This morning I had black coffee while I got ready. I’ve given up adding oils or spices to make it taste better. I almost prefer the black over any of the other combos.

I had my banana with almond butter for breakfast.

Lunch was two hard boiled eggs, carrots, a peach, a plum, and proscuitto.

Dinner was chicken topped with proscuitto, asparagus, and roasted red pepper.

Today I had my black coffee and I really don’t think I had breakfast. Larry and I taught first grade Sunday School so in the hustle of trying to get ready and out the door, I forgot.

When we got home, my lunch was salad with steak.

Another blah cup of black coffee during Madeline’s nap (cream and honey in my coffee are what I miss more than ANYTHING, in case I haven’t mentioned it.)

For dinner, everyone else had tacos and I had taco salad, minus the shell.

This morning I had black coffee and my banana with almond butter.

For lunch I leftover steak with sea salt and a salad with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

The girls are wanting ice cream these days, and I’m letting them. This is my diet, not their, but it is so tempting to steal a bite!

I’m pretty sure I ate up half a bag of baby carrots. Once again, my appetite is insatiable.

For dinner we had perfectly cooked salmon with a grape tomato and olive salad. We had roasted potatoes and braised kale as sides with a dijon ailoli that Larry made sure was whole 30 compliant. It was delish. I put that ailoli on everything! Hurray for big flavor!

Oh and my virgin Bloody Mary is understood at this point. Right?

Let the cravings begin. I’ve done really well, and I haven’t had so much as one non-compliant crumb. But I’d be lying to you if I didn’t tell you I’m craving just about anything and everything I’m not supposed to have.

Had my coffee straight black. At this point coffee is functional for me. I’ve concluded that black coffee is gross no matter what I add to it, if I’m truthful. I had my banana with almond butter and that made me happy.

For lunch I had carrots, hard boiled egg and grapes. Nothing to write home about, I know. I normally eat our dinner leftovers for lunch but Larry and the girls had Chris’s pizza last night so it’s slim pickins in the fridge. I might add that I had a LOT of carrots. And a TON of grapes. I’m including a pic in this post that explains why we crave so much more food when we eat real food.

Dinner is what got me through the day, praise Jesus. STEAK. Beautiful medium-rare steak. Juicy and perfectly cooked. We also had mushrooms and handcut homemade fries.

I can describe today in one word. HUNGRY.

I had my black coffee which I still don’t love, and then a banana with almond butter. I am loving almond butter so much! (At least I ate breakfast, right?)

I realized at 10:30 when it was time for me to leave for school to teach the second half of the day, that I was going to miss lunch! I grabbed a handful of carrots and planned to grab something during my planning period.

At planning I jetted to Kroger to pick up some berries for our Whole 30 potluck after school. With a sick baby I had no time to make a dish. While I was at Kroger I grabbed some bananas and ate one on the way back to school.

After school at the potluck I had one meatball, some yummy pineapple coleslaw, chicken sausage and veg, and berries. I left hungry.

Not because the food wasn’t good, but because you have to eat so much more of REAL FOOD to feel satisfied. That is what I’m learning. I have spent all these years filling up on sugar, and breads, and dairy. And now that I’m eating healthy, my appetite is insatiable!

I grabbed some fruit from the non-compliant meal offerings in the teachers loung to sustain me through Open House.

When I got home, I inhaled a pork chop and some green beans.

Today I kept Madeline at home. She had a cough and a bit of a fever so just to be on the safe side.

I had my coffee with just coconut oil and a tiny dash of cinnamon in top. I had a hard boiled egg and that was it.

For lunch Larry made the last two tuna steaks and we had those on a bed of olives and other veg.

For dinner we had poached eggs and then I had proscuitto and pear.

Had coffee with a tsp of coconut oil, banana and hard boiled egg.

For lunch I had leftover roasted chicken, another hard boiled egg, carrot sticks, nectarine and a pair.

For dinner we had pork, scalloped potatoes (mine without dairy) and haricotverts.

 

I’ve been doing this a whole week! Woohoo! 

Same black coffee, trying a dash of cinnamon. Smells amazing but not loving the taste. It’s official. I’m in love with raw local honey and milk in my coffee. They are absolutely what I miss most with the exception maybe of red wine. 

But my whole mindset through all of the has really been to focus on what I can have vs what I can’t and I will tell you, if you can train your mind to think in that way, there is nothing to this whole 30 for you.

This was a school day so I have a banana and a hard boiled egg for breakfast. 

At lunch it was leftover steak, carrot sticks, fruit.

For dinner Larry roasted a whole chicken, potatoes and made an “Olive Garden salad” with all the good stuff you’d expect to find in one of those.

Madeline was not feeling well at all yesterday evening so we are keeping her home today.

Nothing like a needing to miss a day on the second week of school to get your sub folder in order and your classroom ship shape! 
I was sitting at my teacher’s desk around 5:20 this morning, half sleepy and half grateful. Grateful because I had no idea when I’d find the time to clean my classroom and get it ready for parents by Open House tomorrow and no idea when I’d get my sub folder done. Both are good to go now. 🙌🏻
What I was not and am not is worried about coughing, congested, yet happy Madeline. I love that when a child gets sick, paying $100+ for a clinic visit, often to tell me what I already know, is the no longer my first course of action. There will likely be no trip to the drug store either. 
Instead we are taking our health into our own hands: supporting her respiratory system by diffusing RC blend and supporting her respiratory system with Thieves overnight has already made a world of difference. This cost approximately $2. I’m abiding by the 24-hour-fever-free guideline and keeping her home today but she is looking and sounding so much better! #startsupportingsystems #stoptreatingsymptoms #yourhealth #inyourownhands #moneysaver

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