I'm posting what I ate for thursday, because it was an unusual day.  I'd been shoveling snow all day for a week, and my shoulders were sore and had been for a couple of days.  If it were an exercise program, I'd be due for a rest day, but the snow doesn't pay attention to my preferences.

I figured I'd up the protein to see if that helped.  Normally I have around 8-12 oz of meat or equivalent, for 56-84g of protein or so, probably about 1-1.5g per kg of lean body mass.  On thursday I had

2 slices uncured bacon
2 fried eggs

4 oz grass fed ground beef patty (75% lean)
0.5 oz or so fried mushrooms

4 oz grass fed ground beef patty (75% lean) (not part of my normal routine)

6 oz grass fed ground beef patty (75% lean) (usually I would have a 4 oz patty)
1 oz or so fried mushrooms
1 oz or so fried onions
1 oz or so baby spinach
2 blackberries

snacks through the day (may be approximate since I don't remember exactly):
0.5 oz or so walnuts, before I realized I needed protein rather than fat
2 or so clementines
1 oz or so blackberries or strawberries (not sure if I had run out of strawberries by thursday)

That comes to about 18 oz meat equivalent, or 126g of protein, about 2.3g per kg lean body mass (1g per lb).

I started getting less sore by evening, and by the next morning, the soreness had largely passed, even though I continued shoveling snow both thursday and friday (and got sore again friday night / saturday morning after eating less meat friday).  I'm thinking that the amount and quality of protein on the paleo diet is a big factor in the reduction in delayed onset muscle soreness.

eating out is such a minefield!

You do seem to really suffer on anything non-paleo...

I had a run-in with a hibachi/sushi buffet and grill this weekend.  My husband had been asking if we could try this place for months, and I kept holding out because of my fear of getting MSG'd or glutenated, along with my general leeriness of buffets.

I thought I'd managed to avoid the worst of it by sticking to sushi, even though I realized near the end of the meal that there was an Unknown Ingredient in a few of the rolls I'd eaten that looked like something made from wheat.

Two days later the migraines, brain fog, and stomach cramping started.  By the evening, that was followed up with bloody diarrhea.  Today was better but my stomach is still a little off.  I'm guessing it was gluten from the neurological issues, and the GI issues were bad enough to make me reconsider  that I might be celiac.

Sorry for hijacking your thread.  My dang husband was fine despite cheating way worse than I did.   Some people are just less sensitive.

I'm too lazy to keep a food journal.  However, every now and then I have a major cheat on the diet - with disastrous results.  I thought I'd keep track of them here.

So anyway, a week and a half ago, I wanted to finish a project estimate that was going to be discussed the next day.  I figured I'd just stay up and finish it, but it took longer than I expected.  I ended up staying up all night, eating about half a pound of dark chocolate to stay awake.  From a paleo standpoint, I guess that's a lifestyle cheat and a major diet cheat.

Anyway, I stayed awake pretty well, and the client was pleased with the estimate, so I was feeling pretty good.  However, shortly thereafter, I started getting a sore throat.  Then the sore throat was replaced by a head cold.  Then the sore throat came back, I started getting aches in bones and muscles, a cough, and eventually a bit of a fever.

I finally went to the doctor today, mostly because I wanted a strep test and antibiotics if the fever indicated strep.  They also tested me for flu, probably because of the swine flu epidemic.

Well, I had flu all right - I tested positive for influenza A, likely H1N1 or swine flu.  Not only that, though, I also tested positive for influenza B as well.  In other words, I had two types of flu at the same time!

No more chocolate all nighters for me!

OK you scared me good now... but I dont think I can go through half a pound of chocolate. >_< scary!

I'm posting my food for today, because it was the first rib roast of the season!

Three slices of uncured bacon
Two eggs fried in the bacon grease

Approx. 1 oz cashews
Two medium boiled eggs
4 oz "natural" (no sugar added) apple sauce
Approx. 1 oz walnuts
2/3 can sardines
Apple

Approx. 6 oz rib roast
Chinese broccoli stir fried in uncured bacon grease and juice from last week's pork roast
Onions and mushrooms pan fried in uncured bacon grease and grass fed tallow

More roast beef
Cocoa snack:  2 tsp coconut oil, 2 tsp coconut cream, 2 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder (probably not paleo), 2 drops honey
4 oz "natural" apple sauce

Ick.  Sorry to hear that   What part of the world/country do you live in?  I'm in the mid-western US and we have had unseasonably warm weather with sickness going through a lot of people like mad.  I am starting to believe that this crazy weather is contributing to some of the sickness out there...

Rib roast for dinner today, as I found one with a good amount of fat at the grocery this week.  So good!

A couple of times in the past month or so I've been hungry at work without having brought food in, and ended up buying packets of cashews roasted in peanut oil.  This seems to be correlated with borderline diarrhea for the next day.  I think it's the peanut oil as I haven't noticed this happening with cashews roasted in other oils.