169: A Look Inside My Summer Food Journal
I’m back after my short hiatus! In this week’s episode we’re talking about the food journal I kept this summer which, in truth, I’m a little cringey about sharing with you.
I’m much more feasty in the summertime. I eat more carbs; I don’t fast as long; I drink more wine. Tis the season of longer days, looser schedules, less regiment, lots of social activity and lots of Heck Yeahs. I definitely ate, drank and was merry!
The purpose of the journal is not to give you a shining blueprint of how to eat, but to be real and transparent about how I eat. One of the best ways to teach you grace and sustainability in your eating habits is to show you how I have them in mine. We don’t have to eat perfectly all of the time, as long as we have some core nutrition and good habits in place most of the time. Download the journal and listen to the podcast for an insider look at the food, the strategy and the grace that I incorporate into my real life way of eating.
Download the journal here.
EPISODE 169: A Look Inside My Summer Food Journal
Show Notes
(0:00) Intro
Hello my friend, welcome back to the Club. How are you today? It is SO GOOD to be back with you!
About 2-3 weeks into my break, I started keeping a food journal
Summer is when I’m “loosest” with my dietary habits. I eat more carbs, I don’t fast as long, I drink more wine. Such is the nature of summer: longer days, looser schedules, less regiment, lots of social activity. Lots of Heck yeahs. I ate, drank and be merried, for sure.
If you’re on my Sunday Sendout email list, I already emailed the journal to you. If you’re not, this is why you should be, because I email fun things to you, but you can get it at thechristiannutritionist.com/journal or go to my website look under free guides, and click on Chelsea’s summer journal and I will send it to you.
One thing I try to teach people is grace and sustainability in their eating habits (that is a part of what we do in Feast 2 Fast® ) and my hope is that by sharing the grace I have for my eating imperfection you might give yourself some too. We don’t have to eat perfectly all of the time as long as we have some core nutrition and good habits in place most of the time.
Even though I overindulged a lot this summer, I maintained an upgraded, higher standard of quality with my food and health habits.
With this journal, I want you to see that you don’t have to count calories or obsess over macronutrient ratios.
As usual, by the end of the summer, I’m really ready to tighten things back up as I think a lot of us are.
Feast 2 Fast® starts in two weeks - it’s our back to school reboot round
If you’re kind of in the same boat and are feeling like you’re ready for a hard stop and reset - join us for F2F, registration is open and we start on Aug 22nd.
(8:25) Keeping a food journal:
The Four Tendencies
I really had to stay on top of it because you think you’re going to remember what you ate, but a lot will slip your mind if you’re not current.
One of my not-so-great habits that I’m always working to improve is not eating the food leftover off my kids plate.
There’s an approach to nutrition research called Nutritional epidemiology which is the study diet on the risks of diseases but a lot of it relies on data collected from food questionnaires that are given to people who are asked to talk about what they’ve eaten for the last 3, 6, 9 months or a year. The details are usually already fuzzy and people tend to block out the less-than-stellar food that they ate. It’s a very unreliable method for drawing conclusions about health and nutrition.
You can pretty much find a study to support whatever it is you want in your diet.
(14:17) Storytime ~ Fredericksburg Market:
Nury’s sells ceviche and street tacos and all kinds of good stuff.
At home, I either eat organic nonGMO tortilla chips or more commonly I eat Siete chips which are made with cassava flour and cooked in avocado oil not one of the seed oils. But these chips that i was eating with my ceviche were the kind that seem like double fried - they’re so good. However, my skin didn’t like it, not one little bit. My hidradenitis suppurativa, the genetic skin condition I have that is one of the big things that led me to nutrition and which I manage through my diet, starting flaring back up.
My body likes to express its displeasure through my skin. For other people it might be in their joints or in their brain (leading to brain fog or depression or anxiety) or in their sinuses.
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Just because you have a genetic predisposition doesn’t mean you’re destined to have something. That only accounts for about 20% of your chances.
80% is determined by lifestyle and environmental factors like food. You have SO much power over your health and it starts with what you put in your body.
Corn is actually one of the top allergens and inflammatory foods AND lets not forget that’s what’s used to fatten up animals like cattle and pigs so you get that fatty marbling in your steaks.
Grain fed cattle have fat that is more white and grassfed cattle have fat that is more yellow because of the increased betacarotene.
I did eat a lot of beef this summer - no surprise there! And eggs. Lots of eggs. My husband started cooking breakfast and he made eggs for us like almost every day. It was perfect.
Kalahari Crips
Biltong Jerky
Ultima electrolytes
(22:20) Fasting & EAAs:
There were several days that I strategically used my essential amino acid supplement to support my strength training workout during a Superfast.
After fasting for 18+ hours your body is in more of a catabolic mode which means breaking down instead of building up. Which is great, we’re breaking down and burning fat and detoxing that’s what we want during a fast.
EAAs don’t break your fast fat burning wise, but they can break autophagy which is cellular cleansing.
(24:54) Castor oil packs:
Queen of the Thrones wrap is a ready-made castor oil pack.
Castor oil packs are known for promoting liver detoxification, lymphatic drainage and colon cleansing.
Castor oil has been used in healing modalities and beauty treatments for thousands of years
I read that during the middle ages the castor oil plant came to be known as Palma Christi which means Palm of Christ in Latin and is thought to be called that because of its healing nature. I absolutely love that.
Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing. Ezekial 47:12
(27:49) Additional detoxy tips:
You know massage is great for improving lymphatic flow and moving toxins to be released by the body. So I had a 1.5 hour massage scheduled for around 10am one morning. So I got my walk in before that and I extended my fast so that I was fasting during my massage - And before I went in I took an extra dose of Tudca which is a liver/gallbladder support supplement and of one of the Cellcore binders I think I had Biotoxin binder with me - cuz I was in Houston at this time.
The massage was fabulous and I optimized it by making all of these detoxy elements work together: the fasting, the exercise, the massage and the supplements. So keep that in mind next time you have a massage which I highly recommend as part of your health maintenance.
(29:54) Closing thoughts:
Feast 2 Fast® starts in a few weeks!
Come join us, registration is open now
It is so good to be back with you. I reflected a lot over my break on how blessed I am to have this community where we can geek out on health and love our Lord together.
(32:12) Outro & Disclaimer
Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!