teatime Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Hi! I am a full-time student taking on the Whole30. A little background: I used to not care much about what I ate, and I was a dancer, so I was very thin. By the time I got to college though, I became a full-blown anorexic, and that led to a cycle of starving, binging and purging. I struggled with this for about two years until I finally admitted that I needed help, otherwise my obsession with food and my body would continue to seriously deteriorate my health. So I received treatment and no longer have disordered eating habits (5 months and counting!). The problem with eating disorders, however, is the fact that they are always there in your mind. Since food is (obviously) everywhere, it seems so easy to revert back into a vicious, unhealthy, and ultimately dangerous cycle. With the Whole30, I want to stop being so constantly afraid of this reversion, and to feel in control of my eating habits in a healthier, happier way! I'm so happy to see that this forum exists, so I plan to use it to track what I eat daily to ensure some accountability for myself. So here is what I have eaten so far today: breakfast: an egg white omelet with spinach, tomato, onions, mushroom mid-morning: a medium sized apple lunch: a huge salad with mixed greens, baby spinach, beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, chicken breast between lunch and dinner: an apple, orange, a handful of baby carrots, a serving of almonds Haven't had dinner yet, but I figure I have more time now to write all of this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Tom Denham Posted January 8, 2013 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2013 I think you need a lot more fat in your diet. A lot of the good in an egg is in the yolk, so start with eating whole eggs and not just the whites. And at lunch, try some dark meat and don't just eat chicken breasts. I understand that our culture has told you your entire life that fat is bad and dangerous to your health, but fat is actually very important to our health. Your snack between lunch and dinner is substantial. I would recommend turning it into a real meal with a serving of protein and veggies. Eating 4 or 5 meals a day is completely appropriate if that is what you need to keep from being hungry. It can take months to get used to eating just 3 meals per day and you should not suffer hunger on the journey to get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORBren Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Hi teatime - I hope you feel stronger and very nourished by the food you eat. You deserve to enjoy meals and not have worry constantly on your mind. Your body was made to burn that fat you eat as fuel for energy so give it plenty of fuel, and trust that this is a healthy way to eat and live! Be brave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slync Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Good luck! Looking forward to hearing how your Whole30 goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Thank you all so much! I am so used to having egg white omelets and eating chicken breast... I will definitely be on the hunt for red meat and start having a full egg omelet. Last night, I had a chicken breast (with skin!) and a heap of mixed greens and the side. I also had another apple an hour before bed. I agree that my meals are not filling enough, so I will work on making them bigger and better today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Day 2 so far: for breakfast I had a full egg omelet this time, with all of yesterday's fixings. It has been my first since ages, and I filled right up! That and a half cup of pineapple and melon chunks sustained me until lunch, which was my typical huge mixed greens salad like yesterday. I just had an apple to tide me over until dinner later, which will be involving some red meat tonight. Overall my second day has been great-- I'm feeling pretty energized and happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 10, 2013 Author Share Posted January 10, 2013 Dinner day 2: a heap of ground beef, mixed greens, and some turkey minestrone soup! I plan to drink some tea and hopefully get 8 hours of sleep tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORBren Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Red meat.... YEAH teatime! Have you tried the coconut milk or coconut oil yet? Soo yummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 Red meat.... YEAH teatime! Have you tried the coconut milk or coconut oil yet? Soo yummy. I've tried coconut milk, which I really love! I need to stock up on that. I haven't tried coconut oil before though, but I will definitely try it when I get a chance. Living at university makes it difficult to branch out with meals a lot of the time... I feel like the food I eat is very boring and routine! So today I've managed to only have full meals with no snacks in between-- I can't remember the last time I did that! I didn't have any stomach issues today, which is a wonderful relief. I do have a bit of a struggle with IBS though, and I'm wondering if the Whole30 can help with that. Here is what I had today (day 3): Breakfast: full egg omelet with spinach, tomato, mushrooms, ground beef Lunch: chicken salad with arugula, spinach, beets, mushrooms, celery... (my salads are always HUGE); 1 clementine Dinner: salmon (~size of a TV remote control) with sauteed bok choy, side salad with spinach, sunflower seeds, cucumbers and tomatoes I'm also drinking a lot of rooibos tea and water. Yesterday I turned down donuts that were being passed around, and today I didn't even care (okay, I did feel a bit of longing) for these yummy looking cranberry chocolate chip cookies presented in front of me. Feeling great, and loving this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 Today was weird, because I felt hungry all day! What I ate: Breakfast: the typical omelet with spinach, mushrooms, tomato, onions, beef mid-morning: small handful of almonds and carrots Lunch: typical salad with chicken, spinach, greens, beets, cucumber, celery, pine nuts... at 5pm: half an orange, 1/2 cup coconut milk, handful of almonds, 1/4 cup berries at 8pm: naruto roll with thinly sliced cucumber, salmon and avocado, a few more carrots I know, I need to have more solid meals. With my schedule it's been difficult... hopefully tomorrow is better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORBren Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Good job!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 Day 5: Breakfast: 1.5 slices of bacon, slice of veggie frittata, 1/4 cup of beets and shredded carrots; half bottle of green kombucha Lunch: half of a huge spinach salad with steak tips, bacon, walnuts Dinner: salad with mixed greens, beets, boiled egg I'm feeling very tired and somewhat fatigued and dizzy at the moment. Plus my stomach feels unsettled. Could it be the steak (this is the first time I've eaten it in a long time) that's causing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORBren Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Kombucha is so great for all GI issues - glad to see you have some... hope you feel better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleena Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 For the first week I was going through bouts of stomach upset. For me anyway, I think it's eating much more than I'm used to in one sitting and the extra fat. If you're anything like me it will pass and you'll feel pretty awesome soon. Hang in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Yesterday and today have been the hardest so far. Not only was I not feeling too great, but there were so, so many tempting foods around me!! Decadent cream cheese cupcakes, cake pops, pita chips and hummus, cake and cookies, etc etc, all of which I would have sampled if it weren't for the Whole30. So admittedly, I've been compensating a little bit with fruit... Day 6: Breakfast: 1 cup of fruit (pinapple, melon, orange chunks; grapes) 2 slices bacon, slice of veggie frittata, 2 beets, shredded carrots and onions Lunch: half of a huge spinach salad with steak tips, bacon, walnuts; 1/2 serving raw almonds, 1/2 cup almond milk 1/2 bottle green kombucha 2 apples, 1 small banana Dinner: radish roll of salmon sashimi and avocado, seaweed almonds, almond milk, baby carrots Day 7: Breakfast: omelet, beef patty Lunch: HUGE salad with chicken breast 2 apples Dinner: same huge salad with chicken breast 1 apple, 1 orange, handful of nuts, almond milk My goal moving forward is to stop snacking!!! And yay for finishing the first week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Tom Denham Posted January 15, 2013 Moderators Share Posted January 15, 2013 Your meals are looking good generally. I am concerned about the almond milk. The stuff they sell in grocery stores has unhealthy preservatives that make it a bad choice to drink ever, let alone during a Whole30. About the only way I know to get healthy almond milk is to make it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Your meals are looking good generally. I am concerned about the almond milk. The stuff they sell in grocery stores has unhealthy preservatives that make it a bad choice to drink ever, let alone during a Whole30. About the only way I know to get healthy almond milk is to make it yourself. Ahh I thought the ingredients looked okay, but I guess no store-bought almond milk for me anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Canandaigua Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Your meals look better rounded out than mine do!!! Good Luck & hang in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 So someone offered me bacon dark chocolate today. Who knew such a beautiful thing was in existence!! It took me so much willpower to resist a taste. Breakfast: veggie omelet, beef, apple Banana, handful of blackberries Lunch: salad with chicken and sweet potatoes, apple Orange, serving of almonds Dinner: 1 cup of tomato mushroom spinach soup, banana Apple, cup of baby carrots Day 8 done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 So I've had a few good days, but then a bad one: Day 9 Breakfast: veggie omelet with beef 1 cup of cantaloupe, pineapple, melon 1 apple Lunch: cup of onion soup, small salad 1.5 cup melon, berries Apple, banana Dinner: chicken breast, greens, sweet potato and steamed veggies Day 10 Breakfast: veggie omelet, beef peanut butter and banana Lunch: salad, some sauteed vegetables, steamed broccoli apple, 1/2 clementine Dinner: small piece of lamb, vegetables 3 clementines, bowl of strawberries Day 11 Breakfast: egg white omelet with beef 2 tbsp peanut butter, 2 bananas 1 apples 4 clementines Dinner: large salad! (this seems like very little food, but for some reason I was just not very hungry as per usual...!) Day 12 This is where things started to go bad. I had a good day and went out to eat for dinner. I had a delicious kale salad, but it turns out there was cheese in it! I found out after asking the waiter. So I felt incredibly guilty and emotions and behaviors of my eating disorder ensued... A very bad night and day followed. Which brings me to today. I am resetting and going to dig deeper at the roots of my disordered eating, feelings of control, etc., while staying optimistic. I know that I can break free of it, but it might take a while and I need to build the right support structures. Look for a Day 1 post tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derval Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Good luck this time round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORBren Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Reset.. Day 1. You can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teatime Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Here we go again! Day 1: breakfast: scrambled eggs with veggies; small bowl of melon, pineapple, honey dew chunks lunch: plum organics broccoli peas and pear pouch, 1 pear, 1 clementine 1 clementine, 1/6 pommelo, a few swigs of kombucha (multigreen) dinner: salad with sunflower seeds, 1 hardboiled egg, greens, beets, celery, etc; 3 apples As you can see, still trying to get back into the hang of things. Feeling some stomach discomfort, but that's just from all the eating over the weekend. So happy to be back on the Whole30! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORBren Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Hey teatime, How is it going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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