Whole30 Days 16-20: BrrrZap!


Weight Loss, Whole30 / Monday, March 31st, 2014
Nikola Tesla, just hanging out in his Colorado Springs lab, December 1899.
Nikola Tesla, just hanging out in his Colorado Springs lab, December 1899.

No sugars or grains. No dairy or legumes. Yep, I’m doing the Whole30 for the next 30 days. Here’s how it’s going: 

The all-day energy has officially kicked in.

I knew it’d happened the first morning I forgot to have a cup of coffee. I sat down to breakfast and had this feeling in my legs, like someone had charged them up overnight. I don’t think I’ve had restless legs since the ’90s, so I just went with it, and so far I’ve doubled my usual number of steps per day.

No afternoon slump, either.

Last night, I was loading the dishwasher, and my jeans fell straight to the floor.

I still miss pizza, but this might be worth it.   

What I Ate:

Day 16:

  • Breakfast: Eggs scrambled with sautéed onion and red bell pepper strips, banana
  • Lunch: Pulled pork with stewed tomatoes, apple with almond butter
  • Dinner: More pulled pork with stewed tomatoes (Jeff was out, and I was too busy to care about a repeat.)

Day 17

  • Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with onion and red bell pepper, strawberries
  • Lunch: Missed it. Not my best move.
  • Dinner: Greek salad with grilled chicken, Roma tomatoes, artichoke hearts, banana peppers, Kalamata olives and homemade vinaigrette.

Day 18

  • Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with onion and red bell pepper
  • Lunch: Salad with grilled chicken, apple slices, dried cranberries, pecans, lettuce and homemade vinaigrette
  • Dinner: Salad with grilled fajita steak, lettuce, bell pepper strips, black olives, jalapeño slices, roasted tomato salsa and guacamole

Day 19

  • Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, apple with almond butter
  • Lunch: Sliced turkey rolled around some tomato and avocado slices, strawberries, pistachios
  • Dinner: Rib-eye, baked sweet potato and steamed green beans

Day 20

  • Breakfast: Omelet with onions, bell peppers and mushrooms, plus a banana
  • Lunch: Leftover rib-eye, baked sweet potato and steamed green beans
  • Snack: Almond butter with apple
  • Dinner: Fajita-spiced chicken cooked with sliced onion and bell pepper strips, plus avocado slices