Helping Daddy

Suit up.

Desperate Times

Hanging out in the parking lot of Southern Lumber. Hopefully at the end of this wekend we end up with a beautiful built-in to compensate for the angst,  needling bribery, and strain on our marriage...

Week One

I'm down two pounds since last Tuesday, which isn't AHmazing, but I'll take it.

Doing that ketogenic fast last Tuesday gave me a headache, so I didn't try it again until this Tuesday. I felt hungry and not great, so this morning I went ahead and had breakfast. Maybe it's because I'm still breastfeeding, or I'm just not nourished enough yet.

I think maybe I'm feeling happier lately, but I'm still getting super frustrated with the kids. Granted that may have more to do with the fact that they're nearly 3 and nearly 1, and they are amazingly talented at messing up anything I have just cleaned or losing their $#*! when I thought I finally had everything under control...

Al Fresco

Leftover lamb from last night's dinner sauteed with broccoli and kale in a combo of coconut oil and butter. Andsome raspberries--most of which Lu is eating.

Something's Fishy About This Curry

Oh yes I did sneak sardines into our beef curry. I think it's better for them.

No Fast This Morning...

Two eggs with salsa and cheese (fried in coconut oil--the non-coconutty kind)

Dinner

Salmon wth olive oil and sea salt, broccoli with pastured butter, and plantains fried in coconut oil. Managed to hit three out of four fats...

Lunch

Vegetable soup (chicken stock and cooked veggies pureed) mixed with feta and topped with two fried eggs.

Kid Breakfast

I didn't make my kids fast...they had what we call "sweet eggs." Basically french toast without bread. I fried some banana slices in coconut oil with cinnamon and vanilla and then scrambled some egg yolks in. Gus had a few drops of maple syrup on his.

Breakfast

Decided to try intermittent fasting (which is recommended in PHD for its various health benefits), so "breakfast" was coffee with heavy cream, and I slipped in a bit of coconut oil. I think next time I'll just take the CO straight... We throw in cinnamon with our coffee grounds, which gives it a nice sweetish flavor and helps me miss sugar less.






Don't laugh at my cup.

The PHD: An Experiment

I've decided to try out the Perfect Health Diet and see what happens. I pinned the cover of this book a while ago when Jennifer Fulwiler mentioned it the first time (see number 6).

She mentioned it again in the context of clothes that were falling off of her and loads more energy (numbers 4 and 5)--and those are issues that I'd like to have. And recently she posted about it again, and I have a lot of respect for her and identify with pretty much everything she says about the eating issues she has. So I bought the book on Kindle and devoured it.

I'm not going to pretend like I understand the whole thing. A friend recently questioned me more closely on the science, and I was like look, I have about half a brain to devote to anything at this point in my life. And it wasn't the world's sharpest brain to begin with. But the information and sources are all there. The authors are extremely intelligent, and the book was not written to be a weight loss book. It's simply the research they did to try to improve their own health and what they concluded based on their studies.

So I'm going to start posting what I'm eating (and sometimes what the kids are eating), and I'll include my results if/when there are any.


This is their "food pyramid"...that is not a pyramid. Obvs.

A Test

Let's se if we can get more content up.