This week I started to feel really hungry all day, and ate a lot more food despite my clothes starting to feel loose again. I didn’t think I was going to lose any more weight since I had already lost so much and had leveled off for at least a month. I started debating if [...]
Canceled diaper service Just after Peter turned 6 months, I hesitantly canceled the diaper washing service. We went from the huge stack of prefold diapers on the left to the tiny stack of organic prefold diapers on the right. Typically, the 30 diapers last us a week before I have to wash them. They hang [...]
I love to make my own sausage. Starting with pasture-raised ground pork and adding my own herbs and spices means we can control exactly what is in our sausage and try out new flavor combinations. Here are two of my favorites, based on recipes from The Spicy Sausage. One of the meals in our first [...]
Before starting the Whole30 I had serious concerns about my ability to make it 30 full days without any dark chocolate. I wasn’t sure if it was the chocolate itself, the sugar or the caffeine. I quickly realized it was the sugar. I had been eating a mostly Paleo diet for several months but didn’t realize [...]
Here is our purge list for the rest of 2011 (November and December).
We screwed up already yesterday, but are committed to getting this right, so we’re reseting our 30 day clock and going from Jan 2nd – 31st now. Today was much better. I sent Peter off to work with two hamburgers I cooked this morning and vegetables. Here’s what I ate today: I also had bone [...]
We made it through the first day, sort of. We decided to start after breakfast. Besides our otherwise Whole30 friendly meal of eggs, veggies and lots of lard, we had mimosas. We had wanted some champagne on New Year’s Eve but still had more than half of the bottle left even after having more at [...]
For the last several years I’ve been trying to learn what it means to eat healthfully. Since high school, my main focus with food was maintaining a healthy weight (always a struggle for me). This year everything changed when I became a breastfeeding mom. Our son had a few episodes of projectile vomiting, but I [...]
I find Nicole Balch truly inspirational. The beautiful monthly photos of her children Eleanor and August are what inspired my monthly photos of Peter. I also loved her “30 before thirty” list, but didn’t feel that I had enough time to complete one of my own by the time I saw hers. Nicole has inspired [...]
