Whole 30 journey week 1

Just getting started January 1, 2015 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I am no photographer keep that in mind lol

SNACKS: I snack on hard boiled eggs, veggies in EVOO, & nuts throughout the day. If I took the time to note every time I did this blog would be way too long.
I also need to take in more protein to keep my muscles growing so I will be starting back up with my protein shakes in week 2.

We made it a whole week!!!! A whole week on WHole 30! Yay@!!!!

Day 7: Breakfast: peppers with almonds and cucumber with EVOO and balsamic, and hard boiled eggs.

Lunch: leftover chicken thighs with green pepper and spicy mustard wraps. (yummy!)

Dinner: Acorn squash with crushed pineapple cooked in the center. My fav way to eat it! Sweet potatoes and steak.

Ive never seen white sweet potatoes until I came to Korea.

 Weird right?

 I added some EVOO and crushed garlic to the potatoes and they were on point!

Day 6: My cravings are basically gone. Im not sitting around thinking about sweets! Its amazing

Breakfast was walnuts, fresh pineapple, peaches, a piece of bacon and two eggs.

 

 

 

Dinner was left over pork pot roast in my leftover home made sauce. Fabulous I might add! With carrots and sweet potato fries cooked in EVOO

 

Day 5: Aarons LtC is retiring so we had to pay $17 for our meal. I ate it. I did not post a pic, but it was mashed potatoes, chicken, and green beans. I did stay away from the keg (it was hard!) and the sweet tea and drank water.

 

 

Day 5: My cravings for sweets are basically gone! The only thing I was really cravin was Pizza.

For breakfast I had a strawberry banana smoothie with flax seed.

My lunch. (I wasn't feeling anything today. Eating "plain" food really started taking a toll on my taste buds. I just wanted to eat cheesy pasta or chicken with bbq sauce. I should have made myself eat but what evs. It is what it is. Im still learning. Its ok to make mistakes

Dinner was at the Warrior club for the promotion like I mentioned.

Day4:

Breakfast was ham and eggs with butternut squash hash browns. Super yummy

 

 

Lunch was grilled spicy mustard chicken with cucumber in EVOO and balsamic vinegar. (that's my lovely grill pan)

 

Dinner was a WINNER!!! We had Paleo meatballs and homemade sace on spaghetti squash. It was to die for honestly! Ill be making my sauce this way from now on as well as my meat balls. Ill make a recipe link for it.

Officially made it to day 3 with no screw ups. (ok once last night I popped a piece of gum in my mouth not thinking for a total of 5 minutes or less)

^^ spoke too soon. I ate a fun size butterfinger. I failed..I have no shame in my weakness because I killed it at the gym. Did a killer shoulder/back/ab workout and finished off with cardio. I know its so bad to give in to temptation, it goes against whole30 and all of what its about. Im human what can I say.  Plus side I did lose two inches on my waist. Probably losing all that sugar bloat lol

Dinner: Crockpot pork, green beans, and butternut steak fries <----(SOOO GOOD!) Seriously these "steak fries" are THE bomb!

Lunch: Im not sure if salami is whole 30 compliant Im guessing probably not. I just couldn't bring myself to eat anything else for lunch but I was starving. So salami, spicy mustard, and avocado wrapped in lettuce. It was heavenly =] Even Guias liked it.

 

 

Breakfast was yummy. Bacon so I could my eggs in the left over grease. (I dump most of it out but save a tiny bit) Blueberries and strawberries. It was filling and yummy.

Day2: I have already learned SO much about my eating habits after only a day. When my kids or husband for that matter test me I want chocolate. When I irritate myself I want some baked goody. We usually end the night watching a movie. We also snack. Ill usually make something! Baked goods made from scratch are my go to. It takes me 15 min to make cookies from ingredients to baked. I make them ALL the time. At LEAST once a week. Again after only one day of Whole30 Im already dying for something sweet. A cookie with vanilla ice cream sounds amazing =[


I also had to completely throw out a kitkat. I had half left and it was tempting me so I dropped it in the gym parking lot haha

 

It was taunting me so out it went out the door. I was so close to failing I could taste it in my mouth haha

Dinner was really good. We had a Tbone, acorn squash w/ fresh pineapple &cinnamon (it definitely helped curve my sweet tooth. I was suffering big time!), & asparagus. We split the steak and I also cooked up chicken so everyone had enough. I really need to get more protein in my diet. I started adding more a few months ago and Ive made serious gains in the gym! Now I want more!!! lol

Lunch: So boring..I had left over chicken and broccoli lol

So for breakfast I had a sweet potato casserole. Super yummy! It looks like a lot but its the smallest casserole pan ever! With a glass of lemon water.

Day 1: Its only half way through the day and Aaron is complaining hes hungry. I told him to go bake a sweet potato or eat some veggies or nuts. At no point should the man be hungry lol I accidently started to eat a bite of dry special K strawberry cereal (I was pouring the kids some) I spit it out don't worry! Little habits like that are going to be hard to break. I also noticed I didn't eat all my kitkat yesterday. In my head I was like "oh its not the first in the states yet" then I decided not to break the rules only 12 hours into the challenge lol

Dinner: Balsamic chicken with veggies and bacon, (intended on making this yummy sausage but looking at the ingredients it has brown sugar so had to pop it in the freezer and pulled out chicken thighs) mixed cauli flower, broccoli, and carrots, and tiny sweet potato.

I will do a separate post for the recipe

Lunch: red pepper, celery, cucumber. Veggies were seasoned with s&p EVOO, and balsamic vinegar. Grilled Chicken. (seasoned with turmeric, salt and pepper) I use my Emeril cast iron grill pan to cook my chicken and steaks! Then I finish off cooking in the oven. They get the grilled taste and are always juicy! However my apartment gets quite smokey.

I got home from the gym close to 1300 and was starving. SO I snacked on some walnuts and almond slivers

Breakfast: Avacado with two eggs and a banana. I planned on saving the little bit of avocado filling for a tuna taco at lunch but Aaron threw it out before I could save it. Shame on him! ;] I was really excited to give this a try that's why it was my day 1 breakfast. I was definitely impressed but I over cooked my egg. Ill probably cook it around 12 minutes next time. I scooped a small bit out of the avocado and cracked an egg in side each half. I added s&P and it was perfect and creamy. The egg was just a little over cooked like I mentioned. I cooked mine in a really small pan to keep the avocado from falling over. You could just put it on the rack but Im not very graceful so  Id probably spill egg all over the oven lol

I don't plan on weighing myself during the challenge. I did this morning for a starting point! 135 yikes! No not really. I have a lot of muscle. I am a little jiggly from all the carb loading I did preparing for whole 30. I took advantage of carbs, yes I did. My jeans aren't as flattering as Id like right now but that's from being dumb and eating too many sweets and massive dinners over the Holidays. I was in the best shape of my life about 4 months ago. I visited the states for two months and then has pneumonia and was out another almost two months. I fell behind some. I still went to the gym of course I just couldn't workout as hard as I usually do. Anyways, Im ready for Whole 30 to change me <333

Also lets just bring up the elephant in the room before there actually is one. Ill post a pic of my very TINY counter. I have barely any room to work. I have white cabinets and white floors. Don't be surprised if sometimes my pics look like a freaking cooking horror scene lol