W30, day 2 in Whole 30/post w30 eating

10:10 am

Feeling okay so far this morning. Though I’m having that thing where I eat breakfast and am immediately starving right after. Does that happen to anyone else? I notice it whenever I eat a clean breakfast when I first start any type of healthier eating mission. Super annoying. I made another cup of tea hoping that something warm with a little caffeine would help. Still waiting for that, lol.

This morning I had some of the sweet potato soup topped with two eggs fried in a little coconut oil. I would’ve taken a picture, but unfortunately we don’t have the type of shallow bowl necessary to make it look pretty, lol! In the soup cup I was using, it mostly just looked like I was trying to drown eggs. I was feeling like I should’ve had another veggie with it, but I was lazy and not really feeling an added taste/texture. Every meal can’t be completely veggie filled I suppose. And it’s only day two, so I should probably stop worrying so much. Long long way to go.

After I ate, I got everything in the crockpot for this beef thing I found online. We’ll see how it goes. I couldn’t find the actual cut of meat called for (but now I’m thinking that she just called it two different things in the ingredient list vs the actual recipe, and I was probably staring at the right cut of meat) so I’m not sure how it will turn out. We’ll see.

I don’t have any idea what’s happening at lunch. Salad, definitely, but I’m having the same protein problem I was having yesterday. I could try to pop over to the grocery store, but I don’t really know if I can expect them to have restocked the chicken apple sausage by now. I might just be hard boiling an egg. My brain is still resisting eating all these eggs even though I totally understand and am onboard with the science presented in the book. You know, I think I’ll just go with my plan from yesterday and run over and grab some lunch meat. I’m feeling the idea of some turkey now that I’m thinking about it. I also wanted to grab mineral water yesterday and forgot. I might also pick up a zucchini for the salad.

1:06 pm

I seriously wish I could give you all the salad I just had.

I buried all of the ingredients when I put the meat on, so you can’t really see everything, but it’s a mix of kale and spinach with zucchini, broccoli slaw, turkey, and the dreamy avocado dressing. I also had a kiwi, but it didn’t fit on the plate

Also, I’ll just pop to the store and grab some lunch meat is much easier said than done. Almost all of the lunch meat I looked at had extra sugar. The stuff I got isn’t even ideal because for some crazy ass reason it has potato starch in. But something’s gotta give here. Next week I’ll pick up some chicken and bake and freeze it to have it on hand for salads I guess. It’d definitely be cheaper. Maybe I’ll cook a whole chicken.

6:15 pm

And dinner. I’m a little disappointed in the crockpot recipe. I made this recipe here with some spice substitutions (I used ras el hanout, garlic, salt, and pepper). It looked like this when I had it out and shredded:

Mine is pretty dry. I guess I overcooked it? It’s only my second time using a crockpot. I also think it’s a little flavorless, but that’s partially due to it being dry and probably a little to do with the fact that I wanted some sauce on it. I think I’ll end up tossing it with a little mayo when I eat it tomorrow.

This is what my dinner plate looked like:

I threw some of the beef mixture in some of the sweet potato soup and had a side of kale chips and pecans. I know the pecans are the odd man out, but I needed a fat on my plate and pretty much my only options were pecans or olives and I wasn’t feeling the olives. They didn’t have any avocados at the store today. :(

The beef in the soup was DELICIOUS. It actually reminded me a lot of the Japanese curry I used to make which is exciting because I have trouble finding that particular curry in the store (unless I hunt down an asian grocery store). This was also my first time making kale chips. They happened as more of an afterthought because the bunch of kale I got today is huge and I need something to do with it other than endless salads (plus I have another bunch from yesterday that’s going in a frittata. Kale explosion in my fridge…).

I think the carb flu (that’s what the book calls it) is hitting me…I’m exhausted, headachey alternating with dizzy, and hungry all the time. Sounds about right. Also having some serious sugar cravings. I can’t believe I made it through the grocery store today. My brain was screaming cookies and peanut butter cups at me. I know I just need to give my system time to reset, but it’s so dang hard. The program discourages snacking because it gets in the way of rewiring your brain, but it’s hard because it looks like I’m going to be a hungry all the time person instead of the not hungry at all person. sigh Trying real real hard to remember why I’m doing this.