So...It is day 19 (just barely) of my whole30. I have actually reached the point where it is much easier to say no. At first I was just barely able to pass on some of my favorite things... Like the amazing rolls at the Texas Roadhouse. Why I went there during my first week is a mystery! I had to sit on my hands and I wanted to kill all things. I have not had any processed out of the box food at all since the 5th. I find it hard to believe. This weeks issues have been food boredom. I found a few things I liked and now I am tired of them. So, now I'm going to venture further out of the box and try MORE new things. I feel like I live at the grocery store! This is my whole30: 1. Make a grocery list 2. go to the store, spend FOREVER there reading label after label, try to determine what organics I will go with, and DON'T FORGET MY GLASSES. I can't read the stupid labels without them. 3. Try to find a place in the small camper fridge (it is actually a small apartment fridge we put in). 4. Figure out my next meal 5. Cook said meal (HUGE mess) using EVERY dish (we don't have that many). 6. Eat meal. 7. Clean kitchen.  Repeat steps 4-7 at least 3x a day. Repeat 1-3 several times a week.

Lots of work. I'm not doing the whole30...I'm LIVING the whole30 ALL day every day! Physically I have not had a severe migraine as of yet, my IBS seems much better, and I have not had any late night heartburn. So that is really great. I don't feel like I have lost much weight though. Maybe a little bit. Although I am doing great, there is surely room for improvement. I need to drink more water. I rely heavily on the stove. I would like to bake/roast more. Some of the stove-top dishes feel "heavy". I also use potatoes (sweet, and white) as my "go-to". I want to shift to more veggies. I guess I'm doing pretty good considering I have been eating poorly my whole life.

 My own salad..not in a bag

 Chicken I cooked up for quick lunches. It was ok.

 Eggs & sweet potatoes...my favorite breakfast

 This was my lunch at work. It looks better than it was.

This is my diet coke replacement.

Happy New Year! 2015 has started out cold and wet. Lots of rain in the past week. This is when small space living is the most challenging. I don't mind sending the kids out to play in the cold, or the rain...but not when it's cold AND rainy. I have been diligently working toward my whole30 start date of Monday. I am most concerned with the fact that I don't like veggies. And since clean living kind of relies on alot of veggies...this will be difficult. I have been reading the book "It Starts with Food". The book actually has a section entitled "So you don't like vegetables". I was hopeful, but it basically says, suck it up you're a grown up. :/  Maybe as I cut the crap from my diet, my taste buds will change. After reading some in the book, I bravely opened the fridge and popped a spinach leaf in my mouth. My goal was to chew it up and swallow, like an adult. Bleh... I spit it out. Plan B is to experiment with homemade salad dressings until I find a whole30 approved recipe that makes green stuff more palpable to my sugar blinded taste buds. Here's my ingredients.

My first try was not so good. Way too oily and heavy. So next I will try making homemade mayo to use for my homemade dressing..... Ugh! Fast food is soooo much easier! At least until my next doctor visit. :(  I cleaned my cabinets and fridge also. I made more room in our tiny space, but there is still plenty of non- whole30 foods. Remember, I will be undertaking this by myself at first. It's the first time my pantry & fridge have been this clean in awhile. 

 Not looking forwarded to the first few days of soda/sugar withdrawal

 Jamba Juice is NOT whole30 approved

Very few whole30 stuff visible.... as of now.

I will miss you Wonder bread!

I cleaned this one just bcuz I was tired of shit falling on my head every time I opened it.

Next post, I will be showing some of the camper "upgrades" we have made in the almost 3 years we have been in it.