Half way .....

Heeey! We're about half way through our Whole30 .... and your probably thinking whoa this has been a long 30 days but we actually restarted after making a few accidental boo boos! So we would've been 5 days off finishing but that's okay! We've made the executive decision to finish the day before my little ballerina's birthday (we'll end on Thursday 6th Sept ..... so it's The Final Countdown ...... di do dooo dooo, bu da bu baaa baaaa), it's a few days short of 30 days (well technically it would be Day 40!! And our boo boos were so very minor!!) but we like to make a big deal of birthdays in our house. Izzie has requested a sushi dinner and a surprise :) Such a precious girl! 

At this stage in my Whole30 journey, I am concentrating on sleep! I do love sleep! In fact I've always thought I've had an unhealthy relationship with sleep! But it turns out I've just been having too much of it in the mornings and not enough at night! (Sorry, I just noticed how many !!!!!! I use!) So I'm focusing on much earlier night's and much earlier mornings. It's one of my "Whole30 goals" which I will share later on this week (after I actually sat down and written them out :p). So far we've had some pretty exciting results which I love sharing!! 

1. Our family's eating habits have improved 100%! Every meal is at the table (when we're at home), together. It's so enjoyable, the kids rave about my cooking (yes, meat and veg 100 different ways), they don't complain about certain foods anymore, they eat what's put in front of them!
2. I don't feel the urge to snack in between meals anymore! YAY! I'm full between meals and now that my body isn't reliant on sugar for energy, I don't get ravenously hungry if I'm out and don't get to eat at meal time ... my body still keeps kicking on, feeding off it's own fat! Sweeeeet!
3. On the topic of my body eating it's own fat, my jeans are getting a bit looser. Yesterday I pulled my jeans out of the dryer and instead of doing my usual "Stretch and Jump" jeans routine (please tell me someone else does that .... especially straight out of the dryer!), I just stepped into them and pulled them up, did the button up, put my belt on, had to pull it in so much I don't have any extra belt holes (luckily my belt has little flowers all the way around so I can put the little spoke through one of the flowers), and my jeans had a nice little bunch in the front .... it looks real pretty! :p But very exciting!
4. Also on that note, husband thinks my back is looking slimmer .... that always makes me laugh! I hear it every time I loose weight, "Wow your back is looking slim", it always makes me think, whoa did I have a really massive back or something? What are they trying to say? Lol, so random! It must be where I loose weight from first!
5. I only noticed this one last week cause it was .. *Cough thattimeofthemonth Cough* .. BUT I haven't had any hormonal/emotional ups and downs! I had noticed since having no. 3 child, I had very prominent PMS. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed (sorry husband & kids!), but I could always tell when that dreaded time of the month was approaching as a few days before I would get quite over emotional, really needy (towards husband dear) and just generally down. This month my period caught me by surprise! There was no roller-coaster lead up! WOO! Also in general I haven't been an emotional wreck. I've just kind of cruised through this month ..... and there have been stresses, we have faced some things that would normally have me declaring "I'm going back to bed, I don't wanna deal with this" but not this month!

Who would've thought that food plays so much of a part in your day to day life. We put things in our mouths and don't put much more thought into than that! I think what excites me the most is, we're making life long changes for our family! It may be just 30 days but they are habits we'll take on for life and I just am so stoked we can do this for our children.

I've been a bit slack at taking photos of what we've been eating over the last week or so (and some of the meals just aren't worth photographing :p) but I have a couple to put up! I hate writing a new post without having photos to put in it, I'm a very visual person!

I urge everyone to always have frozen prawns in their freezer!
I managed to whip this up in ten mins when I realised I hadn't
organised lunch and husband started work in half an hour!
Salad of mixed lettuce,  avocado, red onion, prawns &
home-made mayo. Easy and tasty .... bring on summer!

This is how we keep our meals interesting! Home-made
mayo, ranch dressing, tartare sauce & pesto. The top 3
are all made from the mayo base.

Chicken breast crumbed with shredded coconut! Was a
nice alternative to breadcrumb, had a sweet taste to it.
Served with roasted sweet potato, & a roasted broccoli,
brussel sprout & pesto salad, & a dollop of ranch dressing.

Roast Day! Roast chicken with sweet potato, pumpkin &
steamed broccoli. I pushed some ghee, herbs & lemon peel
under the skin of the chicken, it was soo tasty!!

My take on spag bol! Zucchini "spaghetti", & pork
"Bolognese" ..... this was really a yummy, fresh take on
a family classic! 

MMMMmmm my favourite, roast pork, complete with
crackling and a yummy fresh coleslaw. 

SO that's a few of the meals we've had over the last week. I recently brought the pdf version of the "Well Fed" cookbook and it is amazing! I think I'll have to purchase the actual cookbook! It's so helpful, not just the recipes but the meal planning sections! It's been an absolute God-send. Go ahead, take a look at the free 30-page sampler!! You won't regret it :)

Nearing the end of the week, I hope you all have a rocking weekend! I am looking forward to a games night with the girls on Friday! Woo! Party animals :D Catch y'all later x