Day 8 – Tuesday 12.1.16

Day 8 – Tuesday 12.1.16

 

I totally jinxed it!!! All this bragging about waking up fresh and bouncing out of bed and then I somehow managed to sleep in this morning and woke up pretty tired. I still managed to get to the gym before work and did some leg training. Same breakfast then same lunch as yesterday. After doing some research on how to up my calories and fat though I made the discovery of Dave Asprey’s “Bulletproof Coffee”. So I headed off to the shop to find grass fed unsalted butter and coconut oil. After a decent amount of time wandering the aisles trying to find where the coconut oil might live I finally found it, shockingly beside the other cooking oils. I then went for the butter, the unsalted part was easy but none of the butter said whether it was grass fed or not. After some googling mid shop I realised that pretty much all New Zealand butter is grass fed so I was good to go.

Bulletproof coffee sounds disgusting, it’s a standard pressed black coffee then blended with a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of coconut oil. I gave it a go and it was actually not bad tasting at all, the consistency is a bit strange as it kind of glides down your throat but the taste was fine. I am also not usually a coffee drinker so I was pretty happy with this discovery. It’s an easy way to add an extra 240 calories and 27 grams of fat with less than a gram of protein or carbs. I was worried I would crash or be bouncing off the walls after it but I was pretty unaffected and was still able to eat my lunch an hour later too which was great. I will be incorporating this into the daily routine going forward.

I was going out to meet friends and didn’t have much time for cooking so just fried up some leftover homemade burgers with bacon and then added cheese. I also had a snack of some almonds in the evening.

End of day result:

 

Calories = 2705

Carbs =19g (3%)

Fat = 241g (78%)

Protein 134g (19%)