Whole30 Post Mortem

I went into this with enthusiasm and hope of losing some weight. I also had/have a serious sweet tooth that I wanted to get under control. I do very well when I have rules and limits, so that part of W30 was very appealing for me. As a vegetarian, I wasn't drawn to all the meat that is recommended. After reading some of the W30 forum posts and finding someone who sustained herself on a vegetarian Paleo diet for about two months, I decided "I can do this!" I got myself as prepared as I could- got to meal planning, having the right food in the house, etc.

The Good
I never felt like I wanted to kill all the things and up until the last week, I was feeling great! I'm not sure I ever felt the "tiger blood" but had lots of energy and was sleeping great.
I did have lots of cravings, but now I have kicked my sugar habit, and I'm not craving sweets at all. I had a spoonful of ice cream, but it didn't taste that good and because of the lactose/dairy, didn't make me feel very good either.
I lost weight - 9lbs, about 5% of BW, and am now at my pre-baby weight which was my biggest hope for this experiment.
I ate lots of vegetables and I tried lots of new recipes - including things I probably wouldn't have tried otherwise - like spaghetti squash. So I'll work on Ebon to try to incorporate some things into a more regular rotation.

The Bad and Ugly
At about day 24 or 25 I started feeling sick after every meal. On day 28, 29, and 30, bowel distress was the routine.
I feel like I'm not enjoying food anymore because of the seemingly constant stomach discomfort I have and as a result I think I'm less fun to be around in general. It's only been a few days since I've been totally off W30, so I need to be patient.
I realize I didn't to W30 "right" as a vegetarian, but I didn't think it would be a big deal. I developed an intolerance for both nuts and eggs. I don't know if the way I was eating caused it or if it was something that would have happened eventually and because of the way I was eating, it happened faster. Who knows? This makes me sad because I really love both. Sometimes I wonder if I would have done better, just eliminating sugar and wheat/gluten from my diet.

Overall, I feel like I achieved the things I most wanted to get out of the W30 experiment, but I also had some bad experiences which I hope will change - I need to have some patience.
I won't do a W30 again, but more power to those who do this multiple times.

Whole30 Day Thirty!

• I was trying to avoid eggs and ghee this morning, so I didn't have fried eggs per usual. Instead, I had the last of the roasted veggies, half a sweet potato, a potato, some grape tomatoes, half an avocado, and I slipped up on the egg thing by using some may to dip my roasted veggies. I clearly wasn't thinking well.
• I wasn't hungry for lunch, and the stomach was still a bit unsettled, so I had a handful of almonds and some fruit (strawberries and orange).
• Dinner was pizza from Flatbreads. I decided I need to get back to "normal" eating as much as possible to get myself back on track.

I still feel yucky and food doesn't taste very good. This is not how I wanted to end up at the end of this experiment.

On the weight-loss side of things, I did manage to lose 9 lbs (post weigh in was 148.0 lbs). My clothes fit better, which I'm very happy about. I had to get a smaller bra - though most of that was due to being done with nursing and the girls finally coming to a "resting" state.

Whole30 Day Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine

Saturday:

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half sweet potato, half avocado, 
• I skipped Lunch because my stomach hurt and I felt nauseous.
• Ebon caught a fish, so Dinner was pan-fried trout, and roasted veggies with homemade mayo. I felt a bit better.

Sunday:

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half sweet potato, half avocado. I suspected the ghee to be the cause of my issues, so I skipped the kale I cooked up in ghee.
• Lunch was scrambled eggs, olives, and leftover roasted veggies.
• Dinner was mint tea because my stomach was so unsettled again.

Even with only one day left, I'm going to bow out because I don't think I can take another day feeling the way I do. It sucks so bad, and that I'm doing it on my own accord, just seems silly.

Unless I can figure out a ghee-less, egg-less breakfast, I'm ending this experiment at day 29.

Whole30 Day Twenty-seven

I'm hoping for a better day today food and health-wise. I woke up feeling pretty good, but had a bit of an unsettled stomach by mid-morning. I had more tea and water to attempt to help that.

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half an avocado and a quarter of the "bulb" of a butternut squash. I'm missing a green veggie, but we'll see how that goes/how and when I'll get hungry.
• I skipped working out today because I didn't have lunch prepared. I opted for the salad bar at Stop & Shop. I had a great big salad with as many veggies as I could fit - spinach, frise' mix, grape tomatoes, olives, broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, a little bit of a kale mix, and some pepitas.  I dressed it with olive oil and red wine vinegar. I threw on two hard boiled eggs and dipped some of the veggies in guacamole that I bought. I initially looked for a ripe avocado, but they were all hard. Strawberries were on sale, so I had a few of those too. This was a good green lunch! I think I've been missing that in my meals lately, and that may have contributed to my episode yesterday.
• Dinner was very similar to what I had for breakfast. Two fried eggs, sweet potato and steamed broccoli.

Whole30 Day Twenty-six

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half an avocado, a quarter of the "bulb" of a butternut squash, and the last of the pan-wilted arugula.
• PreWO - 11 almonds, but I was tired and hungry, so I decided not to work out.
• Lunch was two hard boiled eggs and spaghetti squash with red sauce from last night.

I'm having cravings and feelings like I want to quit, but at this point, but I don't really want to. I'm almost done - only 4 days left! - after all! I think I'm getting tired of eating All. The. Eggs, or maybe it's a side effect of accidentally having cheese or the raisins (on purpose) before bed last night.

• I kept snacking  - handful of almonds, then several handfuls of cashews before I picked up Leela, and about halfway home, my stomach was feeling awful. I didn't eat any dinner, I just tried to drink water to make my stomach pains go away.

Overall not a very good day.

Whole30 Day Twenty-five

• Breakfast was a mish mash of things in the fridge because I didn't get my rear in gear to prep things last night. Three scrambled eggs (in ghee), one carrot, half a zucchini, half an avocado, and some pan-wilted arugula from the garden. I was going to make some arugula pesto, but I didn't take very good care of it and it already started to wilt in the fridge, and there were some large stems, so cooking it up seemed like the best alternative to just throwing it out - which I'm trying to be better about this growing season.
• PreWO was ten almonds. I was a little sluggish during my run, and not sure if it was the timing or I'm just tired.
• Lunch was last nights stir fry, the last of the avocado ceviche, some leftover sad-looking grapes, a banana, a hard boiled egg, and one of Leela's scrambled eggs from the morning.
• I had a handful of walnuts while getting dinner ready. I made green beans, pasta and red sauce for Ebon and Leela and I had pesto spaghetti squash with zucchini and sundried tomatoes and the green beans. It was tasty, but I made the pesto last summer and froze, so I couldn't remember if I had put the cheese in it already or not. My stomach wasn't feeling very good after dinner, so I'm guessing I did put the cheese in it after all,boo. I also had a banana with almond butter, and that made my stomach feel a little better. I also had a few handfuls of raisins before I went to bed, which was not good. I was full and didn't really need them, but something made me put them in my mouth. The tasted kind of funky too, so I'm not happy that I ate them.

Whole30 Day Twenty-four

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half sweet potato, half avocado, and some cauliflower salad from last night.
• Lunch was a reboot of last night's dinner: avocado ceviche, (a lot of) cauliflower salad, hard boiled egg, and three mini bananas.
• Dinner was stir fry with carrots, broccoli, green beans, and bean sprouts in sesame oil, coconut aminos, garlic and ginger. Also had two hard boiled eggs and a banana with almond butter.

Blueberry muffins and egg cups

I made some muffins, both sweet and savory for a friend who just had a baby.

I tried my hand at Alton Brown's blueberry muffins and failed pretty badly. Of course I altered the recipe slightly, so I can't be that disappointed. I used coconut oil that wasn't completely melted/liquid, then the batter was pretty dry, so I added some milk. I was also using some new silicone muffin cups, so they got a little too full and majorly overflowed while baking. I think it's worth trying these again to get it right.

My second round was from Betty Crocker, I made the sweet muffins, based on a less than successful previous try. I was told they tasted good!

For the savory muffins, I went with egg cups with spinach, tomato and feta cheese. My inspiration was from many sites, but basically I broke 12 eggs into a large mixing bowl,chopped up a large handful of spinach, threw in some salt, pepper, and thyme, and added all that to the eggs. I poured everything into 12 muffin cups and added a grape tomato sliced lengthwise and some crumbled feta on top. This was baked for 15-20 minutes at 350 deg F.

Whole30 Day Twenty-three

A little more than one week to go! I'm feeling pretty good, but I seem to have caught a cold over the weekend, so that has run me down. I feel like I'm in a rut food-wise, so I really need to get to meal planning!

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half sweet potato, half avocado, and the last of the alfalfa sprouts.
• PreWO was 11 almonds. My workout went by pretty fast today. Instead of going outside to run in the beautiful weather, I stayed indoors and watched the end of both the women's and men's Boston Marathon races. It was great. I ran about 25 minutes without even noticing. The last five mintes were a little hard though.
• Lunch was butternut squash soup from last week, two hard-boiled eggs with homemade mayo, a small head of broccoli, half a clementine (lefotver from Leela's lunch yesterday). Though I was full before the citrus fruits, so I probably should have stopped at the broccoli.
• Leela wanted a snack on the way home, so I opened the grapefruit I didn't eat at lunch. I ended up eating it instead.
• Dinner was avocado ceviche (without the cauliflower) and sundried tomato and cauliflower salad with two hard boiled eggs. This was a lot of chopping, but turned into a good dinner.

I didn't really follow the recipe for the cauliflower salad very well-mostly because I was being lazy. Raw cauliflower and no food processor use for me means less steps and dishes to clean. I still thought it tasted great. Sweet from the tomato and salty from the mayo. I might add some sunflower seeds or another kind of nut if I make it again. 

1/4 cup sundried tomatoes chopped

2 tbsp green olives chopped 

1/4 cup mayonnaise 

1 clove garlic chopped

salt & pepper to taste 

All above should have gone into a food processor and combined.

1/4 cup red onion diced

Small head of cauliflower, chopped into bite sized pieces and steamed or boiled until just tender 

Combine the tomato mayo mix with the cauliflower 

Whole30 Day Twenty-one and Twenty-two

• Saturday:
  • Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half sweet potato, half avocado, spinach, and a small handful of grape tomatoes.
  • Lunch/Breakfast two was scrambled eggs with the fam, leftover roasted veggies, half an avocado, and some chia pudding.
  • Dinner was egg salad in kale wraps with grape tomatoes and some alfalfa sprouts.
  
  
  Sunday:
  • Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half sweet potato, half avocado, leftover roasted veggies.
  • Lunch was the last of the egg salad over arugula from the garden (yay for being a lazy gardener) with grape tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts.
  • I was hungry a little later and had a handful of walnuts.
  • Dinner was a bit spread out, as we were out at Walden Pond and tried to picnic. First I had an apple and some strawberries, then a hard boiled egg. Then it was time for the park to close and I finished off the chia pudding (chia and full-fat coconut milk) and the roasted veggies.

Whole30 Day Twenty

Ten days to go!

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half a sweet potato, half an avocado, and a pile of alfalfa sprouts.
• PreWO was a handful of almonds.
• Lunch was butternut squash soup with two hard boiled eggs and about five or six olives (yay for Wegman's olive bar!).
• I had two dried figs for snack around 4:30. I've been definitely missing green veggies today and it shows in how full (or not) I have been today.
• Dinner was roasted veggies ( broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, red pepper, carrots), two hard boiled eggs and I feel like I'm missing something, bu not sure what it was.

Whole30 Day Nineteen

• Breakfast was a little later than I wanted today because I totally slept in. At work, I ate the last of the frittata, kale, and half an avocado.
• PreWO was one dried fig.
• Lunch was leftover curried spaghetti squash from last night, two hard boiled eggs, half a cucumber, and three mini bananas.
• Dinner was coconut butternut squash soup with two hard boiled eggs and a raw sukju namul muchim (aka mung bean sprout) salad, based on the recipe from mykoreankitchen.com.

Whole30 Day Eighteen

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half an avocado, kale, and half a sweet potato.
• PreWO snack was 9 almonds
• Lunch was leftover fajita veggies and lettuce, frittata, three mini bananas, and a handful of pepitas.
• I attempted to make curried spaghetti squash for dinner, but last night I roasted the squash a bit too long, so everything pretty much turned to mush. I used this recipe as inspiration, but added half an onion and a small head of broccoli and chopped up a date for sweetness in place of the honey. I really liked the flavors and want to try this again once I improve my spaghetti squash roasting technique. I had two hard boiled eggs for protein and threw in a handful of coconut for fat.
• After dinner, I had a banana with almond butter, and then kept eating almond butter - need to stop that!

No/few cravings today, so that was good. Sugar and nuts are definitely triggers for me to binge, something I will have to be vigilant about on the other side of this exercise.

Whole30 Day Seventeen

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half an avocado, kale, and some of the leftover roasted veggies from a few days ago.
• PreWO - small handful of almonds.
• Lunch - Leftover melange - last of the roasted veggies, asparagus and frittata from yesterday, some grapes, and half an avocado.
• Dinner was fajita lettuce wraps. I made carrots, zucchini, portobello, half an onion, beet, and red pepper. I ate with two hard boiled eggs and a handful of pepitas.

I got through a morning and afternoon cravings for sweets by drinking some tea.

Whole30 Day Sixteen

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half an avocado, kale, and some of the leftover acorn squash.
• I had a handful of almonds in anticipation of working out, but puttered around too long before it was too late to do so before my 2pm presentation.
• Lunch was green beans, zucchini fritters, broccoli, two hard boiled eggs with the last of the homemade mayo, and some grapes.
• I started to binge on the dried figs and had about 5 or 6.
• Dinner was a sweet potato, red onion, and spinach frittata with thyme and broiled asparagus. I liked it quite a bit! I had a handful of pistachios and a handful of coconut afterwards because I was worried I didn't have enough fat.
• Before going to bed I had about three handfuls of raisins. Dried fruit is my new candy. I need to figure out why I'm eating it when I'm not hungry!

Overall, I felt pretty good today, but I don't think I had a good day in terms of emotional eating. The figs and raisins, while not entirely bad for me, have replaced my sweets addiction. I don't think I'm helping myself eating all of those things.

Whole30 Day Fourteen

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, kale and roasted veggies (I think, I can't remember anymore).
• Lunch was just two hard boiled eggs because I was busy and running around everywhere.
• Dinner was egg salad lettuce wraps, tomatoes, and steamed broccoli.

Whole30 Day Thirteen

• Breakfast - three ghee-fried eggs, last of asparagus from a couple days ago, half a sweet potato, half an avocado.
• PreWO - small handful of almonds.
• PostWO/Lunch - hard boiled egg white, 3 FBLT roll ups with may, another (whole) hard-boiled egg with mayo, 3 dried figs, 1/4 acorn squash from last night.
• I was going to make zucchini fritters for dinner, but opted for easier BFD(breakfast for dinner).  We had scrambled eggs, I had kale and some warmed up roasted veggies. Potato patties and veggie sausage for Leela and Ebon.  I'll make the fritters this weekend sometime.

I was a bit tired/sore from yesterday's great work out, and I'm attributing it to not enough protein yesterday. Otherwise I feel pretty good today. I still am craving sweets a bit, which means I probably need to kick my dried fruit habit/snacks!

Whole30 Day Fifteen

• Breakfast was three ghee-fried eggs, half an avocado, kale, and some of the leftover acorn squash.
• Lunch was egg salad lettuce wraps with alfalfa sprouts and sunflower seeds.
• Snacks were fruit in the am at a kid's birthday party. I was good, because they had donuts and bagels and really wanted a donut, but I abstained. After dinner I had a banana with almond butter and then a handful of almonds.
• Dinner was green beans, two poached eggs, and zucchini fritters with a side of homemade mayo. I based my fritters off the recipe from epicurious, though I used tapioca flour instead to be compliant.

I have a problem with fritters, and these were no exception. I can't seem to get them cooked all the way through or to get them crispy, grrrr.

Whole30 Day Twelve

• Breakfast - three ghee-fried eggs plus a couple bites from Leela's egg, garlicky greens, half a sweet potato, half an avocado.
• PreWO was a small hanful of almonds.
• Lunch was last of the stuffed peppers and mung bean stir-fry with half an avocado, some pineapple, and grapes.
• I had two dried figs before leaving work as a snack to tide me over for dinner.
• Dinner was finally trying out the F(ake)BLT lettuce wraps from this recipe. I also had some acorn squash that I tried to emulate a Martha Stewart Recipe Roasted Acorn Squash, Shallots, and Rosemary, but my method was a bit different and I forgot the rosemary. I didn't like the end result all that well, so that was a bit of a bust/fail. I was the only one that ate this, even though Ebon picked at the "bacon" and ate a few bites of that and the tomatoes. I liked the FBLT roll ups and also slathered some of the mayo on the lettuce leaf before rolling up. I probably should have had a hard boiled egg or two, but I ended up being pretty full after three wraps. Getting this ready, it was a huge help that I had cooked everything before-hand - crisping up the shitakes and roasting the squash. It only took about 20-25 min for everything to be heated up. Advanced preparation - whoda thunk it?! If only I got Friday's dinner prepped before...

Today was a much better day for me mentally. My workout went really well and I wasn't "dreaming" of sweets.

Whole30 Day Eleven

• Breakfast was enjoyed in silence while Leela still slept! Three ghee-fried eggs, the tops from last night's 3 peppers chopped up, garlicky greens, and half an avocado.

I'm having some major cravings, so I stopped at the store to pick up more eggs (on sale still!), veggies, and some dried figs, of which I ate two.

• PreWO handful of almonds and two more dried figs at 10:45 and then two more figs at 11:50 before yoga.
• Lunch one of the stuffed peppers from last night, half an avocado, and half a sweet potato
• Dinner was roasted veggies with homemade mayo to dip and two hard boiled eggs. The veggies were sweet potato, potato, onion, beet, parsnip, and carrot. I had one date later on, even though I was full. Ebon and Leela had rice too.

I still had a bad day in terms of cravings, but I think I did a sort of OK job at it.

Whole30 Day Ten

• Breakfast - three ghee-fried eggs (overcooked because I was trying to appease Leela. I'm not sure why I try sometimes), garlicky greens, half a sweet potato, half an avocado.
• PreWO - snack handful (12) of almonds at 10:50.
• PostWO - hard boiled egg white
• Lunch - last of the carrot ginger soup with a handful of coconut flakes, hard boiled egg with hot sauce, and a large serving of steamed asparagus (7 stalks!).
• I couldn't decide what to have for dinner, I had the "bacon" all ready for BLTs, but Ebon wasn't going to be around, so I decided to make the stuffed peppers. They had eggs, mushrooms, and spinach. They would have been better with cheese, but they still tasted pretty good and were filling. Leela had leftover pizza. After putting Leela to bed, I finished most of the grapes that I had cut up a couple weeks ago.

I had a pretty bad headache, so I went to bed early, but I'm still craving cheese and sweets pretty bad. The timeline says these are the "hardest days: redefine your idea of reward. Think long and hard about the foods you’re grieving and ask yourself what need you’re expecting them to fulfill. Are you feeling anxious and looking for reassurance? Are you feeling sad, and looking for something to cheer you up? Are you worried you won’t successfully finish the program, and it’s easier to self-sabotage than fail? Remind yourself that food cannot fill that void for you—cannot make you feel truly accomplished, comforted, calm, happy, beautiful. Then, find another way to fill that need that does not involve those foods. Prepare yourselves for these days, knowing that all you have to do is see them through to the other side before things get much, much easier."

I probably need to delve into this more, but not right now.

Whole30 Day Nine

• Breakfast was the last of the ratatouille, garlicky kale, three fried eggs (fried in ghee!), and half an avocado. Leela had a very hard time at breakfast after I offered her three types of eggs, decided on yogurt and ate about half the container - sigh.
• Lunch was the carrot ginger soup with a handful of flaked coconut on top, one of Leela's rejected fried egg and a hard boiled egg, and two thirds of a banana. I'm missing a green veggie, we'll see how that pans out later on.
• Snacked on a handful of almonds shortly after lunch - whoops.
• Dinner tonight was stir fry with lots of mung sprouts! I added in a carrot, a yellow pepper, ginger, garlic, and green onions with sesame oil and coconut aminos. It tasted good! I added a big handful of olives from a jar, which weren't all that good. The olives form the olive bar are so much better. I need to get more of those, or I wish we lived closer to Watertown and Arax market with all their lovely olives!

To do tonight - roast sweet potatoes, so I have them for the rest of the week. Make the "bacon" shitakes, Maybe shred the zucchini for Thur?

I feel so crampy and crappy today, boo. All I wanted today was cookies and ice cream. All the chips and granola bars were staring me in the face. I didn't give in though.

Sarma

Ebon and I got out for a date night after long bouts of illness on both of our parts for several months. We went to Sarma in the eastern part of our fair city of Somerville - it's in the "lowlands" between Winter Hill and Spring Hill. We didn't have a reservation, but thought we might be able to get a spot at the bar, seeing as it was early (6:30pm) on on Sunday. Boy were we wrong! It was super busy with several groups of people waiting to sit at the bar. We put our name on the list with the hosts in case anyone canceled their reservation and started waiting in the bar for seats there. Ebon ordered drinks - beer for him and non-alcoholic drink for me (Buzz Aldrin, the menu said it had Orange, Cinnamon, and Sage). I thought mine was pretty good, not too sweet - hopefully no added sugar. Being newbies, we didn't know that the bar had a separate list for seats there too, so we put our names on that list! Luckily, someone else had cancelled a reservation so we got to eat in the dining room!

I ordered the beets without the goat cheese and the asparagus. Ebon ordered the fava bean pate, potato wedges, and the vegetable frito misto - all of which were not W30 compliant, so I didn't have any of his. My dinner was 90-95% compliant though, the asparagus had an egg that was wrapped? in some phylo spikes, so that was probably not compliant, but I'm pretty sure everything else was. The beets were very good and the "salsa" that was on it was fragrant and spicy, but not hot spicy. The asparagus was OK, the flavors were very interesting but I didn't really taste the black truffles and thought the asparagus was a little too burnt - though it wasn't overcooked. I was pretty full after eating everything though!

Ebon ordered a dessert- frozen yogurt with a chocolate/peanut topping- but didn't like it because the yogurt was too tart and the chocolate was dark/bitter. I had mint tea that was lovely.

Ebon seemed to like his meal, but said it was kind of "fancy" for his taste.
I'm glad we got to go, but not sure we'll go back together. I'd probably go back, but not with the W30 restrictions.

Whole30 Day Eight

I've completed a week of this and have not shriveled up to die!

• Breakfast was three eggs, half an avocado, half a sweet potato, and garlicky greens. I cooked up a big batch of kale and beet greens for the coming days! The eggs were a little overcooked, if nothing else, I will hopefully have learned how to cook eggs better.
• Some green grapes for snack.
• Lunch was broccoli and some leftover ratatouille with walnuts and hemp hearts sprinkled on top. I fried up two eggs with runny yokes, much better than breakfast.
• Ebon and I finally went out on a date for dinner at Sarma. The food was pretty good, and I had a few options to choose from. I'll put more detail here!

I finally made ghee in the crockpot. I have a pretty old-school crockpot and I don't think I had enough butter in there to reach the main part of the heating element. I tried to follow the method outlined in this tutorial, but after about 6 hours or so on high, the milk solids never really got brown. I tried to transfer to a pot on the stove, but it kept bubbling up and splattering everywhere. I had pretty good luck filtering out the top stuff using an old napkin. However, once I got down to the milk solids on the bottom, those were flowing though the filter too. Only a little bit got through, and I probably should have tried to re-filter, but by that point I was so done. I just said screw it. Hopefully that doesn't ruin it in the long run.

Also I felt like I had a lot of energy yesterday, so much so that I almost cleaned the whole house - vacuumed all the rugs-including the basement, swept, and most time and energy intensive - cleaned the bathroom and especially the tub. It was so disgusting, and now it's much cleaner. I always feel so much better when the house is clean!

Whole30 Day Seven

Trying to clear out the fridge today!

• Breakfast was three eggs fried, garlicky kale, 1/3 or half a sweet potato, and half an avocado.
• Leela and I did a lot of walking in the morning so I was ready for lunch a little early, but didn't have any snacks before. I ate egg salad lettuce wraps with leftover curried veggies and two cherry tomatoes.
• Snack was a handful of pistachios and some grapes.
• Dinner was two hard boiled eggs, leftover curried veggies, cucumber, olives, a side salad from Ebon's order from Mike's pizza, a (too?) large handful of cashews, I had some pineapple and half a mug of warm apple cider too.

I felt pretty good today. Good energy for walking, though I did take a nap when Leela did. I will make ghee tomorrow. I will make it my mission!

Whole30 Day Six

• Breakfast was three eggs fried, garlicky kale, half a red pepper this time, and half an avocado. I've also been eating the eggs with Tabasco sauce.
• Lunch was two hard boiled eggs with hot sauce, leftover spaghetti squash and sauce with the last two "meat" balls, a handful of olives, and green beans with red and yellow peppers from lunch provided at work (one of two things that were compliant, the other being a green salad).
• I had a handful of almonds as a preWO snack, not realizing I had a lunch meeting and wasn't actually able to go work out. I think I'll run tomorrow morning - to yoga in Inman Sq and back.
• Handful of cashews while cooking dinner (oops).
• Dinner was ginger carrot soup from here. I used coconut oil as the cooking fat and used veg broth and water for the liquid. I thought I might like it a bit more ginger-y. I also had egg salad lettuce wraps with tomato using the mayo I made the other day. Good dinner! 

Tomorrow I think we need to clean out the fridge, though I was trying to do some meal planning. Sunday Ebon and I finally get a date night out! I picked a restaurant with a few compliant options, more on that later.

Whole30 Day Five

• Breakfast was three eggs fried, garlicky kale, half a sweet potato this time, and half an avocado. I also tried less greens, because yesterday I just couldn't finish all the food I put on my plate.
• PreWO was a small handful of almonds about 45 minutes before running. I was pretty sluggish during my 3.6mile run and got some cramps that I stopped to walk twice. Not sure if it's the "hangover" the almonds, or not getting enough protein in general.
• PostWO was a hard boiled egg white and a couple bites of spaghetti squash (from lunch).
• Lunch at about 1pm was leftover tomato sauce with "meat"balls over spaghetti squash with broiled asparagus and a grapefruit. I only ate about half the spaghetti in the container (big container) and I was full by the end of lunch, but around 4:30 I started getting hungry.
• Dinner was a curried stir fry in coconut milk with sugar snap peas, broccoli, bell pepper, green onions and tofu and rice for Ebon and Leela. I poached two eggs and added some olives for protein and fat, respectively.
• I had some chia pudding from the leftover coconut milk for "dessert." It was really good, even without sweetener. Probably the full-fat coconut milk doing that.

Overall, I felt kind of sluggish and tired today and hungry from about 4:30 until dinner.