With Kate

Whole30 Day 25

I think I’ve got the hang of eating at work down. Packing my meals the night before has been the key to success. Today I had a baked sweet potato and cooked 2 poached eggs in the microwave and smothered them with salsa. Great start to my day.

For lunch I ate some tuna over mixed greens, walnuts, and little tomatoes with some fresh blueberries, strawberries and mixed nuts. I’ve learned that if I don’t eat enough fat during lunch I tend to get tired midday so adding more nuts (my avocado’s are not ripe yet) works wonders.

Throw it in a bowl and call it a salad.

Dinner was a giant salad with poached eggs, turkey burgers and sweet potato veggie hash. Looks gross but tastes delicious.

Whole30 Day 23/24

You know what feeling when you travel and get home and need to take an extra day to recover….the vacation hangover is what we call it in our house. Well, that didn’t happen this time and I’m pretty sure it had to do with eating well during our trip. That in itself was worth the last 23 days of Whole30.

We knew we’d be out of groceries when we arrived home and combated that problem by ordering from Amazon Fresh while waiting to board our plane. We ordered some sausage, steak, eggs, greens, and avocado and had them deliver it at 6am so we could cook as soon as we woke up. Talk about awesome. Whole30 has also taught me that planning is essential. I’ve taken to reminding myself that preparing good food is like setting an appointment with your boss. You don’t cancel on your boss unless there is a real emergency. I mean, really, who is more boss than your own body.

Day 23 lunch.

Day 24 dinner. Crockpot chicken.

Day 24 breakfast.

Day 24 lunch.

Day 23 breakfast

Whole30 Day 19/20/21/22

It’s traveling day. We are going to LA for a wedding. Luckily we have a hotel room with a kitchen so we’ll be able to cook for ourselves as much as possible.

Preflight meal.

We had an early morning flight so ate a quick egg breakfast so we wouldn’t be tempted to buy something from the airport. We also packed some snacks of nuts, blueberries, and carrots for the plane ride.

Lemonade meal.

Arrived to LA and immediately found some food first and then coffee. Huge step for both of us, in the past we would have searched for coffee first and food was an after thought. Amazing what 19 days will do to your thinking. We ate at an amazing place in Venice Beach called Lemonade, it was like going to a super clean eating cafeteria. The husband had a great lunch of arugula topped with lemon and olive oil and drowned in seared ahi. I had yams, cauliflower and a salmon salad stuffed in half an avocado. So good!

Quality pool time.

After lunch we sought out coffee at Intellegencia and headed to Whole Foods to buy our arsenal of good eatings. A whole paycheck later we arrived at the hotel and had a wonderful 3 days of relaxation by the pool all while eating clean and making our families jealous of our awesome food. I thought it was going to be harder to eat clean while traveling and think it would have if we didn’t have a kitchen to prepare foods. One thing I did notice was that I tended to want a drink while at the wedding, not because I wanted a drink but because I wanted to hold on to something and sip like everyone else. Not a good reason to drink. The wedding pastries (traditional but gluten free and vegas pastries) looked delicious but found that I had to leave the room and go for a walk because the smell of sugar was so intense and not in a good way.

All in all, I am super happy and proud of our travel weekend. I was tempted and didn’t give in and learned a few things along the way.