KatyMcE Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Whole30 day 1 I spent all day yesterday prepping food for the week. Today I had no excuses. I took the baby for her 6 month check up and immunizations. The two boys (5 and almost 4) had soccer this evening. I have been pretty irritable and craving bread like crazy. This is happening a little earlier than the timeline suggested it would. I guess I better hang onto my hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day2! So much better today, no cravings today... But I started today with 3 veggie egg muffins, a glass of green juice and green tea. I also added avocado to the chicken salad. No head aches, no slump. Waaaaay less cranky... But tomorrow is a new day. I'm feeling a little more hopeful than I did yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Day 3: I cooked like a banshee today. My milk supply hasn't dropped yet but I've made an effort to get enough carbs this time around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolgirl Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 You're doing great! I'm inspired for my day one on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyS Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Day 3: I cooked like a banshee today. My milk supply hasn't dropped yet but I've made an effort to get enough carbs this time around Excellent. Make sure you aim for four full meals, and keep some compliant coconut milk on hand for sipping throughout the day on top of that. If you don't need it all, that's fine, but aim for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Excellent. Make sure you aim for four full meals, and keep some compliant coconut milk on hand for sipping throughout the day on top of that. If you don't need it all, that's fine, but aim for it. Does it have to be coconut milk? Could homemade almond milk work instead? Or homemade vegetable juice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyS Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Does it have to be coconut milk? Could homemade almond milk work instead? Or homemade vegetable juice? The idea is to have lots of fat around. Vegetable juice doesn't have fat. I'm not sure of the fat content of almond milk... If you're not into coconut milk, maybe have things like olives and avocados handy for picking up and eating quickly. The point is readily available quick sources of fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Day 4: My beautiful little breastfeeding barnacle kept me up all night last night and I was a real grump today with the almost 4 and 5 year olds. I have some nonscale victories to report: 1.This morning was "muffins with mom" at the boys' preschool. I ate my whole30 breakfast and brought my green tea with me to sip on while I avoided those delicious cheddar sausage bisquick muffins the teachers make every year. (I DID grab the recipe to make with almond flour when this puppy is over. I guess I'll start my reintro with dairy . 2. Tired, dragging and tempted all day but I successfully avoided temptation while hungry and away from home. Even though I hadn't made dinner yet and the boys begged for me to order a pizza and even though my darling husband asked if I needed him to pick up anything and if I had a plan for dinner (I did not. I was pinned down by my barnacle as she napped). I rallied and pulled together a quick, delicious whole30 one-pot dinner out of two heads of garlic, three chicken breasts, two cans of diced tomatoes, some ghee and two bags of frozen green beans. It was delicious and we all ate it up. 3. I wanted to step on the scale soooooooooooo badly... But I didn't! True confession: I know we aren't supposed to get hung up on the numbers on the scale but I'm 5ft 2 and 178 lbs and I need NEEEEEED to drop some weight. My BMI is far too high no matter how you slice it.I have PCOS and I'm breastfeeding my 3rd child which can make the calories in-calories out not work so well. I was eating 1500-1700 calories and training for a half marathon after my second child and didn't lose a pound. In fact, I was still gaining, just slower. I found primal eating after he weaned and I noticed how much better I felt without grains in my life. No grains and no sugar seemed to be the only way I could lose anything... My main motivation of doing a whole30 is two-fold. I want to detox from grains/get my sugar dragon tamed (the last 15 months I pretty much let it run wild ) and I want to lose weight. If I don't lose any then I certainly will be incredibly disappointed but I really, really want to get back in control of my cravings, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolgirl Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Wow! You are doing great. I appreciate your honesty. Bless you. I also find it hilarious that you call your nursing baby your barnacle. Too funny! Keep going. I also want to break up with sugar. We just aren't good for each other and I want to move on to bigger and better things, like losing weight, and feeling sexy for my hot husband. Looking forward to my first day tomorrow May 1st. Can't think of a better way to spend May Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Carolgirl! Is today your first day? You are going to rock it, friend! I have to say, I've watched my mother struggle with her weight and self-image all of my life. She has tried diet after diet after diet. Every few weeks she will tell me some other thing she's doing to lose weight and say "I'm ready to get some of this weight off." She fed us healthy, nourishing foods growing up but she loved/loves diet coke and she never took time for herself to exercise. She was/is a wonderful mother so don't misinterpret this as me complaining about my childhood, because I certainly am not...I just don't want to leave that legacy for my daughter. I want her to see me, her mother, as someone comfortable in her own skin who eats healthy and takes care of herself. I don't want my daughter to see me stressing about my weight or how much I have to lose or what new diet I'm trying. I have to get my eating under control now while she's still little. I want her and her brothers to have a happy, healthy, energetic mom who isn't afraid to run around a theme park or do cannon balls off the diving board with them. I want my handsome husband to have a wife who doesn't stress about her size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Day 5 in the books! Working backwards : I'm finishing the evening with a glass of fresh squeezed veggie juice (celery,2 cucumbers, 2bell peppers, 4carrots, a handful of blueberries and three strawberries... I have plenty for tomorrow) My 5 year old has begged for spaghetti for dinner all week so today I made homemade marinara but swapped the tablespoon of brown sugar (my recipe makes nearly a gallon of marinara) for a food processed date. Was even more delicious. I added a lb of ground beef browned with finely chopped Rosemary, half of a diced onion and a diced green pepper. I served it over zoodles for my husband and I and it was spectacular. I let the boys have organic whole wheat noodles instead of zoodles. My lunch was homemade chicken salad with homemade mayo and a whole avocado. Breakfast was breakfast casserole (sweet potato hash, spinach, peppers, onions and eggs), a slice of leftover flank steak and some green tea. Side note: my baby hasn't been sleeping that great and she has been kind of grouchy today, I wonder if my milk composition has changed and maybe my girl has a touch of "carb flu" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Day 6 and I had a great day! Breakfast casserole and green tea was delicious! Lunch was chicken salad and avocado Dinner was at Tupelo Honey (my first 'eat at a restaurant' date since I started) and it was delicious and whole30! I had unsweetened iced tea, a starter of pan seared ahi tuna, jumbo sea scallops for my entree with green beans and asparagus.The meals there typically come with delicious biscuits with blueberry jam (we asked them to not even bring them to the table) and the sea scallops come with green beans and the most amazing field pea risotto. I asked them to sub the risotto for asparagus. They forgot about it and brought my scallops plated with asparagus and the risotto to the side. They realized last minute and brought green beans on a separate plate. My resolve was strong, however, and I didn't touch the risotto! I'm considering this a non-scale victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 On a separate note: my husband is participating in the whole30 with me because he wants to be supportive. He doesn't need to lose weight and he says he feels "perfectly fine" (he hasn't read the book and he has a voracious sweet tooth that almost always derails me)so he's not taking this as seriously as I am. He's had a few slip ups (he ate one of the kid's pretzels after the soccer game and he had a bottle of diet Mountain Dew the other day as well) He's been uncharacteristicaly cranky the last two evenings. So grumpy, in fact, that just now I insisted he go eat some carbs. He's lucky Thursday is trash day or else I'd have had him on the curb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Today is day 7. It's still early so I've just come here to whine a little. My allergies are KILLING me. I just want to go to sleep until my face stops hurting... Did I mention that I haven't slept well all weekend ? On the plus side, my barnacle baby is sleeping better and seems to be chubbier today than she was when I started the whole30 so maybe she's getting my extra fat . My husband has noticed that my waist looks smaller. He is a physician and says that I'll likely keep the weight in my hips/thighs and breasts but lose much of the fat around my face and waist while I'm eating this way and Barnacle is still nursing. We'll see. Maybe that's just a little wishful thinking on his part. I do need to make this way of eating a habit so while I'll likely add cheese or dairy back in, grains and sugar may need to be put on hold indefinitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 4, 2015 Author Share Posted May 4, 2015 It's the evening of Day 7 and has it ever been rough. For breakfast I had eggs in purgatory using the marinara/meat sauce I made on Friday (used the rest in an egg bake for the week so we'll see how that turns out )and it was delicious. Lunch... I felt so crappy today that I didn't feel like eating but since I'm breastfeeding I decided to eat two Lara bars and a glass of green veggie juice... And a handful of blackberries. For dinner I had homemade chicken and veggie soup served over two handfuls of fresh baby spinach, it was delicious. I'm about to take a melatonin and soak in the tub. Try to sleep off this awfulness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Yesterday was day 8 and I didn't get a chance to check in. I ate three compliant meals and stayed on track. Still felt puney but better and did not have much appetite but since I'm nursing, I made myself eat. Today is day 9 and I am off to a good start. Feeling much better. I have gotten plenty of sleep the last two nights. I still don't have much of an appetite but I've got to keep my milk supply up so I will eat three template meals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gogogio Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 This is my 2nd whole30. My husband and I did our first in Nov. 2013 and with a few exceptions, we've pretty much stayed whole30! I had an easy pregnancy and easy, short birth of a 9lb baby! No tearing, no stretch marks. Everyone asked me about it and I said Whole30! Well, postpartum that's when I started straying, no sleep, and wanting quick sugar and carbs! I started venturing into things like coconut flour muffins with honey or maple syrup. Sugar being something I previously wouldn't have brought into the house! And it was SO awesome to wake up in the middle of the night when I was starving or first thing in the AM and grab a muffin! Long story short I started sleepign more, but didn't stop eating this way.. and I got cranky, foggy and bloated. I was gaining weight postpartum! My husband was taking my lead a drinking apple ciders and gorging on dried fruit and bars and 3 ingedient honey mints. It was SO time for this whole30! Anyway, my point is: I'm also breastfeeding and I found at first I was lightheaded at times and exercise was harder than it seemed it should be.. I took AmyS recc's in other threads to eat carbs a every meal and eat, eat, eat and that made a huge difference! No more afternoon crash and my milk really comes in after carbs it seems. I've also being doing the coconut milk thing. I hope that helps! Way to go momma! You're gonna feel great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 Day 10! Yesterday went well, I stayed on track! Last night I had a food dream. It was guilt laden but I dreamed of wine, chicken Marsala and chocolate ravioli from Naples, an Italian restaurant in my home town. Mm mm. I'm committed to twenty more days of this, none the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Marie Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 interesting that maybe your 'barnacle' has the carb flu ! Why not -? anything else may certainly affect them. My babies didn't like it when I ate broccoli ! very gassey babies ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Day 11 has gone well! I was extra tired today so I napped. I also didn't have much protein this morning so I wonder if that had to do with my exhaustion. I'm not hungry or snacking at all these days. I'm really tuning in to my food. Tomorrow and this weekend are going to be hard. I have to order a cookie cake for my middle baby's birthday tomorrow. I love cookie cake so very much. It will take lots of strength to avoid it, I will just have to pretend it is covered in bugs or something. Also, Mother's Day. I am going to be strong...if I can make it to next Tuesday, I'll be golden! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Day 12! I ordered cookie cake for my almost 4 year old's birthday. I'm nervous to have it in the house but I think it will all be fine. I plan on getting a watermelon to eat on while the littles are enjoying birthday food. I just have to be strong until Tuesday! I'm going to try crossfit in the morning. My husband loves it and has been participating in crossfit for over a year. Hopefully I won't die or used as a human sacrifice on the alter of the cross fit cult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Day 13! I tried crossfit for the first time today. It was tough but fun even though I had to scale my work out waaaay down. I was actually hungry for my fourth meal today! It was awesome! I'm still going strong. Had a filet, broccoli and green beans for dinner, a scoop of chicken salad for a mini meal, a salad with double meat and tons of avocado for lunch and eggs with veggies and avocado for breakfast. I've had a headache I couldn't shake today despite drinking tons of water, I wonder if that's normal for a whole30 or if it is seasonal allergy related. Anyone got any thoughts on that? Tomorrow will be 2 weeks of whole30. I can't believe it! See ya tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 I keep having dreams that I have fallen off the whole30 wagon! Is this normal? I had another one last night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Marie Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 yes - dreams are normal !! what is Normal really ?? Dreams are expected - I had a dream about chips and dip - very real - I woke up very disappointed in myself until I realized I woke up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyMcE Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Day 14! I am so incredibly sore! Wow!! My husband made me a whole30 breakfast burrito with egg whites being the tortilla. It was delicious! For lunch I had chicken salad. Dinner was ahi tuna steaks, broccoli and a potato roast made with Yukon golds, shallots, ghee and salt and pepper. Mmmmm! I also ate watermelon after dinner and several handfuls of almonds. All in all, it was a great food day. Tomorrow is the birthday party/cookie cake. Cookie cake is one of my weaknesses but so far I have been strong! I just have to make it to Tuesday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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