Day 14

Being sick while on a Whole30 sucks. Being a sick Mama who has a sick babe while being on Whole30 is miserable.

Lil's sleep last night was a joke. Of course she will only eventually settle down with me. Not Derek. Ever. I know. This is on me. We've made her accustom to this arrangement and I am a believer in the path of least resistance, but when she is waking several times a night, I cry. I can't help it. Last night I got angry because all I wanted to do was eat my dinner and go to sleep. Yeah. That doesn't happen with a sick babe in the house. She can't get comfortable and tosses and turns then rubs her face till her paci falls out and the whole things just sucks.


Other craptastic day. Don't feel like going in to details.

Food:

Breakfast: Surprisingly really good. Two fried eggs with leftover chicken curry. Side of cucumber and red onion salad. So good I even took a picture of it....

Lunch: Zoodles with pesto and a small bowl of meat sauce

Dinner: Shredded BBQ chicken thighs over half a sweet potato and broccolii

Day 13

Day 13 should be labeled, No Filter because I do not have one today. Not that I'm being rude about how I say things, I'm just being stern and getting my point across when I otherwise would think a little more before I spoke to make sure I didn't offend other parties. Today, not the case. I've apologized a few times to my coworker about my snarky comments. Thankfully he understands.

Exhausted today. Feel crappy. What I was hoping was allergies I'm pretty sure is a cold. It sucks. The pressure sucks. The feeling that I'm going to sneeze every five minutes and then don't, sucks. The post-nasal drip sucks. The dripping out my nose at random times throughout the day sucks. It kind of all sucks and all I want to do is go home and curl up on the couch and nap. But that won't happen because I have to make effing curry because I'm doing an effing WHOLE30 and I need to make every damn thing I put into my body. Yeah. So Day 13 should also be labeled, this sucks, eff all the things!

Food:

Breakfast: Leftover sausage with onions and peppers

Lunch: Small bit of sweet potato hash, an egg, some shredded chicken with a big ass bowl of stir fry veg from Whole Foods.

Dinner: Chicken curry over cauliflower rice. Making this while feeling miserable and caring for a miserable babe left me tired and hungry quickly as well as crying while cooking.

The evening all around sucked.

Eff it.

Day 12

We managed to get a couple good chunks of sleep last night, but the sweet girl was miserable this morning. All we can do is wait it out.

I on the other hand feel pretty good minus the post-nasal drip and need to sneeze every hour or so. Hoping its just allergies. We have a lot to do this weekend and most of it is socializing... I took a probiotic and will take some vitamin C when I get home. I wonder if bee pollen is Whole30 compliant?

Whole30 has definitely lost its sparkle. Yes, I still feel good. But I'm tired of cooking every night. Thankfully Derek made the zoodles while he was home with the babe yesterday. I'm looking for dishes that are simple and easy. I would feel differently if I was okay with eating the same thing every night, but I'm not, and I can't. I need variety. I'm done with breakfast being breakfast too. In the Whole30 forum one of the gals gave us a quasi recipe for her butternut squash soup and it sounds divine. I think I'll whip that up this weekend and have that as part of a breakfast plate.

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Thought chain reaction: Talking to a coworker about zoodles ---> remeberring a nick name for a guy in my high school french class (zoobles) -------> because he looked like the fox on a childhood show---->   ZOOBILEE ZOO!

I don't know why I get so excited when I remember things I had previously forgotten from my childhood. The pink lady in the bottom right corner (Whazzat Kangaroo) I thought was secretly played by my mother. They look so similar. And no joke about the guy from french class. He looked just like the fox. 

Just like him.

Food:

Breakfast:  1 1/2 hard-boiled eggs... one half fell on the floor and sweet potato hash with ground turkey

Lunch: Leftover zoodles with meat sauce

Snack: apple with sunbutter and a small handful of coconut flakes and toasted almonds. I was a little hungry, but could've forgone this. But I am feeling a little woe is me today.

Dinner: applegate sausage with peppers and onions with a side salad. Ate more than I think I should have of the sausage, but I wasn't full.

I couldn't get full tonight. Rather than try to get full I am ending the evening with a box of kleenex and chai tea.