abbyn Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Sunday: Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs with hot sauce, sliced red peppers Lunch: one entire head of roasted cauliflower (!) and 1/4 skinless rotisserie chicken (probably uncompliant, arggg). Dinner: salad with peppers, carrots and dukes, no dressing. Chunky meat sauce, sliced red bell peppers and celery. Handful of cashews, pistachios and olives throughout the day. Monday: Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with hot sauce, black coffee Lunch: 1/2 sweet potato, green beans cooked in olive oil and garlic, rotisserie chicken Dinner: 4 oz. strip steak, a few shrimp, sweet peppers and onion, grilled. Cilantro lime cauliflower rice, pico de gallo. Cauliflower rice is giant mess to make without a food processor. Snacked on cashews but working on snacking less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 7, 2014 Author Share Posted May 7, 2014 Day 3: Late breakfast: Leftover rotisserie chicken, handful of raspberries Lunch: 1/2 baked sweet potato, egg fried in clarified butter, more raspberries Snack: handful of pistachios Dinner: Cauliflower rice, 2 grilled drumsticks, grilled peppers and onions, 1/4 cup homemade guacamole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFChris Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Hi there- Do you have a copy of the recommended meal template? For best results, look to create each meal with 1-2 palms of protein, 1-3 cups of veggies and the appropriate amount of compliant fat. Don't let fruit push veggies off your plate. Your dinner today looked good: breakfast could use veggies and lunch could use more protein. When eggs are your protein, the serving size is the number of eggs you can hold in one hand. For most people, that's at least 2 or 3 eggs. My hunch is if you follow these recommendations, that will remove your need to snack. You want to create meals that satiate you for 4-5 hours. As you get there, if you're genuinely hungry in between meals (feel like you could eat steamed fish and broccoli), have a mini-meal containing a protein and fat. Nuts are a fat source on a Whole30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Hi Chris, thanks so much for your input! I definitely can see how filling up more at each meal will help reduce snacking. I have seen the meal template but honestly sometimes I'm just reheating leftovers and might not have enough protein, veggies..etc. Also, I'm still breastfeeding and sometimes get hungry in between meals. I will definitely increase my egg consumption at each meal, I've got 6 chickens so we always have plenty of eggs . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Day 4: Breakfast: Shredded sweet potato roasted in coconut oil, 2 fried eggs, black coffee Lunch: 2 carrots, one grilled drumstick, guacamole, strawberries Afternoon snack: 1/2 larabar Dinner: butternut squash soup, green beans with olive oil and garlic, 1 aidell's chicken sauasge Before bed: handful of pistachios. Had trouble eating till full at meals because I was working in the garden and got too hot to want to eat much (and then made soup...:/) Also, I'd like to quit eating anything before bed but don't want to go to bed with a growling stomach. In general I'm much less lethargic today and really did great working outside in the heat while my baby slept- Tiger Blood, already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Day 5: Breakfast: Shredded sweet potato roasted in coconut oil, 2 fried eggs, black coffee Lunch: 1 1/2 bowls of butternut squash soup, 1/2 larabar Dinner: green beans with olive oil and garlic, zucchini noodles with meat sauce. Filled up at dinner but now I'm hungry, I know my lunch was too light but I was away from home and that's all I brought :/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 Day 6: Breakfast- fried egg, homemade sausage patty, sliced banana Lunch- Carnitas salad from Chipotle! Afternoon- Larabar Dinner- Zucchini noodles with Meat sauce, cashews (ate while cooking!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 Day 7: Breakfast- 2 fried eggs, homemade sausage, sweet potato hash browns, black coffee Lunch (at 4pm!)- leftover sweet potato soup, aidell's chicken sausage, strawberries Dinner- carrot salad with raisins, hot dog, 3 avocado deviled egg halves. Had a loss of appetite in the middle of the day but ate a late lunch and dinner a few hours after that. Almost out of produce! (Nothing green on my plate today!) Need to go to the grocery store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyS Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 If you're nursing you will need four to five meals per day plus sip on a can of coconut milk throughout the day. Eat up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 If you're nursing you will need four to five meals per day plus sip on a can of coconut milk throughout the day. Eat up! Thanks Amy, I think I am going through a period of decreased appetite right now, and honestly, making 3 meals a day from scratch is alot of work as it is! But looking over my log and whole30 instagram account, it doesn't look like I'm eating enough. I definitely think I need to be adding more fat at each meal and the coconut milk is a great idea. Day 8: Breakfast- Avocado deviled eggs (3 halves) Lunch- UNEXPECTED TRIP TO BOB EVAN'S AAAAHHHH...(but thanks, Dad!) I totally panicked about getting anything that might be off the plan so I just ordered a side salad without cheese and croutons and with lemons for dressing and a plain baked sweet potato. It was ok but I was starving when I got home so I ate a Larabar. I definitely don't want to eat them everyday but it's nice to have at least one convenience food in my pantry! Dinner- mixed greens, carrot raisin salad, buffalo chicken tenders. After dinner- handful of cashews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 P.S. If anyone reads this, I started an instagram account for my whole30- @bluegrass_whole30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 Day 9: breakfast: 2 fried eggs, sweet potato hash browns, 1/2 cup of raspberries, coffee with coconut milk (for the first time, very good!) lunch: leftover meat sauce with zucchini noodles snack: cashews, pistachios and raisins dinner: buffalo chicken salad with carrot and avocado after dinner: 1/2 a larabar What a rough day...my baby is teething and pretty miserable, so I didn't even make dinner until after she was in bed (so I relied on nuts and raisins this afternoon to keep me going!). Today made me realize that I definitely do eat when I'm emotional, cause the idea to eat some junk food popped into my head all day (and I know it's cause my day just felt hard cause of the baby). Normally my husband can give me a bit of a break but he's working late. Not feeling very positive but thankful to be safely moving on to day 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyS Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Ah, those days are so hard. Good on ya for staying with it. Hope you get some rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 thanks Amy! Today was much better, thank goodness Day 10: Breakfast- sweet potato hash browns, 2 fried eggs, homemade breakfast sausage, coffee with coconut cream Lunch-1 1/2 applegate hot dogs, 1 carrot, 1 apple. Dinner- salmon cakes, steamed artichokes with ghee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 15, 2014 Author Share Posted May 15, 2014 Day 11: Breakfast- 2 hard boiled eggs Lunch-leftover salmon cakes, artichokes with ghee and a banana Dinner-broccoli, shrimp and garlic, sweet potato fries, and salad with lemon vinaigrette, dates and almonds. Woke up early to go to a yoga class and then run errands and I was really exhausted this afternoon. I feel fine now and I had enough energy to do what I needed to do, but I don't know if waking up early to go to yoga is a good idea, even once a week. Maybe I'll find an afternoon class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 15, 2014 Author Share Posted May 15, 2014 Oh my- I have to add some food to last night- Day 11, snack before bed: (I NEVER fill up when shrimp is my main protein even though I loaded my plates with tons of veggies!) anyways, I topped a plantain chip with cubed avocado and wrapped the little bundle in prosciutto (ate 10 or so...) + an apple Day 12: Breakfast- scramble with sweet potato, sausage and spinach Lunch- leftover shrimp and broccoli with a carrot mixed in, 1/4 avocado wrapped in proscuitto Pre-dinner- handful of pistachios and raisins Dinner- eggplant rollatini stuffed with proscuitto, spinach, garlic, carmelized onion and egg and topped with chunky tomato sauce, 4 olives. Not in the mood for meat lately so even though my meals are filling I have trouble staying full so I'll probably eat something else tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 16, 2014 Author Share Posted May 16, 2014 Day 12: snack- leftovers from dinner and plantain chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Day 13, Breakfast- devilled eggs and banana Lunch- applegate hot dog, apple, plantain chips, a few sweet potato fries Dinner- Leftover eggplant from last night and 3 olives. After dinner- strawberries and tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 Day 14: breakfast- fried eggs and coconut milk+coffee lunch-homemade meatballs with zucchini noodles and tomato sauce snack-larabar dinner-salad with a date, lemon juice, olive oil, almonds and strawberries and homemade calamari! Day 15: breakfast- banana and coffee+coconut milk lunch- scrambled eggs and olives and an apple snack- plantain chips with 1/2 an avocado dinner- leftover meatballs and zucchini noodles after dinner- 1/2 larabar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 Day 14: breakfast- fried eggs and coconut milk+coffee lunch-homemade meatballs with zucchini noodles and tomato sauce snack-larabar dinner-salad with a date, lemon juice, olive oil, almonds and strawberries and homemade calamari! Day 15: breakfast- banana and coffee+coconut milk lunch- scrambled eggs and olives and an apple snack- plantain chips with 1/2 an avocado dinner- leftover meatballs and zucchini noodles after dinner- 1/2 larabar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Day 16- hard to have any spontaneity when you haven't planned ahead! That's my lesson for today breakfast- 2 fried eggs with sweet potato hash browns and coconut milk latte (=whizzed in my blender) lunch- leftover meatballs (just 2!) with zucchini noodles, was still hungry so I ate a handful of pistachios and raisins AND 1/2 a larabar spent the afternoon cooking a (noncompliant) meal for a sick friend, then went to a birthday dinner at my mom's and only ate a tiny bit because I was mostly feeding the baby dinner and then the food ran out... dinner-sauteed tomatoes, asparagus, and broccoli with 1/4 chicken breast after dinner- plantain chips (ok, this is the end of the first bag I opened. It's definitely hard not to overreat them but I think I did ok.) my kitchen is a mess and I need to buy groceries, but other than that, doing good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 21, 2014 Author Share Posted May 21, 2014 Day 17- this was not an easy day! I had to get a recall on my car fixed and was told it would be 4-5 hours, but ended up taking 10! So I was stranded at my friends (with my baby!) allll day. By the time I got home I just threw some food on a plate and then just kept eating anything I could get my hands on. At least it was all compliant. Tomorrow will be better. breakfast- 1 scrambled egg and a larabar lunch- kroger's simple truth rotisserie chicken, frozen broccoli, mixed greens with vinaigrette, apricot and blueberries dinner- more rotisserie chicken, sweet potato hashbrowns, pistachios, raisins, plaintain chips and salsa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 22, 2014 Author Share Posted May 22, 2014 Day 18: breakfast- 2 scrambled eggs, raspberries, and coconut milk coffee lunch- chicken zoodle soup, pistachios, raisins, plantain chips dinner- broccoli fritters, apricot and chicken tossed in buffalo sauce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 23, 2014 Author Share Posted May 23, 2014 Day 19: Breakfast- mushroom, sweet potato and carmelized onion frittata and banana with coconut flakes and cashews Lunch- Carnitas salad from Chipotle Dinner- grilled, smoked chicken, grilled mushrooms and salad with oil and vinegar. NO SNACKING TODAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbyn Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 Day 20 Breakfast- mushroom, sweet potato and carmelized onion frittata Lunch- banana with coconut flakes and cashews, small avocado with plantain chips, pistachios and raisins. Dinner- moroccan meatballs with cauliflower rice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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