Day 2 - Whole30

Woke up this morning at 5:30 with my alarm clock, but felt no real need to stay in bed any longer.  One thing I did notice the last time I did my Whole30 was that I was more energized in the morning and started to wake up before my alarm clock went off.  It took a week or two in order for that habit to start but once I reintroduced sugars and grains back into my diet, I started feeling more sluggish in the morning and didn't want to get up as easily.

Before I started house sitting I re-joined a gym so I can try to help my goal of toning up move along a little quicker than what is was when I was running and working out on my own.  One good thing about this gym is that they have several locations and one happened to be about 15 miles away from where I am house sitting.  Through out the past week I have been making the drive, almost every day to help keep me moving and active while being in a place where I don't have too much to do.

Yesterday my back was starting to act up again...I have a chronic lower back injury that I acquired many years ago during a gymnastics competition.  I went to perform a skill I was not ready to compete and landed wrong and ever since then my hips have been pulling in different directions and my muscles don't want to relax long enough for the bones to settle into the right location.  Anyway,  long story short, if I move the wrong direction, work out too much or sit wrong, I can end up pulling my back muscles and I wont't be moving very well for the next few days.

I took yesterday off to try to heal my back a little, however, this morning it wasn't feeling much better.  I wanted to travel over to the Anacortes Farmers Market and didn't feel it was worth the trip if I didn't go and work out first...so I sucked it up and make it through with a little pain.

My whole point is this...during my first Whole30, I started out with my usual back pain, the same that I am feeling now.  By the end of the 30 days of eating whole, clean foods my pain was gone.  I had a decrease in the inflammation and fat build up around the area and that allowed for more movement and less pain!!  I am hoping that I get the same results this time...I'll keep you posted.

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Onto today's menu (remember there will be lots of left overs because I'm still house sitting)

Pre-workout

• Sausage and veggie breakfast bake (small piece)

Post-workout

• Banana

Late Breakfast

• Coffee
• Red Grapes
• Sausage and veggie breakfast bake (slightly larger piece)

Lunch

• Sliced Chicken Breast lettuce wrap with mustard
• Sweet Potato
• Squash

Dinner

• Beef
• Oven Roasted vegetables
• squash
• Cucumber
• Grapes
• Cashews and a few Almonds

Feelings on today:

I need to stop snacking...it isn't allowed in this program...but if I don't I feel like I am pigging out during my meals.  Maybe my stomach will get smaller within the next 30 days...Thoughts? Do you snack during your Whole30?  Are your meals big? 

Enjoy!

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!