because it was supposed to be a good and healthy filling.
Now for dinner is where it gets interesting: what do you do with endive (andijvie) if you can't mash it with potatoes? The same for Sauerkraut. Inventiveness is the key. I found a nice stir-fry dish for the endive and I prepared the sauerkraut with crème fraîche, minced meat and herbs.

"Wait, what? Did you mention creamcheese and crème fraîche? What happened to the no dairy?"
Yup, I did mention that. I'm taking a liberal view on the no-dairy thing. I've cute down a lot on normal milk, but am still using processed milk, like cheeses and yoghurt and crème fraîche. It just makes cooking so much easier and half of the Paleo guidelines do include certain types of dairy.

I have to run now, but I will write more later!