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This has only happened a couple of times during the last 15 days, but I had the munchies yesterday, and my snacking habit is one of the biggest changes that I am trying to make during the whole30. I woke up early and I was wanting to eat, but not cook……so I ended up eating a handful of those fat and juicy Holiday Grapes, then I had another handful. After two cups of coffee, I made my breakfast and watched Dr. Oz, because he just happened to have Dallas and Melissa Hartwig, the authors of the Whole30, on his show! I thought they had some great tips, and they make eating whole foods forever sound very doable. I got in a 3.5 mile walk yesterday afternoon, ran a couple of errands, and cooked a yummy dinner. Other than that, I decided that I had been going like crazy for the […]

No doubt, it was a challenging weekend at times. Friday beers while watching the Royals game would have been nice, and Saturday night while at a party, a glass of wine would have tasted good, but we skipped on the beverages, and we survived. 🙂 Yesterday, we went to our son and daughter-in-law’s house for a family get together. Before I talk about the food challenges, let me talk about this awesome house that they bought and moved into last October. The house was built in 1935. Jake and Jordan moved in one year ago, and this was their first official family get together. We’ve been to the house, but not with all of our kids and grandkids and Mike’s parents. Everything was cozy and perfect. I love the area of Kansas City that they live in. It’s an older part of the city with some beautiful old homes. I […]

Day 13, and weekend number two, almost complete! I started my Saturday morning off with a 8:00 am Hot Yoga class, and it felt great to get back there! We went to our grandson’s football game (number 34) before lunch, and they won 19-0, with him scoring TWO Touchdowns!! Of course, I didn’t get a touchdown picture! It all happens so fast!    After game snacks are super important! What a great kid he is.   His little sister entertained us between plays….”Nobody touch my hotdog!” The rest of our Saturday was filled with a few chores and errands. We had dinner at home, then went to a party where we didn’t even look at the food table, drank bottles of water, and focused on the people. I will admit that this weekend was a little harder than last wanting to have a glass of wine. Friday afternoon, a girlfriend came by […]

First, and most importantly…..You guys…..The Royals are going to the World Series!!! Yahoo! Whoo! Whoo! Yippee! I love following Salvy’s Instagram Page! He makes me smile. Last night was awesome. It did make me want to snack, but I didn’t!!    We watched the game at home, Mike’s favorite place to watch, and really…..with as emotional as he gets, it’s best. I’ve never seen anyone go from Happy, to Pissed Off, to Ecstatic, in such a short amount of time. Whew! During the game, I got off of the couch and got down on the floor and did about 30 minutes of Yoga. I was trying to calm myself down, and get in a little stretching.  At my WW meeting yesterday, we talked about activity, and different ways to spontaneously get some in. Exercising during TV commercials was suggested, so I figured, why not a little Yoga to calm my nerves […]

One of my readers, (that I feel like I personally know!) had some great questions on my blog yesterday and I loved answering all of them! I’ll certainly do a review of the whole30, on day 31, but I am trying to blog about the journey as I go too. I loved all of her questions, and I thought others might have a few of the same questions, so I thought I’d share, even though you can go to yesterdays post and read for yourself. 🙂 Q – “A few questions for you – what did you do with all the non compliant foods in your house?” A -I  had been planning on doing the whole30 for a while, so I was trying to use and eat up the foods that I knew we wouldn’t be eating while we were doing the whole30. Coincidentally, one of the kids in the […]

1/3 of the way there. The last 10 days have flown by.  I don’t have any complaints. I worked at the Food Truck yesterday from 10-2:30ish, and my stomach was growling at 1:00. That’s the first day that my stomach has growled in between meals since starting the whole30. I ate breakfast at 9:30, and planned to eat lunch when I got home. I don’t know if it was smelling the food or what, but I was hungry, stomach growling hungry. I had a small bowl of the pork and a few cucumber slices, all Whole30 compliant, I just hadn’t planned on eating until I came home.  When I got home, I ate my planned lunch of leftover Chicken Cacciatore, (which seemed to get better and better each day!). That was the last of it and I will for sure be making that again! An hour later, I was hungry. I […]

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 […]

Yesterday morning, I was walking down the stairs from my bedroom with my phone in one hand, and what was left of my first cup of coffee in the other. I came down the carpeted stairs (in my super cozy socks), to the landing, where I turned to go down the last four steps. That’s when the back of my heel hit the edge of the step and down I went. Hard! My butt, back and head all hit each step as I slid down the stairs and landed hard on my butt on the hardwood. As I sat there wondering what in the heck had just happened, I realize that my phone flew across the floor, and my coffee cup was still in my hand? I immediately had a baseball size knot on my left butt cheek! Shortly after my mishap, I headed out the door to the dentist. As […]

We ate some great food yesterday and I spent most of the afternoon preparing for the next 7 days. I planned out the meals for the week, I had already done most of my shopping, so I spent the afternoon cooking. If you are going to do the whole30, I highly recommend planning at least one day a week where you can spend a few hours cooking a few things for the week. Really, no matter what kind of food you are eating, this is just a smart thing to do if you can fit it in to your week. Yesterday…… I roasted a large baking sheet full of veggies.   I made egg salad for a few of our lunches.   I made pork sausage using the recipe in the whole30 book for a few of our breakfast this week. I made extra and put those in the freezer.   I made […]

Another great day doing Whole30. My only real mistake was that I ate breakfast much later than usual, and ate dinner much earlier than usual, not really enough time to fit in 3 meals, so I had a small snack in between. I spent yesterday morning relaxing and reading on the couch. It was a cool morning out and it felt so good to open up some windows and let some fresh air in the house while curled up on the couch with a blanket and a cup of coffee. Speaking of coffee! On Whole30, you can drink coffee, but it can have no artificial flavorings, and come to find out, all of my favorite Dunkin Donuts flavored coffees, have artificial flavoring added. So, while shopping for coffee, I decided to buy some coffee beans. I haven’t bought coffee beans and used my grinder in a really long time, but I […]