Whole30 Day 14

Whole30 Day 14

Today went really well!  I didn't sleep much last night but I woke up wide awake early so I thought I would go ahead and get up.  I made breakfast, went to the gym, went grocery shopping, spent hours cooking and prepping food, booked a vacation for January 2014 for our 5-year anniversary (YAY!), and had no time to rest - but it was great!  

WEIGHT - ahh the dreaded scale!!! I know Whole30 says to wait until the end of the 30 days to weigh.  However, I have been feeling like I was gaining lately, mainly because I am having troubles wrapping my head around the fact that I am just eating and not counting anything (points, calories, etc.).  I can easily gain a lot of weight without feeling it in my clothes because I carry my weight so well.  I really wanted to make it to the end of the 30 days without weighing myself but was super stressed.  So today when I was at the gym with my friend Julie, we decided I would cover my eyes and weigh and she would tell me if I gained, loss, or stayed the same - not how much.  She said I lost!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited! It could be one pound for all I care right now, it is just nice to know I can eat without counting anything and NOT GAIN WEIGHT!!! YAY!!!  I will update on how much I lost when I officially weigh at the end of the 30 days. 

My fridge is PACKED!!!

I have something after work every night this week so I had to plan ahead so I would stay on track.  I knew it would help me out if I precooked and packaged up my veggies for the week so I did that.  I even found online that you can make sweet potatoes ahead in a slow cooker.  I scrubbed the potatoes with some water to clean them off and put them in the slow cooker - do not dry them!  Then cooked them on love for four hours and now will be able to microwave them for a minute and have a yummy sweet potato ready to go!!! Here you can see some pics of what my fridge looks like right now!  

So excited to save some time this week!

Exercise

Treadmill

I went to the gym today with my friend Julie.  We used to do a circuit together 2-3 times a week but with me moving and sicknesses and stuff going on, we hadn't worked out hard in about 6 weeks so today was super tough! But we made it :)

Here is the circuit we did:

• 20 min warm-up treadmill (speed 3.2, incline 5.0)
• 1st round
• Pointed toe squats, 25
• Side lunge, leg lift. Toes forward- 25 each leg
• Toe touch/crunch, and leg lift, each leg. 25 



Stair Stepper

• Repeat 2x
• 2nd round
• 25 push-ups
• 25 leg lifts 
• 25 lemon squeezers
• Repeat 2x
• 3rd round
• Sumo squat with heel riases - 50x
• Stair Climber 5 min

Food

Meal #1
Bacon (3), Eggs (3 - cooked in bacon grease), sweet potato. 

Snack
I had a cutie and a handful of pecans after the gym. The pecans were from a local farmer and they were AMAZING!!!

Meal #2
Left over Tom Kar and tuna salad with avocado.
I only ate half of the soup because I felt full.
Then my tummy hurt.  I think my tummy does not like
coconut milk at all so maybe no more Tom Kar for me :(

Meal #3
Left over meatloaf, asparagus, spring mix salad with pecans and EVOO/Balsamic.

I had a Tall Tribute coffee from Starbucks today ... YUM!
I used to HATE black coffee but I am starting to like it!
And this was under $2 instead of what I usually get,
which is always over $5 haha