Sarasaurus

Day 7
Meal 1: 1/2 baked sweet potato w/ 1/4 can coconut milk, handful of raspberries, 5 slices deli turkey
Meal 2: broccoli w/ ghee, hamburger patty w/ harissa and 1/2 avocado, 1/2 raw carrot w/ tahini dip, watermelon
PreWO: hardboiled egg, 4 slices deli turkey, dab of chipotle mayo
Meal 3: seared salmon, green beans w/ coconut oil, mayo/caper sauce
Workout: Crossfit
 
Felt much better today! Overslept and had to improvise a bit with breakfast - did ok but was hungry by 11:30, and hungry again in the afternoon. The constant need for food prep and planning feels overwhelming at times, and I say that as someone who likes to cook. I have been feeling really good in my workouts, not sure yet whether to attribute that to W30 or just to getting back in my routine after vacation.

Day 30!!!!

Day 27!  You are so close to the finish line.  Yay YOU!  

Hi and welcome back!  I remember your posts from my 1st round in May 2016.  You're awesome and such an encouragement.  

I am right there with you.  I feel like it took a good 2, or more likely 3 weeks for my body to become fat adapted on my first Whole30.  I am right on day 20 now, so I hope it's the same or better now (it's almost 5 years later now, so I'm sure my body doesn't fire up like it used to).   But I felt the same as you, after it was finished, I stuck to the general template for quite a while and I got even leaner and my energy was excellent.  I started taking it for granted and cheated or splurged a lot more often as the years went by until this past year when i was completely off of the wagon.  I'm hoping I can get back on track and lean back out...and then not fall into the lackadaisical trap again.  

How have you been feeling since you started?   Better, worse, same? 
I know what you mean about missing how you felt when you were on the post Whole30 meal regimen.  I mentioned it on my log, but aside from the fact that I need to drop some weight that has quickly latched onto me, I really want to get back to feeling as great as I did on a daily basis when I was eating a lot cleaner and not drinking as much.  I'm on day 18 now, so hopefully I will be there soon.  Good luck.

I also have a long history of restricting and calorie tracking, although I wasn't really doing it immediately before my Whole30. And I also struggled to lose any weight that way. I had the same fear about the quantity of food that Whole30 was  asking me to eat. But I decided I was going to just DO IT for 30 days, follow all the rules and guidelines, trust the program and see what happened. I recommend you put the thoughts of weight loss, calories, "what if I gain weight" out of your mind as much as possible and direct that mental energy to making sure you're fully compliant with the program (not just technically compliant, but really following the spirit of it), meal planning, keeping a journal of your meals and your feelings (physical and mental/emotional) afterwards, etc. I think I started to feel fat adapted around the 3 week point, but everyone is different and it may take a little longer for you if you've tried to reduce your fat intake due to concern about weight gain. You have to give your body fat for it to become fat adapted! After 45 days I had lost 5 pounds; did reintroductions and continued eating a mostly Whole30 diet and after another 2 months was down 13 lbs from my starting weight - with no counting, tracking, or restricting 
 

I have a similar blender and was having the same issue. I started using a really skinny bottle brush to poke through the holes on the side, and that lets me get those last little bits of mayo that want to stick under (above?) the blades. The brushes made for cleaning reusable straws would probably work well too.

I make this curry fairly often: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/spicy-chicken-coconut-curry-recipe.html
It's compliant as-is (I use homemade chicken stock; store bought might be hard to find) and I usually omit the tomatoes and use 1 Tbsp each of store-bought curry powder and garam masala. I had it for breakfast this morning with sauteed spinach but of course it works well with cauliflower rice too!

Coconut cream?

I mix it with horseradish and eat with steak or any type of beef.... mix with extra lemon juice, dill and capers to go with salmon... mix with mustard to make a dip for any meat, potatoes, etc.

Congrats on making it to Day 31!  You totally rock and can't wait to see your Day 46 post!

Day 26
Meal 1: sauteed kale/spinach/onion, roasted tomatoes, 1/2 chicken apple sausage, 2 eggs, drizzle of olive oil
Meal 2: 2 hot dogs, green beans w/ coconut oil, blueberries w/ coconut milk
Snack: ~2 spoonfuls coconut butter, 2 slices deli turkey
Meal 3: 2 slices prosciutto, roasted butternut squash, kiwi
Workout: None
 
The snack today was a mistake - I wasn't paying attention to the time and it was late enough I should have just had dinner. Instead, I had the snack then wasn't hungry for dinner until late. I found Mel Joulwan's homemade coconut butter recipe and tried it today. I can see how it could be food without brakes for some; fortunately I thought it was good, but not good enough to make me crazy! Also found compliant prosciutto at the grocery store and it was nice to have a new protein/fat. 
I did pretty well with the "just eating" thing at breakfast, got interrupted a few times during lunch (I was at work), and totally failed at dinner - it was late when I was eating and I had food prep I needed to get done for the week so I ate while cooking.

I workout first thing in the morning (5:30 am). I carry a small lunch bag with a few plastic ice packs in it for my post-WO meal. I put in a few slices of my chicken I already have cooked in the fridge and a few pieces of sweet potato. I leave the bag in the car, and when I get in to head home, I eat it then. It makes it a lot easier to get home, unpack my gym bag and start breakfast without getting weak feeling needing food. Hope that helps!

Yeah, a lot of times I am doing other stuff - I pack my lunch while I eat breakfast (and usually finish it in the car or at work), and I eat lunch at my desk most days so I'm reading emails or doing other simple things. Even when I'm not doing anything besides eating, though, I'm always the last in any group to finish my meal (and I'm not super chatty!). Maybe I just need to force myself to get up 20 minutes earlier (ugh) to sit down and power through breakfast? I live by myself, so eating two meals a day sitting at the table alone with no distractions makes me think it will get boring pretty quickly... but maybe that will make me eat faster so I can get up and do something else 

Yeah, a lot of times I am doing other stuff - I pack my lunch while I eat breakfast (and usually finish it in the car or at work), and I eat lunch at my desk most days so I'm reading emails or doing other simple things. Even when I'm not doing anything besides eating, though, I'm always the last in any group to finish my meal (and I'm not super chatty!). Maybe I just need to force myself to get up 20 minutes earlier (ugh) to sit down and power through breakfast? I live by myself, so eating two meals a day sitting at the table alone with no distractions makes me think it will get boring pretty quickly... but maybe that will make me eat faster so I can get up and do something else 

Day 23
Meal 1: sauteed onion, spinach, roasted carrots and beets, 1/2 chicken apple sausage, 2 eggs, kiwi
Meal 2: salad (1/2#) with chicken and roasted tomatoes, Tessemae's lemon garlic dressing, 1/2 avocado, mixed berries w/ coconut milk
preWO: 2 slices deli turkey w/ pesto tomato mayo
postWO: 1 slice deli turkey
Meal 3: hamburger patty w/ horseradish mayo, green beans w/ coconut oil, watermelon
Workout: Crossfit
 
I've been thinking about how to rearrange my evenings so that I can have a proper postWO "meal". I go to Crossfit at 7 and it lasts around an hour, then I go straight home (5-10 min drive) and start making dinner. Since I'm usually eating dinner 30-40 minutes after finishing my workout, a postWO seemed unnecessary and kind of silly - would it really make a difference if I got that protein in my stomach 15 minutes before my whole dinner? But I haven't been feeling quite as good in my workouts so decided to change it up: tonight I got home and immediately ate a slice of turkey, then showered and changed, then started dinner. This pushes dinner back pretty late (9 or after) so I kept it on the small end of the template. I'm curious to see if I feel like I'm recovering better, although it will be hard to tell if it's due to the new eating schedule or if I've just been fat adapting/adjusting in some other way.

I'm with you on needing some kind of snack, even 20 days in. Honestly, I don't know how people do it. If I'm up at 5:30am (my natural, no alarm wake time), I have to eat breakfast by 6:30 right? If I spaced 5 hours between each meal I'd be finishing dinner at 4:30/5 which is way too early for my family. I've been doing 3 meals lately but only if I delay my breakfast until after my family wakes up at 7:30. Might not be wise to wait 2-3 hours to eat breakfast but if I don't I have to snack!

Day 4
Meal 1: roasted sweet potato sauteed in avocado oil w/ onion and mushrooms, 1 link Coleman Organic chicken florentine sausage, 2 eggs, 1/4 can coconut cream
Meal 2: leftover taco seasoned ground turkey with salsa and 1/2 avocado, spinach sauteed in olive oil w/ onion and pine nuts, handful of blueberries with coconut cream
Meal 3: few bites of leftover tuna and mayo, seared salmon, roasted beets and carrots, sauce made from mayo, dill, lemon juice and capers
Workout: none