Whole30/Sugar Detox/AIP Journey - Day 24 (What I ate for the day)

Thursday!  I actually slept in until D's alarm went off!  6:15!  Woot woot!  Of course I didn't go to bed until after 10:30.

I had my protein shake and it made me chilly!  But at least not as chilly as I was yesterday!

Shortly after I had finished I received an email that the order I put in for work was ready early!  At least by an hour and a half which was perfect since I could easily park now at work and unload.  I grabbed a decaf coffee while at work and headed to Whole Foods.  YES, again!  I didn't go to the hot bar!  It was too early anyway!  I needed to get a sweet potato, ground turkey, kale and yogurt.  I was good and didn't get anything more!  After I went to the pet store to get treats and kitty food.  Hopefully there will be a surprise on Saturday!

When I got home I cooked up some Paleo Breakfast Scotch Eggs from Stupid Easy Paleo that I wanted for tonight's breakfast for dinner.  I only made half the recipe since I still have meatloaf.  I cooked up the other half of the sausage for another time too.

D asked for sweet potato chocolate chip cookies.  So I used Sally's Baking Addiction Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe and made a couple tweaks.  I subbed sweet potato for pumpkin, used coconut sugar instead of white sugar.  Everything else I kept the same.

I then did some restorative yoga.  If you haven't checked out Yoga By Candace I would highly suggest her Youtube channel.  By the end of the 30 minutes my stomach was rumbling!  Luckily all I needed to do was reheat my food and lunch would be served.

AIP meatloaf and sriracha brussels.  So good together.  As I have stated when I first made the meatloaf it is packed with veggies.  If you haven't checked out Real Plans yet I would highly suggest it.  Specially if you have a busy lifestyle and hate to meal plan.

Dinner!  I've been looking forward to this breakfast for dinner.  I had the scotch eggs I made earlier (I had one here and was still hungry so ate another).  Then 2 slices of Legit Bread with Performance Nut Butter.  It was seriously good, except I needed another egg!  Oh well, it's all good and it's all healthy good for me food!  I want to pack on some muscle and show those gains from the gym!

Oh, and D liked the cookies.  Said they are a little thicker then regular chocolate chip but then these are gluten free, without eggs and added sweet potato.  I hope you try out Sally's recipes!  Everything she makes is fabulous and I have been able to convert everything I have ever made to gluten free.

Whole30 Journey - Day 11 Friday!

Happy Friday!!

Day 11 of Whole30/Sugar Detox

It's going by pretty quickly and it feels pretty normal.  Some days I'm hungrier than others.  Kinda like today.

Yoga with big dawg - I was in bridge and he was in, well he wasn't into anything but lying there for the moment.

Ignore the burner in the background!  I clean it and the next time I cook it looks like that.  So frustrating!  Well I wasn't really hungry so I opted for coffee with collagen.  About 2 hours after I got to work I had 2 pieces of bacon.  I knew I would be a bit hungry.

Lunch I had early, like 10:30 early.  I brought the remaining bit of Greek Beef Stew from Melissa Joulwan that I posted earlier in the week.  Yes that is a repurposed jar.  I wonder how the taste would have been if I had done the cinnamon sticks rather than 2 tbs cinnamon.  The flavor was just wonderful.  I chopped up the avocado and mixed it in.  It gave the stew an added thickness that it needed, so satisfying.  I was definitely full after it and knew it would carry me over until dinner.

I had work things to do "after" work.  I had bread to pick up and pastries.  I also had to pick up milks for the coffeehouse.  I had a small bit of almond butter, which I need to watch.  I can be really intense with nut butters and then it shows in my face (acne).

I got hungry before D got home so I went ahead and made dinner.  He showed up right when I finished.

My meals always vary slightly from his.  I had a baked sweet potato that I cut in slices and placed in the broiler to get some crispy edges and seasoned with a little salt.  In a cast iron skillet I cooked up burgers.  I've been typically getting grass fed beef at Trader Joe's.  If it's on sale at Whole Foods I get it there.  I ran out of cooked fresh veggies this morning so I cooked up frozen brussels and broccoli in my cast iron in the grease from the burger and added arugula at the end to wilt down.  I topped the burger with Sir Keninsgton's mayo and 2 pieces of bacon.  Because bacon on everything, right!

I sent my bestie a care package that she received today and in it was some Performance Nut Butter that I bought as a kickstarter back in summer.  I sent her 2 packets to try.  She raved how great it was. I still hadn't tried it, until tonight.

It isn't what I thought it would be, it was better.  First, it's just so good!  I was expecting more of a peanut butter consistency (thick) but the addition of the coconut butter makes this nut butter very pale, very smooth and just pleasant.  Easy to get addicted to this nut butter.  It's paleo, vegan and keto friendly.  Triple score right there.  I only planned on eating some of it, but I'm eating it all.  This nut butter is sold on Amazon too, so definitely check it out if you love all things nut butter!