#whole30day9

[tayloreddesigns]

Dinner is served😋 love this healthy eating way of life💗 #whole30day9 #designerlife👌 #happygirl #healthyliving #blessed (at Cathedral Hill)

[tayloreddesigns]

Potato fries too soo yummy😋#whole30day9 #happygirl #healthyliving (at Cathedral Hill)

[tayloreddesigns]

Turkey meatballs and whole 30 marinara sauce. I made a firm decision today when I buy a loft in the fall a must is a big kitchen... Really enjoying cooking all this delicious healthy meals. I'll let you know when I'm settled into my new forever home because dinner will be at my served at my place💗 #whole30day9 #lovemyurbanlife😍 #happygirl #designerlife👌 #blessed (at Cathedral Hill)

[runitoff-sweatitout]

Whole30 day 9

Ugh guys this is hard. Last time I did whole30, I worked in a retail store. My days consisted of walking around doing 10,000 steps a day. Now my job is a desk job that consists of sitting on my ass all day for 8 hours. It’s so easy to just snack all day.

Biggest challenge is that my coworker is a huge sugar eater like myself. She restocked her candy drawer today and showed me. She didn’t know I’m doing this and felt really bad after, but me resisting instead of giving in makes me feel good. Hoping I can keep this strength all month! Now I gotta find something for dinner: salmon or turkey burger 🤔

[purplewysteria]

#whole30day9 #whole30 #accountability Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, peach Lunch: salad and fruit from price cutters, no dressing I was starved on the drive home... I ate several larabars- why? WHY? Not sure if I'm just tired, but I've been so draggy every since. I ate a package of tuna when I got home. Running low on food so went to the grocery store. Felt better after that, but not especially hungry. Had unsweet applesauce with unsweet coconut and a few almonds. Didn't take a pic of any of my meals, but I did prep for tomorrow (crockpot 2x in one week - who am I?!)

[chunky002]

Whole30 Days 9-12

Okay so it has been a CRAZY week. Since I’m on day 12 and have a really shitty memory, don’t hold me to what I ate -exactly- on days 9 and 10. But I was on point with it, I swear on whatever there is to swear on. 

This week was a bunch of up and down. Fortunately I FINALLY found an apartment. It’s at the very top of my budget and I’ll definitely need to pinch pennies to save for Christmas gifts this year, but it’s a cute apartment with a full kitchen and I have it all to myself. 

The Whole30 folks weren’t kidding about days 10 and 11 being awful. I’d say day 10 was my hardest to date, insofar as battling cravings. And they were right - I didn’t want anything in particular like day 2, I was just missing the fact that I COULDN’T eat stuff. I went to my nearest Redbox the night of the 10th, which happens to be in a grocery store, and I swear (I’m swearing to a lot of stuff today, aren’t I?) I have never had so much determination NOT to eat a carb/dairy. I’m looking at you Safeway brand potato salad. 

Nevertheless, I survived. Day 11 I was still wanting food I couldn’t have, but putting a new word, MISSING, not CRAVING made it easier to bear somehow. Maybe because it forced me to think about what I was feeling when I wanted to break the progress I’d made and see that I didn’t want it, I just missed it. 

Not to get too much into the TMI with you all, but it’s kind of an NSV. Having PCOS my time of the month doesn’t come every month, and being the weight that I am doesn’t help. So in a horray/oh fuck moment, my not-so-friend showed up for the first time in eight months. That’s right eight. 

I do have a confession. I know they repeat over and over not to measure or weigh yourself for the full month, and to let this be a way to break the dependency on the scale, however... just no. I’m not measuring or weighing myself daily, but I am weighing in periodically because I have scale goals. I do, and I’m not ashamed of that. Yes, I want to get fit and strong, but I also want to lose fat and watch the number on the scale drop like a horrifying amusement park ride. 

And I’m proud to say, that even on my period, on day 12 I am down 10.3lbs. 

On to the food tracking.

Day 9 Foodage:

Breakfast - coffee with coconut milk, 2 bananas

Lunch - really awful thai chicken in coconut milk (two bites and I was done), package of almonds (1 oz)

Dinner - 2 program-compliant sausages, my (now a staple) chili with tons of kale

Day 10 Foodage:

Breakfast - coffee with coconut milk, a banana

Lunch - 2 servings grilled chicken, 1 serving skirt steak

Dinner - 2 program-compliant sausages, chili with tons of kale

Day 11 Foodage:

Breakfast - huge coffee with coconut milk because the assholes ran out of bananas

Lunch - salad with tons of grilled chicken (2 servings), lettuce (obviously), and salsa

Dinner - 2 program-compliant sausages, chili with tons of kale

Day 12 Foodage:

Breakfast - coffee with coconut milk, a banana

Lunch 1.5 servings grilled chicken, 1/2 serving skirt steak

Dinner - almonds and cashews (wasn’t too hungry but thought I should get some o’ those healthy fats in my system and eat a little before bed)

I’m still not drinking enough water, and have yet to work out. In time my dears. This weekend I’ll start doing some cardio and hopefully return to lifting weights (YAY!!), and I’ll try to better monitor my water progress throughout the day now that I feel like I have a decent handle on the food thing.

- chunky out

[strmyweather]

Whole30, Days 8-9

Day 8

No workout today, again.

Breakfast: chili (I STILL have some of this in the frig and need to use it up before it goes bad!)

Lunch: CustomFit chicken salad (I never get tired of this)

Dinner: I had the idea to take my usual turkey-apple mixture and use it to make a twice-baked sweet potato. Mixed it with the potato filling plus a little ghee, stuffed it all back into the shells, and baked for about 15 minutes. HOLY DELICIOUS. Then had a handful of nuts and my usual mug of tea.

Day 9

We repeated Open workout 13.2 (one of my favorite workouts ever) and I PRed by (I think) 15 reps. My previous best was 213, which is 7 rounds + 3 reps, and today I counted 7 rounds + 18 reps. My buddy Paul was behind me and swears I was way out in front of him and that I must have done 8 rounds, which I would love to believe I'm capable of, but am pretty sure I'm not that awesome. :) I definitely was way ahead initially (did the first round in just under a minute), but I know I slowed down after that (my back started to 'feel' the deadlifts and I was trying to be careful and really use my glutes, which were trying to be lazy since this weight was so light). Anyway, I distinctly remember finishing 5 rounds at 6:22 (which is an average of about 1:15 per round, which seems correct). Add an additional 2 rounds to that, and you come out around 9 minutes; then add the last 5 shoulder-to-overheads, 10 deadlifts, and 3 step-ups (which is how I finished), and that pretty much takes us to the 10-minute cap. So either I counted wrong prior to 5 (which seems unlikely), or I only did 7+18. Either way, it's a solid PR and I'm happy, since it's been a frustrating past few months of general body dissatisfaction and feeling like I'm not progressing ANYWHERE.

Having said that, I was ridiculously distracted all morning. Forgot my non-gym shoes and had to run home for them, which meant I was late to work. Forgot my hair putty at the gym in the midst of realizing I'd forgotten my shoes. Gobbled my cold turkey-apple mixture with my fingers out of the container on my lap while driving to work, which did not feel like enough food this morning, but not sure if it was the extra stress hormones or the workout or both. At any rate, I successfully forgot about eating once I was immersed in clinic.

Lunch was a CustomFit meal (pulled pork, sweet potato fries, and veggies) a Trader Joe's fruit bar, and two handfuls of almonds. Dinner was bone broth and a delicious 'pile' of baked sweet potato fries, the rest of the chicken from the Whole Foods rotisserie, a runny egg, and some lemon-garlic spinach. Just tea and about 10 almonds after this, didn't really have any significant dessert munchies.