Day 1... Complete!

Today I had only 2 things on my mind all day... Potato Chips and Potato Chips... And the worst part is that I still have some in my house, not a whole lot but they're here... Staring at me, taunting me... calling my name, I feel like I've abandoned my children. All those nights those delicious crunchy salty potato chips that made me feel less lonely, falling prey to their amazing greasy embrace....What I wouldn't do right now for just one bite... Wait, What?....Anywho!! luckily I was out of the house most of the night. My girlfriend and I headed down to Santa Monica and met Melissa and Dallas Hartwig, the creators of the Whole 30. They were such a fun couple, gorgeous as can be and just very passionate about this, hearing them definitely helped me solidify my decision in doing this.  They started the whole 30 for a completely different reason that I had imagined, their story is actually very sweet and I do encourage you to look it up. They were out here promoting their new book, they had "It's starts with food" and now came out with a Whole 30 cookbook, they even signed my book!

Despite my overwhelming cravings for potato chips I did stay on course today... Day 1 Completed! Although nothing fancy happened meal wise, it was still a very nice day. Breakfast consisted of eggs and strawberries. Lunch consisted of Eggs sausage and Avo, you'll see very soon Eggs is the laziest and easiest choice when it comes to Whole 30. Many times you are out of ideas or short on time, eggs goes well with ANYTHING, Asparagus, beef bone broth, salad... the list goes on and on and I'm sure i'll be presenting you with many variety of egg possibilities in the next 30 days.

After I got home I headed to Santa Monica right away (after a quick stop at the fridge to demolish more strawberries). The drive down the Pacific Coast Highway around 6 o'clock was just gorgeous, the sun starting to set, coast line directly next to the HWY, no matter how long I live here it still makes me smile and makes me thankful for the little things.

We had the meet and greet with the Hartwig's and headed home. My very patient husband went to the store for me while I was out to stock up on some Whole Foods, at Whole Foods (convenient!). Yummy apples and Bananas and Almond Butter and Naked juices, and he even prepared dinner.

Today was a bad example of a first day, I was completely unorganized and unprepared for the day when it comes to food and that will be your biggest downfall doing this. Without meal planning and/or meal prepping, you will sadly fail, because we all have a couple of those days when  you come home too tired or miserable to even think about starting dinner and McDonalds sounds more appetizing than even the best 5 star restaurants. Although if dinner was already prepped and ready to go, or even in the crockpot just ready to be eaten, you would be much more likely to stay home and eat your yummy happy organic food. Mom always used to say; if you fail to plan, you plan to fail, so don't forget to plan AHEAD.

So I get home and dinner is cooking away and I prepare my dinner for tomorrow, a nice easy recipe in the crockpot I will be sharing with you all tomorrow, but dinner tonight consisted of a roasted chicken already roasted from whole foods. Now be very cautious if you are picking up ANY kind of already prepared food, read the ingredient list very carefully, you would NOT believe how many products on our grocery store shelves (Even Whole Foods) have added sugar or any sort of Sugar such as sugar cane or fructose, you can easily google all the different names for sugar and avoid them at all cost. Actually if you are reading a label and you can not pronounce one of the ingredients, that's usually when we decide to move on, anywho... Dinner was the roasted chicken, some roasted lemon pepper and thyme potatoes and a nice green salad with Whole 30 compliment salad dressing (for a good brand of compliant dressings comment below i'll let you know of them) and avocado.  It was very good, satisfying and most of all... I sit here at midnight after a very long day, feeling full... Happy... Healthy(er) and not regretting this decision... Yet.

Here's just a picture of my dinner and desert since no fancy recipes to share this evening.