Day 3 Paleo Hell

It's the end of Day 3, and I've done better than yesterday.

I did some research this morning for some paleo recipes, found a recipe for paleo pancakes and it sounds awesome. The only bad part about all of the recipes is that I don't know what the hell all these ingredients are. Date? Flaxseed? Almond flour? carob? cumin? some i've heard of, but never used, and maybe eaten unknowingly.

Breakfast:
A large banana and 3 cups of coffee with almond milk.

Lunch: steak from yesterday, and a cup of Del Monte mandarin oranges. The label on oranges say there is "no sugar added", but there is 3 grams of sugar on the label, yet the ingredients say only mandarin oranges. So I'm assuming the 3 grams of sugar come from the natural sugars in oranges. So I assume it's okay.

Yay!

Mom emailed me a recipe for Pumpkin Crunch Cake that she wants me to make for Thanksgiving, so I decided to try it Paleo style. In stead of 1 and 1/2 cups of sugar, I used 1 and 1/2 cups of mashed bananas and instead of yellow cake mix I used gluten, wheat, dairy and sugar-free baking flour. The pumpkin puree mix and the bananas as sugar tasted pretty good actually. I'd be really good as a smoothie or shake. But I misread mom's directions and put the baking flour on the bottom of the pan with the pumpkin mix on top when I was supposed to put the flour on top of the pumpkin mix. So it didn't turn out quite right. It was actually really bland with not much flavor and the flour didnt do anything. :/ Fail. I'll try again tomorrow, maybe.

After tasting a little bit of the evil sugar, I was craving, so I put some fruit in a bowl and added some almond chocolate milk. It was really really good, but still eh. A bit fat double scoop of vanilla and chocolate ice cream in a chocolate sprinkled waffle cone would have been WAY better. UGH! The AGONY!

So for dinner, I thought about having a steak and sweet potato, and I swear I never though I'd say this but SERIOUSLY? steak, again?! NOOO!! For those of you who don't know me very well, If I were to die tomorrow and could ask for one last meal, it would be a big fat juicy filet with a ginormous baked potato! Well, shit.

Not anymore. I think at this point I'd rather a huge loaf of bread, and a gallon of Twix ice cream.

So for dinner I reheated some chicken, fried an egg, added a slice of muenster cheese to the chicken and laid the fried egg on top of the chicken. It was a nice chance of pace from the bland chicken.

I'm not sure if this Paleo diet is going to work for me. Though it seems to be getting a little bit easier but only because I've been drinking at least 8 cups of coffee a day to satisfy my sugar cravings. Which I'm thinking it's only making it worse. :/

All I can think about right now is pizza. My mom called to see how the cake turned out, I told her poorly as she was chopping on something in my ear. "Mom what are you eating?" Pizza, she says. DAMN IT!!!

Do you remember the Kenan and Kel show, when Kenan Thompson would say, "Whyyyy??"

Yeah that's all I keep hearing in my head. At least it got "Welcome to good burger, home of the good burger, can I take your order?!"

I tried to find a clip of Kenan doing the "Whyyy" but I couldn't find it. Sorry! If you find one let me know please.

I did find this though, because if you watched Kenan and Kel you know how we all LOVE orange soda!