Whole30 OAMC Freezer Menu ~ Stuff I Make My Husband. This was spawned by a combination of two things which piqued my interest:Once-a-month cooking (OAMC).
The idea is, you spend one day cooking most of the meals you will eat for the month, then freeze them for later eating. I was initially introduced to this concept through the website Once a Month Mom.The Whole30 Program. This is a wildly-popular elimination diet in which many people choose to participate for 30 days.
The idea is to assess your food sensitivities/intolerances while changing your eating habits for the better. So the gears turned in my brain and I made a connection...once a month cooking...whole thirty...one month...30 days...heyyyyy wait a minute. I read It Starts With Food, which is the definitive guide to the Whole 30, to ensure that I thoroughly understood the rules as well as the spirit. Thus, I decided on the following guiding principles: Meals must fit the Whole30 Meal-Planning Template.
Now, onto the recipes! Menu Breakfasts Lunches Dinners. The Physiology of Women’s Weight Loss Part I: Estrogen. Many people in the modern world believe that it is more difficult for women to lose weight than for men.
This is unfortunate, and it’s an over-simplification, but the idea is not precisely wrong. A woman’s body is laced with hormonal complexities that a man’s is not. This is strikingly born out in the simple fact that women are fetus-bearing organisms. For this reason, a woman’s body comes equipped with a whole suite of mechanisms designed to make sure that she has plentiful nutrients and energy to support another life growing inside of her.
These fat-aggregating mechanisms can be broken down into two primary factors: estrogen-driven fat deposition, and hypothalamic weight regulation. Estrogen and the female body. Our philosophy, program and community. Whole9 General Nutritional Recommendations We believe in Eating Good Food.
Our recommendations are based around the framework of a Paleo Diet, with a focus on health, not history. We like to put a positive spin on our nutrition plan, focusing on all the foods we do eat (instead of what we don’t). Whole9’s Nutrition in 60 SecondsWe eat real food – meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, healthy oils, nuts and seeds. We choose foods that were raised, fed and grown naturally, and foods that are nutrient-dense, with lots of naturally occurring vitamins and minerals.This is not a “diet” – we eat as much as we need to maintain strength, energy, activity levels and a healthy body weight. Food Should Make You Healthy Meat, seafood and eggs; vegetables and fruit; and healthy fat sources like coconut, avocado and olive oil are all foods that make you healthier. The more you eliminate these “less healthy” foods from your everyday diet, the healthier you will be. What is the Whole30®?
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Pin me! When it comes to embarking on any nutritional challenges, the big question becomes WHAT THE HELL AM I GONNA EAT? In my opinion, the challenge of this is all relative to how you are currently eating and how much you like to cook. With the Whole 30 I can see how it could seem daunting. Honestly though, I think it’s just a matter of organizing your recipes. Dinner has to get on the table nightly anyway, right? Now, I’m not trying to ignore breakfast and lunch — uh…we definitely eat them around here. But for me those are more routinized meals. For lunch I’m mostly sticking to salads with protein I cook up in batches (grilled chicken, browned ground beef) and homemade vinaigrettes (no honey during the Whole 30 though!)
Day 1: Chocolate Chili over spinach with avocados and green onions. Whole30 Week 1 Meal Plan. Our family is starting another Whole30 today (which is simply really clean Paleo eating with no treats for 30 days).
We like to do this every 4-5 months as a sort of cleanse/recharge. Day Four Down + Whole30 on the Weekend. So you almost made it through your first workweek of the Whole30!
Look at you go. My Day Four looked eerily similar to days one through three, including all the familiar elements (frittata, chicken salad, meatloaf). Whole 30 – The First 5 Days. Well, we’re 1/6 of the way through our first Whole 30 and I can say with absolute certainty that I haven’t had a bad meal yet!
And I’m feeling pretty fantastic. That said, it hasn’t been without its challenges. 1. Taco Salad using a new vinaigrette, 2. Chili Redux with Steamed Broccoli, 3. Days 1-5 Thus far the Whole 30 has been pretty mellow. For starters, we only worked out once (I mentioned we both ripped our hands open TO THE EXTREME on Monday and this, plus other scheduling things, hindered workouts all week. The first major challenge that we did encounter though happened on the first night.