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Gin's First Whole 30


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Dinner ended up being a little too late in the evening (had to meet with husband's work to pick a retirement plan unexpectedly), so I had a hardboiled egg and small handful of cashews after work while I cooked salmon for later. Happily found that our spicy brown mustard has no added sugar or other bad things, so coated the salmon in that and pan cooked. When we got home at 8, found baby bok choy sauteed in garlic that my sister made to go with the salmon. I had that and a little bit of buttercup squash.

I was wrecked/tired last night and went to bed (before my husband, and I don't like going to bed alone) at 9! And still had a hard time getting out of bed this morning at 7! I felt like my limbs all weighed an extra 10 pounds going downstairs to breakfast, so I moved pretty slow this morning. Thank goodness for ponytails and headbands when you need to get ready for work but can't get motivated!

Breakfast was a super fluffy omelette (whole egg, but the yolk and whites are separated to whip and then blended back together) topped with strawberries. I also experimented with 2 tablespoons of coconut butter warmed up on top of my berries to get my morning fat. That was pretty delicious and really filling. Coffe black today. I'm doing pretty good at keeping fruit servings to one a day so far, I think only on day 5 (crankers day), did I have 2 servings of fruit. Not that fruits bad, but I'm working on controlling my sugar demon.

I'm still pretty fatigued today sitting here at my desk, planning a nap after work and maybe I'll meditate on my afternoon break instead of a walk today. I work in a government office full of cubicles, but I'm fortunately on a window with a view as well as in a corner that is rarely traveled to. So I just put down my yoga mat and set my timer for 15 minutes and lay on my floor. My nearby office mates accept me for me, but I'm sure they think I'm a little different ^_^ I'm going to say I've definitely entered the sleepy stage.

I have this visual of my liver as a foundry furnace, and I've switched the fuel source, and the workers are now trying to keep the fire burning but the new fuel is heavier and so they're not caught up with shoveling the new stuff in. But they're going to get stronger with practice and I'll feel up to speed in few days on my new fuel.

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Lunch was half an avocado mashed with some cilantro and a sprinkle of garlic salt with a chicken breast diced up and cherry tomatoes from my Dad's garden. Really filling, couldn't quite eat it all so had it around 4 while still at work.

Dinner was meat sauce over spaghetti squash. Oh and lest I forget, with dinner I had a handful or raspberries with coconut butter. Oh and some strawberries after work, forgot those. I ate a lot today, maybe too much fruit.

Good night world.

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Oh Friday, where have you been all week? So glad to see the weekend!

Thoughts on yesterday: coconut butter is dangerous. I'm going to have to cap my use of that to 2-3 times a week total, just a little too close with fruit to the sweet stuff. I'm battling my sugar demon, I could see having an unhealthy relationship with coconut butter so I'll just put that in the back of the pantry for now.

Breakfast: lovely surprise, breakfast made when I came downstairs today. Egg frittata with peppers, cilantro and onion, last of the good bacon and coffee. Food is more delicious when somebody makes it for you (if you usually do most the cooking).

Lunch: A little haphazard. Had a hardboiled egg, about 1/2 cup of spaghetti squash with meat sauce left from last night. I was worried that wouldn't be enough. Found some buttercup squash in the fridge and a pear that needed to be eaten, added large tablespoon of ghee for fat, heated it all up and sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg; brought that back to work with me. Just had some of that, maybe half and full.

Excited for dinner. Have a pork shoulder in the crock pot with couple of onions, olive oil and a jar of Frontera Salsa (no "bad" stuff in it). We thought we'd found a carnitas sauce packet from Frontera that we could use, but read it while I put the roast in the crock pot and saw cane juice. So, back into the pantry with that. Guess I need to learn to make carnita sauce, shouldn't be too hard. But I was making this while home on lunch, so the salsa did in a pinch. I'll roast or grill a bunch of peppers when I get home, slice up the avocado and dice some cilantro: voila (what the Spanish equivalent of voila be, I wonder?). Deliciousness.

I plan on making beef tacos tomorrow using lettuce for shells. We're trying to still have what I think of as "football food" for college game day. Big fans in my house, even if we're a house divided. My husband and I went to rival football schools, but I love him anyway. I'd say Go Blue! but Michigan has a weekend off.

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The crockpot pork shoulder last night was delish! Spooned it over red and orange pepper strips, topped with avocado and cilantro.

Last night, scoped out our local health food store. Pretty much a bust, meat is significantly cheaper at the Whole Foods an hour away, but apparently worth the hour drive. Bummer. Did find single ingredient hazelnut butter and that was yummy this morning with a fresh honey crisp apple. Also had eggs with kale and tomato for breakfast. Weekend #2, day 11!!!

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Today may be challenging. We're heading to a friends house for football. We usually do a fair amount of imbibing with these friends, and have lots of fun. I won't be drinking today. Or chomping on junk food. I'm taking Paleo tacos with lettuce shells. I'm finding food easy, I like what I'm eating now and how I'm feeling. But I do miss the social drinking.

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Well the food does sound great. I understand about the drinking, when my wife is drinking wine I can smell it across the room. It can be difficult. I have been making the water lemons, limes, cukes, & oranges, its a good distraction. Good luck today, keep it going.

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I did it! I even sat happily by while our friends enjoyed a pumpkin cream cheese bundt cake!!!! I'm not sure I could even explain to someone how free that makes me feel!

May not have needed to eat most of a honey crisp apple with a few cashews but it helped me stay strong and full through the evening. Realized only ended up with 2 meals for the day, so the apple and nuts not too off path really.

Breakfast this morning: 3 scrambled eggs with some leftover pork shoulder and peppers and juices on top. Coffee with coconut cream. And for activity today: scraping the exterior house, painting our bathroom and some cleaning. Planning a walk with my husband today for stress relief. Yay, day 12!

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Scraped the house today, got caught up with that. Shared an apple and some hazelnut butter with coffee for a snack break. Dinner was a roast chicken, ghee made the skin nice and crispy. Had kale with spicy mustard and ratatouille. Just got home from a movie. $2.50 for a water at the theater! Sticking to your Whole30: priceless

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It's Day 13!

Stayed up too late last night, didn't get to bed until 11, so up a little later this morning. But I'm not cranky like I would have been 3 weeks ago with not enough sleep. I'm just a little tired.

First day we didn't cook breakfast at my house since starting. Everybody just fended for themselves. I microwaved 3 eggs (they turn out sooo fluffy), poured my coconut cream into a jar with about 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries, grabbed the coffee. Out the door to work.

The eggs weren't bad, did miss my veggies in there. But the blueberries in the coconut cream were delicious. Stopped to enjoy those and look out the giant picture window behind me. Gorgeous fall day again, blue blue morning skies, green green grass and the trees are all kinds of beautiful.

This week my mission is to add more exercise into the mix. I was just starting a couch to 5k jogging program (put on hold for the first 2 weeks while I was adjusting and cooking). So I'm ready to start that back up 3 days a week. And I'll add some yoga on the other days. And it's fall project time around the house, so plenty of house paint scraping to be done and yardwork.

Happy October 1st everyone!

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on

the feelings, as now in October."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Good luck on the C25K, the wife just finished hers and ran her first 5K this weekend. She really enjoyed it and did really well. I like the thought of others training and eating this way, its good to know that it can be done. Way to go.

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Good luck on the C25K, the wife just finished hers and ran her first 5K this weekend. She really enjoyed it and did really well. I like the thought of others training and eating this way, its good to know that it can be done. Way to go.

Thanks, good to know these programs work! And awesome about your wife's first 5K. It really does help knowing that there are so many people out there doing this and it's working, makes it easier to stick with it!

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Lunch yesterday was leftovers at home: roast chicken and heaping serving of ratatouille (squash, zucchini, eggplant, peppers, onions, tomatos). If you like cooking, I highly recommend leafing through the Julia Child's cookbook. A lot of the recipes are really simple to adapt to Whole30 as the meat and veg selections are basic ingredients: meat, veggies, butter. You may have to take out wine from some recipes, but in general she uses butter and I've just swapped that out for ghee.

Felt great to go for a jog last night after a few weeks of taking it easy.

Dinner was a surprise restaurant outing while grabbing some supplies with my guy. I had steak fajita with lettuce and pico de gallo. It was a little salty, but nice to sit there and talk without worrying about anything (next to be cooked, clean up etc). And while he's not doing a Whole30, he is eating Paleo for the most part. He actually pushed the sour cream off his entree and ended up scraping the burrito filling out of the shell (with no prompting from me). Just said the "diet" must be working, "because I don't even want this crap".

I'm glad!

Up too late again last night, have to work on that this evening.

Breakfast this morning was an experiment. We were just about out of everything at home and I didn't hit the grocery store last night because today is our Veggie/Fruit Box delivery day, along with our 3 dozen eggs. That's a lot of eggs. We were just getting 1 dozen when we first started with this deliver service. They are from happy chickens who get to peck out in the open sunshine to their hearts content (my sister really has gotten into the animal welfare and is my go to researcher on these matters).

So, breakfast. Last night I grabbed a can of pumpkin and added 1/2 a can of coconut milk as well as cinnamon and nutmget, little bit of ginger. Scrambled our last 4 eggs on the side. The pumpkin is quite tasty this way.

Day 14 off to a great start.

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Lunch was a little rushed, getting the grass fed beef roast into the crock pot with veggies (loads of carrots, onion, garlic cloves, cherry tomatoes). Grabbed some more roast chicken (I think I'm chickened out after 3 days of chicken) with guacamole and lime juice over it; had to eat that pretty fast. Grabbed a little more pumpkin from this morning and added toasted almonds for back at work to make sure I ate enough.

I feel good today. I'm tired but I feel like, I just feel tall (like after you've just gotten a good massage and you just feel taller with all the kinks worked out) and just good. Okay, I feel skinny too (skinny being relative for me). I was trying to avoid typing that, but it's how I feel. I noticed yesterday during my jog that I've definitely lost some fat around the waistline.

And interestingly, this pain in my left foot I've had for a while (pretty sure it was a neuroma), it's been gone for at least a week.

I'm going to buy a copy of ISWF to give to my GI specialist. I have a plan to get off my immune suppressors within 6 months and I'd like her to be on board. Plus, I want everybody to read it. Cause I feel great and I want everybody to feel great. That is all ^_^

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HALF WAY MARK B)

I'm tired today. Breakfast was so so, but I hate to complain because it was cooked for me. I was eating and thought "They (somewhere in ISWF or on the blog) said I'm an adult and don't have to eat things I don't want to" (like I need to be told that, but that's what went through my head). So, I didn't finish it. But that meant I was a little hungry well before lunch. 2 fried eggs in ghee (very tasty), sweet potato hash. I am just not down with the sweet potatos. But I love squash. Huh.

Lunch was leftovers at home, a little bleh: beef roast with carrots, onion, tomato and some spicy mustard kale on the side. I brought back 1/2 an apple with hazelnut butter because there wasn't any fat to that beef.

Amazing how timely the emails are for this, talks about changing things up this week. I need some change. I'm thinking of jambalaya with shrimp and andouille sausage if I can find some compliant. And red curry pork loin on bed of onions.

And it's gray outside here today, and sort of muggy. Not really cool and not really warm. I would like to be home instead of at work. I slept a good 9 hours last night, but I could nap.

Plan to improve my day: meditate on my afternoon work break. Get home, make some chicken soup to start simmering for tomorrow and use up leftover veggies. Maybe hit the specialty market to check out their olive bar and grab some pancetta or other bacon like product. Except I also need to clean my house. And make food for the weekend because we're going to visit friends out of state on Saturday and Sunday. Overwhelmed and apparently having a pity party right now. :unsure:

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Congrats on the 1/2 way mark! Can't feel down about that. And you have more great food ideas. You guys really cook alot. I do most of it on Sunday, freeze 1/2 and just work it out during the week. As a result my options are far fewer. Anyhow great day for you!

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Thank you. It was a pity party and I'm

better now.

Dinner was pork loin chop cooked in coconut oil, roasted cauliflower, and summer squash with orange pepper in the leftover coconut oil.

Got a little frustrated at store tonight, trying to find some stuff for a get together tomorrow night. There is sugar in everything! Did find macadamia nuts, those are tasty!

Cup of cardamom tea with coconut milk. Bed time soon

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Maybe I just needed more sleep, which my husband thinks is hi-larious, since I'm averaging 9 hours a night lately. But I went to bed last night at 10 (before the debates ended, a sign of real commitment) and didn't get up til close to 8 this morning. But I feel good, so that's apparently what I needed.

I knew sleep is a huge part of the puzzle, because at one point when I was not working ("disabled") because of my Crohns Disease I was sleeping on my own natural schedule for the most part. And even though I was technically pretty sick, I also felt better a lot of the time than I have since being back to work. Because I slept as I needed. It was a priority then (so I could get better), like I'm making it again (so I can be better).

Breakfast this morning: eggs with kale, onion and tomato with a slice of prosciutto (our 1 sugar free meat find last night). Coffee. And some fresh raspberries and blackberries with coconut butter.

Today is supposed to hit 75 here in Michigan, with the trees wearing their fall colors, that makes for a pretty amazing setting. The makings of a great day.

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Got my jog in just now. Pretty fall evening. Time to make dinner, might be scrambled eggs. And dates wrapped in pancetta. Didnt end up having company tonight, bummer.

Lunch was tasty. Pork loin chop in coconut oil with pea pods, orange pepper and onions. Late afternoon snack of 1/2 an apple and macadamia nuts.

Have to figure out some travel food. Heading out super early Saturday morning to visit friends in Cleveland for an overnight. Dinner should be fine, we're going out so I'm looking forward to steak and a salad. But want to be prepared for lunch Saturday and breakfast Sunday, as well as lunch on the road home.

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Good morning.

Yesterday, I ate too much. It was a bottomless pit sort of day. I felt genuinely hungry all day, and I'm not really sure why. Dinner did end up being scrambled eggs. Then, because we had bought some food for expected company, we went ahead and tried figs wrapped in prosciutto. I ate 2, good but I think bacon would be better than prosciutto. Had some fancy olives and the last 6 raspberries and some macadamia nuts. I felt too full. Haven't felt that way since starting this, have avoided any snacking at night and won't be doing that again.

Little bit of a belly ache this morning to remind me not to do that. I've only eaten half my breakfast, need to finish that up. 3 scrambled eggs with spinach, tomato and peppers. Coffee with coconut cream. I'll go for a walk on break and then hopefully feel hungry to finish my breakfast.

Friday Jazz Hands.

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Lunch: mashed avocado with lime juice and garlic salt, added green onion and tomato, little slice of bacon found in the freezer; ate with couple cups of greens.

Dinner: heading out for a girlfriend's birthday. We have a local place that does only organic local foods and focuses on high quality meats from local growers. They do a lot with grains, beans and dairy: but everything is made to order. I'm thinking of their "Ballin A$# Tacos" minus the shell and cheese, over bed of greens. Super tasty with pieces of fresh lime, cilantro and they make their own chorizo. Oh, and fresh mole verde. Then shopping fun:)

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