CourtneyNGBee Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Today is the big day! The day that my husband and I start on the path to the new and improved us! This is our first Whole30 and we are really excited and scared. We completely cleaned out our pantry and fridge yesterday and spent the weekend at 3 different stores looking for the best Whole30 compliant ingredients we could find, including grass fed and local everything! I have to tell you, I'm not sure how long we will be able to keep up on this just because of the expense of buying organic produce and grass fed and locally sourced items. However, I intend to stick it out and figure out how to make it work. The one thing that is going to be super hard for us... I'm a smoker and he chews tobacco. We just quit cold turkey!!! AHHH!!!! Day 1: We did not plan well for breakfast and lunch! I had a banana and lara bar for breakfast and just had a hard boiled egg and cup of tea for a snack. I brought 2 hard boiled eggs and cashews for lunch and a huge apple for my afternoon snack. Not very much and too much fruit! My husband said he had a lara bar for breakfast and honestly I'm happy that he ate at all because he usually doesn't eat breakfast. He brought compliant deli meat and carrots for lunch. He gets out of work early so he can make something better when he gets home. YIKES! We definitely need to step up our game. We will be having grouper and vegies for dinner... so that's good right??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Tom Denham Posted January 26, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 26, 2015 Oh my. You are going to have to eat a lot more protein, fat, and veggies to survive. So much more! Here is our meal planning guide: http://whole30.com/downloads/whole30-meal-planning.pdfWe recommend that you never eat less than the minimum. You guys are starting off below the minimum for your first two meals. Ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutlifr Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I just love your sense of humor Courtney... "Day 1: We did not plan well for breakfast and lunch!"... So what happened to all the grass fed stuff you bought? The dog ate it? Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyNGBee Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 No people food for the puppy!! We just didn't make anything ahead of time and did not add some extra time to our morning routine to make anything in the morning. We had a great dinner, flounder (not grouper) dredged in coconut flour and pan fried with ghee, white asparagus and green beans roasted in the oven with olive oil and salt and pepper. We are starting out day two much better! We made a bunch of hard boiled eggs last night and cooked up some (compliant) sausage for breakfast. So we had sausage and scrambled eggs (no cheese of course) for breakfast. I can't tell you the last time I actually woke up and cooked myself breakfast. My son was pretty impressed too! I made a wrap using lettuce and compliant lunch meat and cranberry/strawberry balsamic vinegar, cashews, and a couple hard boiled eggs for lunch and snack. My hubby had the same thing for breakfast and took leftover fish and vegies for lunch. Steak, sweat potatoes, and zucchini and squash for dinner tonight!! I am definitely having a hard time with the lack of sweets and my daily coke! I have been drinking a lot of tea instead of coffee and that seems to be a fair trade. I'm pretty sure my coffee was more for the yummy sweetness than the caffeine jolt. I am really trying to eat the right amount of stuff but I have been eating bad for so long its hard to get in the swing of meal planning. Dinner is easy most of the time but planning for breakfast and lunch is different. We are running from the second we wake up and usually resort to a bowl of cereal or a run through fast food drive through! That is why we are doing thisthough. I want to look and feel good for myself, my husband and my son. I always wanted to be that mom that is running around at the playground and laying in the floor with my kids and I have gotten so unhealthy and out of shape it hurts to even lay in the floor or run around. He is six and only eats meat, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese and the occasional vegie if we beg him. I want to show him that its fun to be healthy and that eating healthy and being active leads to being much happier! I want to be a good example for him. I also really struggle with depression and anxiety and part of the problem right now is the fact that I have a very low self esteem and looking better and feeling better will only help me along the way with the depression battle. I just woke up one day a couple weeks ago and decided that it was time to make a change. I starting asking people on Facebook if they tried this or that and someone recommended the Whole30 program and I checked it out, convinced my husband this was the way to go and here we are! We also have a trainer that we try to work out with 3 days a week. So, all I can do is try!! I also just got married in December and although it was a very exciting time and I am so in love with this man... I hate to look at the pictures. I'm not the beautiful glowing bride that I always dreamed I would be. I used to be skinny and fit when I was younger but then I just let life get in the way and started a pretty nasty relationship with food. I need to lose about 80 to 100 pounds but that's not really why I'm doing this, I just want to be healthy and feel better. I'm 26 years young and just want my life back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyNGBee Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Oh and thank you for the link Tom. I did print this out before I started the program. Like I said I just didn't plan well! I obviously still have some work to do on my meal planning and will try to get closer to what we are supposed to have. I think part of it too is that we are afraid to eat too much of the fatty foods even if it is "good fat"! It's so engrained in your mind when you start to change your eating habits that fat is bad. It can be a little intimidating. Again, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutlifr Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I soooooo get your angst about the fat intake. For years they have brainwashed us into believing that eating fat and eggs is bad for us. I used to literally use my thumb to mold a chunk of coconut oil to be sure I was not overdoing it. It will get easier once you feel the pants fall off your waist trust the program, you will lose fat by eating it, your proportions will soon change, and before you know it, you will be on a healthier path! You and your family can do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyNGBee Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Well it's nice to know I'm not the only one that has felt that way! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyNGBee Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Day 3: Well... we are getting better at planning our meals. I'm really having a hard time with the cravings. I just want to go get some milk and oreos and have a beer. I know odd combo but that all I have been wanting!! My husband said the same thing minus the oreos. I wasn't even really worried about the alcohol thing but I just realized that we usually cook dinner while drinking a beer or having a glass of wine after work or after working out. I didn't even notice before! Oh well.. I'm just tired and "hungry" (aka bored) and I think that is why my mind keeps wandering of into dreams of cookie, cake, ice cream, beer.... We made bacon and eggs for breakfast (I also had an apple).. we had leftovers for lunch (steak, potatoes, vegies), I am going to eat some cashews and pumpkin seeds before I go to workout then we will have "spaghetti" with spaghetti squash for dinner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjo Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Love how you're making spaghetti squash for dinner! I think you might prefer to add avocados as a fat, since it's typically seen as a healthy food. Guac and celery! (Ok, and an egg or 3 on the side, to comply with W30) I am on day 6 and i sire miss wine and beer too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyNGBee Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 I'm not a hug avocado person. I will definitely try to add in some guac to my diet though. The spaghetti squash was awesome! I have only had it one other time and can't remember why I haven't tried it again since then! It will make a weekly appearance for sure!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourtneyNGBee Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 I am beyond exhausted today. I don't even care about food. I just want to sleep and it is only day 4! I have a feeling this is going to drag out. Oh well... nothing I'm not used to just a new level of exhaustion. Btw.. my husband says that he is feeling kind of depressed about this whole thing. He said that he just pretends that he is on a stranded island and the food he has is all that he can eat. I'm trying my best to cheer him up but it's hard because I guess I'm kind of feeling down too (which isn't new because of the depression I already struggle with). Were (are) we so addicted to the junk food that it is making us this way? Ughh.. no fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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