Day 1 - Foods and Feelings

Woke up excited and ready to start a healthy and happy month of August!  This first week will be a little difficult and possibly bland or repetitive of what I am eating as I am House Sitting for my cousin until the 7th...then I can truly start to get creative in the kitchen...which is my FAVORITE  part of this program!  Since March (my first Whole30) I have been cooking paleo...however it is my sweet tooth that got me into trouble after the first Whole30...this time I am not going to save a cookie here and there for me to eat after I am done...I'm going to let them all get eaten for me!

The other hard part of this Whole30 is that I started Pastry School at the beninning of July...and every month we bake a couple items and are supposed to taste them...I might have to save one of these in the freezer for September...that way I know what they really taste like :D

Breakfast

To start off...I was so excited to read that Black Coffee is approved...that is a hard item for me to give up...I love the taste too much.

Here is my menu for Breakfast this morning:

• Coffee - Black (no sugar, no creamer)
• 1 banana and 1 TBSP Almond Butter

Brunch
There is never a wrong time to eat breakfast :)

• Fresh Fruit - Blueberries, grapes, Mango, Melon, Pineapple and Strawberries
• Coffee - can't have breakfast with out a cup of coffee...

• Breakfast Egg Bake
• Eggs
• Coconut Milk
• Adelle's Apple Chicken Sausage (Nitrate, sugar and grain free...Whole30 Approved!)
• Bacon (Nitrate and Sugar Free)
• Sweet Potato/Yams
• Bell Peppers (yellow & Orange)
• Spinach
• Pepper to taste

Snacks

• Almonds and Cashews

• Frozen Cherries and Blueberries
• Grapes

Dinner

• Oven Roasted Vegetables
• Yams
• Onion
• Bell Peppers
• Zucchini
• Pepper and Italian seasoning to taste
• Chicken Breast Wraps
• 1 slices of Chicken Breast (Costco - Dietz & Watson - Nitrate Free, sugar free, gluten free, dairy free)
• Mustard
• Salad Mix (Costco Mix)

Thoughts on today

Today was a definite day 1...I feel as though I ate a bunch...I had too much fruit, plus 3 servings of the breakfast bake (even though it was my breakfast and lunch).  I also didn't do much other than go a 2 short dog walks and sit on the couch all day working on my schooling and trying to update my blog.  *I am still trying to figure out how to manage my blog account and input the badges and buttons that I want on it...so if you have any advice or good websites that are Blogging for Dummies, it would be greatly appreciated!

However, I am proud I stayed healthy all day...tried to have more protein when I was having a sugar craving, snacking on some nuts helped a little.  I definitely need to eat more veggies, having some already cut up for snacking throughout the day will help with the munchies.  

On to tomorrow...Day 2!