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Back to the grind and starting Week 2 strong.
Breakfast
My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Leftover delivery Chinese – steamed veggies and chicken with coconut aminos & Choula for taste.
Dinner
Caramelized onion meatballs with zoodles and aged balsamic drizzle.
Snack
1/4 cup of roasted cashews after lunch.
This month, I’m doing my Third Whole 30 – and this time, I’ve got reinforcements in the form of a few Nerd Fitness friends who are taking the plunge and committing to starting 2015 out on the right foot with me. Let’s take a look at a few of this week’s highlights! everyone ate this week!
Weekday work snacks! Plain almonds and fresh green beans from kweber05
Green Pepper/Radish Salad with Smoked Chicken from kweber05
Balsamic Beef Wraps with Sunshine Sauce from Fonzico
Dinner with extended family *can* be successful and *doesn’t* have to be full of anxiety as kweber05 found out – grilled chicken breast with steamed veggies and a hard boiled egg.
Flavor boosters like salsa kick up breakfast and sanctum staples (kweber05)
Delectible looking shrimp pad thai with cabbage noodles and sunshine sauce courtesy of Fonzico
Fancy after dinner drinks (club soda, lime juice, oranges and pomegranate seeds) from Fonzico
More fancy drinks! Club soda with orange and lime from (kweber05)
Smoked chicken and avocado egg salad (kweber05)
Fonzico made Nom Nom Paleo’s Bagna Cauda and she reports that it was amazing. I’m totally making this next week.
Salmon with Nom Nom Paleo’s Cherry BBQ Sauce from Fonzico – this sauce is delicious! Kwebs also made this sauce this week, and loves it. I will have to get on the ball and cave to peer pressure soon!
And my favorite meals from this week:
My weekday lifesaver: green smoothie + coffee with almond milk.
Capicola with roasted brussels over the weekend
Ratatouille with merguez and a fried egg over the weekend
Instant Pot Pulled Pork with Spicy Roasted Parsnips
Instant Pot Green Curry Chicken with Carrots
Sesame Ginger Chicken Zoodles
And hive mind Sunday Steak dinners!
kweber05 had NY Strip with cabbage steaks
Fonzico had sirloin with chimichurri, peppers & onions, and a side of salsa and sweet potato with ghee
And I hit up Outback for a wood-fired sirloin & shrimp with grilled asparagus and a plain sweet potato
Week 1 was a success all around – everyone feels lighter and on the right track nutrition-wise, and aside from some crazy food dreams, general anxieties about mindless eating, and cigarette cravings, we are all faring well and on track for Week 2.
Today’s food was much more satisfying.
Breakfast
Gas station breakfast on the go: hard boiled eggs, a fruit cup and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Outback for wood fired sirloin & shrimp, grilled asparagus and a plain baked sweet potato. With unsweet tea to drink.
Dinner
A concoction of sauerkraut, sundried tomatoes and chicken breast. An odd combo but it worked.
Snack
No snacks.
Lunch was frustrating. I thought the chicken was going to be a no-brainier, but it wasn’t. But I made do and didn’t starve. Dinner was also not exactly what I wanted.
Breakfast
Breakfast’s Ro-Tel, avocado & egg concoction wasn’t a quarter as appetizing looking as I’d planned, but it was tasty. Not terribly filling, but tasty. I also had a venti black Pike’s Place Roast from Starbucks with homemade almond milk. This was much less groady than last weekend’s coffee.
Lunch
Lunch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cafeteria. Baked chicken (which I ate only the insides of because I couldn’t tell whether the stuff on the surface was little bits of skin & spice or some sort of pan sauce making crud) and olive oil sautéed green beans.
Dinner
Delivery steak pizziaola (NY Strip with tomato and veggies). This was not as satisfying as I’d like (too light on veggies) and I was still hungry afterward. Plus, the smell of the garlic bread was intoxicating.
Snack
A restorative Starbucks with almond milk (I brought my little bottle out) as balm against the wind and cold.
I also had some hazelnuts while I pouted about dinner.
Today was an unexpected dinner in day – luckily, I had just enough extra chicken to make a meal and a small sweet potato I could repurpose.
Breakfast
My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Cruciferous crunch with leftover pulled pork and a hazelnut oil & lime juice dressing.
Dinner
Doesn’t look like much, but sure was tasty. A simple sweet potato hash with chicken thighs and egg.
Snack
Hazelnuts. It has come to my attention that my hazelnut snack pics may be misleading. I eat 1 ounce of nuts per snack; the previous pictures feature only four because I had eaten most of my nuts before I remembered to take the picture and didn’t bother taking another.
Today’s food was light, bright, and flavorful.
Breakfast
My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Last night’s dinner leftovers – yum!
Dinner
Dinner was fantastic. Leftover pulled pork with a salad of Apple/mint/cilantro/radish and lime. Unfortunately, I did not take note of the quantities of ingredients I used so I won’t be able to share the recipe.
Snack
Hazelnuts.
Today was good. My chicken worked out for dinner and lunch was tasty. Score!
Breakfast
My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Cruciferous Crunch with some leftover roasted turkey breast and an Asian-inspired quick vinaigrette.
Dinner
Sesame Chicken Zoodles. Y-U-M.
Snack
Hazelnuts because lunch just wasn’t hearty enough. And extra hazelnuts after dinner.
Lunch was bright and flavorful and dinner was ridiculously easy.
Breakfast
My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Apple mint salad with leftover pork chop.
Dinner
Delicious and dead simple roasted Brussels with chicken.
Snack
1/4 cup roasted cashews.
Yum. Dinner was great and lunch was a no-brainer.
Breakfast
My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.
Lunch
Cruciferous crunch with the last of my leftover roasted meat and a simple hazelnut oil & roasted garlic Choula dressing.
Dinner
Instant Pot green coconut curry with carrots roasted cauliflower rice and radish/toasted almond topper.
Snack
Hazelnuts.
Oh hi there, nicotine fit, I’d almost forgotten about you. It is *now* that I remember Whole30 makes me want a damn cigarette. I don’t know what it is – it’s not like I eat that far off of W30 the rest of the year – but something about it just kicks my infrequent cigarette wanting into overdrive. Like, as I’m sitting here my lungs are tight and I can barely get a full breath (which is exactly what a nicotine fit felt like). For perspective, I quit 6 years ago and haven’t had even a drag since – and I know I don’t actually *want* one; my lungs just think they might. And they want to tell me about it. What’s next? Reese’s Nutrageous cravings? Those used to go hand-in-hand with wanting a smoke.
Breakfast
Breakfast was fantastic. My DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk. You’d think that after having this smoothie pretty much every week day for the last two years, that I’d be tired of it. Not so. My body craves this breakfast when I haven’t had it in awhile – just like it used to crave bacon & eggs & hashed browns with toast.
And my coffee … after a weekend full of less-than-stellar cups, I’m actually excited to be back with my old standard cup.
Lunch
Glaaaaaaaamorus! Let me tell you, I know how to pour the glamour on. Leftover roasted meat from last night’s dinner with the last of my guacamole and some roasted garlic Choula.
Dinner
Much better. Instant Pot pulled pork (recipe coming soon) with spiced roasted parsnips.
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