Whole 30, Day 3

I slept even later this morning so I was relieved to read in today’s support newsletter that this is the day you are most likely to need extra sleep. It even talked about how to take the best nap this afternoon. See, it’s not just me being lazy. 🙂

Because I slept so late Dave was ready for lunch when I was ready for breakfast. This is not new territory for us. I had dinner for breakfast today. We had steak, baked sweet potato, and green beans.

The steak was our first grass-fed steak. The Primal/Paleo/Whole 30 folks are big on pastured/free-range meats and poultry. No corn-fed beef if you can get grass-fed. Now I know for sure that cattle free to wander develop stronger muscles than those kept penned up; the steak could have used some tenderizer. But it was good.

After that meal we spent a little time preparing for future meals. Dave boiled and peeled a dozen eggs. I chopped pre-cooked turkey thighs and stirred them with Paleo mayo and seasonings into some of the carrots and zucchini I shredded yesterday to make chicken salad. Having a plan for meals and doing the prep work to make it easy to eat when you get hungry is an important part of sticking to a strict eating plan. We are doing it right so far.

Lunch was the chicken salad and a banana.

Part of the afternoon was spent on more food prep with Dave pre-cooking 2 pounds of ground beef and me making the egg salad.

Supper for me was a salmon Grab-it and applesauce. A Grab-it is where I mix a can of tuna or salmon with an egg and some spices in a greased Corning Grab-it bowl then microwave it for 3 minutes. If you don’t have a Grab-it you can use a Corning cereal bowl but I like having the Grab-it’s handle to make mixing and cooking easier.

Shortly I will be headed off to bed. No, I didn’t make it by midnight but I have no one but myself to blame this time because Dave went to bed early as he’s getting up early tomorrow to go operating again. I wonder if I will sleep in again or get up and do tons of stuff before Dave gets home?

TTYL,

Linda