Paleo-Stir Fry

I have been working on trying to eat paleo. I mean that as in I replace 2/3 of my meals with 0-15g of carbs....also, it only applies during the week. My typical day consists of eating 4 hard boiled eggs and then either chicken, grilled different ways, or some sort of fish salmon or tuna (it all comes from a can). I have been eating the hard boiled eggs consistently for over 2years now. Everyday I get 4 hard boiled eggs. For dinner I usually cheat a bit. Chips and Sadie's salsa are my biggest challenge. I never, NEVER, drink soda or juices unless they are freshly squeezed. The juices have too much sugar and soda is just plain shit.
I am not on a diet in the sense I am watching everything I eat and counting the calories and nutrients, but I am just being more conscious of what I am putting in my body. I have been doing this paleo thing for about 6 weeks now and have already dropped 3-5lbs. I recently weighed in at 209.4lbs. This is down from my 222lbs in November. So I think it has been doing a decent job. I have read stories of people dropping significant weight on this diet but I am not being real strict about it. Also, especially if you're obese, any diet will work if you stick with it. The problem is people give up after 2 weeks and they haven't lost the 40lbs they wanted to, or were promised. Well, what are you gonna do?

Five Spice Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry

Recipe Credit: The Primal Blueprint Cookbook

I just bought this book from Amazon and flipped through it looking for the first meal I would try. The stir fry thing immediately stood out because I love stir fry and can cook it (because it is easy as shit to do).

The recipe calls to marinate skirt steak in a mixture of spices and herbs, the strangest one being Chinese Five Spice which I have never heard of. It also called for bean sprouts but the store didn't have them so subbed snow peas. That was a wise decision on my part. Broccoli was cut up and steamed as prescribed.

So I sliced and diced the skirt steak and dipped it and let it soak in the marinade. The thing I did switch up a bit was put more soy into the marinade mix to make it a bit more watery. The marinade as the recipe calls for was too dry and a lot of the meat wasn't getting the full soak, so I threw some more in that bitch because I do what I want.

I then warmed up the wok and threw some sesame oil into the pan to keep the meat from sticking. It is at this point I realize I am still steaming the broccoli. It has become soft and droopy. When I pick it up and pinch it it feels like cream of wheat. I did not use that broccoli. IT'S OK THOUGH! I still had some leftover and it turned out even better. I threw the rest of the raw broccoli into the wok with the cooking beef. Added a little extra water and began steaming that with the steak cooking. The broccoli turned out delicious and I will be steaming my stir fry broccoli this way forever now. After about 8 minutes stirring and cooking I threw the snow peas in. I left them in there for another 3-4 minutes which made them a bit TOO soft. The recipe called for only cooking the meat for 3-5 minutes but this steak was a bit thick and 3-5 was not enough. 

Overall the first meal from the book turned out great! I am definitely going to be making this again.

I am off to OHP and do a little MetCon. I will post the results later tonight.

Cheers!