I think the thing that has kept me so busy this week has been constant cooking! With the Whole30 plan, I'm finding myself needing to cook 3 meals a day, mainly cause we're newbies and haven't quite figured it out completely! The next time we do it we'll have it all figured ;) (my husband would go crazy if he heard me say "the next time we do it" :p). It really hasn't been that bad at all! It's not like any "diet" I've ever done before!! It's very maintainable the only things we've been caught up on is all the hidden sugar in things ..... the worst was BACON! Yes bacon has sugar and that was pretty devastating news!! Not just bacon but prosciutto, pancetta, ham, all sausages (even the "healthy" ones) ... anything that you could think of to eat with eggs at breakfast time, has sugar or rice flour. (I just rediscovered smoked salmon today! And was happy to find out the ingredients list read: Salmon, Salt. YAY!) Also we did manage to find one lot of sausages from a small "boutique" butcher in town that had sausages without sugar, and boy they were tasty, Lamb Kofta sausages nom nom nom ..... but at $7.50 for five sausages, (and that was on special!!!) they won't be something we buy very regularly!
So given that we had been eating bacon up until last week, (plus some truly accidental eats last night) our Whole30 might be more like a Whole45, but we don't like to look at it that way! The last 2 weeks have just been a settling in period and now we get into it!! Also i feel that even when it's over we're not gonna jump straight back into eating crap anyway so it doesn't really matter "how long" we do it, I'd like to stay as close to this way of eating as I can, as I can really see the benefits. I don't feel hungry in between meals, I've pretty much almost completely stopped craving sugar, it's easier to say no to food (so maybe it's starting to have less of a hold on me), on the down side I have been a bit exhausted lately which could be either I need to tailor my eating to suit me better (which they really encourage you to do constantly in the book) or it could be that my body is working hard to repair itself which they talk about happening during the first few weeks.
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| Some of the foods we've been eating over the last fortnight! Bottom left and middle were from Salsa tapas restaurant. I emailed in advance to make sure there would be something we could order and they made a whole menu for us which was exciting! The downside is that your putting your complete trust in the chefs, hoping they don't use ingredients you can't eat! We did make a couple of mistakes though (which I realised after reading a few more chapters of the book today), the mushrooms had a sherry dressing, alcohol in any form (even cooked) is not allowed; and pancetta definitely has sugar in it! Booooo... |
The other thing we've been excited about this week is our new canoe! We just brought it last week and took it out yesterday and today. We've had so much fun in it! We took it nice and easy yesterday and just cruised around a dam getting used to it and then today we hit the river and it was an entirely different trip! The river moved us along at a nice pace with occasional "bumpy" parts which were heaps of fun! My big boy Theo sat up the front of the canoe and paddled so well and my pretty Izzie sat in front of the front seat, "King of the World" style and took all the water that hit the front of the boat like a champ, so brave!
It was the perfect mix of serenity and adventure! Love my family time :)
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