The Healthy Living Thread

Down 12 pounds on Whole 30 with a week left. I know you aren't supposed to weigh yourself, but I'm a rebel like that.

 

Weighed myself on the Whole 30, forgot i wasn't supposed to.

3 days left and I'm down 18 pounds. Want to make it a clean 20.. but the lifestyle is going to continue through the summer

 

Think I may give this whole30 a shot starting after my birthday. Would be nice to do it in the last month living next door to wholefoods and trader joes I would imagine. got a free month at a real nice yoga studio next door to my apt as well, that has to be used before I move out.

 

i highly recommend Whole30 simply for the habit forming. I hate diets and they never work, but this is more about a lifestyle change. I'm hoping to stick to it as much as possible throughout the usmmer

 

Plan to do another whole 30 in June or July. Did one a few summers ago and felt great. Kept up with a whole-ish 30 life until a new baby plus a move across the country. Need to get back on it

 

yea I'm gonna do it because every single person I know (both irl and my healthfriends here) have had really good success with it.

i'm lazy as shit though and honestly don't want to read a book on it. how much reading is involved and what's the price

 

It's a real quick read with the science behind the methodology. For instance you probably won't need much theory behind a lot of what they're saying as a chap who is already committed to health. But if you did read front to back every word it wouldn't take you more than two days.

Empty calories and how they are bad, high quality proteins and what not to eat.

Edit: that's paraphrasing, there is some good information on fats and other tidbits I personally found benefitial. Cost $20 maybe? I got it on prime.

 

I think the key is eating any food at any time.

Eggs and more eggs, any way but for the easy route hard boiled in bulk.

For meat cook for a week or at least a few meals. I mashed smoked salmon that's easy but can be expensive.

Vegetables, already stated in the thread but roasting is your friend. Key is just to figure out how much to buy. Fruits cabbage lettuce for bulk non cook situations.

Home made mayo is another must imo. Tuna cabbage and other items can use it. Spices, hot sauce and salt are game changers.

Finally you'll figure out your go tos pretty quickly. It does get repetitive so you have to experiment and that won't always be quick.

Probably our favorite go to meal is a diced head of red cabbage, homemade mayo (this was an edit I forgot 2 tbls at least) kosher salt (pretty liberally), cayenne (preference), chipotle lime zest and juice. Mix and then pair with protein ground turkey, beef, chicken or shrimp seasoned (we do Mexican spices). Makes a solid whole 30 meal. We don't eat it every week but we easily could.

Good luck.

 

Yea, having fun with it is the best part...and it keeps you motivated and not bored with the food.

For Breakfast: Eggs, cooked a number of ways. In Avocado Oil. Also, Uncured Turkey bacon

I started to chop off the top of a bell pepper, and mix in chopped up kale, mushrooms and onions with eggs. Bake it in the oven.

Lunch: Mainly salads. Or I would cook a chicken breast, veggies and jeweled yam(1/2). I survived on eating a Jeweled Yam..even when i was lazy, just throw one in the oven for 45 minutes. There is also whole30 approved hot sauce i put on it.

GTs Kombucha for a beverage other than Water, Coffee or Green Tea.

Dinner:
Fish & Veggies. And mix up the veggies i would eat.

I also made some sweet potato fries recently. Baked with Avocado Oil with salt & pepper..delicious.

 

I also snacked on a lot of fruit

 

My wife fixes everything but we use compliant stuff from Fit Men Cook and she said there is a ton on Pinterest. We had something tonight that had chicken thighs, sun dried tomatoes, coconut milk, chicken broth, olive oil, garlic, Italian seasoning, and tapioca flour in it. It was my favorite thing she's made so far.

 

Breakfast: 4 pieces pan fried bacon, 2 fried eggs over easy (ghee or coconut oil) 1 whole avocado

Lunch: 3 hard boiled eggs with hot sauce, bag of carrots, 2 bananas

Dinner: pork chops, oven fried potatoes (in duck fat), roasted broccoli

 

Pork chops pan seared with hot cherry peppers and potatoes in duck fat sounds like a ridiculously good meal.

 

Day 1 for me

Scrambled eggs, potatoes cooked in olive oil, chicken bacon

Salad with grilled chicken (thinking a Cobb salad will be a staple for me)

Pork chop with roasted veggies

Snacks: raw veggies, banana, apple, cashews and almond butter

:obamanotbad:

 

We haven't had the same thing twice for supper during this whole time. Made it a lot better for us.

 

Whole30?

Almond butter is suspect, no? Never had it during whole30 but I'm skeptical of a lot of what I can and can't eat.

And as long as its extra virgin olive oil, you're good.


Also, I once in a while boil eggs. Either break them up for a salad or just eat the egg as a snack

 

List I pulled had almond, cashew butter listed. Checked ingredients and didn't see a bunch of process shit listed.

Hard boiled eggs will be a staple for me as well. Nicely versatile.

 

I do hard boiled eggs often, but just be prepared for ripping some nasty farts for most of the day

 

I love hard boiled eggs

I try to make some ahead of time and eat in the mornings to save time, I usually eat 3 eggs for breakfast most days

 

Almond butter is fine on Whole30.

 

Just recently picked up an Apple Watch and noticed a 100(+/-) reduction in calories burned in comparison to comparable workouts tracked with my old Fitbit HR. I'm talking about total calories, not just active calories. Is this just a case of the Fitbit overtracking calories burned? I'm assuming the Apple Watch is more accurate?

 

Easiest whole30 meal that you can change up slightly:

1. Indivually wrapped frozen fish (tilapia, salmon, flounder, cod) put in pan with coconut oil and use any of the sodium free Mrs. dash seasonings
2. 1 bag of frozen riced cauliflower (can get the half cauliflower half sweet potatoes, medley, and a few others) steamable in microwave in 6 minutes, add sodium free Mrs. dash seasonings and a whole30 hot sauce
3. Put fish over rice - 10 minutes start to finish if fish is thawed

 

Roast or sauté, never steam. Unless you hate flavor and yourself. Rules to live by.

 

There are some vegetables it took me awhile to come around on as an adult because my mom steamed almost everything growing up.

 

I agree, but those riced cauliflower bags are so convenient I am willing to do it. Like I said, 10 minute meal start to finish is convenient. Whenever I have the time, I always roast my vegetables.

 

Buddy of mine giving me his Whole 30 book after work today. Guess I'm starting up next week since I'm due for a grocery run on Sunday

 

I'm sure it's been discussed many places in this topic but what routines do the early risers in here follow? Trying to get better at this as I can't help but sleep until the last minute before getting ready for work lately. Hearing from those who haven't always been early risers would be appreciated.

 

Read the miracle morning last week and since then I have gotten up an hour earlier without hitting snooze once. Feel so much better not rushing, book is worth a look

 

1st alarm: 5:05
chug a pre workout drink that contains ~140mg caffeine: 5:14 (one snooze)
lay in bed until 2nd snooze: 5:23
get dressed and walk to gym when it opens at 5:30

 

Nope nope nope.

Actually I'm just jealous of that self disipline. If I had to do that to get my workouts in I'd opt for diabeetus.

 

the first-thing PWO chug has been a staple for 4:30-5:30am workouts for like 5 years for me. It's hard to have intensity lifting that early without the caffeine in those scoops.

when I was working out at 4:45 before I moved out here, it was actually easier to get up. I wake up plenty of times (when i'm going to bed early and doing the 5:30 thing) at 4:30-4:45, but the gym I'm at right now doesn't open til 5:30 so I end up going back to sleep for 30 minutes... and the next time waking up is tougher. Once I move in July I'm not gonna be at this gym anymore - it's 50 yards from my apt. So I'll probably go back to a Golds somewhere that's open earlier/24-7.

only thing I don't like about the gym opening at 5:30 is that I can't get a solid lifting session in and get ready for work to be here at 7am.

 

Anyone break their hand or wrist before? I am almost 3 months out and just curious if anyone else had to deal with the rehab? It's not hard or anything to complain about other than I literally dont have the strength to throw weights around. I go back in a week for a follow up but any advice?

 

Tell me more about this.

 

Just bought it on Amazon so will let you know at 5 AM next Monday morning...

 

Black coffee followed by some BCAAs right before/during workout should do the trick. Then so many carbs after

 

Let me know what you think. It has helped me so far

 

You won't even miss them. It was way easier than I thought.

 

I ate a pound and a quarter of ground turkey today

 

A month without drinking sounds pretty rough

 

I am under the impression the Apple Watch is less accurate.

 

there's enough people ITT and IRL I know that have done it that... I dunno I'd be kinda embarrassed if I physically couldn't go 1 month without drinking. But I feel like doing a diet like this would get me down to ~185 and a serious workout regimen to go with it would be the combo I needed to jumpstart my hanes whitey tighties modeling career

 

A month without drinking wasn't that bad, but I don't know that I felt all that different. It was only tough if I had some sort of birthday/engagement party to go to and probably toughest when going out to dinner. I never realized how weird it is to have an adult man ask for just water at a nice restaurant.

 

I like smoking a lot more than drinking anyways. I could eat an edible or take a vape pen to the bar and drink water with lime and be fine I think I've drank just water at the bar 2-3 times last summer and it actually got some pretty nice reactions from girls when they found out. And I've got jackass friends that I know will go to the bar and buy an extra beer/drink and try to give it to me to peer pressure into drinking and I will absolutely take that and go find a pretty chick to give it to, while casually dropping in something in the neighborhood of "not drinking tonight. friends peer pressuring. blah blah don't need to get drunk to enjoy talking to pretty girls like you at the bar"

 

I go back and forth on this. I used to think it would be tough to give up having a beer or two every day. Did that two years ago (save for every once in awhile or while on vacation) and it has been easy. I'm thinking the first weekend would probably be the hardest and then get gradually easier. I think I'd have to do it during spring tax season though when I don't have time to be tempted with many other events.

 

I did it in January. Bookend with New Years and Super Bowl and really there's not shit else going on in January. No one is throwing parties, having bbqs, weddings, or any other events, etc.

 

It would definitely be much easier in the winter/early spring after football season wraps up and before summer starts.

 

if it werent for the occasional tax season binge night... I've gone from the day after the super bowl til ~mid march only drinking 2-3 times. Tax season is definitely doable