Helllllooooooo there. Here we go, with another ‘what I ate in a day’ post. I’m going to get some real hell for this one. It wasn’t the cleanest day of eating I’ve ever had. Buutttt I don’t really care. Moving is stressful, I tend to eat when I’m stressed, and hang out with friends who like to eat, as well. I mean, I work at a CrossFit gym. Most CrossFit people like food. The good ones, at least. But I like to share posts like this to show that I don’t stick COMPLETELY paleo 24/7. Because life is more fun with tasty treats once in a while.
So anyways, I started my morning off the other day with a cup of joe. In my coffee, I use heavy cream (about 1 tablespoon or less) and 3 drops of stevia. (disclaimer: heavy cream is not paleo. I use it because it doesn’t bother me). While I drank my coffee, I recorded a podcast with Low Carb Conversations. I drank 1/2 of it. Like usual.
After our podcast, I was STARVING. So I snacked on 5 plantain chips while I made my breakfast. When I made breakfast, I made enough to eat at lunch too. So for 2 meals, I made 2 pieces of bacon, 1/2 pound of ground chicken, 1 head of broccoli and topped it with some Steve’s Paleo Chef Sriracha. (psssst. If you use the discount code ‘PaleOMG2014’ at checkout, you’ll get 10% off your Steve’s Paleo Goods order. Good until Sunday). After I removed half of it concoction from the pan, I topped the breakfast meal with 1 egg and a couple chunks of raw cheddar cheese.
After I ate part of it, I wasn’t hungry. So I didn’t finish my meal. Cool story, huh?
Once I got showered up, I grabbed a 1/2 full Suja Juice on my way out the door. It’s my new favorite one. I like drinks carrots more than eating them.
When I got to the Sugar Bakeshop, I got myself an almond milk latte. Isn’t it pretty? Again, I drank half it. Then I ate my lunch that I had made at breakfast earlier. Again, I didn’t finish my meal. I suck.
While I worked on the new cookbook, a friend came into the bakeshop and we chatted and caught up with each other’s lives. He asked if I wanted to split a popster. I’ll explain what a popster is if you’re unsure. A popster is similar to a pop tart but homemade a way freaking better. Definitely not paleo. I think I had strawberry one with a homemade strawberry filling and strawberry frosting on top. It’s pretty much the best thing ever. I had 2 bites of it. After my friend left, he left part of it behind for me to finish. I threw it away so it wouldn’t haunt me. My 2 bites were glorious though.
After 3 hours at the coffee shop and finishing up cookbook stuff, I grabbed a paleo pumpkin muffin at the Bakeshop to go. I was getting a tad hungry and wanted my stomach not to be pissed at me during my workout. I ate half of it while I stretched. I’m a good multitasker.
Then I worked out at CrossFit Broadway. This is what I did:
5 min Clock
500 m Row then amrap of:
6 Power Snatch (135#/95#) – my coach made me do 85#. I pouted for a good 16 sec because I would have been fine with 75#
8 Alternating Front Rack lunges (135#/95#)
3 mins REST THEN
5 min Clock
500 m Row then amrap of:
6 Burpees
8 Toes To Bar
3 mins REST THEN
5 min Clock
500 m Row then amrap of:
6 Power Snatch (135#/95#)
8 Alternating Front Rack lunges (135#/95#)
After that workout, we did 4x200m sprints. My butt is sore. Wait, no. Only left butt cheek is sore. My right one is dumb.
After the workout, I coached 2 classes at the gym and put them through lovely lunges and sprints. Once I finished coaching, I was putting my jacket on and my friend Jeremy offered me a gluten free cookie. I’m not one to ever turned down something sweet, obviously, so I ate half of one and they were AWESOME. I told him I wanted to sleep on a pillow made of those cookies.
Once I got home, I ate the other half of my paleo pumpkin muffin. So good.
Then the roommates and I had a little roommate night. Since I move out tomorrow, we wanted to all hang out at the house, eat food, and watch the Bachelor. So we ordered some dinner from Park Burger and ate at home. I ordered a Turkey Bacon Guac burger on greens that was topped with some ranch. And we got sweet potato fries. I wasn’t super into the sweet potato fries that night so I just had a handful.
After dinner, I had a piece of Eating Evolved vanilla latte chocolate to end the night. It was delicious as usual.
I finished my night off watching Shameless. I think I’ve given up on Breaking Bad, but we will see what the future brings. I love Shameless though. Pumped for the new season. It has some huge downer moments, but it still has humor tied into the series. I need humor in sadness. I just do.
Ok, I’m going to go move. kluvyoubye.


















I love when you post these! Thank you sooooo much! I love you!
Hey, I just wanted to say I stumbled across your blog purely by chance- my husband wanted paleo meatloaf one day and I found your savory sweet potato one… Every time I had eaten paleo before I would end up pissed off and hungry because it generally tasted like crap. But your meatloaf was amazing, then I tried recipe upon recipe, and now I’ve made about ten dinners and a bunch of snacks, and I love it all!! Thank you for making pale so delicious. There is no way I could be on board with it otherwise.
I just came across your blog this morning and i already love the way you think and talk about food! It’s almost simular to mine haha! I don’t follow a particular ‘diet’ (i know it ‘s a lifestyle not a diet LOL) i trie to eat as clean, healthy and good as possible. Only things i skip are sugar, sweeteners and alcohol.
I’m going to follow you and trie your recipes! (And be o so jealous that you work. At a crossfit box! 😉 )
Love from The Netherlands!
I am a wicked stress/emotional eater. I always have been. One of my goals for the New Year is to end my emotional eating. Before Paleo, I really only ate grains and cheese (and veggies too but pasta and bread were my main diet) and when I would do emotional eating it would be really bad for you snacks. In January I took on Paleo and thought it could help with my snacking. And it has… when I was stressed, I couldn’t run to a bag of Doritos, I just had to deal with the emotions. Towards the end of January, my cravings for those foods had ended. So I think Paleo has helped me with that part of my life (I made a lot of your recipes during the month). Sorry for the ramble! Best of luck with the move!
Hey Juli! I have loved every one of your recipes that I have tried. And I have tried a lot of them. As such, I have an UBER important question. I want to make your pineapple stuffed chorizo burgers into pineapple stuffed chorizo meatballs-of-yummy-goodness for a party (would be the Bowl O’ Superness, but alas, I waited too long…) but I need an awesome-sauce for them. Because nobody likes un-saucy balls…any suggestions?
First off. Thanks for a wonderful blog. I enjoy your honesty about what you eat. I find myself having problems keeping up the motivation through the week (im a 80/20 Paleo) and need to get my stuff together and get back in the paleo game. Nice to read your post.
Thanks for the promo code for Steve’s Sriracha. All over that one, love it!!
Breaking Bad is hard to watch at times but its so worth it. After that try Dexter!
You’re funny! thanks.
Your self restraint is ridiculous. I wish I could only eat half a cookie!!