Whole 30 day 32

 7:29 PM Oh my goodness it has been a rough week! Seriously, this is one of those weeks I would normally be downing skittles, peanut m&ms, and diet coke! Today I even thought a diet coke would be nice! No worries, it was a fleeting thought.

This morning I struggled to get out of bed. It was near 2am when I quit studying, that I actually went to bed. I plan on a very early bed time tonight! This morning I had my breakfast in te car! A slip!  It will not happen tomorrow. My breakfast was 2 scrambled eggs with bell pepper and tomatoes. Black coffee. I had a lot of coffee today.

Lunch was a leftover chicken leg and thigh with compliant cole slaw. I normally eat at my desk, I plan to stop that. Must enhance that down time!

Dinner was fun! Idecided to try to make potato puffs (sweet and white) on the grill. I only ate the sweet potatoes. They were awesome!!! I just cut the potatoes into wedges and covered them in olive oil and salt. Surprisingly they cooked fairly fast! I also grilled some pork. We ate on our table on our back porch. I love that the weather has been so accommodating for so long this spring! 

Today was my last final/class for this semester. I still have about 54 hours until I graduate. It seems like forever! I am shooting to graduate in May of 2017. I have 24 days until summer school. I hope those days go be real slow.

Previous to Whole30 when I would get home from work I would think I was ravenous and be in a panic to eat. Today as I was working at an easy pace on dinner, I realized that even after a ridiculously intense day, I was calm and totally in control! Thank you whole30! My life is changing little by little and all for the better. 

Hey! Don't forget your momma this Sunday!

Have a great evening.

Whole30 day 31 - before and afters

12:53 PM I lost 17.4 pounds and 9.5 inches! I feel amazing physically and mentally! To say I am happy I have done this and found this is an understatement. My official before and after pictures in my seahawks shirt aren't very good. I honestly wasn't very hopeful that I would experience the success that I have so I didn't really care about what I wore in my before pics because I didn't expect to have after pics. 

Fortunately my husband likes to take pics and he had a before pic and had me posed for an after pic a little over a week ago. I think you can see my progress much better in this one.

Again - I am thrilled and I am sticking to it for another 30 days. After this next 30 days the book talks about reintroduction of the things we have eliminated. Ultimately a form of this way of eating will be my norm. Again, I feel way way to good to think I should go back.

9:31 PM Today I got to have lunch with my middle daughter and my grandson (that belongs to my oldest daughter). We ate at a Mexican restaurant I don't usually eat at and they did not have my trusty pollo loco. So I scoured the menu, found something and tweaked it to be very similar to pollo loco but WAY better! 

Tonight was potluck at church. I love Saurkraut! But be advised you should not take a Saurkraut to potluck. Apparently not many people like it! Lol! More for me!! I also so packed some avocado, veggies and a small leftover hamburger. I ended up needing the avocado and veggies. So all went well. 

I am kinda sad my 30 days are over. Even though I have committed to another 30 it's not the same.  But it's also been a very intense past couple of days. My mind hurts! My pizzazz level might be a little low due to that.  One more final tomorrow - will be up quite a while tonight preparing for it. After I get that done I think I will loosen up quite a bit!

So let's just keep on keeping on!! 

Sleep well friends!

Welcome to Whole30 Day 30!

7:52 PM Well folks I made it! Tomorrow morning I will weigh in and hopefully measure. It has been way easier than I thought it would be and volumes more rewarding than I thought it would be!  Yes, I am going for 30 more days. Partly because I don't think my new habits are solidified yet and partly because I think my body needs more time to complete the reset. I am happy to keep going!

I was up and out of bed by 6:10 this morning. I was sitting down to eat at 7:10. I am really trying to eat within the first hour of waking up. I had two eggs scrambled with pico and a half of an avocado and don't forget that black coffee. I am also trying to have 4 or less cups of coffee in the morning too.  

Stressful morning of training/meeting.  At lunch time I went for a very brisk walk for 23 minutes. Then sat down to eat two thick slices of turkey deli stuffed with greens, pico and avocado.

A bowl of chocolate was brought into the meeting and I had no trouble resisting. 

I grilled chicken thighs and legs tonight. I was thrilled initially that I could have the skin too. Not so much now, it's kinda gross.   So I had 2 thighs and a leg. I made cabbage, carrot, avocado cole slaw with my homemade mayonnaise. I took my plate out to the table in the back porch and are. No phone, no TV. Hubs came out and talked to me. He and my little miss ate dinner out while I was taking a final.

 Tomorrow is potluck at church. I am ready!!

That's all for today beautiful friends!!

Whole30 - Day 29 - Smooth sailing!

8:43 AM Only 2 more days folks! Until I can weigh anyway.  I am so excited.

I got up this morning at 5:58 - Yes, out of bed before 6:00 and it was pretty darn easy! I got up early for a couple of reasons.  1) It's housekeeper day.  My house was not as picked up as I wanted it to be.  I think we have discussed this before.  I like for her to be able to clean as deeply as possible so I clean up the surface stuff.  2) I was cooking for my husband as well this morning since he is on Whole30! I can't even tell you how happy this made me!  On so many levels!  Having hubby on it now has made it a little more challenging.  He seriously will only eat 4 vegetables.  Green beans, carrots, onions, and bell peppers, oh and he will eat lettuce.  But hopefully I will easily work around it.  I want to help him be successful too.

I am almost through with my second reading of It Starts with Food and then I am on to the new Whole30 book.  I am looking forward to new recipes!

Oh, I didn't tell you what I made for breakfast!  Steak strips and sliced onions cooked in a skillet with olive oil.  I added pico to mine,  Hubby just had the steak and onions.  He is not a big breakfast eater so it was hard for him to eat.

Okay that's all for this morning.

9:45 PM. Bad news. Hubby didn't make it through day 1. Sadness. He made it until he got home. He had a bad day. He are cereal and a hot dog. I would have never said he was one to emotionally eat. Now I wonder if we all. Don't emotionally eat to some extent. 

More bad news. The chicken I put in the frig to thaw was still too frozen to cook when I got home. So what to fix everyone to eat? Brandy wanted her leftover chicken tenders salad, so she is taken care of. Bobby had his cereal and hot dog. He is good. Okay then!! I know I have 2 leftover grilled chicken thighs and I found leftover broccoli and summer squash in the frig. No worries!!! And there is some good news, now I don't have to remember to lay anything out for dinner tomorrow! Ha!!

Let me jump backwards - lunch was a leftover burger, grilled zucchini and onions from last night. We had cake and ice cream at work today for our graduating student workers. I had not problems resisting.

I did my mile tonight. Jogged quite a bit of it. Feeling pretty proud. 

I can't believe tomorrow is day 30. I am so serious when I say it does not feel like it has been 30 days.

On a really serious super honest note. I am sad hubby didn't make it through the day. I kinda feel bad that I have been successful. I am let down that I won't have the experience of doing this with him. Plus when he is down about his day/work it worries me a great deal and upsets me. I want to get in his head and tweak how he is seeing things, change his perspective, and get his focus on God and not the circumstances. It's hard not to get down with him. It's hard to not get scared. But..I know my God is bigger than Hubby's situation. I know God is faithful to complete His good work and I believe He has started a very good, very important thing with this job - and I know He isn't through. My faith has to be big and bold, my words and actions kind and encouraging. I pray my evident faith will lift his.

Deep breath. God is good ya'all. He has proven it to me personally time and time again. What he does for me he will do for any one of his children. 

Whew - you got a little bonus tonight, didn't ya? 

Have a great evening. Count your blessing. And I will talk to you on Day 30!!

Day 28 - Whole30 - I am so close!

10:35PM great day today! Normally we try to nap on Sunday. I laid down and got to read about 30 minutes but our phones were just going nuts and then somebody wanted to come over...so no nap and ....I survived!!! With no problem! Amazing!

So let me tell you about the rest of my day.  Up at 6:30 ish. I do try to sleep in just a bit on Sunday because it's the only day I have a decent shot at it...but it's stupid because I need to be to church by 7:45. An hour is not enough time to get ready and eat breakfast. I grabbed 2 slices of turkey, some pico and headed out the door. I thought I was on computers today, but a change put me on stage, so instead of eating during worship practice I needed to wait until practice was over. But once it was over we were having computer problems so I helped with that. At about 9:45 i could have eaten my breakfast but I didn't think it a good idea since I would be singing in 15 minutes. Bottom line - I did not eat breakfast today! Do not try this!! 

We went to lunch after church and I had a little steak and a double order of green beans. Yum!

Home, tried the nap, phones kept us from the nap. So I get up, clean a little, make the menu for this week, and go to the store. My grocery bill was $150...but keep in mind I fed 10 people tonight and I stocked up on meat because I want to make sure we have enough this week. That will make more sense when you read about my husband later in the post. Had 6 family members over for dinner. Whew! I had a lettuce wrapped burger with onion, pickle, tomato and my homemade mayo along with grilled zucchini and grilled onions. Yum! 

A couple of days ago my husband ask me to let home see how much I have lost. I refused. The next day my sister in law basically asked the same thing, so of course I weighed for her but I did not look and made her swear she would not tell me. Then I felt bad so I weighed for my hubby. Today he tells me he would like to try this whole30! What???? He has never ever done any kind of healthy anything with me before!! I am shocked! I am so excited! He is starting tomorrow! My 30th day is Tuesday but I have decided I am going 30 more days! I am ready and my husband is too! I wonder...who else will give this whole 30 a try??? I will post my weight and hopefully measurements and before and after pics on Wednesday!  So so close!

Day 27 - whole30 - cakes frosting and parties, oh my!

8:45 PM it's been a fantastic day but I  very happy it is winding down. 

I was up at about 7:30 this morning. I got ready and fixed an egg for brandy and 2 eggs with bell peppers and mushrooms for myself. I used ghee as my fat. Black coffee today. The past two days I have unintentionally only had a cup to a cup and a half of coffee. That's pretty odd for me. I didn't notice any side affects though - good or bad.  

I started in on the cakes as soon as my breakfast was in my tummy. I finished them both by 11:30. I didn't expect to be done until 1:00. So yeah for me. I seriously went and laid in the sunshine in a lawn chair for about 20 minutes. Lunch for me was leftover shredded chicken, avocado and a nice portion of pico de gallo- home made of course! Then off to take care of some errands - one of which was to buy some shorts or capris. Shopping is not my favorite thing to do. But today I was happy. I went in wearing my quite baggy size 22 capris and walked out with some size 18 shorts!

We went to my grandsons second birthday party! My daughter so sweetly made sure I had compliant protein, veggies, compliant salsa, and avocados! So my walk through the wonderful taco bar was easy peasy! When we cut the cake I did think a small piece would be nice but just because I like cake, especially when I made it! Not because I was craving it. So I seriously was fine without it. 

I got in a mile (mile a day may) when I got home. Brandy kept me company and that's always awesome! Now, well now I  am tired and ready for bed!

Good night you fine people!

Until tomorrow!

Day 26 - Whole30 - Its's cake making time!

9:25 PM  Well it's been a day! My day started a bit before 4 AM and it was certainly not due to my body wanting to wake up due to Whole30 awesomeness.  My 7 year old woke me, coughing and as pitiful as can be.  For the next 2 hours we fought to get the cough under control.  I am not kidding, she could not go 30 second without coughing.  Cough medicine is always a last resort in our house, we resorted to cough syrup.  She finally slept.  I thought for sure she would be out for at least 3 hours.  About an hour later I was up fixing breakfast.  Cereal for Brandy and scrambled eggs with onions and bell peppers cooked in them along with my coffee.  I had a few errands to run so I thought we should get them done quickly this morning because surely she would need to take an incredible nap and I was planning to join her.  So errands are done and we get home in time to have some lunch.  We have some leftover pizza from the best pizza place in the world, it sure sounds good, so Brandy gets a couple of pieces.  I warm up a leftover salmon patty and had it with some col4:00eslaw.   As soon as she laid down the coughing came back with a vengeance.  No nap with either of us get any sleep and let me just say I am tired!  The folks are coming over for dinner, so I started that at about 4:00. The hubby had a special dinner request this morning.  Of course I agreed, he has been so good and supportive.  This is the first time I have fixed 2 separate main courses.  I made it through, I had grilled chicken thighs and grilled asparagus.  To top it all off I have a wedding cake to prepare for a wedding tomorrow and a cake for my grandsons second birthday.  Not only am I tired but I have never made a cake that I didn't taste the batter and/or the baked cake along with the frosting.  I have baked 6 cakes and have not had one taste at all! I just have the frosting to get through now.  So, seriously, its been a day.

I did get in a mile tonight - I committed to a mile a day in May! 

All in all its been a rough day and at the same time it has been a good day.  A unplanned day with my little girl and even though she wasn't feeling the best, I did get blessed by hearing her say, "You are the best mom ever".  I may be tired but I won't get too many more days to take care of her like this.  I already know how fast they grow since I have a 20 year old and a 24 year old. I love my life.  I love that even on a rough day I have had enough energy in the tank to get through.  I thank Whole30 for that. 

This evening I pulled out the vaporizer, gave Brandy cough medicine about 30 minutes before she laid down, and it smells like Vicks.  She has been laying down for about an hour and she has not started coughing yet. Praying for a peaceful night.

It's a short post - but that's ok!

Until tomorrow!

Love ya ~ D. J.