Whole 30: Day 5 and 6

So I was too tired to blog my day last night... We didn't get home until  midnight! We had the best game night with some awesome friends of ours, playing Battle of the Sexes. As, I'm sure you can guess, the ladies won =)

Today was grocery day. We focused on meats, as we still have quite a bit fresh veggies from last weekends haul. We visited Whole Foods and bought about a 150$ in meats. Actually, not too bad, considering it's for the whole week!

I've only made a menu in my head, but not on paper. Let's hope that works for me lol

So yesterday, Day 5, went as follows:

Breakfast: Larabar
Lunch: salad with lettuce, spinach, cucumber, avo, and chicken.
Dinner: Shrimp cocktail, minus the cocktail (substituted our own avo, mayo, hot sauce, lemon juice dip), lots of veggies and fruits (had food to pick on during game night)

Today, Day 6:

Breakfast: 2.5 eggs scrambled with prosciutto, kale and onion
Lunch: Built our own salad at Whole foods with a side of kalua pig and cabbage (was totally stoked to see they had a whole 30 compliant hot entree!)
Dinner: Steak night! with asparagus, shitake mushrooms and onions

Overall, we are both feeling great! Brad is having a harder time then I am, though. He works out twice a day, usually, and he's finding that it's hard to keep his energy up with the carbs. We are gonna try to incorporate more sweet potato for his this week. I don't eat it, just don't like the taste, but he loves it. So maybe twice this week, I will roast him some. Hoping that helps!

I do get a little headache in the afternoon. Not as bad as it was the first couple days, though. I'm guessing my body isn't hating me AS MUCH for the less caffeine and sugar. I'm thinking they will go away by this next week =)

Happy Sunday everyone!

Whole30: Day 4

It's Friday night, our eat out night! But nooooo, I had to try the healthy thing.

Let me tell you, I am NOT sorry! Dinner tonight was AMAZING!
I still need to work on the not eating so much part, though lol But I'm just glad I'm stuffed with real food, and not grease and fat. It's only day 4, I know... Too soon to see change... But I'm feeling pretty good! That's gotta count for something, right? =)

So here's the breakdown of the day...

Breakfast: Larabar (i was in a rush, forgive me)
Lunch: Denny's (weekly father, daughter lunch, i had to) salad with just plain grilled chicken breast, avo, and a fork full of their oil dressing which tasted too sweet, so i didn't eat it (i was afraid it had hidden sugar in it)
Dinner: spaghetti and zuchinni noodles
Snack: Pickle spears and watermelon

Whole30: Day 3

So today started off with me feeling better then ever! Then I left the house and realized I hadn't planned any meals for myself =/ Not smart! So I stopped by the local health food store and made myself a salad... for breakfast... agh. I won't pretend it was awesome... I won't.

By lunch, I was feeling sick to my stomach.  After lunch, I actually was sick to my stomach. That was followed by heat flashes and just an overall feeling of BLEH.

So I made a quick soup for dinner and now, before bed, I'm feeling okay-ish. But I suspect I will experience those same side effect tomorrow again. The forums warned of these flu-like feelings the first two weeks... my body isn't used to all this real food! I'm really feeling the sugar cravings and the need for a big Monster of caffeine! How awful that I've done this to my body!! Made it reliant on this crap...

Breakfast: Salad with spinach, beets, red cabbage, romaine, carrots and dressing.
Lunch: pork patty with easy over egg, half an avo mixed with salsa, and garlic sauteed green beans
Dinner: soup with chicken, zuchinni, carrots, onion, cabbage and tomato
Snack: seedless grapes

Whole30: Day 2

Day 2!! (jumping for joy) I actually stuck with something more then a day! lol

This will be a short one, I'm tired and just wanna to night night =)

I was out for most of the day, so I planned ahead and packed part of my lunch and a snack.

Breakfast: Kale, strawberries, banana, carrot juice smoothie and a banana on the side shared with my son
Lunch: Grilled chicken salad at Charlie's... Chicken was grilled with only salt and pepper (i checked), brought my own boiled egg and dressing.
Dinner: turkey breast and roasted asparagus wrapped in prosciutto (oh my goodness, it was amazing)
Snack: Mac nuts and pickle

Got a headache again around the same time as yesterday. Drank some green tea and it went away. Caffeine headache?

Overall, I'm feeling really full and great. Like, really full. lol I'm not used to eating any breakfast... Maybe that's the reason for the fullness? Or it could be that meat always sits heavy in me... and the Whole30 likes meat. We shall see... 28 days to go!

The Whole30: Day 1

So as you might have guessed from the title, I'm doing the Whole30. The Whole30 is a food program that's designed to restart your system. Protein is good. Starch is not. Veggies are good. Sugar is not. Etc Etc. Common sense, right? You'd think so... But as I've discovered, and as I already knew from the growing size of my stomach and butt... I needed help with my food choices.

I've spent the last several years making excuses.  "I'm focussing on my sister." "I'm grieving my sister." "I have cancer." "I'll lose weight on chemo anyway." "I can't exercise, I'm sick." and so on and so on and so on.

Well, the exercise thing is true as of right now... I have an infected foot. It's been infected for a month now. Before that it was a kidney infection. Before that it was a staph infection from my hysterectomy. So fine! I'm on limited movement for the past month, that doesn't mean I have to be depressed and eat crap all day long!

Yes, I'm an emotional eater. No, knowing that does not solve the problem. Yes, I know how to lose weight. Yes, I've been on a very successful program of dieting and exercising in the past, I'm not an idiot who thinks McDonald's isn't all that bad.

So what I know, I can't unknow... got it?

Day 1

Breakfast: Kale, strawberry, banana and carrot juice smoothie
Lunch: Grilled chicken and a whole cucumber
Dinner: Turkey burger, egg, salsa, half avocado and side salad
Snacks: Half bottle of coconut water and palm full of macadamia nuts

So far, I'm feeling full and satisfied. End of day, I got a bad headache. Sugar withdrawal? We shall see tomorrow.