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W30 Down Under - 12th July


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Day 10

 

Been suffering with a bit of an upset stomach for the last couple of days and still a little this morning. Just checked in with the official W30 timeline again for days 8 and 9 and lo and behold it was foretold ... "Bloating, constipation, diarrhea, or all three may appear as your gut starts to heal, rebalance, and process this new food effectively."

 

YUP! Not wrong.

 

Breakfast:

Boiled Egg

Melon

Macadamia Nut Butter (2 tsp)

Cold drip coffee with coconut milk

 

Lunch:

Roast chicken breast (left over from the chook last night)

Tomato

Carrot

Olives

1 Bottle Kombucha

 

 

Dinner:

Hot smoked salmon

carrot

mashed sweet potato

broccoli

(yes - a predominantly orange dinner)

some grapes and cherries

soda water & lime

 

 

Gut discomfort gone by dinner time. Yay.

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Day 11

 

Had an early morning meeting so had to make do with a quick breakfast. Still, it was enough to see me right through to lunchtime no problem.

 

Breakfast:

Boiled egg

1/2 banana

2 Tsp Macadamia Nut Butter

Cold Drip Coffee, Coconut milk

 

 

Lunch:

Roast chicken leg

Broccoli

Olives

1/2 Banana

 

Dinner:

Grilled chicken breast (yep, I know, chicken twice in one day ... 3 times if you count the egg for breakfast - gonna change it up tomorrow)

Sweet Potato

Broccoli

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Don't worry about too much chicken!!!  I once had chicken and/or eggs for every meal for 5 days.  It was what I had :)

 

I think that your protein is a little light, especially in the mornings.   The template calls for 1 to 2 servings with each meal.  When having eggs, a serving is what you can hold in your hand (whole eggs).  For me, that is 3-4 depending on the size of the eggs and I am an average size female.  Also, one chicken leg, unless its big, is probably shy of a serving.  

 

Don't forget your veggies with breakfast.  Fruit is ok, but don't let it replace your vegetable portion.

 

You are almost half way there!  Congrats!

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Hey kmlynne - thanks for the timely reminder. You're right - I need to work a bit on getting the veggie and protein portion sizes up particularly at breakfast. Will be working on that over the next couple of days.

Other than that I feel good and not struggling with temptation to wander off the reserve :)

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Day 12

 

Breakfast:

Zucchini Noodles

Mushrooms

Broccoli

Fried Egg

Hot smoked trout

Melon

Earl Grey with lemon

 

Lunch:

Grilled Breast of Chicken

Tomatoes

Celery

Spinach

Kalamata Olives

Bottle of Kombucha

 

 

Dinner:

3 boiled eggs

1 slice of homemade w30 compliant square sausage

carrots

celery

1 apple

2 tsp macadamia nut butter

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Day 13:

 

In spite of being up more than an hour earlier than normal due to having to be on an early morning call, I found it incredibly hard going trying to increase my intake at breakfast. I literally couldn't take another mouthful - just the thought of another bite (of anything) was making me feel like spewing.

 

Breakfast:

1 large scotch egg

zucchini noodles

carrots

small amount of melon

cold drip coffee with coconut milk

 

Lunch: bit of a rush as I was heading out - had to throw this together.

3 boiled eggs

big dollop of olive oil mayonnaise

celery

olives

 

 

Dinner: was out for dinner at The Atlantic which meant it was fairly easy to stay compliant. Missed the good fat though :(

Grilled snapper

salad greens

potatoes

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Day 14:

 

Breakfast:

Didn't get a chance to eat breakfast today due to travel requirements. I actually really missed it and was very hungry by the time midday rolled around. <sad face>

 

Lunch: was eating out - happy to discover the veggie breakfast with a few extra sides gave me enough to go on

2 poached eggs

heaps of roast veggies - pumpkin, eggplant, shallots, zucchini, pumpkin

spinach

mushrooms

black coffee

 

Dinner:

2 large scotch eggs

1 boiled egg - large dollop of olive oil mayo

tomatoes

carrots

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Day 15: - it's the weekend. yay!

 

Breakfast:

4 boiled eggs with olive oil mayo

some grilled chicken breast

decided to skip the veggies as I'm going straight to the gym this morning.

cold drip coffee with coconut milk

 

Lunch:

Grilled chicken breast

Pak Choi, Mushrooms, Red & Green Capsicum, chilli pepper, Coconut oil

1 bottle coconut water

 

Dinner:

Grass fed beef steak

Brussels sprouts

carrots

asparagus

banana

1 bottle Kombucha

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Day 16: Officially past the half way mark now.

 

Breakfast:

I know this shouldn't double as a PreWO but it's unavoidable at the weekend. So ...

2 Boiled Eggs with Olive Oil Mayo

 

Lunch:

Baked potato with tuna & olive oil mayo

Tomato

Banana

 

Dinner:

Hot smoked salmon fillet

Carrots

Sweet potato

Pumpkin

Brussels Sprouts

1 Bottle Kombucha

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Avoiding non-compliant foods doesn't seem to be an issue for me - eating enough of the compliant ones is still a challenge.

This morning's routine was typical - alarm, snooze, alarm, snooze, alarm, get up, take dog out, put heating on, feed cat, feed dog, get dressed, get kids up, feed kids, make packed lunches for kids, make coffee, get kids dressed, pack kids school bags, put eggs on to boil, get self dressed, glug coffee, drain eggs - shoot! gotta go - take kids to school, come home, eat eggs, pack gym bag, hit gym, come home - shoot! work is piling up - start work - shoot! forgot my post-wo - dang, it's lunchtime already... etc.. etc..

 

The only alternative would be to get up maybe 90 minutes earlier so I can do the whole pre-WO and gym routine before I do everything else. But ... I'm already feeling tired first thing in the morning as it is. I can't envisage making do with even less sleep than I'm currently getting.

 

Preparing breakfast and packed lunches the night before would probably help a bit but still wouldn't help with getting both a breakfast and a pre-WO meal packed in amongst the rest of my schedule before lunch time (not to mention a post-wo meal).

 

Day 17:

Breakfast as PreWO

4 boiled eggs mashed with olive oil mayo

 

Lunch:

small Grass Fed Beef Steak

Brussels Sprouts

Mashed Sweet Potato

2 tsp macadamia nut butter

 

Dinner:

Kerala Veggie Stew (carrot, sweet potato and green beans and beautiful spices - yum)

Hot smoked salmon fillet

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Day 18:

 

Breakfast:

Curried Veg (prepared last night)

4 boiled eggs

Olive oil mayo

1/2 grapefruit

4 small cubes of melon

 

Lunch:

4 boiled eggs with Olive oil mayo

(is it possible to have too many eggs?)

Curried Veg again to use it up

 

Dinner:

Baked Rockling fillet with Tomatoes, Olives and Red Capsicum

Banana & Hazelnuts

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Day 19:

 

What can I say - utter carnage at brakfast time this morning. Even though I had prepared the individual parts of my breakfast last night, nothing worked to plan. A barrage of emails coming in overnight meant I had to jump straight into work mode as soon as I got up. Managed to gobble down a few bits and pieces on the run.

 

Breakfast:

4 boiled eggs

Olive oil mayo

Couple of strawberries

curried veg ... sadly got left behind as I rushed out the door

 

Lunch:

Curried Veg left at breakfast

 

Dinner:

Goan Fish & Prawn Curry

Riced Cauliflower

1 Bottle Kombucha

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Day 20:

 

Breakfast:

Goan Fish & Prawn Curry

Riced Cauliflower

Melon

 

Lunch:

4 Boiled Eggs

Curried Veg

1/2 grapefruit

1 cup spiced chai

 

Dinner:

Goan Fish & Prawn Curry (thank goodness it's finished - was lovely but don't think I could have eaten it again tomorrow)

Riced Cauliflower

Sweet Potato

Bottle of Kombucha

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Day 21

 

Breakfast: doubled up as PreWO

4 Boiled Eggs

Olive Oil Mayo

 

Hit the gym for some upper body strength training

 

Lunch:

Chicken Curry

Banana

 

Dinner:

Hot smoked salmon fillet

Baked potato with Olive Oil May

Kombucha

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Day 22:

Breakfast:

Chicken Curry

Zucchini Noodles

Sauteed Mushrooms

Macadamia nut butter

 

Lunch:

Roast Beef

Roast Veg (pumpkin, capsicum, zucchini)

Kombucha

 

Dinner:

Chicken Curry

Riced cauliflower

some cherries

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You are going great, hang in there!

Impressive giving up smoking then alcohol plus getting back to running.

I've just done "dry July" then decided to get my eating cleaned up with an August whole30. I took up running a few years ago at 43 but haven't properly got back into it after surgery last year and weight gain and inflammation from crap eating hasn't helped... Hoping to sort myself out this month. I too am suffering from a desk job ....

Good luck for your second half!

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Thanks Melbournegirl :) Going through some massive changes here - physically, mentally and spiritually. Tough going some times but getting there step by step.

Good luck to you too and congrats on the dry July. I'm now past the 7 week mark of being off the booze and at the moment it scares me a little to say that I feel such a benefit from not drinking that I'm considering staying off it for good.

 

Day 23:

Breakfast (pre-wo) - permitted myself a lie in until 8am this morning

4 Boiled eggs

Olive oil may

 

Gym: massive legs workout

 

Lunch:

Chicken curry

Riced cauliflower (thank goodness that's the curry finished)

 

Dinner:

Hot Smoked Salmon

Roast Veggies

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Day 24:

 

Breakfast: Had to buy breakfast out ... standard veggie breakfast minus the hash brown and toast seems to be an OK option

Poached eggs

spinach

mushrooms

tomatoes

black coffee

 

Lunch:

Chicken Broth

 

Dinner:

Ground grass fed beef mince

potatoes and carrots

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Day 25:

Breakfast:

Ground grass fed beef

potatoes, carrots

 

Lunch:

3 boiled eggs

olive oil mayo

melon

 

 

Dinner:

More boiled eggs - another 3 (I was making scotch eggs and messed 3 up so had to eat them)

Potatoes & Carrots (that's them finished now which is good)

3 tsp homemade hazelnut & cocoa butter

handful of grapes

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Day 26:

 

Breakfast:

Scotch Egg

Olive Oil Mayo

1/2 small Grapefruit

Black coffee

 

Yep - where's the veggies? Well, I was intent on heading out to the gym so avoiding the dense carbs but work took over and I didn't quite make it as early as I'd hoped. Still - managed to crank out a powerful legs workout and my 3K warmup run was effortless. Something is working :)

 

Lunch: which doubled as a post-WO

Scotch egg (can't help it, they are just so damn convenient, filling and tasty)

Tomatoes

Banana

Couple of dates

Kombucha

 

Dinner:

Hot smoked salmon fillet

Zucchini, semi-dried tomatoes, olives

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Day 27:

Wow - been sleeping really soundly these past few nights with some crazy dreams just before waking each morning.

 I've found I've been wide awake until around 11-11:30pm most nights then feel tired very suddenly. Usually would struggle to get to sleep but seems as soon  as I hit the sack I'm conking out pretty much straight away. Feeling good when I'm waking up.

 

Breakfast:

Scotch Egg which I had to eat on the move due to time constraints between work and school run - also, I knew I was going to be doing a run shortly after dropping the kids at school so didn't want to have any veg/carbs.

 

6km run

 

Lunch:

Zucchini noodles, semi dried tomatoes, olives

4 boiled eggs with olive oil mayo

1/2 grapefruit

 

Dinner:

Baked potato

Sardines

Olive oil mayo

Strawberries

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Day 28:

 

Breakfast: Root canal work this morning :(

Scotch Egg

4 Strawberries

2 tsp Macadamia Nut Butter

 

Lunch:

Don't want to eat anything too solid due to dental work.

4 boiled eggs with olive oil mayo

2 tsp Mac Nut But

zucchini noodles, olives, semi-dried tomatoes

 

Dinner:

Hot Smoked Salmon

Potatoes

2 tsp Mac Nut But

Kombucha

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Day 30: Tah-Dah!!!! I made it :).

 

Breakfast:

4 Boiled Eggs

Smashed Avocado

 

Then hit the gym

 

Lunch:

Got caught out as I was out on the road from mid morning until dinner time. Was starving by the time dinner came around.

 

Dinner:

Roast Chicken

Pumpkin

Potato

Carrot

Kombucha

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