torsdag 6. september 2012

Days 26-31

Wooohoo I've done it, 30 days without a any sugar, grains, dairy, alcohol and legumes (not that the last ingredients was any hard to stay away from). I am now on day 32 and I've been on the scale and measured my waist hips and thigs.


So here are the results:
Weight loss: 3,9 kgs (about 8,5 lbs)
Centimeters lost: 15cm (about 5 inches)


I've gone from beeing moderately obese to overweight on the BMI scale, the change is quite noticeble I took a photo on Day 1 and a photo Day 30 wearing a shorts that is my goal to wear again. On day one I could hardly zip it, on day 30 I could zip it and also do the buttons. I still can't wear it, but maybe in a couple of months if I keep up the good work. I need to loose at least 10 lbs for it to look good at me. It's a horrible sight, so I keep those pics for myself. :)

Other benefits: 
I'm not blouted anylonger
My heartburn totally vanished
I'm breaking sweat in my face when exersising
My feet is a little warmer (or at least they was for a while)
I wake up earlier (even when I had little or no sleep)

Other than that I feel quite normal, I have not experienced that energy boost that I've read about, and there has been no noticeble change with my allergy.

So what now??? One should think I would head directly for the chocolate section, but did I?? Yes I actually did, I took a long look at all those chocolates and decided not to buy any as I found none of them tempted me. However I bought Turkish youghurt which is very similar to Greek. I chose the Turkish since the container is half the size because I don't know how my body will react on dairy. 

Here is my menu for day 31: 

Breakfast: Chicken salad 
Dinner with the girls: Tapas
(Bacon dates, chicken, pork, 3 small potatoes, green salad)
Evening meal: Turkish youghurt with half banana and some cashews.

Since my dinner out was almost W30 approved (I did not ask if it was any sugar in the bacon) I chose to have the youghurt as an evening meal, mmmm it was as good as I remember it was. Actullay youghurt is one of the few things I've been really looking forward to eat again. 

This was yesteday, so how did my body react to the youghurt?? Well for the first time in over a month I've had a real good nights sleep unlike the night before when I had no sleep at all. I Maybe my body just needs a bit of dairy to sleep well, who knows?? It could also be a coincident. It was hard to wake up this morning, I slept a few hours longer than I've done the past weeks. Today I feel a little light headed, maybe because I've slept so long, or maybe because there was sugar in the bacon I ate yesterday, or maybe because of the youghurt???? Who knows???

My menu for days 26 to day 30 was quite similar to all the other days, (exept I added some more veggies) but I have to share one recipe with you. The other day I made almondbreaded chickenfillet, mmmmm yummi, my hubby is not to fond of chicken, but he really loved this. 
Pic borroved
 
Almondbreaded Chicken fillet
Chicken fillet (in slices)
1 egg (whisk it a little with a fork)
Almond flour (I made my own in the blender)
Salt
Pepper 
Seasoning after taste (I used thyme)

Blend the salt, pepper and seasoning in the almond flour.
Dip the fillets in the egg and then in the almond flour.
Fry the fillets on a pan, and voila, lovely crispy, healthy chicken.
I served it with a green salad. This is definately a stayer in our household.

My plan ahead is to stick with this diet most of the time. I will sometimes eat my beloved Greek youghurt and every other weekend drink some red wine. When I go out for dinner (which is not that often) I will eat whatever I find tempts me on the menu. 

Would I do the Whole 30 again?? Definitaly!!! I think January would be a good month for my next one as I believe Christmas will be a challenge to eat as healthy and clean as I should.

I hope someone will find my experience useful for their way to a new life.



torsdag 30. august 2012

Days 20-25

Day 25 and I'm still hanging in here. Nothing new really. I'm still not sleeping properly and I have not experienced this energy boost people are talking about. Other than that I feel perfectly fine, my feet are warmer and no heartburn. I think I have lost a little more weight, exited to see on tuesday how much. I do hope it's more than 7 lb. My tummy is smaller I can see that. Actually it's been so easy to follow this regime that I totally lost track of how man days I've done it. 
 Sunday I had a real bad day energywise. We went for a long walk in the woods, 5,5 miles, and I struggled from beginnig to end. My spouse has been quite impressed with me on other walks we've been on, but on Sunday he was not at all impressed with me, he had to stop and wait for me all the time. It's quite a few steep hills in this wood, and I hated everyone of them. The little waterfall was beautiful though and I rested a while there.
On Tuesday we went out for dinner and concert. Leonard Cohen, my favorite singer had an outdoor concert. It was a great concert, if possible I love him and his music even more now. I was a bit sceptic going out for dinner, but I called the retaurant in advance and found out I could eat the lambfillet with vegetables. I even could eat the sauce.
Now I'm not going to write the menus for all 5 days. I can't remember it all. I made the Curry again yesterday. We had a visitor who is a vegetarian so I made it with only vegetables and served the fried chicken on the side. Big hit, this is definately a recepie I'm going to use a lot. So easy and so delicious. 
It's lamb season in Norway and today I made a Norwegian speciality Fårikål, which means sheep in cabbage. The lambs has been running around in the mountains all summer and the meat is really delicious. Here is how we make this dish, if this is not Paleo or W30 nothing is. :) Put one layer of pieces of lamb in a big saucepan, then one layer of cabbage, one layer of lamb again, cabbage on the top. Salt and pepper between the layers. As many layers as you want, but the rule is always meat in the bottom and cabbage on the top. Add a little water, cook for about 1,5-2 hours. Normally we serve with potatoes, but I did not miss the potatoes today. Mmmmm yummi. It is a dish that also is very convinient to freeze, we normally make loads of it and put in the freezer. Anyone dare to try this?? 
I have now had my first workout doing crossfit training, it was quite exhausting and I do feel it in every muscle today. It was a bit fun though and took only about 45 minutes. The plan is to do another workout tomorrow. Today we've been for a walk againg, about an hour a lot of it uphill, but today it was easy peasy again. 
 

fredag 24. august 2012

Days 18 & 19

Today I had an instruction lesson in my gym, I learned about Cross fit training. The instructor gave me 8 exersises and told me how to do them. As I have done quite a bit of strenght training before my technique is good and the instructor gave me a lot of positive feedback. I was introduced to kettle bells, and sling, and what is new too is that there is no break between the exersises. I have been used to do my exersises 10 x 3 times and have a little break between every 10. Now I'm doing 15 deadlifts, 15 pull ups in a sling, 15 deadlifts and 15 pull ups again all without a break. This way I will work myself through all 8 exersises, still without a break. Very effective and fat burning the instructor told me. I will start on Monday.

Yesterday I spent a little time in the kitchen. I made Coleslaw, Meat lovers breakfast caserole  and fried up some chickenfillets.  I have to find a recepie for homemade salsa too, I do love hot thick and chunky salsa. 

Yesterday I also found a Meal planning template on the program of Whole30, have no clue why I have not seen it before. It introduced to me the concept Pre and post work out meals. It says one shall eat a half size meal 15-75 minutes before work out, I think I will have to eat 75 minutes before. Today I ate a little 45 minutes before and I felt that was to little. I ate some chicken and sweet potatoes post work out, but now the problem is, I'm actually full and I have 2 more meals to eat today. 

Menu day 18: 
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon
Dinner: Chicken fillet, slices of sweet potato and coleslaw
Evening meal: Meat lovers breakfast caserole

Menu day 19: 
Breakfast: Meatlovers breakfast caserole and slaw
Pre work out: Meat lovers breakfast caserole
Post work out: Chicken fillet and slices of sweet potato




onsdag 22. august 2012

Days 15,16 & 17

More than half way and still no problem regarding the food, no cravings at all. I even have some chocolate in my drawer, dark 70%, but still chocolate and I haven't once been tempted to eat it.  Still waiting for the burst of energy and also still waiting for a good nights sleep. 

The weather now is not to good, it's been raining a lot, so walking in the mountains is not an option. When it rains it gets really slippery and I'm afraid I will fall again, so better to be on the safe side. I have walked a bit uphill though and my partner says he's struggeling to keep up with me. I am actually quite impressed with myself and I've noticed that instead of turning read as a lobster, I now break sweat in my face. That has never happened before, even not when I was in the gym several times a week and had mean spinning lessons.



I was in the gym today for the first time since May. I warmed up on the spinning bike, rowed 500 meters and did some weight training. I was rowing as fast as I could, and my time was 2:46. A youg man next to me had time 2:17 so I felt I was not doing to bad I asked the instructor about Crossfit training as I've heard that should be really good exersise. Now I have an appointment on Friday with an instructor, he/she will show me some good exersises.

I've never mentioned anything about what I drink, but thats because I only drink water. I actually don't like coffee, and tea has not tempted me that much either. Before I started on the Whole30 I always had a cup of tea in the evening along with a little piece of 70% chocolate, that was my treat. Now that I'm not eating chocolate, the tea has fallen out too. In fact I've only had two cups of tea the past 17 days. 

Menu day 15: 
Breakfast: Leftover Red Chicken Curry, 1 egg
Dinner: Grilled pork fillet wrapped in bacon, mixed salad
Evening meal: I actually don't remember

Menu day 16: 
Breakfast: 2 harboiled eggs, 1 banana
Dinner: Steak and roasted vegetables
Evening meal: Scrambled eggs, slices of Strandaskinke, olives
(Strandaskinke is similar to Serano ham)

Menu day 17:
Breakfast: Eggs, bacon and tomatoes
Dinner: Pasta sauce without pasta,  a couple of plums
Evening meal: Fried apple and nuts


I had no idea what to make for dinner today, so I fried up some grounded beef added mushrooms, celery, red pepper, spring onion, chili and garlic. Poured a can of chopped tomatoes over. Did not miss the pasta at all. :) 

Saying hello to my reader/readers in Russia, really fun that you want to read my blog.

søndag 19. august 2012

Day 12, 13 & 14

Two weeks down and I feel fine. Still no cravings, I'm perfectly happy with what I'm alloud to eat. We had some friends over for tapas yesterday, I have to admit it would have tasted great with a glass of red wine or two with the food, but no problem keeping my hands of the bottle. Had to sniff a little of my partners glass though, the red wine smelled really nice. 

What I've noticed so far: 
I'm not blouted
Heartburn disappeared
My tummy is smaller
My feet are warmer
I've probably lost some weight

I've been a bit lazy the past days, no long walks. Yesterday it was raining a lot so I stayed in cleaning the flat and making food. I made bacondates, sliders, caramelised onions (not a big succsess), aioli, green salad and potato salad. The potato salad was not for me, but for our guests and my partner. 

I learn a lot and eat good food, this week I tried out two new recepies. So delicious. The aioli I made yesterday was also really yummi, and so easy to make, I'm never gonna buy mayo or aioli ever again. HERE is the receipt for the mayo and aioli, aioli is mayo with garlic.

Menu day 12:
Breakfast: Hardboiled eggs with clarified butter, bacon, carrotsalad
Lunch: Leftover Chocolate chili 

Menu day 13
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon
Lunch:Leftover Red Curry Chicken
Dinner: Tapas ( Bacondates,sliders, green salad, aioli, sweet potatoes)

Menu day 14
Breakfast: Lefover tapas
Dinner: Leftover tapas
Evening meal: Fried apple and nuts

2 more weeks to go woohooo.

torsdag 16. august 2012

Day 11

Someone I know had baked lovely homemade bread, she held it up to my mouth for me to taste and out of reflecs I took a bite and started chewing. As I was about to swallow I remembered, I CAN'T EAT BREAD. I started to spit it out, but to late, some of it was already on the way down and I thought, shit now I have to start all over again.
Luckily this was just a dream or shall I say nightmare??? Actually I never thought I should have a nightmare about something as commom as bread.

It's day 11 and I'm still hangin in here, no cravings, no problems with the food. I'm satisfied and never hungry. Still struggling with my sleep, I know the reason, it's my hormones, I'm in the middle of my menopause and sleeplessness is one of the symptons. Heat waves is the other symptom, but only during night. I have some hormone tablets in my drawer which I know would remove the symptoms in a few days, but I don't want to take them, afraid that they will screw up my W30. I probably have to ask someone because I can't live with this sleeplessness much longer. 

I made some chili today, I found the receipt HERE. This was not actually fastfood, in fact it had to simmer for 2 hours. I only made half a portion, had to try it out first. I quite liked it, but I think next time I make it I will put in some more chillipowder. 

Menu day 11: 
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon, strawberries
Evening meal: 2 carrots, fried apple with nuts.

Just came back from a 1,5 hour walk, a lot of it uphill, and I kick ass. My partner is so impressed with me. And I noticed I'm starting to breaking sweat in my face and that's new to me. No matter how hard I've been exercising I've never breaken sweat in my face, just turned red as a lobster.  






onsdag 15. august 2012

Days 9 & 10

I decided to change the name of my blog, it's now called Keep it simple. That's because I've kept it simple so far, no fancy recepies with loads of ingredients just simple food that anyone can make. I'm not a big fan of spending a lot of time cooking. I created this blog the day before I started my Whole 30, so I called it "I morgon skal eg" which means: Tomorrow I'm gonna... It's the first line of a poem every Norwegian know and it goes like this: Tomorrow I'm gonna start a whole new life, maybe. 
If you wonder what the Whole 30 is, please click on the link on the right.

Recap of my day 9. Actually very little happened yesterday, I cleaned the flat and I made clarified butter. O my ghee that is so delicious, it smells wonderful and taste even better. I think I must suffer from alzheimers because I actually can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. 

Menu day 9: 

Breakfast: I haven't the faintest idea
Lunch: Chickenfillet and green salad, 1 nectarine
Dinner: Leftover reindeer served with roasted slices of sweet potato and broccoli.
(it actually was quite nice with sweet potaoes on the side)

Exersise: None what so ever

I felt quite hungry last night so for the first time I had to eat something before I went to bed. I tried with some nuts at first, but at last I had to eat a banana too.  Actually my first banana for 9 days.

I got little or no sleep last night, I'm quite fed up now with this sleeping disorder and I long for a good nights sleep. When I woke up this morning I felt quite depressed, I was bloated and felt that I had gained a lot of weight. Actually I thought what's the point with all this, I dont feel any different than I did when I ate normally. But I'm hangin in here, I dont mind at all eating like this and still have no cravings.

I have tried out my MBT shoes again today. Close to where I live there's a long quite steep hill. I have walked this hill quite often, but first time today with my MBT shoes. It was not only exhausting, it was actually painful walking uphill with those shoes. My calves was burning after just a couple of meters. But I did it I walked the whole way to the top.

Menu day 10: 

Breakfast: Hardboiled eggs with clarified butter (ghee), bacon and a carrot
Lunch: Leftover reindeer, brazil and macadamia nuts, olives and a carrot
Dinner: Pork chops, cabbage and salad with grated carrots, apple and mayo, strawberries.

Seems like I ate a lot of carrot today.

Exersise: An hour walk with MBT shoes.

Oh now I remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, eggsalad, maybe I ain't got alzheimers after all.


mandag 13. august 2012

Day 8

Monday and the first day of my second week of the W30. We've had such nice weather so most of the day I spent in my bikini on the balcony reading a god book. It's not to many of theese days in my part of the world, so I really enjoyed it.

When the sun left my balcony I put on my new MTB shoes and went for a walk. It was quite a strange experience, I felt tall and that my back was really straight. I had to take small steps and I really felt I was using a lot of muscles I did not even know I had.

Here is a description of the MBT technology. 

MBT stands for "Masai Barefoot Technology," and the shoes are designed to simulate walking in sand. It's a multi-layered, curved sole that accomplishes this by creating a natural but uneven walking surface. This technology is meant to make the core strengthening muscles more active, creating better posture and increasing shock absorbtion for all of the joints. It also makes wearing the shoes quite a unique experience, and a bit of a workout. 

As it was my first time using the shoes I took some regular trainers with me in my backpack and changed when I felt the MBTs started to get a little uncomfortable. It takes a while to get used to them I think.

For dinner today I made a Norwegian dish with reindeer meat. Normally I use sour cream in this dish, today I tried out coconut milk. Instead of mashed potatoes I served it with cauliflower rice. The cranberry jam however I could not replace, so my portion was without. Trust me, this dish taste a lot better with cranberry jam on the side, so I think next time I make it it will be in the traditional way, when my W30 is over. It was a nice meal though.

Todays menu:

Breakfast: Left over sliders and a green salad with EVOO
Dinner: Reindeer meat cooked with mushrooms, crushed juniper berries and coconut milk. Served with cauliflowe rice and broccoli. 1 Nectarine for desert.
Evening meal: Omelet made with coconut milk, walnuts and macadamia nuts.


 I have to say, I feel a litte bit on my own doing this W30, all the blogs I've found so far on the topic is American. I read recepies I think looks really yummi, but some of the ingredients I dont know what is, brands is different and some things are probably not to be found here in Norway.


søndag 12. august 2012

Day 7

One week down and I have to say it has been amazingly easy. Energy is on it's way back, today I climbed a mountain without thinking I was going to die on the way up. I felt as soon as we started to walk, that it was so much easier than it was on Wednesday, I could keep pace with my partner uphill most of the time. 

My second mountain top in one week, not bad. Not very big mountains though, they are both about 350 meters above sea level. If weather is still good I plan to climb another top during the week. In september we plan to climb a mountain which is 1450 meters so I have to be fit for it. 
I really love this time of year, nature is so generous. You can just go pick some raspberries or blueberries, and the heather is so beautiful. In a couple of weeks the mountain will burst in colors.
I had a really late breakfast today, I fried some sweet potato slices since we had planned walking in the moutains, I heard that a little carbs before exersise would do good. 


Breakfast: Sweet potatoes, bacondates, green salad
Lunch: Nuts and wild raspberries on the hike
Dinner: Slides, fried cauliflower rice,  carrots and celery in mayo,
 raspberries for desert. 

I dont know if the nuts and berries counts as lunch, but I really could not eat anything more today. 




lørdag 11. august 2012

Day 6

It's Saturday night and I'm totally plastered. You might find that difficult to believe, but it's the truth. Just look here:


I sprained my ancle while hiking the other day so I had to tape it with sports tape to stabilize it. It's the first time I've done it so it does not look very professional, but it works so it doesent matter how it looks. I will use sports tape now when I walk in the mountain, since I've sprained my foot several times it's very easy to sprain it again.

I have felt much better today,  I slept fairly good last night, took me a while to fall asleep though. We were out walking for about an hour, the hill I had to rest several times yesterday was piece of cake today. Tomorrow we plan to climb another mountain. 
I made cauliflower rice today and made a total mess in the kitchen, but it was worth it, it was really good. I served it with a green salad and dates in bacon. A yummi dinner on a Saturday night.

Breakfast: Eggs and bacon
Lunch: Leftover egg and bacon and a couple of brazil nuts
Dinner: Bacondates, cauliflower rice, green salad.
Snack: Cherries

I think I have forgot to mention that I everyday also eat a tablespoon of extra virgin coconut oil.

Now I'll have my cherry snack while watching the womens handball finale in the Olympics. GOOOO NORWAY

fredag 10. august 2012

Day 5

OK now I understand what they mean by mental fog, for a while today I felt like I was living in a bubble and so tired I could fall asleep on the street. Probably my own fault because I did not drink enough water. I was at the dentist for a check up, no cavities wohooo. I celebrated with a little shopping and bought myself an autumn outfit. I have a favorite brand Masai I always find something when I go shopping for this brand. I ended up with a tunic, 2 pair of pants and a scarf. It's clothes I can wear even if I loose a couple of kilos. 

The tunic looks a bit like this, only brown and black.
I really love the outfit and it actually made me look quite slim.My wallet on the other hand was not that happy, especially not after I also bought a pair of MBT shoes. Even when you buy them at half price as I did today they are quite expensive.

After all this and a little grocery shopping (which by the way was a bit frustrating, I had to close my eyes when I passed the coke and the chocolate) I felt as I had run a marathon, I was totally drained of energy and so tired that I was afraid I was going to fall asleep on my feet. We have a quite long hill from the supermarket and home, I had to stop and rest a couple of times and thats hardly ever happened before. When I finally got home I drank 2 big glasses of water and ate a couple of macadamia nuts and suddenly I felt much better. 

And hey I've made mayo today, it was so easy. I found a recepie in Norwegian which I used, it took 2 minutes. I replaced sunflower oil with olive oil though.

Breakfast: Grated carrots in mayo and a couple of slices fried pæreskinke. 
(Pæreskinke is the Norwegian version of serrano ham)
Lunch: Eggsalad
Dinner: Chikcen fillet with oven roasted veggies. 

Exersise: Marathon....

And I have to admit, I've been on the scale again (naughty me), I've lost 1,7 kilos which s close to 4 lb. I just can't believe it.....

torsdag 9. august 2012

Day 4

Whats wrong with me??? I feel perfectly normal, no cravings, no mental fog, I don't feel tired (even though I haven't slept much the past week). I don't experience any of the down sides I have read about. Exept from a little headache the first night (which is not even to mention) and the lack of energy on my hike yesterday I have felt perfectly fine all the time. Do I do anything wrong? I'm quite sure I have followed the rules. There has been no sugar,grain or dairy passing my lips for 4 days, as far as I know and I have read the labels carefully. I have eaten very plain food with few ingredients to be on the safe side.

Tomorrow I plan to make mayo for the first time in my life, I haven't even tasted homemade mayo before. Very exited about that, I do hope I will succseed. I do hope I'll find the right ingredients in the shop today. I have read several recepies, some seems to use only the egg yolk and some the whole egg. I've decided to use this Recipe

We visited family today, they put chips and sweets on the table while we watched Norway win the handball semifinale in the Olympics. (Go Norway) I was not at all tempted to taste. OK it was not my favorite chips or candy, but anyway.

Sunset in Bergen, Norway. Has absolutely nothing to with the topic.
I was joking around with my partner today. Look how slim I've become I said and pulled down my jeans without unzipping them. I dont know who was most suprised him or me.

Breakfast: 3 hardboiled eggs sprinkled with a little EVOO and seasalt, 1 carrot
Lunch: Albondigas (it will be a while before I make it again)
Dinner:Asparagus with bacon, fried tomato and a fried egg
Desert: Some cherries and some macadamia nuts.

onsdag 8. august 2012

Day 3

Well how do I feel??? Very good actually, I dont feel bloated and the heartburn has disappeared. Last night I even slept, not the whole night trough, but better than the past week. What hunger concerns I sometimes feel hungry about an hour after I've eaten, but I never give into it and after a while it's gone and it can be hours before I feel hungry again. Sometimes I dont feel hungry at all, but know I have to eat anyway.

Not that steap, but how I struggled.
Today we decided to go for a hike, already on the way up to where our hike began I felt that this was going to be hard. And boy was I right, I struggled  every inch of the way up and had to stop and rest many times. I was on a similar hike last week, and that was hard too, but today was pure hell some of the time. I felt as my body was drained of energy. I nearly gave up about half way to the top, but after a rest and some nuts I struggled on and I'm glad I did, because it was so beautiful up there.
We ended up having a far longer hike than planned and walked for about 4 hours. Unfortunately when we were almost down I fell and sprained my foot. Luckily not to bad, I manageded to walk on it and got home at last. Even after this long walk I did not feel any hungry,

Breakfast: Omelet with mushrooms and leek
Snack on the hike: Mixed nuts and wild berries
Dinner: Albondigas, left overs from yesterday
Evening meal: Avocado salad and an egg

Now I cross my fingers and hope my foot will recover soon, I would like to go for a hike again soon.  I do hope what they say about that my performance during sports and hike will improve, I really do need a big improvement


tirsdag 7. august 2012

Day 2

First day finished, second day almost finished too, so far easy peasy. But I must admit I have cheated. Not with the food, oh no, but with the weighing thing, I just could not resist this morning to step on the scale and it turned out I had nearly lost 1 kilo over the night. I do know it's only water, (I really peed a lot yesterday) but hey I really needed to get rid of some excess water. Last night I had a little headache, today I'm totally fine again. I also had trouble sleeping, but that is not due to the diet, I've had trouble sleeping a couple of days. Not very unusual, it happens a few times a year that it is virtually impossible to sleep for a week or so. 
Pic borrowed from the net, I have not made my albondigas yet.

Todays menu: 

Breakfast: Fried egg, bacon, mushrooms and tomato
Lunch: Porkchop, carrot and a couple of almonds
Dinner: Albondigas (Spanish meatballs in tomato sauce)
Desert: Some cherries

Albondigas the easy way

Meatballs
800 gr (about 1,8 lb) minced meat (beef)
Garlic 2-4 cloves after taste
1 egg
seasalt about 1 teaspoon
pepper

To make it easy I dont make meatballs, but I make a big cake on the frying pan and then chop it up in pieces when nearly fried.


Tomatosauce

Extra virgin olive oil
2-3 onions
2 cloves of garlic
2 cans of chopped tomatoes with chili or oregano/basel
(or one of each as I used today)
seasalt and pepper

Put some olive oil in a pan, throw chopped onion in and let the onion get a little soft before you put the tomatoes in.


Put the fried meatballs in the sauce and cook for a while.
When you serv it it looks and taste good with chopped leafs of celery on top.

Mmmmmm this is really yummy, good thing I made a big portion.

Exersise: None so far, maybe later tonight, or maybe not.



mandag 6. august 2012

Dag 1/Day 1

Da er jeg igang, match vekten i dag er 83,1 kg. Nå skal vekten gjemmes bort og ikke taes fram igjen før 5 september, våger jeg å håpe at vekten da er under 80??? Jeg har også tatt mål rundt livet, hoftene og lårene i dag, i mangel på målebånd (gudene vet hvor jeg har gjort av det) tok jeg hyssing og klippet av, da blir det enkelt å se om det har forsvunnet noen cm når de 30 dagene har gått.

My first day of the Whole30, the scale showed 83,1 kgs, now I will put the scale into the closet and leave it there until September 5th. Dare I hope I will be less than 80 kgs? I have measured my waist, hips and thies, hopefully I will also have lost some centimeters by then. 

 Jeg trodde jo at det bare var å kjøpe inn kjøttvarer, men det viser seg at kjøtt ikke alltid inneholder bare kjøtt, men også sukker og stoffer som ikke skal inn i min munn de neste 30 dager. Formiddagen har gått med til å søke på internett etter kjøttvarer som ikke inneholder sukker, MSG (Glutamat E-621), karragener eller sulfitter. Gilde sine sider var velig opplysende og jeg fant ut at bl.a helsprøtt bacon, karbonadedeig og pæreskinke er trygt å spise. Det å finne bacon uten sukker var forresten ikke så helt enkelt, de fleste bacon inneholder dessuten også sulfitter for å holde på vannet når det stekes. Og sulfitter er fy, fy, allergifremkallende spesielt astmatikere kan reagere på det.

I thought it would be easy to find meat and meatproducts for the diet, unfortunately meat is not always only meat. I have used most of the morning to search the net for meat and meatproducts I am alloud to eat.  I found the site of the Norwegian meat producer Gilde very helpful, and luckily they produce a bacon that is free of both sugar and sulfites, and it's available in my nearest supermarked. Hooray.

Det blir nok mye lesing på innholdsfortegnelsene de neste 30 dagene, men grundig resarch i dag og i går har gitt meg en viss innsikt.
Google er en fin ting.

I'm sure I have to read all labels thoroughly the next 30 days, and also be aware when the 30 days are over. I will probably learn a lot about food. 

Nå er det snart ut på tur og så handle på veien hjem.

Now I will soon take a walk and then do the groceries on the way home.

Frokost: Omelett med søt paprika
Lunch: Svinekotelett og gulerot
Middag: Svinekotelett med kokt blomkål og avocadosalat.
En håndfull ville bringebær var dagens snack. 

Breakfast: Omelet with sweet pepper
Lunch: Pork chop and carrot
Dinner: Pork chop, cauliflower, avocado sallad
Snack: A handfull of wild raspberries, directly from the tree.
 
Trim: Ca en times tur

Exersise: About an hour walk 

No cravings so far.....


søndag 5. august 2012

I morgon skal eg

I morgon skal eg byrja eit nytt og betre liv. Det er ikke noe jeg tror for det skal jeg!!! Formen er mildt sagt elendig, i går måtte jeg stå over en flott fjelltur fordi formen er så dårlig. Jeg føler meg oppblåst, har hatt en del halsbrann og energinivået er på et minimum. Vekten stopper nå på ca 84 kg, alt for mye selvsagt for en som bare er 164 cm høy. Da jeg kjøpte jeg meg ny turbukse,  måtte jeg kjøpe str. XXL, grøss og gru. Jeg hadde igrunnen bestemt meg for å begynne på opplegget som treningssenteret jeg går på har, de viser til gode resultater, med pulverdiett og så gradvis tilvenning til normal mat. Jeg er skeptisk til pulverdietter, men nå er jeg igrunnen ganske desperat for jeg føler at uansett hva jeg spiser (eller ikke spiser) så har det ikke hjulpet. 

 Så fikk jeg tilfeldigvis via en bekjent høre om Whole30, en diett som skal få kroppen i balanse igjen. Skeptisk?? Ja jeg også, men min bekjente har etter 3 uker blitt veldig mye bedre av smerter hun har levd med i 20 år. Nå skal jeg altså begynne på den i morgen, jeg skal holde meg unna alt som inneholder sukker, korn, melk og alkohol i 30 dager, også belgfrukter skal ut av kostholdet. Da jeg først fikk høre om dette så tenkte jeg herlighet, men hva spiser man da??? Det blir jo kun kjøtt, fisk, frukt og grønnsaker, og siden jeg ikke liker fisk noe særlig så blir det kjøtt og grønnsaker på meg. Men kjøtt og grønnsaker i en måned tiltaler meg igrunnen mer enn en pulverkur. Dessuten koster opplegget de har på treningsenteret mange tusen.

Nå har jeg googlet og lest, listen over hva jeg spise er printet ut, i morgen må jeg kjøpe inn kokosolje, kokosmelk, kjøtt og grønnsaker. Jeg har lest om hvordan man lager blomkålris, jeg har lest om folk som har blitt mye bedre av både den ene og den andre sykdommen. Jeg har lest at det er tøft de første to ukene og så blir det plutselig en endring og man føler seg så mye bedre. Jeg har lest at energinivået har steget og at alt som heter fysisk aktivitet blir så mye lettere å utføre etter de to førstnevnte ukene. Jeg har lest at søvnen skal bli mye bedre, jeg har lest at man får et nytt liv og et helt nytt perspektiv på mat. Skeptisk er jeg, men dette skal prøves og 30 dager skal gjennomføres. Det å spise slik en måned kan da ikke skade.

Så kan jeg da bare håpe at: 

Vekten går nedover
Allergien og astmaen blir bedre
Oppblåstheten og halsbrannen forsvinner
Energinivået øker 

Dessverre har jeg ikke funnet noe særlig om denne dietten på norsk, om noen som leser dette har noen gode norske sider å henvise til så blir jeg svært takknemlig. 

I morgon skal eg byrja eit nytt og betre liv,
men i dag, i dag skal jeg kose meg med vin, ost og sjokolade.