Days Twenty-Two - Twenty-Four

DAY TWENTY-TWO
BREAKFAST:  Eggs with spinach, mushrooms, onion, tomato, and turkey sausage
LUNCH:  Leftover Italian soup
DINNER:  Leftover Italian soup (it was so good; couldn't help myself)
SNACK:  Raspberries

DAY TWENTY-THREE
BRUNCH:  Eggs with spinach and mushrooms
DINNER:  Baked salmon with mushrooms and onions
SNACK:  Sweet potato chips

DAY TWENTY-FOUR
BREAKFAST:  Boiled eggs with guacamole
LUNCH:  Leftover salmon with mushrooms and onions
DINNER:  Prosciutto wrapped chicken with steamed asparagus
SNACK:  Carrots

I am apparently very bad at blogging.  I'm trying, I swear!  I just forget, siiiigh.

We're at the point where there is only one week left of my Whole30 and that's just crazy to me.  Part of me wants so badly to have pizza (gluten-free crust from Dominos) right away on Day 31, but another part of me wants to just keep trucking along.  It hasn't been the easiest past few weeks, but it's definitely been rewarding and I've finally reached the point where I'm really not having a lot of cravings.  While the knowledge of my Girl Scout Cookies in my mom's desk at work will occasionally haunt me, it's not as bad as I thought it would be.  What has really surprised me is that I've really had very few cravings for any kind of bread or pasta; during the beginning there was a little wanting, but now it's pretty much nonexistent.  It's really pretty great.

I bought a few sweet potatoes a while back and I wasn't really sure what to do with them.  I'm not the biggest fan of them plain, so I cut them up and made the above sweet potato chips.  I don't like sweet potato fries, but these were nice and crispy and surprisingly good.  I'm making another batch right now and I'm looking forward to replacing that with my lackluster carrots tomorrow at work.  :)

Days Nineteen - Twenty-One

DAY NINETEEN
BREAKFAST:  2 egg muffins, guacamole
LUNCH:  Leftover pork roast and green beans
DINNER:  Chili

DAY TWENTY
BREAKFAST:  2 boiled eggs, guacamole
LUNCH:  Leftover chili
DINNER:  Leftover chili

DAY TWENTY-ONE
BREAKFAST:  2 boiled eggs, guacamole
LUNCH:  Leftover chili and an orange
DINNER:  An Italian soupy thing that I made up

There's definitely been a theme the past few days.  Leftovers.  :3

I am so happy that it's Friday and we're going into the weekend here.  I don't know what it was about this past week, but I am just happy to have a few days off to not be at work.  I did my grocery shopping tonight and I'm looking forward to some of the experiments that I'm going to be doing in the next week.  I'll be eating the soup I made for dinner for eons, though, because I made a ton of it.  Not that I'm complaining.  It's amazing.

Today, as mentioned above, I had an orange with my lunch and I think it broke my stomach.  I haven't had any stomach ills in the past little while, so this was vaguely alarming.  I think it had to do with the orange, though, because I've been eating the chili for days and felt just fine.  What can you do.

Be all kinds of lazy, that's what you can do.

Days Seventeen - Eighteen!

DAY SEVENTEEN
BREAKFAST:  Tuna avocado salad and an orange
LUNCH:  Leftover chicken and broccoli
DINNER:  Eggs with spinach, turkey breakfast sausage, tomato, and bacon
SNACK:  Almonds

DAY EIGHTEEN
BREAKFAST:  Raspberries and almonds
LUNCH:  Egg muffins with guacamole and blackberries
DINNER:   Pork roast and green beans

Prior to starting Whole30, I had stomachaches almost daily.  They weren't terrible, but just belly cramps and feeling generally icky.  Yesterday I realized that I haven't had a stomachache like that in over a week.  They just kind of stopped.  I don't know what part of the change in diet might have caused that to happen, but I'm not questioning it.  :)

I'm finding that my cravings are becoming even less irritating.  Today we had a Food Day at work and the only thing that I could eat was what I brought in (egg muffins, yum) and some guacamole and while everything else looked very tasty, I didn't feel too bad about turning it all down.  I'm hoping that it only continues this way.

Okay, that's all I've got.  I think it's bedtime.

[from this page that I don't entirely agree with]

Day Sixteen!

BREAKFAST:  Eggs and avocado
LUNCH:  Salmon, spinach, and broccoli at Perkins
DINNER:  A concoction of turkey burger, collard greens, and tomatoes that was surprisingly good

I need to go grocery shopping.  I made myself my lunch for tomorrow and thank god my mom was kind enough to let me take home last night's leftovers or I wouldn't have had anything to pack.  Even my breakfast is a bit questionable, but I don't have all of the noms for my egg muffins.  I really had great intentions to go grocery shopping yesterday, but... then I didn't.  I'm lazy, what can I say.

Today some of my brother's artwork was shown at Alexander House for Youth Art Month and I couldn't be more proud of his awesome.  He's really so unbelievably talented (exhibit a, exhibit b) and I'm about as proud of him as an older sister can be.

I'm hoping that this week will be less of a roller coaster than last week.  I feel like this food situation is evening out and I'm getting more used to it.  Now if only I could go to bed at a decent hour...?  lol not happening

my bb <3

Days Thirteen - Fifteen! (lol oops)

DAY THIRTEEN
BREAKFAST:  2 egg muffins, almonds
LUNCH:  Avocado chicken salad
DINNER:  Chicken/Beef El Zarape w/ guacamole and pico de gallo from El Mezcal

DAY FOURTEEN
BREAKFAST:  2 egg muffins
LUNCH:  Avocado chicken salad, orange
DINNER:  Fried eggs with spinach, turkey breakfast sausage, tomatoes, and mushrooms

DAY FIFTEEN
BREAKFAST:  Fried eggs and bacon at Sofia's
LUNCH:  Fried eggs and Italian turkey sausage with tomatoes and onions
DINNER:  Chicken/broccoli/mushroom crepe with avocado and sweet potato

...oops.

Welp, after Wednesday's nonsense with feeling kind of poopy, I've found that I'm feeling much better!  Last night I went to bed before midnight because I was just ready for bed (and am an old lady) and I slept through the night with great ease.  I did wake up at 6:30AM and felt wide awake, but I just wasn't having that and got two more hours of sleep.  I've also found that my energy is kind of great!  I love it.

I'm also finding that as time goes on, I'm not really craving some of the things I really wanted even a few days ago.  I would have pinched someone in high authority a few days ago if it meant I could have cheesy bread from Dominos, but now I'm pretty content.  I was wrestling with the sort of things I'm thinking that, right now at the halfway point, I want to continue post-Whole30 and I honestly think that the only thing I want to reintroduce is cheese and alcohol.  I didn't drink much before outside of my Thursday margaritas, so it's not like I'll go back to crazy binge drinking ways or anything, but El Mez just isn't the same without them.

Now, maybe I'll change my mind as time goes on!  We will see.  I'm just excited that I've made it this far.

accurate representation of me when i exercise