What did
I Eat?
Meal 1
1 Boiled Egg
1 Banana
1 Larabar
Meal 2
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| everything in one bite |
Salad
- Romaine
- Tomatoes
- Avocado
- Shrimp
- Walnuts
Meal 3
The
Day
I FORGOT TO BUY
EGGS!!!!
I did not start the day off right. I forgot eggs when I did my grocery run
last night. I grabbed some things out of the fridge that would enable me to
make a salad for lunch at work. We have a decent kitchen in the office to if
need be, salads and things can always be assembled on my lunch break rather
than having to get up super early or make something the night before. Unless I need
to make for Sean too, then he doesn’t have the luxury of a kitchen since he
works outdoors. With his digestive issues of late, he has been sticking to mainly
liquids and soft foods lately and I really only need to worry about me.
I got to work and
stopped at that little café in the lobby. I grabbed a black coffee, banana, and
apple and I asked the lady for 2 eggs. She says “oh no! They are just cooking
now if you want to wait… otherwise there is only one left from yesterday.” I
was already late so I take the one, pay and head up stairs to the office. I
peel my eggs and eat it. I bite the apple and it’s gritty. I look at the apple
and it’s bruised. I decide I better cut it up and I take it to the kitchen only
to find, once I’d cut it in half, that the bruise surrounded the whole apple
just under the skin. I have never seen that before but what a letdown. I pouted
as I tossed it in the organics bin we have at work. I went back to my desk and
started on the banana. This was relatively bruised also but most of it was salvageable
so I ate what I could. I waited until I was hungry again to eat the Larabar
which was a longer time than I thought.
Lunch rolled around
and I chopped all my veggies and assembled my salad. I think I need to bring a
decent sized bowl to work for my salads. Once I had all the ingredients in the
bowl, there was no room for the shrimp. I put it on the side and ate them
together as best I could. I opted for no dressing as I had an avocado as a fat
and tomatoes, and avocados on salad kind of blend together to make their own
delicious dressing any way. After eating in the lunch room (not at my desk) I went
out into the sun, over to Urban Fare, to buy eggs.
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When I got home I was
excited to make the baked eggs dish mentioned above. I had pinned it for my
first round of Whole30 and always seemed to be short one ingredient or another.
When I went grocery shopping yesterday, I bought spinach purposely for this
dish. Everything else, I had. I get home only to realize we forgot eggs and couldn’t
make the dish. So tonight was the night! I was going to make them for breakfast
for the next day. After prepping and making the dishes, I decided we would have
them for dinner tonight instead. They were easy but made a few dishes and there
were many steps. Once they were in the oven, I did not feel like making another
meal for dinner so I thought, why not have these fresh tonight instead? I ended
up making 6 instead of 4 anyway, I could serve 2 to each Sean and me for dinner
and have 2 for breakfast tomorrow as left over. They were soft enough for Sean
to eat, and probably the healthiest thing he has had all week. He was living
off of Mr. Noodles and juice.
Sean has diverticulitis
and has had 3 major flare-ups in 4 months. It is uncommon to have a second
flare-up at all, let alone within a year of the first one. And it is uncommon
for people under 50 or so to have this condition period, then it becomes
increasingly common after that age. It’s the reason old people need to eat high
fibre. You have to keep everything moving, or there is too much pressure on the
large intestine and these pockets form. Then when they become infected, they
cause a lot of pain. We’ve been told when he has a flare up, he should move to
a liquid diet and get antibiotics. For the three major flare-ups, we have gone
to the hospital, he has been on pain meds, diagnosed, and sent home with
antibiotics. He is missing so much work and it’s causing him so much pain, so
frequently that the doctors have decided to operate. This is the surgery that
he is having Mid-June. It will not be laparoscopic like we had initially been
told and had read. It will be a full invasive procedure, he will be in the
hospital for up to 5 days, and then home resting and healing for up to 6 weeks.
It’s kind of a big deal. This will hopefully be the best thing for the long
run. He should be in less pain, less often moving forward. Unfortunately he has
diverticula throughout his entire large intestine. The part the surgeon is
focused on is riddled with scar tissue from past flare-ups and they want to remove
it. They obviously cannot remove his entire large intestine. Well technically
they could, but the benefits do not outweigh the cons just yet, and hopefully
we never get to that point.
All in all, we are
feeling nervous but optimistic.
How do I feel today?
The clarity I feel
continues to amaze me. I had another small headache in the morning that went
away pretty early on. I had more sugar and crap food before this round than the
other so I fully expected some withdraw in the first week or so. I also have
had cravings and small fantasies of cheating. I have asked myself things like “I
know dairy isn’t my issue, so it wouldn’t hurt if I added cheese here and there
right?” but I remind myself that I did not do a proper reintroduction after my
last W30, so I don’t really know that I am ok with dairy. I also have been
tempted to weigh in this round. This is weird to me because I was so set on not
doing it last round. But I have really noticed a huge difference in my belly
size from day 1 to now and it’s got me curious if that translates to pounds. Again,
I remind mself it’s not about that. Who care if I lost 1 lb, 5 lbs, or no lbs? I
am feeling
great!!
