Week Two

Week two has been a little bit easier, but also harder. Let me explain. 

Meal prep and planning has gotten easier. I've gotten in a groove with breakfasts and it's definitely been easier to prepare for lunches and dinners. But, it's harder because I crave cookies, cupcakes, huge hunks of cake, bread, or really any baked goods. I was envious of my 2-year-old's PB & J sandwich the other day. I'm also craving my lattes. And with the cooler weather- pumpkin spice lattes in particular. 

I've also been worse about taking pics of everything- especially snacks. Sorry about that. I'll work on it. 

I think I also have about one La Croix drink every day- I never took a pic. But they help with the sweet cravings in the afternoons.

Day Eight (October 19)

Breakfast:
Shredded sweet potato, eggs, nutritional yeast, spinach, with salsa
One piece of Trader Joe's bacon
One piece of Applegate sausage

And a clementine

Lunch:
Apple, carrot, broccoli, and almond salad
Chicken breast slices
Hard boiled egg white (yolks are still yuck)
One leftover piece of bacon
Grapes

Dinner:
Almond crusted chicken nuggets with strawberry balsamic sauce (recipe- no sugar or corn starch in sauce- so yummy!!)
Asparagus
Summer squash

After dinner snack:
Apple
Pumpkin spice dip (recipe)

Day Nine

Breakfast:
Shredded sweet potato, eggs and spinach
3 pieces of uncured chicken and/or turkey sausage
Half a banana

Snack during church (why is it that I'm always hungry during church??)
This yummy Larabar
 

Lunch:
Beef taco meat with lettuce and olives and salsa on top

Snack (because that salad wasn't quite enough):
Grapes- they're so yummy!















Dinner:
Baked sweet potato (which J ate 1/4 of)
Cauliflower "rice"
Pork loin with the same strawberry balsamic sauce from last night, it was so good, I made it again!

Day Ten

Breakfast: (copy and paste from every other day...)
Shredded sweet potato with ham steak cubes, eggs, spinach, and salsa
Half a sweet potato
Grapes

Apparently, I was hungry

Snack/First lunch:
An apple with my yummy pumpkin spice dip

Second lunch:
Chicken breast strips with salsa



It was a busy day- we were out during lunch time, so I ate this lunch late...










Dinner:
Pumpkin butternut squash chicken soup
Broccoli

After dinner snack:
Dried apples and salted almonds

Day Eleven

Breakfast:
Shredded sweet potato, eggs, spinach and ham with WHAT?? shredded zucchini?? trying to mix it up- went a little crazy! But, I still put salsa on top
And I only ate one of those clementines

I wanted to make a latte sooooo badly that I tried to re-create one using coffee and coconut cream. It was pitiful, but I drank it anyway.

Lunch:
Salad with carrots, almonds, olives and sliced grilled chicken
Apples with more of my pumpkin spice dip
 

Dinner:
Coconut chicken (recipe- modified- no flour- used coconut flour, and no cornstarch- it didn't need it anyway) Yummy!!
Lettuce/salad
Asparagus

Day Twelve

Breakfast:
Shredded sweet potato and zucchini (I need to use these suckers!), spinach, eggs with salsa and avocado on top
Three pieces of Applegate turkey bacon
Grapes

Lunch: A bit weird, but it was leftovers...
My yummy pumpkin butternut squash chicken soup
Beef taco meat








 

Snack:
Dried apples















Dinner: forgot the pic...
Salad with carrots, olives and broccoli
Sliced chicken breast
3/4 of an apple (guess who ate the rest?)
One hard-boiled egg white

I was still super hungry when we got home from church, so I made scrambled eggs and turkey bacon!

Day Thirteen

Breakfast:
Shredded sweet potato with spinach, avocado, eggs and shredded chicken with salsa


I've always been weirded out by the idea of chicken and eggs in the same dish. It seems... I don't know... morbid or something. And this dish confirmed my hesitations. It was kinda bland and not super yummy...  





 

Found these at Big Lots- freeze dried apples with cinnamon. Not the best place to go when you are tempted to eat lots of cookies and sweets... But, these are W30 approved (kinda- they're technically snacks...) and were ok. Not like eating a fresh baked muffin or anything, but they crunched and were sweet.

Lunch:
Apple with pumpkin spice dip

and a salad with carrots, broccoli, olives and sliced, grilled chicken

Dinner:
Baked sweet potato
Stuffed pepper (recipe)














I also had some almonds in there somewhere... Probably a snack between lunch and dinner. 

Day Fourteen

Breakfast:
Shredded sweet potato and zucchini, turkey salami, eggs and salsa
Half a banana

Lunch:
Baked sweet potato with clarified butter
Some chicken slices
And about half an apple

Also, coffee with coconut milk- I was babysitting for a friend and needed a little caffeine boost...









Snack:
Apple (another one!)
Pumpkin spice dip

Dinner:
Veal stew with sweet potatoes, carrots and celery
Asparagus with clarified butter













After dinner snack:
A handful of coconut flakes



So, that's the end of week two!! I feel good. I definitely have more energy and I'm consistently one belt hole smaller. I can't wait to see how the rest of the 30 days go!