Whole 30 Day 1

I woke early (for me) this morning. I don’t know if that was excitement or worry over starting this new program or something else altogether but I was up about 9:30.

I actually remembered to do my morning exercises! These are mostly stretching to regain some mobility and strengthening because I want to be able to lift heavy things when Dave isn’t there to do my lifting for me.

Breakfast was a mushroom scramble. Basically a handful of mushrooms sautéed in ghee (butter that has had the milk solids removed) then a couple eggs seasoned with salt, pepper, and onion powder stirred into the pan.

My morning computer time included receiving a Whole 30 newsletter inviting me to join a forum of people supporting one another through this process. I lost a bunch of time to reading everyone’s introductions and adding mine. I am the “old lady” of the group since most of them appear to be in their 30s.

About noon my stomach announced that my breakfast was not enough food. I ate a half dozen olives and it became content again.

In this afternoon’s package deliveries was our newest toy.

A portable pull up bar. Height adjustable so Dave and I can both use it. Well, we can sort of use it. Right now neither of us can actually do a full pull up. But, I have instructions on how to exercise on it so as to build up to doing a real pull up. Maybe even more than one. For now, all I can do is called a dead hang. Yup, it’s just what it sounds like. I just grab the bar, using the correct form, and hang there. I can actually feel my arms straightening and later felt my back muscles wondering on earth I did to them today.

Lunch, which was very late afternoon was a meatloaf burger (made with water chestnuts instead of bread), roasted squash, and tossed salad with homemade dressing. Oh! I haven’t told you about the dressing!

I made homemade mayonnaise. And it worked the first try! Not everyone who has tried this recipe was so successful so I am thrilled! Then I added other ingredients to some of that mayonnaise to make Whole 30 approved Creamy Italian dressing for Dave and Ranch dressing for me. I still can’t believe I made non-dairy Ranch dressing since normally it’s primary ingredient is buttermilk. But it was very tasty so is likely to become a staple in my new food repetoire.

For supper I planned to stir some tuna and chopped tomatoes into some of that creamy mayonnaise and eat that with a banana. I did the first part of that, somewhat modified though. See, I had just been reading a couple of blogs about pizza which started a craving. So, I stirred some oregano and onion powder into my tuna/tomato dish which satisfied that craving just fine. But, it filled me so full I didn’t eat the banana.

So day one of my Whole 30 is going amazingly well. I even have approved snack foods ready in case I get hand-to-mouth disease later this evening. If it all goes as well as it is so far this will be a piece of cake. So to speak. 🙂

TTYL,

Linda