Day 12
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with salsa
Lunch: Rosemary chicken with onions, steamed carrots, steamed broccoli, fruit salad
Snack: Grapes and boiled shrimp
Dinner: Banana with almond butter
The last few days, I have not been hungry in the mornings. I have to force myself to eat something, and it's not pleasant. Yesterday, I found that I was hungry at lunch and then around 4:00, but I wasn't hungry the rest of the day.
Day 13
Pre-Workout: Banana
Breakfast (post-workout): Can of soy free tuna, with 1/2 avocado, and with boiled egg, and blueberries on the side
Lunch: Salad of lettuce, rosemary chicken, mango, 1/2 avocado, grapes, and blueberries
Snack: Fruit salad (apples, blueberries, oranges, blackberries, pineapple, fresh cherries)
Dinner: Pulled Pork and baked sweet potato with coconut flakes
I was STARVING all afternoon, I'm thinking a salad doesn't cut it. Then I overate fruit all afternoon, and wasn't hungry for dinner. But dinner was so flipping delicious that I ate it anyway!! :( Big fail.
Day 14
Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs with salsa, blueberries.
Lunch: Cumin pulled pork, sweet potato with coconut flakes
Snack: Fruit salad
Dinner: Boiled shrimp, steamed carrots, steamed broccoli, 1/2 avocado, fruit salad
I feel like a bloated mess this morning. It's either the overeating and overindulging in fruit from yesterday, or it's the martini and calamari from Saturday catching up with me. Either way, my tummy is massive today! Lesson learned (for now!), I brought leftovers from last night for lunch, and I am super excited about them. :)
For the first time, I did not miss my morning snack! I didn't feel like I needed it, so I didn't have it. This evening, though, I'm craving chocolate like a mad woman, so maybe there is something to getting a little bit of sugar from a banana. I think the other fruit, though, is what is making me bloated because I am stuffed tonight. Also, though, we ate dinner at my parents', and I tend to overeat there.
Day 15
Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with salsa, Ella's Kitchen Sweet Potato and Blueberry squeeze
Lunch: Grilled chicken, blueberries, grapes, and dried cranberries
Snack: Larabar (apple pie = delicious)
Dinner: Steak tips with onions and peppers, broccoli, sweet potato fries
I had to scrounge for lunch in the kitchen at work, so it was heavy on fruit.
I'm sleeping like a baby.. well, I'm sleeping better than *my* baby ever did! I've never had a problem falling asleep at night, but it's been awhile since I've woken up at 5 am and felt refreshed and ready to go. But for the last several days, I've felt SO great at 5 am. And besides rainy days, I don't ever feel sleepy during the day anymore. But, it's insanely easy to take naps now. If I find myself with a stretch of time on a Sunday afternoon, I can fall asleep in a snap. It's awesome!
This morning, the scale hit a new all time low. 167.8!!!!! So, I've lost 9 pounds in 15 days. That's pretty awesome. :)
I had to travel for work during the time that I normally eat dinner, so I ate a Larabar on the plane. The apple pie was awesome. Then, in a total culture shock, I couldn't think of a single place in Lubbock that I wanted to go eat healthy food. Since my lifestyle has changed gradually in Houston, it's been easy to find places that serve healthy foods. But in college, we ate like crap! So when we landed in Lubbock, I was all, "Oh, let's go to Manna!" but then I realized I didn't know what was on their menu besides my beloved Brie queso. And then I was all, "Buns Over Texas!" which is not worth visiting if you can't have the fries... and on down the list of all of my favorite places (I wasn't even going to bother with the Italian or Mexican that we used to eat regularly). So we ended up at a steakhouse, which was fine. But we ate so late that I had a lot of trouble falling asleep.
On the plane, I started reading It Starts with Food, which is the book behind the Whole 30. It's a great book, and I would highly recommend reading it. It explains the "why" behind this diet, which is very interesting.
Day 16
Post workout snack: Cashew cookie Larabar (meh)
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with peppers, banana
Lunch: Turkey burger patty, pineapple slices
Snack: Cherry pie Larabar (too sweet!!)
Snack: Trail mix (picked out the peanuts)
Dinner: Porkchop, steamed cauliflower, banana
Day 2 in Lubbock, and I was still struggling with what to eat. We went to United for breakfast, and I imagine there was probably some milk in my eggs. Then we went to Bless Your Heart for lunch, which is known in Lubbock for its "healthy fare." I thought I would be able to find some steamed veggies, or maybe a salad without cheese or dressing. Nope. The best choice was for me to order the turkey burger, not eat the bun, and then get their fruit cup on the side, which was packed with melon and I hate melon. So, I stayed hungry for the entire rest of the day. I ate the Larabar about 2:00, and it didn't fill me up. Then it was another plane ride during dinner time, so I grabbed some trail mix at the airport, that was cashews, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, and raisins, and I picked out all of the peanuts! I fell fast asleep on the plane, because I was so hungry that I was getting sick to my stomach. No good. Once I got home, I wanted some ice cream like a crazy person. There was a lovely half gallon of Banana Pudding ice cream sitting in the freezer. It's my favorite, and only available in May/June-ish. But I decided that if I was craving banana pudding ice cream that bad, then I should just have a banana. So I did, and it definitely helped my craving.
Day 17
Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs, 3 strawberries
Snack: Trail mix without peanuts
Lunch: Lola burger, sweet potato fries
Snack: Larabar
Dinner: Blech.
Stressful morning... I had to swing by the airport, because I left my wallet in hubby's car. And the airport is at the same exit as Shipleys. I realllllllly wanted some Shipleys on my way there, and was slightly considering letting myself get it. But thankfully, Shipleys is beyond the turn for the airport, and by the time I was on my way back and would have passed it, I was so excited about finding my wallet (I didn't know where hubby was parked because he wasn't answering his phone, so I just went on instinct to find his car!), that I completely forgot about donuts. Hooray.
So, in what is by far the biggest victory of the Whole 30, I gave up by bun at Lola's. The buns there are from the Sweet Mesquite Bakery, and they are DELICIOUS. Sweet and fluffy and just yummmmyyyyyyy. But, when my burger came, I dutifully pulled off the meat and veggies, and put my bun in the middle of the table, for my fellow diners to enjoy. I was sad about it while I was eating my naked burger (since I still haven't made any ketchup), but once we were done eating, I was on such a HIGH and felt so good about the amount of food that I ate. Usually when I leave Lola's I'm stuffed and on the edge of miserable. Not this time! Big win for me.
So, after the high of Lola's, I picked up my cousins for a slumber party. They wanted to go to Gringo's, which was fine. I thought I could find *something* reasonable. But once I looked at the menu, there wasn't a whole lot. I ended up with the Amazon wrap, which is a spinach tortilla with chicken and lettuce and stuff, and Amazon sauce. So, the tortilla and sauce were not on the Whole 30. And since I wasn't mentally prepared for Mexican food, I ate chips. Not as many as usual, and I skipped the rice and beans that came with my dinner, and didn't get the free soft serve. So I ended up doing better than usual, but not great. But what they say in the book about this crud being a vicious cycle, that the crummy food making you crave more crummy food... well. when we got home, I ate 39875302957039875 chewy Chips Ahoy. And some Sour Patch Kids while we watched a movie. And generally, I was just totally unprepared for slumber party temptations. The second we got to my sister's house last night, I got shooting pains in my lower right of my torso, very similar to when cysts start acting up. It's shocking that just a little bit of crap (the tortilla, the tortilla chips, and the sugar) could make me feel so bad, so fast.
Day 18
Breakfast: 3 donut holes, 2 scrambled eggs with salsa
Snack: Special K protein bar
Lunch: Lettucewich at which wich, house chips
Snack: Blueberries and grapes
Dinner: Roasted chicken, broccoli, carrots
Clearly, I wasn't over the temptations and poor preparation. We spent the night at my sister's house, and I didn't pack snacks or plan meals, or prepare in any way. And I a paying for it! Today I am bloated, tired, and hungry. Shocking what a small change can do to your body.
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