Eyes Bigger Than My Stomach

You know that bit about not shopping when you're hungry?  Holds true for the paleo diet too.  I bought a pound each of Provolone and London Broil.  I knew I was over the 1 meal target, but I figured it was for both breakfast and lunch:

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving	Fiber grams per serving
Provolone	16.6	8	7	1
Cold Cut London Broil	8.6	2	13	0
Peppers, sweet, red, raw	2.0	0.3	0.99	6.03	2.1

Total Calories	2,381
% carb calories	4%
% protein calories	39%
% fat Calories	57%
Ketogenic ratio	139%

Uh.  That's more like 4 meals there.  Guess I better get some back in the fridge for tomorrow.

Good thing it's tasty.  The pepper gives it that bit of crunch without adding a lot of carb calories.  The cheese and meat flavors blend well...

Ice Cream Vs. Yogurt

My Fibromyalgia flare-up leaves me exhausted, and sometimes exhaustion leads to doing dumb things like drinking burning hot beverages and ruining all appetite for foods with texture while the burn heals.

So yesterday for lunch I had ice cream, and today I had yogurt.  Which is better?

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving	Fiber grams per serving	Calories	% fat calories	Ketogenic Ratio
Haagen Daz	3.5	17	4	25	0	941.50	56.88%	59.06%
Lemon Merange Oikos Traditional Greek Yogurt	4.0	4.5	11	21	0	674.00	24.04%	32.73%
Key Lime Oikos Traditional Greek Yogurt	4.0	4.5	11	18	0	626.00	25.88%	36.69%

Looks like ice cream has it in the normal case, but perhaps while I'm healing the protein counts for more.  The total calories in one container of Haagen Daz was a bit high, perhaps I could look at some of the smaller container sizes.  Secondary note here is that not all flavors are equal.  I already knew that different Oikos flavors have different additives, apparently they have different nutrition profiles as well.

Flare-up

It's a bad week.  Thursday I had a big pile of blueberries with honey on them, and got a sugar high and crash.  For desert that night I had blackberries with honey.  That night I came down with a very bad cold that lasted about 24 hours.  Saturday sore shoulders and PMS.  Sunday morning I realized that this was a Fibromyalgia flare-up, and went back to bed for 5 more hours of sleep, but was still tired in the evening and needed caffeine to make it to bedtime.  Monday I was hallucinating/dreaming while awake at work (my code was talking to other parts of my code, and I was trying to investigate their conspiracy).  It didn't help that I burned my mouth at breakfast.  (Tried to sip the top off an overly full travel mug of recently boiling broth.)  I'm exhausted.  I need to be very careful about my diet and sleep and get back on a regular PT routine again until this calms down.

It's still not as bad as flare ups used to be, I was able to climb the stairs in to work this morning without much trouble.  Flare-ups used to always center on my legs, and this time it's just my shoulder.

Lindt vs. Ghirardelli

I found out that Lindt owns Ghirardelli, so it makes me wonder if there is any real difference between their recipes?

Quick answer: yes, Lindt 70% dark compares most closely to Ghirardelli 72% dark, so there's a bit of a discrepancy there before we look deeper.

Unfortunately Ghirardelli doesn't put nutrition facts on their website, so we turn to caloriecount.about.com.  Lindt data from product page.

Unfortunately I don't trust CalorieCount info, somehow that bar manages to have 17 g of fat in a 3 g serving?  but assuming the rest of the info is correct:

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving	Fiber grams per serving	Fat grams	Protein grams	Digestible Carb grams	Calories	% fat calories	Ketogenic Ratio
Ghirardelli 72% dark	1.0	17	2	17	4	17	2	13.00	213.00	71.83%	102.27%
Lindt 70% dark	1.0	19	3	17	3	19.00	3.00	14.00	239.00	71.55%	104.76%

It's about a tie there, depending on if you're going with %fat calories or ketogenic ratio it could fall either way.