Whole30 Day 2

That's about right....

Day 1 Reflections:
- Definitely needed to add more to my breakfast, the egg cups didn't fill me up.  Had my husband make some beef sausage patties to add to my breakfasts going forward.
- Dinner was AMAZING. Seriously... check this out...

You can see our version of the recipe by heading over to our food blog.

It was so good, definitely the highlight of Day 1.

Day 2
I probably won't blog about every day, then again if we keep having meals as amazing as Day 1's dinner, I might.

Feeling a little blah today.  We were told to expect to feel hungover without the fun night before and I guess we are.  I think Chad is feeling it a little worse than I am.  I am tired and have a headache, but honestly that has been my constant state of being for the last few months that it just feels like another day to me.  I know Chad was really tired and slept more this morning.

I had a late morning freak out when I lost my pen.  I mean it was a pen.. but yeah a bit edgy.

Meals for today:

Breakfast: 2 Egg Cups, 2 beef sausage patties and a banana.  I ate a banana.  If you know me, then you know that is a #NSV.  (Non-scale victory).  I hate bananas.  They are mushy and weird.  I mean, they don't require chewing.  It will start dissolving in your mouth before you even begin to chew.  What is that.  Okay, moving on.

Lunch: Leftovers from last night.  I have been talking about this lunch all morning.  My coworkers thing I am weird (though that probably isn't any different than normal).  The smell, geez, wonderful.  I think I dreamed about this meal last night.  Definitely going to have to repeat it.

Dinner:  Zoodles with Chicken and veggies.  I think.  Chad is supposed to be making/prepping our dinner's for the rest of the week today while he is off, so that will be good.  We ate dinner pretty late last night.  It was worth the wait, but still not something we like doing.

Extras: I have an apple sauce pouch, hard boiled egg, pistachios, and some green olives for either extras to go with my meals, or a snack if I need one.  Also brought another La Croix today.  Not sure how I feel about them, taste like flat soda with bad flavoring to me, but it is better than going for some juice or soda.

Now, I think I might go relax for the last 15 minutes of my lunch hour.  This hangover period needs to pass quickly.

Whole30 Day 1

Chad and I started Whole30 today. If you don't know what that is, you can read more about it on the Whole30 website.  Basically for 30 days we are removing items from our menu that have been shown to cause issues for most people- bloating, bathroom issues, energy, sleep, etc.  For 30 days we are removing sugar, legumes, grains, alcohol, dairy and a few other items from our menu.  We are eating whole meats, vegetables, fruits and healthy fats.  This will help reset our bodies.  The hope is that by removing these foods we will see improvements in our health and fitness. 

After the 30 days we will slowly reintroduce the items we removed, evaluate how they effect us.  Do we feel usually tired?  Are we bloated?  Are we stuck in the bathroom?  Etc.  Once we know how they foods affect us, we can decide if they need to be limited in our eating or removed all together, or if they cause no unwanted effects for us.

I can only speak for myself, you will have to ask Chad his thoughts, but I am hoping my sleep and energy improve.  And yes, I am hoping to see some physical changes as well.

Today was our day one.  I can tell you I was ready for it.  We had cleaned out all the non-compliant foods last Thursday (Friday is trash day!) so there was very little in our house.  That plus the fact we had lots of things planned this weekend, caused us to eat out more than normal. Chinese buffet, BBQ and Pizza.  By Sunday I just felt blah.

We did our grocery shopping and some prepping on Sunday.  Our first Whole30 meal tried to burn our hours down, but that's what we get trying to prep when we are exhausted and not thinking clearly.  We made egg cups (we make them often, I will post the recipe on our Food Blog and link it here).  However, we added more veggies to them, than normal, but didn't adjust the number of cups we tried to make. This caused the cups to be filled a little too much and they overflowed in the oven.  This created lots of smoke.  We had to lock the cats up in the master bathroom at the opposite end of the house, send the dog outside and open all the doors and windows.  34 degrees and snowing and we had the doors and windows open.  Good times.  Signs of a fun adventure to come!

But hey, we got this.  We can do anything for 30 days.  And we are worth it.   More to come, hope you will follow us along on our adventure.

February Reads-2018

Another month down for 2018.


Am I the only one that one minute thinks, "Wow time is moving so slowly." and then the next is scratching my head wondering how we can already be into the third month of the year.

I have been reading quite a bit this month.  Mostly because the weather here has been terrible.  Nothing says "let's cozy up with some good books," like snowy, rainy, windy weather.

I like Rick Riordan's books.  I breezed through the Percy Jackson series.  This series is about the Norse Gods, but is no less entertaining.  Nice, quick reads!

Very interesting read. Many concepts were still over my head, but I have picked up enough from a college astronomy class and Big Bang Theory to follow most of what he described. Definitely needs to be read a chapter at a time to give you time to let the knowledge sink in. Great read.

I really liked this book.  Different that her Divergent series, but no less entertaining.  Was quite disappointed when I got to the end and realized the rest of the series has not been released yet- not good at waiting!

My first Brandon Mull book.  Look forward to reading many more.  The universe he has created is quite fascinating.

I have to give this 3 stars, not because it wasn't good but because the ending annoyed me. I read a lot of series. Series, no matter the number books on the series follow a pattern. The series, as a whole, as a story, a conflict, an issue it overcomes. But each individual book has a smaller story, a piece of the overall story it deals with, it conquers. closed up by the end. You have questions at the end, usually dealing with the overall story. But you always have answers, even if only small ones. Enough answers to draw you in but not so many you don't want to keep reading. I finished this book with way more questions than answers. In fact I don't think I have any answers. I barely know the characters. Ugh, I would say I am so annoyed that I don't want to finish the series but I know I will because I am a serial reader and if I start a series, I will finish it.

I have to give this 3 stars, not because it wasn't good but because the ending annoyed me. I read a lot of series. Series, no matter the number books on the series follow a pattern. The series, as a whole, as a story, a conflict, an issue it overcomes. But each individual book has a smaller story, a piece of the overall story it deals with, it conquers. closed up by the end. You have questions at the end, usually dealing with the overall story. But you always have answers, even if only small ones. Enough answers to draw you in but not so many you don't want to keep reading. I finished this book with way more questions than answers. In fact I don't think I have any answers. I barely know the characters. Ugh, I would say I am so annoyed that I don't want to finish the series but I know I will because I am a serial reader and if I start a series, I will finish it.

I actually listed to this in my car.  Have never been an audio book person before, but honestly I have been bored with the music, so trying it out for a bit.  Pretty funny. Nothing earth shattering but definitely learned a lot about Tina Fey and her life.

I don't consider myself a foodie by any stretch of the imagination but I love history and I love learning about the everyday items I encounter. This book met and exceeded both of those loves. I was surprised at the eight main flavors she found prevalent in American food. But the more I thought about it and read her histories on the flavors, it made sense. We call this country the melting pot so its only fitting that our food and flavors be a melting pot of flavors most often matched to other countries. I enjoyed the book and had to add it to my "buy" list so I can attempt to be brave and cook some of the amazing sounding recipes sprinkled throughout the chapters.

I read the first Michael Vey book a few years ago.  But I fell back into the universe quite easily.  Look forward to seeing how this series progresses.  Was completely grossed out by the rats.

I must of been living under a rock the day this movie was announced, because I don't remember hearing about it.  And it has a lot of my favorite actors in it.  Anyways, the book was interesting.  It gave a little bit more background on the butler that the movie was based off of.  Looking forward to seeing the moving.

I love love love the Pittacus Lore books.  I have been slowing making my way thought them since the first movie came out.  I don't think the movie did well, which saddens me because I know they probably won't release the other books, and I really enjoy them.

Have you figured out I really like reading series?  This is the next book in the Magnus Chase series.  Seemed a bit more chaotic than the first, but i still enjoyed it.  I do find it strangely poetic that I started and ended the month with books from the same series... that rarely happens for me.

There you have it, my books for the month.  If your keeping tracking I am up to 18 books for the year (my goal is 60).  I have read 5 personal development books (my goal is 25).  Not bad for only 2 months, in my opinion.  Lots of sci-fi/fantasy this month, which I really enjoy.  But I also expanded my horizons to read a science books and a cooking book, two genres I don't really lean towards very often.  

Your turn, what are you reading?