So, Mike and I are just trucking along here eating whole foods and acting like we’ve been doing it for years.
I keep picking up the book, and reading and re-reading and learning more. I’m so intrigued by it all, that I bought the original book, It Starts with Food, and now I’m reading that too! This book explains more “why” about the program, and how the different foods that are eliminated for 30 days can affect your body. It’s an easy read, and I’m learning a lot.
The book, The Whole30, details different things that you might be feeling each day of your 30 day journey, and luckily, we both only experienced a slight headache a couple of days, and I’m not completely convinced that wasn’t weather or allergy related.
I’m feeling energetic and I’m sleeping really well. Mike is sleeping hard and having a hard time waking up in the morning, but I think the man has been sleep deprived for years (he’s one of those 5 or 6 hour a night guys and works a lot of hours) and maybe with all of the healthy food that I’m pouring into his body, his body is just trying to catch up on all of those lost hours of rest so he can be head to toe healthy!
One area that I am struggling in is exercise. Whenever I drastically change my schedule, and focus on something big, like I’m doing right now doing the Whole30, I do a terrible job of keeping exercise a priority.
No matter what I need to prep or buy or cook today, and even though there is a big baseball game to watch, I will get in some exercise today!
So proud of my Kansas City Royals!!!
Here are yesterday’s eats….
Breakfast
Actually loving an egg over leftover veggies. This was zucchini, spinach and onions, a few bites of sweet potato with 2 egg whites and 1 egg. Raspberries and a little Almond Butter.
Lunch
Leftover Chicken Cacciatore over Zoodles……
……a Banana and Pumpkin Spice Loose Leaf Tea
Snack
Raw Pecans and Grapes
Dinner
I tossed in the skillet a bunch of veggies that needed to be used up. The last of the broccoli slaw, 1/2 an onion, bell peppers, I had grilled some asparagus, and tossed those in, I had boiled a few potatoes and tossed those in, and I chopped up some of the chicken breast that I grilled earlier in the week. I drizzled a little olive oil on it with a few shakes of Montreal Steak Seasoning.
Dinner was awesome and quick!
Exercise = nothin….urg.
This is What I Will Accomplish in 2015
I will choose one occasion per month for Social Drinking (um..this is a work in progress)
I will go no more than two days in a row without exercise. (I’ve done “two a day’s” to make up)
I will track every single day of the entire year. (I’ve only NOT tracked a few weekends this year.)
I will not be tracking my food while doing the Whole30.
I will run in a minimum of six 5K’s. Four down, two to go!
“love the life you live, live the life you love”
Hi Kendra.
It IS a lot of food! I’ve only felt hungry between meals on one day, and I think that was my own fault for not eating enough protein. And yes, there is a lot of planning. I’m kind of a planner anyhow, so that part I kind of like. After the first few days, that overwhelming feeling of all of the planning began to diminish.
I get the whole depriving thing, but you might be amazed how sweet fruit taste when you give up sugar. Cinnamon sprinkled on a piece of fruit is amazing and really satisfying!
I have no plans to give up sugar forever, but I was super curious about this whole30 thing, and since the husband said he’d do it with me, I was in!
Those Larabar’s are a great example of being able to eat something sweet (but not keeping them in the house for you and I!) without actually eating sugar.
Good luck with your cookie baking! That’s a tough one! Maybe just don’t even take a bite! 🙂
Thanks so much for reading the blog and taking the time to comment. The comments always mean a lot to me!
Happy Friday!
Julie
I’ve new to your blog and really enjoying it. It really seems like a lot of food! And a lot of planning ahead! I have a sweet tooth that I satisfy mostly with a few pieces of hard candy. Wondering how that would impact the results. And I drink wine on average one day a week and can’t imagine giving it up… Bad things seem to always happen to me when I’m depriving. However I did give up all sweets as they are all trigger foods. Your feelings around trigger foods sound very familiar. It’s important to keep those foods out of the house. Like you, I found bought just one larabar bar or something similar because I can’t trust myself to buy a box. I need to bake cookies this weekend to bring to an event and not sure I can handle that. Will I be able to bake without testing. I wish I could just eat one and be done with it, but unfortunately that’s never been the case. Thank you for writing this blog! I look forward to it each day.
I hope you like it as much as I do! I follow a lot of WW members on Instagram, and all of a sudden I started seeing a lot of Whole30 post from WW members, and I needed a challenge, so I was intrigued.
I also know someone personally that has done it, and is doing her second round. Apparently that is a thing. You reintroduce foods slowly, figure out what works for you, (your gut, your skin, skin conditions, arthritis, your sleep patterns, etc.) and what doesn’t. Then when you find yourself back to eating more things that you wish you weren’t, you do the Whole30 again. I can totally see this as a lifestyle and I am so curious to see how we both feel at the end of 30 days.
I do miss my wine and latte’s, and never plan to give either of those up completely, but I think it’s good for me to be taking a break from them.
Wow! I just rambled off a whole bunch of thoughts!!
Thanks for reading the blog. 🙂
HaHa! Oh Dang….I’m sure we can continue a peaceful blogger/reader relationship.
Thanks for reading! Hope I make your struggles a little easier?
GAME TIME!!!!
🙂
Thank you for sharing. You are sparking my curiousity – just prdered a copy of Whole30 online. Wondering if there is much difference from Aitkins or Southbeach. You are an inspiration!
I’ve been reading your blog for about a year or so now…love all the food ideas you come up with and also love that you struggle with the same things I do. Unfortunately, since I am in Canada and must cheer for my Blue Jays I’m just not sure I can follow your blog anymore…HAHA JJ keep up the great work…GO JAYS GO!!!