WHOLE 30: Week 4

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Day 20 (Sun 1/22/17):

Breakfast: Coffee with almond milk and cinnamon, Coffee Chocolate RxBar

Lunch: Tuna lettuce Wraps: Canned tuna with chopped up cherry tomatoes, red onion and salt & pepper on romaine lettuce leafs

Dinner:   Plantain Chips with Avocado

Day 21 (Mon 1/23/17):

Exercise/Stretch: 10 Min Gentle Yoga in Bed , 4 Min HIIT Workout

Breakfast: Coffee with almond milk and cinnamon, Veggie Egg Muffins – with mushrooms, sausage, spinach and onions

Morning Snack: Blueberry RxBar

Lunch:  Shredded Chicken Taco Lettuce Wraps – homemade taco seasoning, tomatoes, onions, salt and pepper and avocado on top of romaine lettuce leaves.

Afternoon Snack: Apple

Dinner: Egg Roll in a Bowl on Romaine Lettuce Leaves -subbed broccoli slaw for regular slaw, subbed ground turkey for pork, subbed Sambal Oelek for sriracha to make it whole 30 compliant.

Day 22 (Tue 1/24/17):

Exercise/Stretch: 10 Min Gentle Yoga in Bed for Morning Wake Up

Breakfast:  Coffee with almond milk and cinnamon, Veggie Egg Muffins with mushrooms, sausage, spinach and onions – put Avocado  and hot sauce on top 🙂

Morning Snack:  Coconut Chocolate RxBar, Berries

Lunch: Leftover Egg Roll in a Bowl on Romaine Lettuce Leaves -subbed broccoli slaw for regular slaw, subbed ground turkey for pork, subbed Sambal Oelek for sriracha to make it whole 30 compliant.

Dinner: Basil-Strawberry Chicken

Exercise/Stretch: Bedtime Yoga Wind Down

End of Day- How am I feeling?:  I loved both yoga videos today!! It made me feel refreshed!

Day 23 (Wed 1/25/17):

Exercise/Stretch: 10 Min Gentle Yoga in Bed for Morning Wake Up

Breakfast:  Coffee with almond milk and cinnamon, Worked from home today and I ran out of eggs at home, so I just had a Coffee Chocolate RxBar

Morning Snack: Berries

Lunch: I made leftover Strawberry-Basil Chicken, but dropped it all over the floor :/ wahhh … so I made Sweet Potato Toast.. I put avocado, sliced cherry tomatoes and salt and pepper on it!  O.M.G. …sooo yummy!!!!! You have to try it!

Dinner: Leftover Egg Roll in a Bowl (Last one) on Romaine Lettuce Leaves -subbed broccoli slaw for regular slaw, subbed ground turkey for pork, subbed Sambal Oelek for sriracha to make it whole 30 compliant.

End of Day- How am I feeling?: Got so much done today working from home! MY evening workout was snowblowing and shoveling today! 🙂

Day 24 (Thu 1/26/17):

Exercise/Stretch: More shoveling today and 10 Min Gentle Yoga in Bed to wake up!

Breakfast: Apple Cinn RxBar

Morning Snack:   Berries

Lunch:  Spaghetti Squash with meat sauce  – I only used this recipe to make the spaghetti squash since I have never cooked it before!  I browned some ground beef and mixed it in with a whole30 compliant tomato sauce- I used one we found at Hy-Vee: Botticelli

Dinner: Strawberry-Basil Chicken.  Made it again, it was so good!!

Exercise/Stretch: Bedtime Yoga Wind Down

Day 25 (Fri 1/27/17):

Breakfast: Coffee Chocolate RxBar, Eggs with ground beef, hot sauce, avocado.

Lunch: Leftover Spaghetti Squash with meat sauce  – I only used this recipe to make the spaghetti squash since I have never cooked it before!  I browned some ground beef and mixed it in with a whole30 compliant tomato sauce- I used one we found at Hy-Vee: Botticelli

Afternoon:  Starbucks grande Cold Brew

Dinner: I ate breakfast and lunch a little too late, so I wasn’t hungry for dinner.  I ate an apple later in the evening and that was enough to tide me over.

End of Day- How am I feeling?:  For some reason, I felt like blah today!  Maybe that’s why I wasn’t hungry for dinner?  I just felt lazy and like I wanted to lay around!  Not sure why?

Day 26 (Sat 1/28/17):

Exercise/Stretch: Helped a friend move some things, but that’s about it today.

Breakfast: Coffee Chocolate RxBar

Lunch: Sweet Potato Toast – with avocado, cherry tomatoes, salt and pepper

Afternoon Snack:  Handful of Nuts, Iced Black Coffee from Starbucks

Dinner: Blackened Shrimp, Asparagus and Avocado Salad

End of Day- How am I feeling?:  Felt much more energized today!!

Day 27 (Sun 1/29/17):

Late Breakfast/Lunch: Sweet Plantain, Apple, Bacon Breakfast Hash - added in some Aidell’s Apple Chicken Sausage (Costco), and fried up an egg over top!

Dinner: Still had leftover Spaghetti Squash – made more ground beef and sauce for over top! For some reason, this wasn’t as satisfying for me today?!

Day 28 (Mon 1/30/17):

Exercise/Stretch: 10 Min Gentle Yoga in Bed to wake up!

Breakfast: Leftover Sweet Plantain, Apple, Bacon Breakfast Hash - added in some Aidell’s Apple Chicken Sausage (Costco), and fried up an egg over top

Morning Snack:   Berries

Lunch: Chipotle – had a Carnitas bowl- Carnitas, Romaine, pico and salsa verde, and lots of guacamole!  YUMMY!!  This is the first time I have gone out to eat during the work week while doing Whole30 and I have to say, it was a success! I got a water as a drink too 😉

Dinner: Balance Bowl with steak instead of chicken (prepped chicken for the next few meals)  -this was superrrr yummy!

Exercise/Stretch: Bedtime Yoga Wind Down

Day 29 (Tue 1/31/17):

Exercise/Stretch: 15 min Morning Wake Up Yoga (Not in bed- this one is great for a quick morning core workout and stretch), Shoveling snow

Breakfast: Veggie Egg Muffins – made with mushrooms, sausage, and kale, coffee with coconut milk

Morning Snack:   Mixed Berries

Lunch: Leftover Balance Bowl with steaka and chicken

Dinner: Teriyaki Broccoli with mushrooms and onions – threw some broccoli in a pan along with some sliced mushrooms and chopped onions.  I then added Coconut Aminos Teriyaki Sauce for the teriyaki flavor!  YUM

Day 30 (Wed 2/1/17):

Exercise/Stretch: 15 min Morning Wake Up Yoga

Breakfast: Coffee Chocolate RxBar , berries, black coffee

Lunch: Leftover Balance Bowl with Chicken

Dinner:   Shredded Chicken Taco Lettuce Wraps- boiled 2 chicken breasts, shredded the meat, put in a pan with a little bit of water and homemade taco seasoning, once heated and thoroughly seasoned, I chopped up some cherry tomatoes, onion and avocado and ate it on romaine lettuce leaves

   

Week 4 Recap:

Well, I have to say, the last week was probably one of the tougher ones.  I know this was a little more than a week, but since I started mid-week, I figured I would put the last week, plus the last few days all in one.

I just felt lazy all week and didn’t feel like cooking, but I stuck it out!! I felt great overall, I just didn’t feel like cooking.  Can’t healthy food just be readily available for us, pre-made and everything?  Maybe sometime in the future!  I definitely met my goal of working out more this week, although it was shoveling snow and yoga, but somethings better than nothing, right?  I have been drinking my Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides with hot water and lemon juice about every other day also!

I will do a whole post on my entire Whole30 Recap, as well as results from the diet!  It should be coming soon!

If you missed a week, click on the week for the blog post:

WEEK 1, WEEK 2, or WEEK 3 , or see my Results HERE.

I hope that by sharing my food diary and recipes, it helps you on your Whole30 journey!  More on that in my final post 😉