If you read yesterday's post, you know that last night I was struggling a bit with wanting to eat some non-W30 food. Well, at the end of the night Mike told me that he thought I looked really good and he noticed a change. Now, I've also been doing CrossFit (only 3 workouts), and I was eating pretty clean prior to starting my W30, but this was so nice to hear-and I really needed it. I know it isn't a big change because the fit of my clothes hasn't changed much, but if it's enough for him to notice and say something then that's enough for me. I know I have to just keep going and the changes will be greater and greater.
Mike and I usually eat out a few meals each week, usually at least a couple on the weekends, so the last week and a half with not eating out has been a little tough (as evidenced by my struggles last night). So I decided to give eating out a try and go with what I thought would be easiest to eat W30 compliant food-sushi.
I picked a place nearby that had a few appetizer menu options that didn't have rice and had veggies and fish. One of the options was a roll wrapped in cucumber rather than rice so I was hoping that they might be able to do this for other rolls as well. They couldn't, or wouldn't. I found a couple options that seemed compliant but I asked a key question before ordering-do these have a sauce on them? It didn't list any sauce on the menu. Of course, there was sauce. One was some kind of sake-based sauce and the other was a "citrus vinaigrette". I didn't know what all this vinaigrette entailed and I felt like I had been pestering the waiter with enough questions so I just said not sauce. The dishes were very good and I felt good eating them, but that didn't stop me from craving Mike's flaming shrimp tempura and spicy tuna with spicy mayo and soy sauce across the way. I think when we go out next I'll call the restaurant ahead of time to inquire about the menu options I'm interested in. All in all it was a good first outing!
Breakfast (8:00am): Breakfast casserole, spaghetti squash, salsa, leftover shrimp from my
Well Fed Pad Thai
Breakfast Comments: Obviously it's the end of the week and clean out the refrigerator time! I only had a small piece of breakfast casserole left so I supplemented with the leftover shrimp for more protein and a little fat. Breakfast casserole recipe post coming this weekend!
Lunch (1:15pm): Red leaf lettuce, diced bell pepper, crockpot chicken,
Well Fed Creamy Italian (new batch made today with balsamic vinegar rather than red wine vinegar-like it much better!). Small organic fiji apple, unsweetened sunflower seed butter.
Lunch Comments: Since I was have some sweet cravings before lunch today I decided to throw in some fruit. Add in the sunflower seed butter for my fat and it was a really good meal! Unlike sweetened peanut butters that I can eat straight from the jar, this sunflower seed butter doesn't really do it for me on its on. But paired with an apple it is an awesome combo!
Dinner: The first picture is what Mike had-it was on fire! I had the bottom 2 pictures-tuna with jalapeño, cilantro, and radish, and the bottom is crab, avocado, and radish wrapped in cucumber and topped with scallions and tobiko (I think-I ate a couple pieces before snapping the picture ;) ).
Dinner Comments: I'm not sure this met the meal template for protein and I definitely know it didn't meet it for fat. But, it was my first time eating out W30 style so I did what I could. I was actually comfortably full after this meal which was a shocker to me. I did kind of want some apples and sunflower seed butter when we got home, but I figured it was best to stay away from that since I already had some for lunch.
Sleep: 8 hours
Exercise: None...my abs are crazy sore from the AMRAP workout we did Wednesday! Need to work on those sit-ups!
