Clearly I am very very very behind in updating the Blog on my Whole 30 progress... As always it's been an insane week, and I have been working non stop.  I'll try to do a little recap of the last few days. Between playing taxi, my wife cleaning all day , and me preparing  for my event this evening... I'm spent!


Wed- Day 3- Woke up headache free and had a very good day. Went to Starbucks and got a Dopio espresso and added some coconut milk as my creamer. As much as I like coconut milk, it's a lousy creamer, and all the varieties in the grocery store have a crapload of other random ingredients. AKA, not Whole 30 compliant. Jaidi had a lax game that night and I sat with my buddy Shannon, ran my mouth, and froze out butts off as we cheered her on to victory. Closed out the night with some Chipotle--The Carnitas are Whole 30 compliant, as well as the tomatoes and salad mix.  The Carnitas were bangin and made my heart smile.

Thursday- Day 4- Another headache free day... just the stupid tooth hurting. Made it through the day with little issue and no slip ups. Still loving my  delicious breakfasts, but I need to make sure I'm getting up earlier, because all this cooking takes some time... and because I pretty much suck at cooking, it takes even more time!

Friday- Day 5- Khenna's Birthday- I was so happy today was Friday and Khenna's birthday. I was so so unhappy when I saw the delicious and beautiful looking birthday cake my wife made....even more so when I smelled all the homemade egg rolls. I took my disappointed ass in the kitchen and made some pork chops and cauliflower mash. It took EVERYTHING in me not to have one bite of Cake. The kids don;t really understand what I'm doing but that's ok, because this is for me... not anyone else. Made it through the night without touching any of the food. Started to feel some of the emotional effects last night.
 
Saturday- Day 6-  Rut ro... The mood swings have arrived and i'm not a fan. My level of patience today significantly dropped about 12 noon and on. Everything everyone was doing was pissing me off, so I opted to take a nap. That helped some and thankfully Jaidi pulled a lot of my DJ equipment downstairs for me. I'm hoping the mood swing portion of this gets lost somewhere. I don't enjoy being irritated constantly. 

My eyes are literally crossing right now because I'm so sleepy.... Just wanted to make sure I played catch up!!!

Have a lovely night!

Apparently someone came in the middle of the night and smacked the hell out of me... right in the head. It might have even been a foot. I'd blame Kris, but she sleeps more soundly than I do... :)

Day 2 is complete, and I have had a headache since about 12 noon. Apparently this is "normal" and part of the Day 2-3 "hangover."  My ass is paying for the milkshake I ate on Sunday... and I'm paying for it quite heavily. Supposedly there is a direct correlation between the amount of sugar you ate before staring Whole 30 and this fun set of days. Yup... guess it's my fault on that one!

Add on to the excitement: About two weeks ago I got a filling. That part of my mouth has been intermittently hurting, so I've been taking Tylenol and Advil as needed. (My mouth is sensitive as hell to dental work and takes a few weeks to recover after anything is done) Today, neither of those touched the headache I'm currently sitting here with...

OH... let me add in the fact that I planned last night. Made some baked chicken and Cauliflower... had it all set up and ready to go for my lunch for today and tomorrow. Got to work and was all good to go until I took the first bite of chicken. And it sucked. A lot. Flavorless. Have you ever eaten some plain ass chicken? Sucktown.  So.... cauliflower for lunch it was.

Tonight I googled Paleo pork chop recipies, as I left a pack of 3 of them in the fridge to thaw. I found one that looked delicious, so I gave it a shot. ( http://wellnessmama.com/4533/smothered-pork-chops/)  Did I mention that I SUCK... I repeat... STINK SUCK CANNOT cook. Even from a recipe.

This "30 min dish" took me about an hour to fix. lol... but surprisingly, although all the almond flour fell off, it was edible and had FLAVOR! I ate 2/3 of one just to make sure I didn't run into any lunchtime surprises tomorrow. So I'm good on lunch... good on breakfast... only smoked the house out two times today (porkchops and the emergency lunch/dinner of eggs and bacon at 4pm.)

Anyone else out there who is doing this feeling the same craptastic way? I really don't remember feeling this badly the first time I did this... probably because I'm being extremely strict this time, and was a little more lenient last time. I'm going all the way... 30 days.  Better try to get down more more bottle of water before bed... maybe I will wake up headache free!?

The good thing... I'm reading so many happy and successful stories, that I'm still feeling as pumped about all this as I did from the moment I decided to do it. I hope my co-workers don't kill me from being a cranky mess for the next few days.

I slept like poo last night... so time to cuddle my wife and head to bed!  Thanks for making it through today's ramblings :)

Today was pretty much a blur... I drug my behind out of the bed around 10:30, buzzed around the house doing things until 1pm, and realized that I still needed to do several things before playing Taxi for Jaidenne all evening.

The result? Poor planning on my part as far as what I needed from the store, and what I was going to eat today. Yes, I managed to eat, yes, it was all Paleo/Whole 30, but I was pretty much starving all evening because I didn't do what the books and experts tell everyone to do...

Plan... Plan... PLAN!

I enjoyed my dinner, bought some spices that I never have ever purchased in my life, and hopefully I can follow directions enough to make some food that doesn't totally suck! My wife is the one who cooks... I simply heat things up. But today, I bought some beef, pork chops, uncured bacon and Applegate Beef Hot dogs, all kinds of veggies to freeze, heat up, sauté, etc. And most importantly, I said no to all the temptations... the yummy smelling and looking foods that I saw in the grocery store. The chips I wanted to grab real fast because I was hungry.... Nope!

I know there are going to be the people who think this blog is so dumb... it's laughable... it's a lot of talking to myself on the internet. And I'm ok with that. You took the 3 minutes to come and read it, so kudos to you! For me, this is going to be how I reflect, and hold myself accountable. The good thing about the book "It Starts with Food" is that there are so many quick and easy ideas of foods to make and things that can easily be thrown together. I never have had that skill... the ability to throw a few things together and make it taste really damn good!  I bought freaking Cumin and Coriander today. WTF? Have no idea what I'm going to do with those, but hopefully it all becomes clearer more than a day into this...Apparently they are in a lot of recipes.

Tomorrow when I'm back at work will be the real test. I'm already going to be sleepy... irritable... and going non stop. All things that normally would make me want to grab a snack to get me through. I truly believe that I can do this, or I never would have started. 

I weighed myself this morning for what will be the only time in the next 30 days... I won't say my exact weight... but it's below 190 and above 170. I'm 5'8 (technically 5'7.5). According to the BMI, I'm supposed to weigh 150-154.  I was probably that small in my Junior year of HS. That was probably also the last time...

I just want to be healthy. I don't want to be skinny... I don't want to be thick/overweight. 


Day 1 down. 29 days to go. I can do this... and  thank you for reading :)

Well... it's 10:38pm. Had a great day with the family filled with tons of good food, lacrosse in our front yard, and me spending too much time in front of the computer. It's funny... I think people must think I spend way more time at the computer than I really do. Most of the time I have to force myself to sit still and get this sorta thing done. Hence the 2 years of having this website and NEVER setting it up! 

Took Kris and the girls to get some ice cream tonight. I enjoyed my milkshake and told myself that it will be some time before any ice cream crosses my lips again! Man, for a girl who's secret vice is Phish Food ice cream from Ben and Jerrys, those are fighting words.

Although part of me is like "what the heck am I thinking?" I think this whole blog/pic/perhaps video idea is going to help me remain accountable. How can you go wrong when you have such an incredible network of support? My wife has been on a mission since the beginning of this year to eat healthfully.. hasn't had a sip of soda, and has clearly lost weight because of her good decisions. I'm so proud of her for so many reasons... she is incredible. 

You know what else makes me smile?   I told Jaidenne that this would be the last ice cream I'll be eating for a while.  She asked why and I told her that I'm going to be eating very strictly and healthy for the next 30 days. Her response?  "Oh ok!  Well I'll go running with you if you want to!"  What a great kid. 

So who knows... I've hated running my entire life. Maybe I'll turn over a new leaf?  But for now... let's get through Day 1! Thanks to everyone on Facebook who has already begun cheering me on :)  And to everyone who said they are in... speak up! Let's hear how you're feeling.   Tomorrow I'm going to try to do  a video. We will see how that goes...lol. Maybe I'll get Jaidi in on it... hahah.

Well... it may have taken all of Easter, it may be 5:24 pm, but hot damn I not only got this website up and running, but got the blog going too!!!

Needless to say, I'm proud of me.  This is how I'm going to document the next 30 days of my Whole 30 journey. I'm not getting any younger, and although I used to be able to eat whatever the hell I wanted and not gain any weight... that's just not happening any longer.

I've got 3 super important reasons to make sure my health is a top priority...