The End of Week 1

I miss pizza. Hot, gooey pizza. Add a couple bottles of wine and you've got a great way to finish up a hard week at the office.

Not that I've been hungry during this challenge. It's just that there are still some cravings there that can't be replicated.

It appears the best way to make it through this diet is meal planning. Dez and I spent Saturday visiting Whole Foods, Costco and our local Ralph's stocking up on Challenge-friendly foods. The hot ticket at Whole Foods was some really tasty nut mixes without prohibited oils to have for snacks.

Dinner was cocoa spice rubbed elk steaks cooked in ghee, braised spinach with toasted pine nuts and sun dried tomatoes.

Sunday was spent making food. A huge pot of venison chili simmered on the stove all day long and then packaged up for lunches during the week. While the chili was cooking it was sausage making time:  duck and mushroom sausage, wild boar chorizo and wild boar hot links.

I decided to do something NOT allowed by the Whole30 program - I stood on the scale. In one week of eating healthy I lost the 9 pounds I had gained over the holidays. Sweet!