Whole30: Day 6

Breakfast
The last sweet potato bowl for a few days, as I'm having a colonoscopy on Thursday (whee! more on that later), and I'm supposed to avoid nuts and raw fruit and veg for the preceding three days. I figure that the almond butter and blueberries can wait.

I planned a few days worth of dinners and did the grocery shopping this morning. Here's the plan:

Sunday: leftover carnitas (I can't cook tonight because I'm going to a vigil in support of diversity and against xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, and hate. And because fuck the president and the actual, literal Nazis who support him.)



Monday: spaghetti squash with meat sauce (pasta for M&C), salad or roasted broccoli

Tuesday: leftovers from Monday

Wednesday: M&C will be dining out, as that's my colonoscopy prep day. Funsies!

As for grocery shopping, Aldi is the real MVP of this Whole30. (One is currently being built five minutes from my house--woot!) I bought the vast majority of the items on my list there and only spent around $88. Awesome Aldi finds include organic chicken breast, grass-fed beef, and compliant tomato-basil sauce. (I'm making my own for dinner tomorrow, but I figure that it's good to have some on hand in case of emergency, and also because I need something tasty to put on grilled chicken). I also found compliant chicken broth (for my prep day), which was harder than I thought. When I make chicken stock, I don't add sugar; why is it in almost all varieties of broth at Aldi? Oddly enough, their organic broth wasn't compliant, but their bog-standard Chef's Cupboard brand was. Still, I would have bought the non-complaint broth if it were all that had been available. I'm sure the amount of sugar is negligible--broth doesn't taste remotely sweet. And dammit, I have to do what the doctor says. There's no way in hell I would start all over because of a freaking colonoscopy.

Lunch
Tuna salad, carrot sticks, watermelon

An upside of all this tuna is that my cat really likes me now.

Dinner
Carnitas on Bibb lettuce--still the bomb. This time I used salsa verde, and it was even better.

Watermelon after I got home from the vigil.


Confession: In addition to my morning nectar, I am breaking the Whole30 rules in another big way--I'm weighing myself every. Damn. Day. Non-scale victories (aside from setting a goal and sticking to it) don't mean a lot to me right now: I have plenty of energy; I feel healthy and strong; I don't have any kind of joint inflammation or digestive issues. I'm in this for the looser pants (technically a non-scale victory), and it's incredibly motivating to see the number on the scale getting lower. Of course, the corollary to that is that it might be disheartening to see the number stand still or go up. That's a risk I'm willing to take.