Wow, it's day 7 already! Can you believe that we are almost finished a whole week??
Hope you are all surviving your first Saturday on Whole 30 - temptation can be tough on the weekends - stay strong - you are not going out like that! It's SO not worth it.
Plan ahead, bring Whole 30 approved snacks, and wake up feeling great instead of hungover :)
Post your meals to comments!
Jenny
1 week in, so far so good! Nice to see a few more people posting, no more lurkers!
ReplyDeleteBreakfast: 2 turkey patties, 1 avocado, sauteed spinach and grape tomatoes, black coffee.
Lunch: leftover rib eye steak cut thin and sautéed along with leftover grilled zucchini, celery and almond butter, grapes.
I'm making a paleo stew for dinner tonight...delish!!
Lory, I think Jenny meant to say you'll be turning fat into muscle, so while the scale may not change as much as you'd like, the inches is where you'll see the biggest change, so I hope you all did before measurements!
Turkey Blueberry Patties
1 lb ground turkey(or chicken)
3/4 C blueberries(fresh or frozen)
2 sage leaves-finely chopped
2 thyme sprigs-leaves finely chopped
1/4 onion-finely chopped
1 clove minced garlic
1 egg yolk
1. in a bowl mix all ingredients well with your hands and form into patties.
2. In a non-stick pan heat ghee or butter, when it gets HOT add the patties.
3. cook for 3-4 minutes per side depending on how thick you made them.
4. They are done when you press down in the middle and it feels firm.
5. Store in fridge for up to 5 days.
Note: if you can find fresh sage and thyme it makes a big difference on the taste, so yummy!!
Matt
Matt, thanks for the recipe, this sounds like a nice change for breaky. I will be trying for sure.
ReplyDeleteJenny I loved your answers to the calorie counting. Ultimately no one overeats when it comes to protein and veggies. Sugar is your enemy,if weight loss is a goal, cut out or limit your fruit intake. :)
Annie
Oops! Thanks for the correction Matt :)
ReplyDeleteI just fixed it!
Today was ok for me - getting sick of eating at restaurants!!!
1: 3 eggs, ham, black coffee
2: apple
3: 2 eggs, ham, sausage, fruit cup
4: almonds
5: losbter, steamed veggies
6: apple
Too much fruit today!!! Gotta cut back, but it's so convenient & portable...
breakfast; Line muffin tin with Ham and spinach and egg in muffin cup bake in oven for 20 min @375.. broiled tomatoes...blk coffee
ReplyDeletelunch chicken breast sliced on wilted spinach salad with balsamic and olive oil dressing blk coffee water
snack::: palmalo
dinner: Bouillabaisse soooooooo good with greens
s
I can just start to sit with no pain after wed class Matt....
ReplyDeleteBreakfast
ReplyDeleteegg whites and sauteed zucchini
green tea
lunch
awesome spinach salad with 2 hard boiled eggs
1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds and 1/4 cup cranberries
dressing whole seed mustard with balsamic vinegar and oil and salt and pepper so yum
dinner
chicken
roasted veggies sweet potato and turnips
can we use sunflower oil?
Lory - no sunflower oil - what do you want to use it for? We use coconut oil for EVERYTHING - it's really great. Or Olive Oil on salads. I will post a picture of the cocounut oil - you can buy it at Save-On.
ReplyDeleteAlso - are you feeling full enough throughout the day? Egg whites & 2 eggs until dinner...I would be starving for more protein!!
I am starving and really bitchy right now! So yes I needed more protein but I was worried about eating to many eggs in the week! What kind of ham do you use? and are there any spices that are forbidden? I know nothing with sugar but I have a lot of dried spices that I use some I notice have sugar which really pissed me off but others such as Chipotle chilli spice and of course sea salt and fresh ground pepper,
ReplyDeleteI was looking at ingredients on something that had sunflower oil. I didn't eat it:)
I love coconut butter as I use it to cook with and to moisturize my skin!
I am working on trying to find more proteins. I didnt think of ham as my brain is programmed to not eat ham bacon pork in general(old school diets)
ok you are going to wish I never figured this blogging out cause now I am addicted to all the info...I just discovered an awesome snack. I bought Cashew butter and aside from celery, and just taking a spoon to it I didn't know what to have it with. I just but a jicima? I think that's how it is spelled. I cut it into 1/4 inch thick strips and put cashew butter on it! I hope this is an okay snack cause it was great!
ReplyDeleteLory
Great questions!
ReplyDeleteSpices - yes - we use lots of spices...natural, real spices are fantastic (not ones with sugar in them...they don't need it!)
Cashew Butter & Jicima - yes! This is fine. Make sure not to OD on the nut butters though :)
You are better off snacking on protein - it will make you full and then you won't get hungry as quickly and then you won't be bitchy!! haha
You need to forget about what you traditionally think of as "breakfast" "lunch" & "dinner" and just think of them as meals instead (see how I just call them #1, #2 #3 etc
Snack on some steak! Have ham or turkey patties (Matt just posted the recipe) or chicken in the morning with eggs cooked in clarified butter...delicious!
We buy great ham at our butcher, slice it all up and then have it for snacks cold, or cook a few slices in coconut oil...
You need to understand that EATING FAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU FAT!!! It took me a long time to get over this, we have been programmed to think that low-fat is good for us. ITS NOT!
Check out this link - it's great:
http://whole9life.com/2011/07/whats-in-your-cooler/
Hope this helps!!
Jenny is so right, fat does not make you fat, SUGAR makes you fat!!! Almost all processed foods have some form of sugar in them! Here's an excerpt I like:
ReplyDeleteEat foods that makes you healthier, every meal, every day. Eat foods that makes you less healthy infrequently, if at all. Eat just enough to support activity levels and goals.
Exercise. Work hard. Harder than you are now. But more importantly, work smart. Too much volume, intensity and frequency is just as bad as too little.
Recover. Devote as much effort to recovery practices as you do to training. This is not optional. Most fall miserably short in this category.
Sleep 8-9 hours a night, in a cool, dark room. Make time for this. You can get away with less, but only if it’s summertime.
Manage your stress. Deal with it in a healthy fashion. Stress will undermine all of the above.
Do this, day in and day out, for years and years and years, as consistently as you can.”
An excerpt from the 400,000 hour body, Whole9
Dinner tonight was Paleo chili made with grass fed stew beef, onions, peppers, garlic, organic jarred tomato sauce, topped with fresh cilantro and green onions.
Great leftovers for my lunch tomorrow!!
I've been feeling a little run down the past few days.......think it's the sugar withdrawl :(
ReplyDeleteFor brunch I had some yummy pork and leek sausages I got from the butcher in lynn valley mall. With them I had eggs & sweet potato latkes (recipe from everyday paleo website) I enjoy finding and trying new recipes!Had some mixed nuts as a snack, but I've been eating a few too many nuts. Cindy had a good idea - buy shelled nuts so you have to take the time to crack them. Dinner was taco salad.
okay so where is the butcher? I am sending Dan as he is in North Van a few times a week at hockey academy. I love me some ham!
ReplyDeleteSuper early meeting today so I had a half a mango and black coffee then came home and made 3 eggs with homemade salsa
ReplyDeleteLunch was left over roastd butternut squash with rosemary and organic stir fry steak and peppers that I sauteed in cocunut oil and garlic
Dinner was left over organic pork loin steak that I seasoned with black pepper rosemary and cumin pan fried with cocunut oil. Half an avacado mshrooms, tomato salad
Snack AT THE,MOVIE THEATRE was a banana :)
This blog is great, thanks for starting this Jenny! We had Kai's 4th year b-day party tonight - 15 kids, panago pizza balanced with carrots/strawberries and blueberries... Of course then there was the Toy Story chocolate cake!!! The Chumpys (aka Kurt and Claudia) are proud to say we survived and had not one bite of any of the "party" food! However, I just had two eggs when I got home due to hunger pains!
ReplyDeleteMy main issue is still dealing with the Sugar Craving... It is still a challenge to reducing my fruit intake. I am trying to have less nuts - but again this poses a challenge as well...
I have adjusted well to having coffee with coconut milk, however, due to not liking this, I find myself drinking less coffee and feeling actually LESS TIRED!! My energy level is already up with less caffeine in my system...
Other than coffee, water, green tea, coconut water -is there anything else that one can be drinking? I think I know the answer, however, are pure fruit juices out of bounds?
breakfast: 2 egg omelet with chicken, spinach, and tomato. I also had a kiwi.
ReplyDeletelunch: butternut squash soup that I made, and a spinach salad with chicken, tomato, carrots, and celery (dressing was homemade).
Made a trip to the lynn valley butcher today too (Westlynn Meats, I think). It's inside lynn valley mall right near the Save-on-foods. Picked up a flank steak which is marinating as we speak. Can't wait to grill it tomorrow!
snack: smoked salmon with some celery sticks
Tonight, we took my niece to the Giants' game. Super fun but pretty limited when it comes to food options. I have season tickets to the Canucks so this was sort of my "trial" to see how I fare. I brought some almonds and roasted butternut squash seeds to eat while everyone else had White Spot - Fries are my kryptonite, and this was the first time I had to really REALLY fight off the cravings. I'm happy to say I didn't cave.
Late dinner: when I got home, I had a small portion of my spaghetti squash and meat sauce. I wasn't too happy with eating so late, but I thought I would pay for it later if I didn't.
I'm trying to come up with ideas/alternatives when I do go to games. The main ones I could think of were to order a burger with no sauce, and just eat the stuff minus the bun. The same would basically go for hotdogs if they are all-beef? I'm just trying to see what my options are as it's harder to bring a "snack" in with me to Rogers Arena.