Whole30 Day 19

Such busy day 19...

It went like this:

Woke up at 7

Put away mountain of drying dishes

Put in a load of laundry

Shower

Got call to be at house between 9 and 11 for the guy to measure for carpet

Grab wet clothes, put wet hair in ponytail and run over to the house

Throw clothes in new dryer (love it already)

Tape off all but the crown molding in the remaining rooms

Let measure guy in (only took like 10 minutes)

Realize I'm hungry and grab a handful of macadamia nuts

Fold clothes

Grab a Larabar mini just in case (glad I did)

Run up to the mall to return shoes/get stuff from Estée Lauder (Bryan's mom Janice works there)

Get some awesome eye make-up done by Janice

Run back home

Put clothes away

Immediately require a nap

Toss and turn for an hour or two

Get up

Go with Bryan to finish taping off the crown molding

Realize I'm starving and suggest dinner

Meet Janice and Bob (Bryan's parents) for dinner

Eat a steak, salad and (oh my lucky day) SWEET POTATO FRIES before I remember pics

Come home

Watch a couple shows 

Post this blog

Sorry there aren't any food pics. As you may have noticed, there wasn't much food. I am just not obsessed with eating anymore. Sometimes I think I could forget to eat all day and be fine with it.

Anyway, today was a good, busy, long day and I'm so glad that tomorrow is the last day if painting trim! Also, tomorrow is day 20, the first day of autumn (my favorite season), and the last day of the 2nd third of this journey. I'm so damn proud if myself! :)

Whole30 Day 17

Seventeen days have passed since I started my first Whole 30 and I don't think I have really stopped to explain what it is. It comes from a book by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig called, "It Starts With Food" and something about changing your life, yadda, yadda, yadda .

I can't gush enough about how, even only seventeen days in, I feel changed. My "need to feed" is diminished to about zero. Cravings (real ones, not times I've said, "I miss pizzaaaaaa") are not gone, they're different. I have been craving watermelon, cashews, lamb, sweet potatoes, steak, avocado, and middle eastern salad dressing.

I also can't find the words to express my love of not measuring or weighing one damn thing this whole time. My clothes fit better, my skin is clearer, my aches and pains are disappearing, and I'm in an overall better mood. I'm not missing out on a thing. I've never heard, "there are donuts in the kitchen" and thought, "aw man! I am going to regret not eating one!".

I can't say it has been easy, but it has not been very hard at all and I know why they say, in the book, something like "don't you dare tell us this is hard".

This challenge has given me freedom from the self destructive nature of my relationship with food. I can't imagine sitting in the couch dipping Doritos in a can of processed cheese product or polishing off a whole can of Pringles in 20 minutes. I actually can't see myself eating one single Pringle again. <--- rhyming! Nailed it!

Anyway, on to the food pics!

Lunch was in my belly before I remembered to snap a pic... Again.

Potbelly Farmhouse Salad w/o cheese.

Aaaaaand for dinner, all I wanted was watermelon, but they were out at the market, so I went with my third favorite melon (they were out of honeydew too)

Cantaloupe, or as I call it  "Sing, Lupe!!!"

On to Day 18 folks!

G'night!

Whole30 Day 16

Day 16... The beginning of the end... Well, not the end of eating like a champ, but the end of my challenge.

I sleep better. I fall asleep faster, stay asleep, and wake up better. I'm less groggy, less reluctant to get the day started. This is something I have always wished I could say. :)

You'll notice I don't post pictures of breakfast, though I have posted a pic or two of breakfast food. This is because I've been trying another theory that involves only eating when I actually feel hunger. I don't know about you, reader, but I am super rarely hungry in the morning. At first, not eating breakfast was strange, mostly because I was so used to it. Now, I don't miss it at all. Sometimes I get a hunger pang around 10AM and pop a handful of cashews in my mouth or eat a Larabar.

Lunch was chicken with Imam Bayildi again. It was so good I forgot to get a picture again. :)

Here's a picture from the Internet.

Dinner was some baked garlic chicken with skillet fried sweet potato American fries AND lemon water!!! Oh how lemon juice can change a person's day! I was getting a bit bored with water bring the only thing I drink. 

Also, lemon Larabar for dessert.

I feel silly that I started this before I began reading It Starts with Food, but I didn't want to wait any longer... and I am reading it now. I highly recommend it. It is a good read and has a lot of useful information. Read it! Change you'd life! :)

Seventeen, here we come!

Whole30 Day 8

It's day 8 and I feel great! Ha ha. 

Feel good, but a bit cranky. Pizza smells at the office are killing me.

Lunch was leftover steak, sweet potato and some broccoli.

It was good, but it was no cheesy, bacony pizza... Or Fritos! Ohhhh, mmmmm Fritos!

Middle Eastern for dinner!!! Love this stuff and it's, virtually, paleo heaven!

Lamb w/garlic spread and a Lebanese salad.

I had a lot more energy today, but got super lightheaded while working on the house. It's probably due to not finishing lunch and waiting until 7:30 to order from Malek's

Ok, I gotta eat while it' still hot!

Later!