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Day 5

Woke up this morning one whole pound lighter which is pretty sweet!! Very excited about that! I didn’t even really do this to lose weight- just to get healthy and reset my body, but it’s hard not to be excited about the weight loss too! I also slept in a bit today which was nice especially after our long walk the day before. It’s crazy how that tired us out so much more than usual!

Today’s breakfast was ultra-delicious! Steel cut oats with 1/2 cup green apple, 3 Tbsp almonds, and 1 Tbsp pure maple syrup. Definitely my favorite breakfast so far! Just so you know, steel cut oats tend to take a long time to cook so be prepared for that. Another option is that McCann’s Irish Oatmeal now comes in a quick-cook version that can be cooked in 5 minutes in the microwave- it seriously made steel-cut oats so much more accessible. Just be careful because they tend to overflow in the microwave! Keep an eye on them!

After breakfast, we printed out our Week 2 shopping list and headed to Trader Joe’s. We found pretty much everything we needed there. They have beets already peeled and ready to go which I think will make the beet portion of the week a lot easier. The produce is really well-priced there. In fact, it’s a lot cheaper than our normal grocery store so I highly recommend checking out TJ’s first.

Oh delicious, delicious Sunday lunch! 1/3 cup of hummus, fresh veggies and quinoa salad. So remember how I told you to make extra quinoa for this salad- here it is. This salad needs to sit in the fridge for a little bit, so keep that in mind when you’re planning today’s meals. It’s a pretty delicious salad, but for me, the best part was the hummus! I just LOVE hummus! We picked up some garlic hummus from, you guessed it, Trader Joe’s! We cut up some celery and had some baby carrots with it- just perfect!

Then the cooking and chopping began! We spent most of the afternoon getting everything ready for the coming week which included chopping a bunch of veggies, marinating the tempeh for baked tempeh (and we ended up cooking it too so we would just have to heat it up), roasting veggies, cooking quinoa, etc. We just wanted everything done as much as we could. I think the most important thing to make ahead of time is salad. You eat a lot of the microgreen salad so just make a bunch and portion it out! It’s going to make your mornings getting ready for work and your lunches a lot less stressful if you do that.

For dinner, my new favorite meal was the star! Stir-fried veggies with brown rice this time! Also, a serving of miso soup.
Here’s a hint about brown rice- organic short-grain brown rice can take a loooong time to cook so really keep that in mind. My trick- Trader Joe’s has a great organic brown rice in the freezer section that you just microwave.  I think it’s a great substitution and will save you a lot of time!

So… tempeh is baked for the morning, quinoa salad is packed up for lunch and the roots are roasted for dinner! We’re ready for Day 6 and we’re over the hump of the toughest days! 🙂