Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Day 1 January 5th

January 5


Guess I have lost my mind. Today I was starting my first Whole30®. I had every intention of starting it. However, I did nothing to prepare for it. I guess I thought I would just wake up and everything I would need would have magically appeared in my pantry and fridge.Well that didn't happen but......I did discover that I had enough things that are The Whole30® approved to make it through the day. I always make a batch of soup on the weekend and I freeze a couple of bowls for emergencies, like when I am just too tired to cook. I always have eggs on hand. I usually have a batch of homemade salsa. I always have pickles. So for breakfast I fixed 2 scrambled eggs with salsa and a cup of coffee and then it hit me. I DO NOT drink black coffee. I can't imagine why anyone would. But, I needed coffee. I couldn't even conceive of going a day without it. Wasn't it enough that I was saying goodbye to cokes? So I made a compromise with myself. Instead of the usual 3 tablespoons of powdered creamer I would only use one. Instead of the usual 1 tablespoon of sugar, I would use 1/2. The plan was to gradually learn to drink it black. So I wasn't exactly doing it The Whole30® way, but I was heavily influenced by it. For lunch I took a bowl of vegetable soup from the freezer and a cucumber. I love, love, love drinking water, so my fridge at school stays stocked with water, sparkling and plain. I made it through to the end of the day and headed to the grocery store. Tonight's dinner would be done right and I would buy food for the rest of the week. I am good with chicken. Can in fact cook it about a million different ways that The Whole30® would approve of, so I bought a lot of chicken (cage-free), pasteurized eggs, veggies, fruit (which I figured would go bad because I don’t like fruit) and some ground grass-fed beef. Many $$ later I was at home starting to prepare to do it right.

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