After 5 days of my Whole 30

I woke up with very little knee pain!!!  Very surprised by this. 

Last night I felt as though I had a lot more energy too and was quite alert, even at 10.30pm.  Usually a get an energy slump around 3-4pm and then again around 10pm.  Not last night.  I also woke up and felt alert - not my usual just woke up groggy feeling at all.

So what have I been eating?

Most breakfasts have been eggs of some sort - fried with bacon, fried with sautéed grated sweet potato, etc.  One morning I had 2 pork sausages with sautéed veges and this morning I had left overs from last night's dinner.

I made a batch of chicken soup and have been having that for lunch.  Dinners have been Apricot chicken (my fave), Lasagne with zucchini noodles (a bit wet), slow cooked Beef Goulash (forget the other 2).

The day I made the soup felt like I was cooking all day.  A draw back of this style of eating I suppose.  But now it is made all I have to do is reheat a bowlful.  I think that is the key to making this easier - precook a bit of food and batch it into single serves to be reheated over the next few days.

When I went shopping on Monday my fridge was chock fill of meat and veges - so much so that I couldn't fit it all in the appropriate areas.  But I did plan and shop for 2 weeks of meals.

I will admit that I have not been following the Whole 30 plan strictly.  I have tried it and decided that I still need/like to have 3-4 cups of tea a day with milk.  I have cut down the amount of milk I use to around 1 tablespoon - enough to make it a brown tea as opposed to black or white.  The Whole 30 police will probably be on my back about this but it is my life and diet and I should be able to do and eat as close to the program as I feel I can possibly manage.  Who knows, once summer hits I may not drink tea at all.  I have not eaten anything made from grains of any sort, not eaten any legumes or sugars - except what is naturally in fresh/frozen fruit.  So there....

Oh, my sleeping patterns are still roughly the same - disturbed at least once a night.  Unless of course the cat sleeps with me.  Then it's more like every time I need to turn over I get disturbed.  He likes to sleep hard up against me or even on me.  I have a large personal space and when he invades that of a night I find it hard to sleep well.  Solution - shut the bedroom door and hope that hubby keeps it closed when he goes to work at ridiculous am.