• homemade turkey sausage, sweet potatoes, apple, spinach
• decaf coffee

• leftover taco meat
• peppers & spinach
• guacamole

• Roast Chicken
• Mashed potatoes (no dairy, just potatoes & Chicken Broth)
• Roasted Asparagus

• Using a lot more cutting boards!
• Energy is improved!

• Made cookies for my kids (from frozen dough) and wasn’t even tempted
• Macadamia nuts are yummy!

• Shaking it up.  Once I find something, I will eat it over and over.
• Also finding something my kids and I like. that isn’t chicken…

• homemade turkey sausage – turkey, sage, pepper, marjoram, red pepper flakes, ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg (+ a little coconut oil, so it didn’t stick to my pan)
• sweet potatoes, spinach, apple
• decaf coffee

• Leftover shredded pork taco meat
• With sautéed peppers and guacamole

• Herbal Tea
• Pistachios (Worried these are just too much like snacking on chips or other bad things… but I love them)

• Sweet Potato Chili

• New Recipes YUM!
• Still in my mode of eating all 3 meals and not just snacking or binging on something that may be compliant, but not a good meal.
• Chili in the freezer for future easy meals.

I made it 10 days!!  Woo woo!  Yesterday was my last day in Lincoln.  I got up, did some yoga, packed my bag, ate breakfast, went to the office for a few hours and then flew home.  Fortunately my flight home was a much smoother process.  I picked the kids up before going home (They were happy to see me)!  Groceries were waiting on my doorstep when I got home, so we made dinner and did a little food prep for today.

Breakfast:

• 1.5 hard boiled egg (the other half was too frozen to eat – hotel fridge fail)
• decaf coffee
• berries and grapes
• pistachios

Lunch:

• compliant beef stick (from Whole Foods – probably should have had 2)
• salad (purchased the night before from Whole Foods)
• pistachios

Dinner

• turkey/beef taco meat
• guacamole (homemade)
• romaine

WINS:

• pre-planning breakfast & lunch
• Groceries with fresh produce waiting for me when I got home
• Taco meat thawed, so I wouldn’t be tempted to deviate from the plan after traveling.

Starting off with 9.5 hours of sleep helps!  Also got a treadmill run in the morning.  Great way to start a day! Work offered to being in Panera for lunch.   And I think partly because I asked for some healthy options.  But upon exploring their website, I find that they add sugar to their chicken (!) and their dressings are soybean oil based.  So I politely declined and went out by myself.  I still made a (wrong) uneducated guess at lunch though.  Dinner was While Foods again.  Safe and a good travel choice if you don’t want fancy sit down.  
Breakfast:

• 2 Hard Boiled Eggs (from Whole Foods)
• Banana
• Pistachios

Lunch:

• Chipotle – salad with chicken, peppers/onions, guacamole, salsa verde – after eating this I realized I had not checked chipotle ingredients?  I don’t know why. But guess what chicken and peppers/onions are cooked in rice bran oil (whatever that is).   Now do I start over?  I maybe should, but I am not going to.  Maybe I just do a whole45? I don’t want to count this as a defeat.  Just lesson learned.  

Afternoon Snack:

• More of those yummy cashews!
• Hot herbal tea 

Wins:

• Hotel Fridge and pre-buying breakfast!
• Not caving to bad options.  
• Speaking up for myself
• Got to read at lunch. 🙂

Opportunity:

• Always (consistently) research. 

Woke up early.  Not sure why?  I couldn’t fall back asleep because I started thinking about what I needed to do to get ready for my work trip.Ate dinner at the airport (while watching the Packers win!) It was strange ordering a salad when I could smell all the fried food.  But it was good.  Even the tomatoes!  Unfortunately my plane was super late and heading into Day #8 tired!

Breakfast:  The same.  Drank decaf coffee at Charlie’s early hockey scrimmage.

Lunch:

• Leftover chicken/potatoes/carrots – cooked into hash

Snack:

• Dry Roasted Pistachios
• Raspberries in Coconut Milk

Dinner:

• Cobb salad minus cheese and eggs with Balsimic Dressing.

WINS:

• Ate out in a restaurant
• Cooked a bunch of non-compliant foods for my family to eat while I am gone, but did not even lick my fingers
• Resisted complimentary snacks offered by the airline during the 2+ hour delay!

• Leftover chicken/potatoes/carrots – cooked into hash
• Salad with balsamic vinegar & olive oil

• chicken/avocado/bacon salad on lettuce
• fresh fruit

• banana fried in coconut oil with cinnamon and vanilla (YUM!)

• Exercise!
• Maintained even with temptation of birthday party food.
• Served an entire DQ ice cream cake and didn’t even lick my fingers!

• Leftover pork taco meat
• with sautéed (in olive oil) cherry tomatoes & mini peppers with guac

• Garlic Ranch Chicken with veggies (made without the brown sugar and with homemade ranch seasoning)

• Pistachios
• New Recipe Success – Kids liked it too!

• Leftover squash soup
• Salad with leftover chicken, avocado and balsamic vinegar with olive oil

• Pork Taco Meat slow-cooked with tomatoes w/ guacamole, in butter leaf lettuce.

• Managed to eat my lunch salad even though I really wanted more dressing!
• Lunch was filling!  But not bloating!
• Packed my husband’s lunch for tomorrow without sneaking any tastes (tortilla chips & cheese)
• Dinner plans changed, because my chicken wasn’t thawed.
• Went to bed before succumbing to my popcorn craving.

I ate lunch a little late.  Felt a headache and definite craving.  I think it’s because i let myself get hungry.  Dinner was not well planned.  My planned meal still had frozen ingredients.  So I made a quick run to the grocery store for chicken.  
Breakfast

• Decaf Coffee
• apple, sweet potatoes, Applegate maple/apple sausage, spinach – sautéed in Coconut Oil with pink sea salt.  – (again sugar in the sausage) 

Morning

• Herbal Tea

Lunch

• leftover burrito chicken meat (chicken, peppers, homemade taco seasoning, tomato sauce
• with sautéed (in olive oil) spinach, cherry tomatoes & mini peppers with guac (same as yesterday but added in spinach)
• Strawberries/Blueberries with coconut milk

Afternoon snack

• Raw almonds

Dinner

• Chicken (fried in olive oil with salt, pepper, garlic)
• Asparagus roasted and wrapped in bacon
• Salad with balsamic vinegar and olive oil

WIN

• My husband didn’t hate the asparagus.  Asparagus is new to the house.  Usually only a restaurant food!
• Leftover chicken for salads.  
• Found a friend who is doing this too and she gave me a breakfast sausage recipe (no sugar!)