Whole 30 Days 10, 11 & 12

Can't believe today is day 12 - only a few more days and I will be half way through.

I have already started to think which foods I will reintroduce after the 30 days.  I am definitely NOT reintroducing wheat and dairy.  I think both of those are big culprits for many things - mood swings, bloating, cravings, over eating.

Being a Yogini, I am very much drawn towards Yoga's sister science - Ayurveda. Last night I cooked an Ayurvedic Mixed Vegetable Subji. Per Ayurveda this has tridoshic energetics. It balances Agni and is laxative . A good food for bones and joints ;) It was delicious too

I finished the left overs of it (not very Ayurvedic as the rule is fresh food only) on my salad this lunch time ... Yummie. I got the recipe from this excellent book.

So to be able to eat in an Ayurvedic way, I am going to have to reintroduce rice and lentils and beans... I am going to see how I feel about this nearer the time and if I do, I will monitor the effects of this on my body. 

So I have been fairly crap... Or rather very lazy at taking photos of my food over the past few days but these are some of my meals which I did photograph.

We went out to eat this evening which was nice.  The only place I could think of which would have something on the menu I could eat was Roosters at Morley Hayes .

 I ordered the seafood salad.  The only things on the plate I couldn't eat was the bread with salmon and dill mousse and the beetroot ( as it was pickled in malt vinegar and that comtains gluten) I also asked for no Marie Rose sauce. 

My plate at the end :)

I am on day 4 of Deva Premal's and Miten's Mantra Meditation.  It is never too late to sign up. You can do so Here

It's so beautiful and as Miten says - we always remember to fees the body but very often forget to feed the soul and nourish our inner space. Mantra is soul food

The mantras so far :

Day 1 OM

Day 2 OM Shanti OM

Day 3 OM Gan Ganapataye Namah

day 4 Aham Prema

Still feeling great and looking forward to the weekend :) 

Day Four - Whole 30

Already day 4??? 

Another good good day :) 

I stayed awake til about 10pm and was wide awake at 5am which is much better.  I get up at 5.30am anyways. Body clock is getting back on track... yay.

This morning I decided to oven bake a frittata ... it turned out ok.  I wanted to put garlic in it, but the garlic we had, seemed to have gone off and so couldn't add it.  This frittata was definitely screaming out for garlic.  I am going to have tweak and perfect the recipe before I post it on my blog.

So this was my breakfast :

In the frittata I put onions, tomatoes, green, red, orange bell peppers, broccoli, eggs, coconut milk, salt, pepper and tuna. served with macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, pineapple, strawberries and blueberries

I went off to the gym this morning planning to do some weights... but guess what? I ended up doing Yoga on the gym floor before then going to a Yoga class :) So am TOTALLY Yoga Upped today :))  Personal practice and a class in the same day :)))) 

I ended up eating my lunch quite late, for some reason, I wasn't feeling hungry.  This is what I had

smoked salmon, mackerel, blueberries, pineapple, strawberries, carrots and cucumber

I was buzzin all afternoon... TOTALLY.... in fact all day I have felt so alive, so happy, so smiley :) It is great but feels quite surreal.... it's bizarre.  Has this happened to anyone else? During my happy happy day, I decided I need to start getting more crafty and so I bought this magazine when I was at Sainsbury's. It looks so cute.

We had our joiner popping over so I had a handful of hazelnuts to keep me going til dinner time... knowing we would be eating later than usual.  But when he went, I wasn't really hungry... so my dinner was quite minimal

mussels, raspberries, blueberries, baby figs, physalis

I think maybe I have eaten too much fruit today and should have eaten more veg in its place. That is my plan for tomorrow.... more veg. 

NO CHOCOLATE CARVINGS TODAY.... YAY!! 

Think my hormones are balancing.

More tomorrow.... Day 5 :)