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| Yay! Tuna Cake success! Recipe Below. |
How I'm feeling:
Peaceful
Sunday
Breakfast:
Tuna Cakes with half an avocado and some tomato
Lunch:
Lemongrass tea
Snack:
A small apple and some cashews
Dinner:
Leftover breakfast :)
Monday
Breakfast:
Tuna Cake Sushi - Tuna with Alfalfa and Cherry Tomatoes rolled in roasted seaweed
Some pineapple slices
Lunch:
Green Tea
Dinner:
Carrot Cake LaraBar (so delish!)
Tuna seaweed roll with cherry tomatoes (I ran out of alfalfa >_<)
I have to say I had a really good weekend. One solid "me-time" weekend (even though I popped into office for just a little bit on Saturday). I haven't had a solid weekend to myself in a really long time. Perhaps it's this awareness that I have to take care of my health that I've started realizing the importance of taking care of other areas of my life too. Work has somehow now taken a secondary place in my life. Stuff needs to get done, yes, but health needs to come first.
The discipline that has come with doing the Whole 30 has helped me tremendously in this I suppose. I've become more aware of the things I eat and of getting some exercise into my daily routine...even though it's mainly been just walking.
I pretty much spent most of my Saturday with my father (which I really appreciated because I haven't spent time with him in a REALLY long time). We just went out and I tried to teach him about nutrition along the way. He's really been struggling with this new daily routine of having to take heart and diabetic pills after his heart attack. It pretty much demands a lifestyle change that's totally unfamiliar to him. He has never really had to take pills in his life. I suppose it doesn't help either that his favourite foods are amongst the likes of chicken rice, char kway teow, and prata (standard delicious Singaporean fare).
So I've finished the Whole30 book (though I think the first book - "It Starts with Food" - was a much more useful "left-brain" kinda book for me) and I've left it with my mother in hopes that her understanding of nutrition will also help influence the foods we choose to put in our house. I'm hoping it will educate her a little so she will stop eating really unhealthy things like Fish & Chips and letting my dad gobble up her leftovers. I really worry for his health a lot. I love my dad and would like him to live a long time. <3
Sunday was an awesome day of spending time with girlfriends and supermarket shopping at Parkway Parade!
I think since the Whole30, I've been obsessed with supermarkets and what my food options are. I didn't get to pick up the canned mushrooms and bamboo shoots because they were too heavy for me to lug around, but I got a whole ton of other stuff. I can't wait to get my hands on some bamboo shoots though! I miss eating crunchy non-nuts things. :)
Here's some pics from my Sunday shopping trip and my haul!
I got them from Cold Storage, Fish Mart Sakuraya, and this awesome store called Four Seasons Organic Market. They're all at the basement of Parkway Parade in Katong. :) I was a happy girl.
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| Here's Four Seasons Organic Market. I was happy with all the options! It was like a little paradise for me... but you still gotta read your labels here. |
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| I wasn't sure if I could eat this, but I took a picture anyway just for reference. |
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| This place has the largest variety of LaraBars that I have seen in Singapore so far. :) Hurrah! Gold mine! |
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| They had other brand options too but it seemed only "The Primal Pantry" ones that were Whole30 compliant. |
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| I've been wanting seaweed so I bought some to make some non-grain sushi. :) Only the Roasted ones were compliant. All the 'Seasoned Seaweed"s had sugar and soy in them. I did see one seasoned seaweed in the Korean market that was made with only Sesame Oil, but that's grey area I don't want to play in. |
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| Here's my final haul for the day (other than the seaweed). The bars and the coconut slices were from Four Seasons, the cocoa was from Cold Storage. |
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| These were from Cold Storage! Don't they sound delicious? Not to mention they were on clearance... but it turns out that sprouted flaxseed is not really Whole30 so I had to give it away. :( |
STUFF I COOKED/ATE
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| This was the making of my Tuna Cakes. In there I have: 1 can of tuna chunks in olive oil (drained) 5 cloves of garlic (finely diced) 1 medium onion (diced) 1 large stalk of celery (diced) About half a cup of coconut flour Paprika Garlic Powder Cracked Black Pepper 2 eggs It tasted...mainly of coconut at first, but the garlic powder (not salt!) and the paprika evened it out. I need to have a less pungent binder. Maybe I'll try with less coconut flour and more egg next time. |
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| This was what my plate looked like. It was SO filling. I actually was full at that first cake and some avocado later. |
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| This was what I totally couldn't eat anymore. I think I definitely should have stopped earlier. Interestingly, I thought the hot sauce spoiled the natural flavours so I didn't quite touch it in the end. |
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| This was breakfast this morning. I LOVE seaweed and I thought to make things more interesting today. |
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| I definitely miss sushi, but this will have to do. And it was pretty good actually. I think it'd have tasted better with some avocado...or cheese. I miss cheese. >_< |
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| This was my delicious Carrot Cake LaraBar. I love it that I can actually see bits of carrot in it. :) |
PHYSICAL WINS
I've been waking up at about 7ish am in the morning that hasn't happened for a long time. I believe the quality of my sleep has also improved. I slept in for an hour more this morning though... but I think it was more of a Monday-morning thing. Also cause I could. :)
Another interesting (and hopefully not TMI) thing that I've noticed is that it seems my toilet-time regularity has improved. It looks like my body now knows to empty itself of waste first thing in the morning. I used to be constipated for a couple of days and probably averaged number 2s something like 3 times a week? So I suppose it's quite nice to have a daily "emptying" in the morning for the past few days. It's a nice start to the day.
The first week of me embarking on the Whole 30 saw me having some weird tummy troubles, but I wasn't sure if it was because of my flu. But anyway, I'm glad that that has kinda cleared up.
WEIRD THINGS
A friend I met yesterday said I was looking "pale". I didn't think that it was too much of a compliment. I thought I was supposed to have rosy cheeks or something with the clean eating. Maybe it's just a process. :)
I've gotten two bumps on my back. I don't think they are "back pimples" but I really hope not. I haven't ever gotten things like that in my life. In fact I've probably only ever gotten like 2 pimples in my life, so this is really weird for me. Please go away soon!
CHALLENGES
I know I'm supposed to be eating three square meals a day, but I realized that that part of discipline has been really hard for me - especially at work. Thing is, I usually have breakfast around 10am and somehow this new "protein-loading" in the morning keeps me full for a really long time...and when it hits something like 4 or 5pm, it's pretty much almost dinner time so I usually just have a snack (which I know is not supposed to be allowed) or weather it out till dinner. I'm going to perhaps try to plan to eat a smaller breakfast and see how that works out. I gotta try to get my body in a rhythm. I'm just so used to a eat-"focus on work that I don't notice I'm starving"-snack cycle.
And just to be more objective, here's a category I thought would be important to add so I can check in on that progress:
STUFF I HOPE CLEARS UP BY THE END OF THIS MONTH
- Hypothyroid stuff (blood tests out in 3 days!)
- Other stuff related to autoimmune problems: scalp issues, dropping hair (stop please!), dry skin, this irritating patch on my leg, this huge random weight gain, lethargy (which seems to now be clearing up). Please go away!
To be honest, I believe it may take me closer to 3 months to really "heal up". But I whatever it is, I'm just looking forward to better health.
And cheese at the end of this.
I miss cheese.
Please body, don't be allergic to cheese.
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