Whole30, day 3–round 2

Aaaaand get ready, I’m going to start posting ridiculous amounts of food again. Wait, did I ever stop?

This time the whole30 is completely Brad’s fault. The first one was me, but this one is all him. He had some pretty epic results, so I totally get why he is ready to go again. My results were kind of blah, but I am going to focus a little more on portion control this time. And on macronutrient ratios (instead of just eating bananas whenever I felt like it).

Here was dinner number 1:

Brad has many talents. Two of them are his steak and his sweet potato fries. I made the broccoli concoction that’s on there with it. We were both so exhausted while cooking that meal–pretty sure we ate it at like 10:30 at night by the time we ate because my car overheated and all this drama went down with that. It was redonkulous. If you are one of those people who doesn’t have to drive around with a jug of coolant in you car then count your lucky stars and thank whoever helped you buy yourself that fancy car…

The trick to succeeding at the whole30 is making enough dinner to last you for lunch the next day as well.

And in case you didn’t know…

Last night I tried another new recipe from PaleOMG: Creamy Tomato Chicken Sausage Pasta. 

I actually used sun dried tomato chicken sausage because there was no “plain” chicken. There was garlic (which I tried before and didn’t like) and one with cheese in it which wasn’t Whole30 approved. So yeah. I figured sun tried tomato would work fine–it did.

Brad is a lot better at whole30 than I am. He actually preps food for breakfast. I will scramble eggs if I wake up early enough, but I usually end up grabbing a banana or an apple and running out the door. Which isn’t very “zone” of me. Plus it makes me feel like I’m dying by the time lunch rolls around.

Here is his breakfast *jealous*:

Here’s his dinner from last night:

He got to eat that while I ate my spaghetti squash tomato pasta. I am pretty sure we were somehow jealous of each other.  I was more jealous though, because I really miss shrimp. I hardly every eat it anymore because of my “athletic induced shellfish allergy“. Seriously the weirdest things happen to me…. I feel like i’m overdue for a freak accident.

Here is my whole30 skin after only 2 days:I don’t know how to not look creepy when I take pictures of myself.

But I just get really excited when I get to have awesome skin. I am pretty sure it’s the dairy.

Whatever.

Okay so tonight they are announcing the Open WOD 13.2–last week I dreamed it would be snatches at it came true. So we’ll see how intuitive my unconscious brain is because last night I dreamed it was front squats and toes to bar. Hopefully it won’t be that, but just in case… you read it here first. el oh el.

Whole30 Day 12

OMG it’s day 12!!!

I almost never blog on Sundays, but I really don’t want to clean my apartment, so here you go.

I made paleOMG’s “go-to” meal.

Only I somehow accidentally turned the burner on “high” and ruined the bacon …and made my smoke alarm go off. Yeah, just because I cook all the time, doesn’t mean I’m any good at it.

So, livingsocial saved my life this week. I am really bad at budgeting my money, and I literally can’t spend any until I get paid next Tuesday  (and have managed not to spend any since last Sunday when I went grocery shopping (except for the stuff on auto draft and paypal) , so I ordered this special perfectly paleo menu from Beetnik Foods (last week). It came with nuts, fruit, meat and veggies. The nuts are in my gym bag and in my desk, and everything else is in the freezer. The first meat I decided to do was the frozen burger patties. They were uncooked and unseasoned so they came out pretty bland. But who cares? They are grassfed beef. If I had any guacamole I’d throw that on there.

I made a recipe from “Well Fed” for whipped coconut cream and berries. OMG YUM.

OH! And Hallelujah! I went out to eat yesterday!!! I went with Zach to Burger Life, and I asked the manager a bunch of questions till I decided that I could order a whole30 dinner. I can’t tell you how good it feels not to have to do your own dishes for once. Ack!

Here’s another meal courtesy of Beetnik Foods:

(After this picture, I added grape tomatoes and some mustard to flavor up the patties.)

HEY! I have crossfit news!!!

I can officially do pistols. I am slow at them, but I am FREE from the box! My right leg doesn’t really like it, but it is possible now, and I am ecstatic!  Now if I could only tackle that bar muscle up… I wish I had bionic hands.

I got a new lime green triggerpoint foam roller half prize off Amazon. My butt really likes it.