Easter Baby

Great day all around. Storm, calm, repeat. Family fun love chill.

Coffee soy maple
Eggs
GF toast slice
Turkey sausage (4, opps. Oink oink)
Peanut butter
WW Bagel
Slice Tri tip
Potato
Cutie
Apple

Dude, where's my greens... Fail! Tomorrow!!!

Pool closed due to lightening, major bummer. Took an hour power walk with girl pup blaring music. Awesome.

Monday madness: run long-er and swim long!

Grasshopper Bars

Great day for Easter celebration.

No candy, butter, bread, snacks.

The two splurges were Tri tip & homemade by Babe grasshopper creme de menthe bars. Yum!

Two eggs
GF toast
Vegan butter
Deviled eggs (2)
2 slices BBQ Tri Tip (lunch & dinner)
Potato salad (lunch & dinner)
Beans (lunch & dinner)

Passed on soft bread rolls, butter, tons of candy, soda, etc....

Had coffee with sugar and it was soooo sweet. Prefer my coffee with dash of maple.

Rainbow

So much candy & pretty sweets... Didn't eat any candy! Whoop whoop!

Choices

The choice is yours. Always.
Great day.

Coffee
Steel oats soy maple
Dog walk
Run 2.5 miles. Felt great.

Redwood cafe~2 poached eggs, spinach, GF toast, apple & carrot ginger juice

Swim

Lunch at Mary's, so good~grilled chicken mushrooms & bruschetta on side. No bread butter salad pasta, yeah!

Three cuties
Thai dinner~coconut soup, tofu veggies, chicken & veggies, peanut sauce.

Feeling great.

Need more: greens sleep water.
This weekend~no pastry or chocolate, eeeks!

Need~ARM workout, push up, weights!

Stay the course

Pretty proud. Went to favorite family dinner place & stayed the course.

No sourdough bread & butter (that was rough)
Soup yum
Salad with oil & vinegar (no blue cheese, sigh)
No salami but tons of beans & antipasti
Grilled Sole
Smidge of tarter sauce, maybe 1/2 a tsp
Baked potato, no butter or sour dream only chives & marinara sauce

Did indulge in two big bites if chocolate mousse pudding.

Wooohoo. Didn't fall completely off the wagon yet!

Tomorrow~ run & swim!

Week in Review

Had a killer day of bike buying.  Didn't sneak in a swim like I wanted (swimming in the rain is the best) but gotta be OK with that.  Overall the first week of 30 days has been rad.  A few rough patches to start, still hungry a lot, still need to eat TONS more green veggies and drink more water and sleep more but overall, damn proud with everything so far.

Stuck to plan, making great decisions and creations to compensate for no dairy, sugar, gluten, meat.  Did have a frosting shot at Sift one day and two grandma cookies but other than that, nada!  Realized through this first week how much I snack and how much sugar I eat and just eat eat eat.

Standard breakfast is coffee, dash of soy and maple syrup.
Steel oats (best, new fav) and dash of soy & maple
Cuties by the truckload
Apples
Tortillas with beans and daiya cheese
Kale salad
Broth
Salmon
Gluten free bread/toast

Another favorite today, popcorn cooked in coconut oil (not canola), yeast and salt.

Might give myself a pass this weekend at Easter for a slice or two of tri tip at lunch BBQ but won't be eating any candy or cupcakes (that'll be rough)...

Ran with pup on Tuesday and that felt good, achilles was ok.  Need a run tomorrow, maybe not with pup, to be more streamlined and not as mosey.

Got on the scale today and have lost 5 lbs in a week, a solid 5lbs....yes please & thank you!

Awesome

Great day! Despite odd headache (change in air pressure)...stayed on food track! Swim!

Coffee
Eggs
Veggies
Honey
Apple
1/2 banana
Kale salad
Dash of ranch (too lazy to make evoo dressing. Ranch was awful but just a smidge)
Curry soup, potato coconut milk carrots lentils
Tortilla
Beans
Daiya
Smoothie bliss. Almond milk water berries kale pineapple honey. Sooo icy & fabulous

A bit too sweet

Had sugar yesterday. Frosting at Sift & then a cookie at night. Both yummy and way too rich. Have a headache today... Not sure if sugar or pms related. Glad I had some sugar yesterday, reminds me not to fall off wagon at Easter sugar fest!

Did a sprint Tri yesterday. So rad.

Run with dog, 2 miles
Bike, 1.5 hr hilly loop solo
Swim 25 min

Tired today!!!

Dinner:
Big stalk of broccoli
Mayo
Veggie broth
A 1/2 cup oats as snack.

Doing sooooo good

Sleep
Water
Steel oats refried/heated in vegan butter, soy & maple dash
Tortilla, beans, salmon
Run/walk dog 2 miles
Bike ride
Swim

Feeling groovy.

Good life

Great dinner with Dude listening to the Rat Pack & chatting about our day.

Beans
Tortilla
Daiya
Salmon
Evoo honey vinegar dressing
Tons of arugula

Yummmmmmmm

Feeling great

GF pancake
Eggs
Cukes
Salmon
Coffee
Honey
Steel cut oats snack
Soy milk
Maple syrup
Salmon
Beans
Greens
Corn tortilla

No exercise today just chores. Man I jones for my swim & run. Like an addiction. Tomorrow.

Hard to say no to all the lovely pastries at The TeaRoom. Sigh...again awareness that I used to indulge a LOT!

More water needed as always!

Have cycle yesterday and today. No migraine yet. Fingers crossed. Hmmmmm

Good day

Man I am a sugar & dairy addict. Been craving it something awful and realizing that I ate a LOT of both of those things daily.

Steel oats
Coffee
Cuties
Tuna capers pears mayo almonds
Seaweed

Need MORE water & sleep!

Day Three

Awesome day.

Woke crabby tired grumpy hormotional.
Awesome forced me to hit the road. Met ladies for ride. GLORIOUS!

Fitness Endorphins are an insane drug, nothing better! I thrive on exercise. Never would have predicted that as a teen or 20-something. THRIVE.

Gave myself a pass on a few food items today and feel cool about. For the most part, really sticking to the plan. Harder than I thought!

Steel oats soy milk & maple dash
Backroads ride
Cold steel oats (yum!)
Big side salad
Fresh cod cakes
Poached eggs on greens (no bread)
Hollandaise (not too much.worth it)
Coffee with honey (said no to 1/2 and 1/2)
One bite of hashbrowns. Had already eaten fries.

Didn't order beignet my fav :-( next time after 30 days.
Tons on menu I wanted but really tried (except h-sauce to avoid cheese tasties)
Felt great about not getting my fav ice cream at Mimi's, got sorbet instead. Small raspberry coconut. Only after 3/4 done did I realize it might not have dairy but had sugar. Haha. Too late. Oh well. refreshing!

Really hungry this afternoon~ normally it'd be cheese triscuits cookies. Easily.

Instead it's dried peaches.
Peanut butter. Apple & carrots.


Awareness is the name of the game lately. Awareness!

Day Two

Went ok. Still foggy and hungry despite eating tons.

Oranges steel oats (favorite) nuts eggs kale sushi salad oranges. plain breadstick. Water tea.

Said no to so much yum~pizza cookies cheesy breadsticks mayo cheese butter.

Smoking

Day 1.... Done!

Realized I snack a LOT. I eat a lot if cheese, mayo, sour cream. I didn't today and I'm hungry!

Ate tons of oranges bananas nuts salmon rice tea water.

Said no to sugar a few times. Harder than I thought to just 'not eat it.'

All in all day was great. A bit on edge from no swim or run (no kiddo care & then no motivation late in evening). I love my daily trek. Tomorrow somehow!

Wear the nice watch...often.

Journey

Be HERE now

One month to be accountable~mind body spirit.

Cut out:

Sugar (eeeeek over Easter, Yikers)
Beef
Pork
Chicken
!DAIRY!
Gluten

Light on:

Salt
Fresh pastured eggs
Local fish, seafood (oysters!)
Honey
Molasses
Soy

Heavy on:

Water
Spices
Herbs
Vegetables
Dark greens
Fruit
Rice
Beans
Nuts
SLEEP

RUN
SWIM
BIKE
WEIGHTS
WALK


Track all money spent....honestly for 30 days to gauge my needs vs wants.

Track headaches, Achilles pain, gas, heartburn, weight.

Track all food, recipes.

Learn to cook Thai food

Follow Gracious Pantry & Weelicious, OFW.

Create healthy snacks & lunches for whole family.

Just an experiment in balance, self care, appreciating my body, finances, opportunities.

Create a list of goals (emotional, physical, vacations, possessions)

30 days....

Tomorrow 3/21-4/21 I hope (fingers crossed) to track my food, fitness, weight, headaches, money....for one month. For sooooooo many reasons, I need to do this.