This just got real.

I had great vision for dinner last night, but instead I just ate hamburger.  The problem was that I wanted to try a roast in the oven.  I seared it off on both sides and put it in to cook slowly at 275 degrees for 30 minutes.  Not good, a lot like shoe leather.  I think some of the issue was not having a proper fitting lid, no additional moisture and no vegetables.   I will probably wait on other roasts until I add some vegetables back into the diet.

This morning I have a headache, and some sensitivity to light.  I know I am not eating enough meat, but already I am not that hungry.  I could be partially dehydrated from sleeping, and probably some minor withdrawals from caffeine.  I will drink more water and make sure that I eat the steak that I brought today.  I thought I would try to just eat pieces through the day rather than an actual meal.

More later

Yeeha meat

Today is the first day of the Meat Challenge!  WOOP WOOP MEAT MEAT MEAT!  Whew I feel better now.  I feel excited, energized, excellent.  Last night I cooked up these babies:

I just put them in a pan an fried them with bacon grease, yeah BACON GREASE, gettcha some Whoo!  Anyway, above you see the before and here you see the during picture, they all didn't fit in the one pan so I cooked in two batches.  That is a cast iron skillet that I like to use for cooking almost everything meat related.

So there it is in all it's minute steak glory.  These are pretty lean cuts of meat, thin so they cook quickly and tenderized by the locker where they were processed.  They are cheap if you purchase them, mine came from the family farm, and they taste good plain.  This particular beef is from a Hereford/Red Angus cross that was grass fed in good old Iowa.

So there you have it, breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner.  It was about 1.5lbs prior to cooking and I will let you know if that is enough.  Tonight I am preparing just a roast, no vegetables, so lets see how that turns out.

Introduction

Today seems like a good day to start a challenge and a blog I guess.  We were talking at work and Katie, an avid blog reader, told us about a blog story that she had read about a family that only eats ribeye steaks and drinks water. That is it, just ribeye and water.  How can they do that?  I ate Paleo a few years ago but didn't continue for some reason.  So needing motivation and a starting point to loose about 50 lbs I jumped at the opportunity to try this challenge.  I am only going to eat beef and water for 2 weeks, and I will blog about it and be honest about the start and end  results and issues encountered along the way.

A little bit about me, My name is Eric, I am 45 years old I am married, with 4 children from 20 to 13, and am a bit overweight.  OK, I am way overweight.  You know I could lose a few pounds.  The government food plate/pyramid b.s. says I should weight, for my height, about 175 lbs.  I hate the government.  I currently weigh 241.5 as of today.  I would like to get to around 200, possibly even lose 50 lbs in the next few months.  I will go into my other upcoming challenges later in the blog.

The plan for the blog right now is to just get to the beginning.  I need to cut out coffee and soda as drinks.  I love coffee with cream and real vanilla, and the one soda that I drink, generally, every day.  Foods, obviously all non beef products are gone.  Fun Fact: Hey did you know that cattle that are destined to be eaten are called Beeves?

Oh, one more thing and I will move along is that I recognize that Paleo and No Carb and Low Carb are different food lifestyles.  I get that.  I will try to be as accurate as I can be but hey, in the end I want to lose weight and be healthy.

And remember 2 weeks with just meat and water coming up.