befabdaily Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I have been feeling for a while that I need to start a new Whole30. That feeling peaked today with paleo pancakes for breakfast, a chocolate bar, AND wine. All in the same day. Mercy. I had an excuse. I was off roading a little bit, including gluten foods, because I was waiting to get my 23 and Me genetic test results back. If I had the celiac disease marker I was going to get antibody tests and perhaps even endoscopy just to be sure. But I don't have the marker -- I'm just one of the many who feels better not eating wheat and there's no special reason to assume I have celiac. And so there's no excuse to be un-clean. So here I go. 30 days, no excuses. Genetic tests are interesting. I do have a very elevated risk for rheumatoid arthritis. That sounds like the kind of thing that would best be staved off with a very anti-inflammatory diet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 OK, here goes. Middlea-aged Lady WOD: T-Tapp BWO+, 3x9 supported squats, 3x9 standing calf raises, 2 20 minute cross-campus speed-walks with hills and stairs. Breakfast: 3 eggs, avocado, 2 kiwis Lunch: Caldo de albondigas, sauerkraut Dinner: Slow cooked pork, a huge pile of braised brussels sprouts. Was still hungry and went back for a sweet potato with some coconut milk on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krista Billows Rodriguez Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I have been feeling for a while that I need to start a new Whole30. That feeling peaked today with paleo pancakes for breakfast, a chocolate bar, AND wine. All in the same day. Mercy. At least it wasn't in the same meal Good luck on your new 30! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Yesterday I faced down free chocolate covered strawberries at a meeting on campus, and survived. Day 2 middle-aged lady WOD: T-Tapp BWO+, 3x9 flat bent leg raises, 3x9 incline pushups, foam rolling, taught a 1:15 belly dance class Breakfast: 3 eggs, sauteed mini greens, blackberries, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: caldo de albondigas, small avocado Pre dance class snack: slow cooked pork Dinner (will be): cioppino, salad with homemade dressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Day 3 Breakfast: 3 eggs, sauteed mini greens and tomatoes, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: caldo de albondigas, avocado Snack: salad -- I ate in a cafe with a prospective student I was hosting. May have had some sugar in this salad Dinner: lemon rosemary chicken, mushrooms, a grapefruit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbournegirl Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Welcome back..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Day 4: I am having a "hollow day" today -- I feel like I could eat the world! Or, it's after dinner and rightnow I want either cheese or alcohol or something sweet. But: not gonna. OK honestly if I had a steak in the fridge I could do some rare pan-friend steak and that would be just as good. Or liver. Mmm, liver. Hmm...maybe I just need to EAT MOAR!!! Breakfast: 3 eggs, sauteed baby greens and tomatoes, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: lemon rosemary chicken (about 2 palms), sweet potato, small avocado, small pear Snack: handful of cashews, handful of freeze dried strawberries (ingredients: strawberries) Dinner: Large bowl of (wine-free) cioppino Also I've discovered that I no longer like mushrooms. Can't choke 'em down. No idea why. So my mushroom purchase last week is $6 wasted unless I figure out how to hide them. Maybe pureed in a soup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krista Billows Rodriguez Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Johnny posted a meatloaf recipe that uses mushrooms chopped in a food processor, my son-who is a card carrying mushroom hater-couldn't taste them and begged me to make the meatloaf again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Ooh, shroomloaf. Or shroom meatballs. I could probably handle that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbournegirl Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I felt like a bottomless pit on day 4 too, hope day 5 is better for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 I'm a freaking hobbit is what. Despite my increase in drinking and chocolate eating and what have you, I did not expect this much of an adjustment upon return to the Whole30. Today: Middle aged lady WOD: T-Tapp BWO+ Breakfast: 3 eggs scrambled with plums, coffee with coconut milk 2nd breakfast: the steak and egg secret menu bowl at Panera (had to take a seminar speaker to breakfast and realized that I could not wait for this to be first breakfast) Lunch: Caldo de albondigas, sweet potato Snack: pear, small handful of cashews, bacon (don't even ASK how this happened) Dinner: A very large lamb chop, avocado, sauerkraut How can one person even eat that much? And I still have a strange, slightly hungry feeling around the edges. I am going to go drink a cup of tea with a bit of gelatin and natural calm mixed in (sleep bomb cocktail) and see if I molt and turn into a swan overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbournegirl Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Now true hobbits would have had elevenses before lunch.. That slightly hungry feeling sounds like caffeine/ chocolate detoxing to me... I get that anyway... Maybe a butterfly??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 Middle-aged-lady WOD: Zumba Breakfast: 3 eggs, 2 plums, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: lamb shoulder chop, seriously about half a pound of brussels sprouts, apple Dinner: sauerkraut, mushroom meatballs, sweet potato with a few walnuts and coconut milk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 18, 2013 Author Share Posted March 18, 2013 Day 7 (already!) Middle-aged-lady WOD: A walk in the sunshine; T-Tapp BWO+, 3x9 bodyweight supported squats Breakfast: 3 eggs, large green salad with pears, sauerkraut, walnuts, and balsamic vinaigrette, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: cioppino Dinner: mushroom meatballs, braised brussels sprouts, blackberries I notice that, although I was still eating something like 90% clean before I started this W30, my sinuses have really opened back up to that nice clean totally non-sticky W30 feeling. At the end of this one, I want to do a really careful reintro of cheese for a couple of weeks, while remaining free of everything else, just to see if the little bits of crumbled cheese I was adding to my salads over the last few weeks are actually responsible for any part of my congestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 18, 2013 Author Share Posted March 18, 2013 Day 8: Middle-aged lady WOD: T-Tapp BWO+, 3x9 incline push-ups, 3x9 short bridges, 3x9 standing calf raises, foam rolling Breakfast: 3 eggs, small avocado, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: rosemary lemon chicken, sweet potato, cherry tomatoes Dinner: lamb chop, sauteed greens, apple I managed to make it through a day with only one piece of fruit (unless you count tomatoes as a fruit) and I didn't really miss it. I have found it easy this time to stay away from nut-snacking and fruit-snacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLC1968 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Hey - I started on 3/11 too after a bunch of off-roading since my last Whole30 in late Dec/Jan. Oddly enough, I'm finding the transition back to Whole30 a LOT easier this time...so far, anyway. Do you have a recipe for your cioppino that you would be willing to share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 19, 2013 Author Share Posted March 19, 2013 Day 9 -- already! Middle-aged lady WOD: T-Tapp BWO+, 1.5 mile walk in the sunshine Breakfast: 3 eggs, greens with rosemary-infused avocado oil mayo, avocado, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: meatballs with more of the addictive mayo, sweet potato, sauerkraut Dinner: lamb chop, braised brussels sprouts with a few walnuts, apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Day 10 -- Middle-aged lady WOD: 1 hr Zumba class Breakfast: 3 eggs, greens with mayo, avocado, coffee with coconut milk Lunch: Mushroom meatballs, sweet potato, brussels sprouts with walnuts Pre-Zumba snack: 1/2 cup blackberries, small piece of chicken, mini-Larabar Dinner: corned beef, large salad with homemade dressing, fruits and nuts Larabars are gross, I am so over them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 22, 2013 Author Share Posted March 22, 2013 Whoops. Gonna have to start over again. Or at least extend by 11 days. Today, all of the women in my department were getting together for our monthly social lunch. At a local Indian restaurant with really yummy food. I considered my options and decided to enjoy some Indian lunch. On the plus side: I did in fact not eat any wheat and only a tiny smidge of sugar (a half piece of a coconut-based sweet). My belly feels fine. I can pick right back up again tomorrow. And before that I had 11 good days of Whole30-style eating. On the minus side: Since I was already off the rails, I ate up some blue potatoes I had around the house, with dinner, instead of a sweet potato, because I was worried they'd go to waste before I next had a chance to eat them. And then I had some wine -- see: already off the rails. Anyway, right back in the saddle tomorrow. For the next 16 days I have nothing that threatens my Whole30 equanimity. I'm going to stay clean for at least that 16 days, longer if I can get some good food options worked out for the meeting trip I have coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 Day 12: Back on it like nothing happened. Rice, beans and small bits of dairy, in the context of "real food" don't really seem to give me problems. No cravings set off or anything. WOD: Zumba. Breakfast: 3 eggs with plums; 1/2 avocado Lunch: corned beef, brussels sprouts, an apple Dinner: scrambled eggs with duxelles seasoning, carrots with homemade mayo, sauerkraut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befabdaily Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 Day 13 Breakfast: 3 eggs with plums Lunch: chicken livers, salad with homemade mayo dressing, sauerkraut, nuts and a few dried cherries; blackberries Dinner: roasted chicken, tomato vegetable soup, apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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