Overeating?

[ShannonN]

I'm on day 3 and feel like I'm eating way, way too much. I haven't been measuring anything and haven't been restricting anything at all. I'm a really small person so I shouldn't need that much. Here's a run down:

 

Day 1

1: eggs fried in coconut oil, sauted spinach and peppers

2: sweet potato, spinach, roasted turkey in broth, 1/4 avocado, veggies

3: 4 Zucchini poppers, salad, salsa

Snack: avacado and carrots,

 

Day 2 

1: one egg fried, sauted spinach, peppers and avacado

2: sweet potato, spinach, roasted turkey in broth, 1/4 avocado, veggies

3: 3: 4 Zucchini/chicken poppers, salad, salsa, sweet potato and veggie hash

SnackS: almond butter (loads) with carrots, guac and veggies

 

Day 3

1: sweet potato hash with peppers and 2 eggs

2; 4 zuccini/chicken poppers with 1/4 avocado, sweet potato hash, apple slices and almond butter (heavy almond butter)

 

I feel like my stomach is getting bigger and I generally feel heavier.

 

 

[SugarcubeOD]

It doesn't look like you're eating too much but you don't list portion sizes so it's really hard to tell.

Eggs when they are your sole source of protein are as many as you can hold in one hand without dropping. How many are you eating..one day I see you listed one... 

What is a zucchini/chicken popper?

Your Day 1 breakfast doesn't have any fat, your day 1 meal 3 doesn't have any fat and when using leafy greens as your veg, you need a bucket ful as they chew down to almost nothing.

 

It's clear that you're not eating enough if you're needing to snack.  It is not recommended to eat 'loads' of almond butter... nuts and their butters are limited... meaning one serving size once a day every other day at most...

 

Your day 3 meal has no vegetables and again probably way too much almond butter.

 

Why not trying to make your meals match the template and see how you do?  I think your composition is way off and you're eating too many nuts and raw veggies which may be making you bloated...

[ShannonN]

Thanks. I HATE the idea of measuring out what I'm eating but maybe I need to. Day 1 breakfast had 2 eggs. The popper is a whole30 recipe of olive oil, grated zuccini and ground chicken. Aren't I getting fat in the coconut oil I use to cook everything? 

 

I can probably hold two eggs in my hand. The almond butter was probably 2 tbl. Is that a lot? Right there is 36 grams of fat. I licked the bowl so...

 

As far as snacks, some were for hunger and some were because I was pouting at the Cinco De Mayo celebration snacks at the office. Wasn't too hard on myself for snacking as I was just starting out. 

 

Day 3 meal 2 had veggies in the hash and forgot I also had raspberries and roasted broccoli. 

[SugarcubeOD]

No, you don't have to measure anything... you can provide feedback by saying 'about two cups of roasted broc'.  We dont' expect (or want you to) measureing down to the 1/8th of a cup.

 

You can only hold two eggs without dropping them? If you added a third egg to that hand, they would all tumble?

 

We don't count grams of fat here... that's not why I said that the almond butter was too much... it's because it doesn't have a healthy omega 3/6 ratio and it can be stomach upsetting and food without brakes for people.  Nothing in there is about how many grams of fat or calories it has and we really want you to stop thinking about food like that.

 

The snacks you eat for hunger should be a mini meal of fat and protein and ideally veggies... and then take the information that you didnt' eat enough at the previous meal and rework your next meal and your next day's meal.  Eating for sport or pouting or boredom does not fit in with the Whole30 mindset so we definitely would rather you distracted yourself in other ways.  You don't need to be hard on yourself and we're not trying to be hard on you either, we just want to bring mindfulness to the way you process eating/food.

 

Fat from cooking is not enough and you do need to be adding fat (not nut butters).  Just figure that if the recipe for the poppers had XX amount of olive oil in a whole batch and you ate a portion of the batch, you're only eating a portion of the fat.  You can't really overdo it on fat, so add mayo, olives, avocado, mayo based dressings, pesto, coconut, coconut milk, lard, ghee etc... to your plate before eating.

[ShannonN]

Got it! Printed out the meal template and excited to use it. Maybe I can hold 3 eggs, I'll give it a try. 

[ShannonM816]

Got it! Printed out the meal template and excited to use it. Maybe I can hold 3 eggs, I'll give it a try. 

 

Check out the pictures on this thread -- unless you have super tiny hands, three eggs shouldn't be a problem. If you don't want that many eggs you can always have some eggs and some other protein.