Whole 30 Day 1

Snow daaaaayyyyy!  Who said snow days are reserved for teachers?  Given the arctic climate and the fact that my little toy car is not as much fun in the winter as it is in the summer, I was late getting into work this morning.  Before I could get myself dug out, my office closed and sent people home.  Who doesn't love when their employer does that?  So, in between emails and other work-related activities, I cleaned my fridge (literally), did laundry, meal prepped, caught up on my DVR and hung out with my puppy.  This also means I failed to get to CrossFit but I didn't want to risk getting stuck again.  Oh well, life goes on.

So, today was Whole 30 day one.  How did everyone do?  I think it went pretty well myself, and a lot of that is because I was prepared.  I'm telling you, preparation will be key during this thing.  My meals today were as follows:

Breakfast:
2 cups of coffee (one regular and one decaf) with steamed coconut milk and cinnamon
Eggs and bacon with a sprinkle of pink himalayan sea salt
Pomegranate seeds and cactus fruit.
I'm not generally a breakfast eater absent some almonds or a LaraBar but I was home so I figured why not?  We'll see how long the breakfast train lasts this month.

Snack:
Because breakfast was later in the day and I planned an earlier dinner, I had a snack in between instead of a full lunch-type meal.  Pistachios and half a bottle of organic green juice helped to tide me over until dinner.

Dinner:

I had pulled pork that I had marinated the night before and cooked all day in the crockpot.  I also made homemade barbeque sauce.  Both recipes came from Civilized Caveman.  I modified the bbq sauce recipe by adding fresh pineapple for the canned (no added sugar) and I didn't use that much sauce so I bottled the rest up for another time.  I served the pork with half an avocado, some burnt broccoli (my favorite!) and garlic mashed cauliflower.  I subbed ghee for the butter in the cauliflower recipe and bam! Whole 30 compliant!  Burnt broccoli is essentially roasted broccoli.  Cut your broccoli into pieces, toss it with some good olive oil and roast it in the oven at 350 degrees until charred.  I didn't season the broccoli at the time of roasting because I topped it off at dinner with some fresh ground pink sea salt.  

I also spent some time today making homemade mayo, defrosting some chicken, beef and bone broth that I had in my freezer and planning some meals for the remainder of the week so I'm stocked and ready to go.  

I know it's only day 1 but so far, this Whole 30 thing is feelin' just fine!