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/Sugar Detox/AIP Journey - Day 23 (What I ate for the day)

Day 23 people!  No judgey judgey here!

This is about me and everyone is different, right?!  I'm still sugar detoxing but not in the "whole30" scheme of things.  Well what do I mean?  See below and my breakfast!

I have Stupid Easy Paleo's Performance Paleo cookbook and in it is this Hulk Shake though the Sweet Potato Pie Recovery Shake sounds just as good!.  Perfect!  I do have some whey protein that D wasn't using but I think it's concentrate and not isolate.  As I learned today if you have a milk intolerance than isolate is the best choice because it removes more of the lactase leaving roughly 1%.  So I'm thinking do-able.  Why a protein shake?  One I think it will be absorbed by my compromised gut and if I'm not super hungry it's "light" enough.

Of course I ended up at Whole Foods while looking for my protein powder (they were having a sale!)  I ended up again at the hot bar!  I have food already made at home but to have Nom Nom Paleo's food, I mean really?!  I can't resist!  Pineapple Pulled Pork and Shredded Brussels with bacon.  I also love the broccoli crunch salad.  That one isn't the cleanest but still so good and I don't have it very often.

Not sure how good it actually looks to you but for me - so yum!

Here is my Whole Foods protein powder purchase.  I checked out the price for Whole Foods versus Vitamin Shoppe and it was $10 less.  Score!  I'm hoping it's as good as I've been told!  It's chocolate so really how bad can it be?  I just hope I don't react to it, which I don't think so!  I will try another Hulk Shake tomorrow morning and see how it goes!  It made me really cold this morning and it's already cold outside, brrr!!

Oh I did go to the gym this morning and here was my workout.

20 minute incline treadmill walk

gluten day!

100# gluten machine kickbacks

side lunges - bodyweight 4 sets 10 each side

abductor and adductor machine - roughly 115 to 145# on each 

reverse leg curls - single legs 40# then double 75#

lat raises

20# push press

35# pull overs

I also did ab work in between sets - so lots of abs as usual.

Tomorrow is a rest day so I will be doing restorative yoga.

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Whole30/Sugar Detox/AIP Journey - Day 17

Day 17 and going strong with my detox.  I feel good minus the lack of being able to sleep in at all.  Of course tomorrow I have to work so I know that will be the morning I will want to sleep!  I think I was up around 5:30.  I woke and just laid there but then turned on the tv.  That's when the cat came in and Jack decided to stir and finally get up and start heading downstairs.  That's my cue to get up and let him out.  Sleep wasn't great anyway.  My upper back is so sore from the massage but I had so much tension that it really needed to be worked out.  After I got the animals situated I got my shoulder heating pad out and warmed it up and got my coffee.  I had to work on my computer and get a couple packages mailed out along with getting a few things done around the house.  I had laundry and I wanted to do another 80 Obsession workout.  Today was AAA, arms, abs and a*s.  I didn't break a sweat and I have either 8 lb or 25 lb weights, so I'm doing this with 8 lbs.  After my workout I colored my hair, it was about time.  I figured while that was processing I would have time to finally eat, since I was finally getting hungry.  

Breakfast hash!  I took one already roasted sweet potato chopped and onions to my cast iron with coconut oil and began to cook that up.  I added a little bit of squash, leftover ground pork and arugula.  Some salt and some seasonings and breakfast was ready in 5 minutes.

After breakfast I got cleaned up and and headed out the door.  I had several stops to make.  I wanted to get a few plants, look for a desk, pick up a birthday gift for my step dad and pick up meds for Jack at the vet.  I also stopped at Starbucks for a coffee.  I probably shouldn't be doing that almost everyday!

So, I got home and decided I wanted to make a couple things.  I wan't hungry but knew I had some ingredients I didn't want to waste.  So I made one plantain waffle with the one plantain I had and froze that.  I wasn't pretty looking so I'll spare you the picture!  I also made from 21DSD (21 Day Sugar Detox) Moo-less avocado mousse.  I has 2 avocados, 2 bananas, cacao, cinnamon, coconut milk, vanilla and salt.  That's it!  Easy and no sugar.  So since I am doing a Whole30/Sugar Detox it fits into what I'm doing.  I had a few bites and though the recipe says it's for 2, I made 3.  I may just have some in the morning and add some collagen.  Will see what happens.

I did some stretching and decided to run back out one more time to Target and see if I could find a desk.  Which I did and under what I wanted to pay.  I'm going to transform the dog room into my office and this is the start.  I'm so excited to finally get it going.  I know D will be surprised when he sees it.  Though when I was putting it together 1 of the bars hit me in the head, so I have a lump and a slight headache.

Now it was time for dinner and I certainly was excited for this one.  Ribeye steak!

Another Real Plans meal.  This has seriously been the best week ever!  I am so happy that I was watching Steph Gadreau of Stupid Easy Paleo when she was talking all about this.  Tonight was ribeye steak with a bone broth reduction and herbed cauliflower.  The steak was suppose to be filet but ribeye sounded good and the reduction was suppose to have wine but omitted and the cauliflower should have been mashed.  So I made it my own, some tweaks in a recipe is fine as long as you know how to cook in the first place.  Good thing for me right!  

Speaking of knowing how to cook, it's one thing I am looking forward to as an NTP, either teaching someone how to cook great food or cooking for them.  I'm also looking forward to doing some recipe development too.  So many things to think about and do, exciting!

So until tomorrow.  I need to relax my back and hip more tonight before work tomorrow.  Also going to create a juice tomorrow and an açaí bowl at work.  I should post those as well!  Stay tuned