Week 2

Jan 6

Written By Kieu Vo

This week was a little weird for me as I intended to eat breakfast in the mornings, but ended up skipping most days as I wasn’t hungry. Generally, when you’re on Whole30 you should have 3 full meals, but my body is used to intermittent fasting with just celery juice in the morning. I kind of stuck with that normal routine this week and just ate lunch earlier.

Meals prepared for the week:

Breakfast

Breakfast egg muffins (ended up not making bc I didn’t really eat breakfast)

Lunch/Dinner

Vietnamese braised beef & eggs
Zuppa Toscana soup
Made turkey burger patties & chicken wings over the weekend

Snacks

Cacao protein balls

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Monday, January 10th

Breakfast/Lunch

In the morning, I started off with a bottle of celery juice from Trader Joe’s and had an early lunch workout and then had a small bowl of braised beef & eggs.

Dinner

After running 3 miles, I made Zuppa Toscana in the instant pot. Here’s a fun TikTok video of it 😋.

Tue, January 11th

Breakfast/Lunch

I had my celery juice again and the Vietnamese braised beef & eggs . I seriously love this dish so much so I had a good sized portion for a late breakfast early lunch.

Dinner

After running 3 miles, I wasn’t too hungry, but decided to make these delicious Chocolate Protein balls. These are Whole30 friendly and you can pop them in your mouth when you need a little bit of energy!

Wed, January 12th

Breakfast/Lunch

Again had my daily Celery juice and had Zuppa Toscana for a late breakfast early lunch.

Dinner

After my run, I came home to a box of juices from Suja! I drink their celery juice every single morning so I was pretty pumped to try their different flavors! I ended up trying the Strawberry Guava Immunity drink first and it was so delicious! The juices on the left have Whole30 friendly ingredients and then ones on the right have stevia in them so those are not compliant. I also had the rest of the Vietnamese braised beef & eggs.l with grilled romaine hearts. I wish I made more!

Thu, January 13th

Breakfast/Lunch

I drank my daily Celery juice and an immunity shot and then had avocado with a soft-boiled egg. SO simple and delicious!

Dinner

I went for a 3-mile run and then went out to dinner at Georgie by Curtis Stone in Dallas. My date called in advance to tell them to be prepared for Whole30 and they were very cool about it. (Apologies in advance, I’m pretty shy about taking pics of my food so I didn’t really get any!)

So instead of bread, they served lightly cooked sliced cucumbers seasoned with salt & pepper and it was Divine!! I never thought cucumbers can taste that good 🤣

I also told the server that I cannot have dairy, butter, sugar, or grains so they made me a nice salad with a basil & olive oil vinaigrette with sliced apples, cucumbers, mustard. Omg this was soooooo good I wanted more!

For my main entree, I had an 8oz filet cooked medium rare plus (I suggest having it medium rare bc mine was a little overcooked 😬)

I also have to admit that I did cheat and had a Chopin (potato vodka) martini 🙈. It was sooooooo strong.

Friday, January 14th

Breakfast/Lunch

I had my daily celery juice and made a steak salad with leftover steak from Georgie!
(Side note: Felt a little lighter & less boated this day so I had to take a pic lol)

Dinner

After I went for my 3 mile run, I grabbed dinner with a friend at Sachet. Wow! This was sooooo good and I tried to pick the most complaint options, but I wasn’t too strict on myself 😬. We had the tuna tartare, grilled octopus, grilled branzino & artichokes! I know I’m terrible. I didn’t take pictures!! I need to work on that…

Saturday, January 15th

Breakfast

I had my daily celery juice and literally just laid around for a bit bc it got COLD! AND STARTED SNOWING!!

Here’s a funny video bc I ended up running in it. I couldn’t feel my fingers and toes afterwards!!

Lunch

I wasn’t too hungry but wanted something warm so I made a simple egg drop soup by boiling chicken bone broth, seasoned with salt, pepper, coconut aminos, fish sauce. Removed from heat and slowly poured in 2 beaten eggs.

Dinner

I didn’t have anything prepped, but had defrosted ground turkey so I made turkey burger patties in the air fryer. I seasoned it with 1 egg, chopped fresh parsley, a splash of mustard, onion powder, garlic powder, salt & pepper and hoped that it tasted good. I cooked it in the air fryer @ 360 for 5 mins each side bc my patties were massive! I served it over a bed of kale, tomatoes, grilled zucchini and avocado. It ended up being soooooo good!

Sunday, January 16th

Breakfast

I had my celery juice and leftover turkey patty with a fried egg! Oh so good!!

Snack

I had the chocolate protein balls and then some mango dipped in fish sauce. (I know it’s weird but it reminds me of my childhood! - we ate weird things 🤣)

Dinner

Sunday night football with the Cowboys and I was craving some wings! I made a healthier version of wings as I did not have all of the ingredients to make a Whole30 friendly baking powder. Chicken wings ended up being so good!! 😋😋

Chicken wings:

Lemon pepper - pat try 1lb of chicken wings, season with 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 1/2 tsp of lemon pepper seasoning, place in air fryer and cook for 5 mins on each side @390.

Buffalo - pat try 1lb of chicken wings, season with 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 1/2 tsp of Himalayan salt, 1/2 tsp black pepper, place in air fryer and cook for 5 mins on each side @390 and toss in Primal Kitchen buffalo sauce.

Thoughts from Week 2

I slipped up several times this week and definitely felt the effects of it all. I really need to meal prep to avoid the slip ups but I’m not going to be too hard on myself. I may just extend Whole30. 😛 I think the good rule of thumb is to not keep any non-compliant ingredients in the house and stock up on Whole30 friendly ingredients! See my go to items to stock in pantry, fridge & freezer for easy meals.