Whole30 Diet

[Latestarter]

Since recovering from the flu (and the renal failure) I've been eating a large salad as my main meal late day, and drinking lots of liquids including water, crystal light iced tea, hot tea and poweraid. I have small amounts of meat and eggs for protein, and not much else. I have had some bread and I'm not eliminating carbs, but am trying to avoid them and sugar as well as salt as best I can. Also trying to avoid late night "snacking". I've learned from past experiences that anything radical (compared to my normal eating habits) won't work for me and has the opposite affect over time on me... I've lost ~15 pounds and expect/plan to continue to drop over time. The doc was pleased at my last visit and said 7-10 pounds per month loss is completely acceptable for me. More than that means I'm trying too hard, and will be difficult to maintain.

I did cheat coming back from the VA... I did an internet search for NY style pizzerias as I really wanted a couple of slices of same. Didn't find any but did find there was a Papa Murphy's "Take & Bake" https://www.papamurphys.com/ so swung in and picked one up (Papa's all meat, large, on traditional crust) to bring home with me. As of tomorrow, that has/will have been 3 days early meal. Also have had the occasional (2?) small bag of chips and today I had 4 Oreo cookies

 

[Baymule]

Sounds to me that you are doing good.
Keep doing what you are doing, it is working for you.

It is hard to cut out sweets, but after today, I don't think that will be a problem for me or DH again. We do miss bread, and I plan on making sourdough bread later on. The meat and vegetable diet suits us, we have two freezers full of lamb, pork, chicken and grass fed beef. I put up proceeds from the garden, so we are well situated for veggies. We like eating vegetables and meat anyway, so this diet is not so bad.

 

[Southern by choice]

We have been doing good on this diet. We both want bread. Today we skidded sideways.......

The feed store where we buy horse feed has closed for several weeks. I have 2 senior horses, 28 and 30, no way I'm changing feed. So we found the same brand some 40 miles away and bought 20 bags. That ought to hold us for awhile!

Coming back, we came through Edom, Tx where there is a café famous for their chicken fried steak. EEEERRRRKKKKK!!!!!! did y'all hear DH's truck tires screeching into the parking lot?? We both ordered the chicken fried steak and 2 sides. The waitress brought us 2 fluffy yeast rolls and a cornbread muffin. We devoured them. We could barely finish the steaks and didn't eat much of the sides, mashed potatoes and carrots (must have been cooked in 5 pounds of sugar ) for me and mashed potatoes and fried okra for DH. Then the pie....... We split a piece. We left and I felt nauseated. The sweet from the pie was sickening to both of us. We agreed, NO MORE PIE! Back to our vegetables and NOT FRIED meats!

It was all I could do to keep from throwing up when we unloaded the feed. Blech. It can be a long time before I eat another piece of pie or anything that loaded in sugar.

Sorry, but I couldn't help laugh... even though it wasn't funny with the distress. I guess because I saw that coming after the tires screeched to a halt.
You know that was great though, sugar , after you've been off it and you have it... UGH I bet you guys were tired too after that.
I think you guys are doing fantastic. Love the support you give each other!

 

[babsbag]

Walking or riding a bike where I live is pretty much out of the question. We live on the top of a hill and the only road near us is not safe for walking or riding. Our private road is too rocky and too muddy in the winter and too dusty in the summer. I used to walk a lot when I lived in the city but not happening out here.

If I lived by myself my eating habits would be much different. I don't wake up thinking about food, I eat when I am hungry and don't spend my day thinking about what is for dinner. Eating does three things...it costs money, it makes dishes, and it makes you fat. I really don't need it. Wish I lived with someone that felt the same way.

 

[greybeard]

We could barely finish the steaks and didn't eat much of the sides, mashed potatoes and carrots (must have been cooked in 5 pounds of sugar ) for me and mashed potatoes and fried okra for DH. Then the pie....... We split a piece. We left and I felt nauseated. The sweet from the pie was sickening to both of us. We agreed, NO MORE PIE! Back to our vegetables and NOT FRIED meats!

If this was at The Shed, I've heard it isn't what it used to be. Used to thru there pretty often going from Whitehouse to Canton, but last time, the CFS was mostly batter.
That town has turned into quite the yuppie-type retreat nowadays.

 

[Baymule]

Yup, it was The Shed. I don't care what the reviews, all cafés get their food off a truck. None of them buy fresh vegetables and then really cook them. The carrots were the "baby carrots" that are not baby carrots, but misshapened carrots (that don't meet consumers ideas of what carrots are supposed to look like) and are milled down to acceptable shapes, then treated so they don't discolor. I never buy them. The okra looked pre-breaded (read that dumped out of a bag). The mashed potatoes were at least real mashed potatoes. After being on this diet, the white gravy all over everything was like eating wallpaper paste.

I cook so darned much better than that!

Most of the time, the reason we go to Edom is to pick blueberries. The Shed is always packed, durned if I know why.

 

[greybeard]

The Shed is always packed, durned if I know why.

Sure you do.

"where there is a café famous for their chicken fried steak."

Many eateries make their $$ today on the coat tails of past anecdotal performance, not current experience.
Of course, good pie is always a big draw, and anyone not on a diet may have thought the desserts were fine.

Remember the decades old adage too. "There's nothing worse than a reformed (fill in the blank here) _______."

Many a former fried food/sugar/meat/caffeine/nicotine/booze/pain killer user once touted the wonderful attributes of that usage but once they went to the 'other' side, they suddenly become among the most outspoken critics of the same thing(s) they once enjoyed so much.
Human nature is so very fickle.....been guilty of it myself since I quit drinking (only because of unpleasant interactions with some of my meds)

Latest 'beautiful people' health fad appears to be some sort of coffee enema.

I once watched a portion of a late night infomercial on 'colon cleansing' produced by a rather slimy looking weirdo. I found it more than a little disgusting. Another of his 'tea' products had high levels of lead (many times the legal limit) and no warning label on the container or in the literature.

Looks to be a Dapper Dan man from his hairdo.

 

[Baymule]

Today for lunch we had leftover pork roast, a green salad and fruit medley. I sectioned two grapefruit, cut up a mango, added 2 cups of frozen blueberries we picked in July, shredded unsweetened coconut and pecans. We'll eat the rest of the fruit tonight. Yummy!

 

[Baymule]

Tonight we had riced cauliflower. It was a frozen bag of white stuff, some green peas, minute shreds of carrot and green onion. On the back was a recipe for fried rice. So I added fresh garlic and ginger, along with a scrambled egg. I chopped the last of the leftover pork roast and added that. It was good, if a bit underwhelming. I sure wouldn't want to eat riced cauliflower imitation rice forever. It was ok, but it ain't REAL rice!

Desert will be the last of the fruit salad. Later. Full on imitation rice.

 

[Southern by choice]

Tonight we had riced cauliflower. It was a frozen bag of white stuff, some green peas, minute shreds of carrot and green onion. On the back was a recipe for fried rice. So I added fresh garlic and ginger, along with a scrambled egg. I chopped the last of the leftover pork roast and added that. It was good, if a bit underwhelming. I sure wouldn't want to eat riced cauliflower imitation rice forever. It was ok, but it ain't REAL rice!

Desert will be the last of the fruit salad. Later. Full on imitation rice.

I would have loved the fruit medley!
Now I want coconut! Love coconut.