Day 22 (5/5/14): Today was such a blur. Nest survey early in the morning, back to office for a couple hours, then head home to move more stuff. All I really recall eating is some carrot sticks, a weaksauce salad, and plantains, chicken, and green beans for dinner. Sounds about right.
Day 23 (5/6/14): MOVING DAY! I'm moving today. Am I moving today, you ask? Why yes! I am! All my things are going from THIS house to THAT OTHER house! Stomach not feeling well today due to Rx change, so I just pick at things. Bad eating the last couple of days is making me grumpy, tired, etc. Will go to grocery store tomorrow for all the veggies, but for now... I sleep.
Day 24 (5/7/14): Remember that time I moved and said that I was tired and needed to sleep? Yeah, me too. Sleep didn't happen. The cats YOWLED ALL NIGHT LONG. Not even a 5 minute break. Couldn't make breakfast when I got up at 4:30 am, had to do Starbucks for breakfast. Needless to say, they do not offer paleo breakfasts, so I cheated. Egg white, spinach, feta (cringe), all on a wrap (doh!). Briefly thought about just picking the egg off, and then ate the entire thing in a fit of rage. Staying at a friend's house tonight.
Day 25 (5/8/14): Stomach still not ok. Hungry, but just thinking about eating making me feel nauseated.
Day 26 (5/9/14): Repeat of Day 25. Grocery shopping today was grueling. Ended up buying applesauce, zucchini, and kiwis. Wtf? I can't make dinner with that, dumb brain. Cheat again for dinner - paleo pancakes. All ingredients are Whole30 approved, but it's technically a "sweet" food. Fuck it. They're delicious and actually kinda calm my stomach (for about 10 minutes). Only 3 ingredients: banana, egg, and almond flour. Nom.
Day 27 (5/10/14): Wake up feeling like it's gonna be a repeat of the last several days. Eggs for breakfast sit in my stomach like a rock. I'm starving and feeling weak by 10 am. Still can't really eat anything. Roommate offers me half her shrimp/veggie/rice burrito for lunch. It actually sounds good, so I eat some of it. If my options are eat Whole30 foods and feel horrible, or eat a shrimp burrito and feel great, guess which one I'm going to pick? You bet your butt I shoved that burrito right into my mouth hole. Even though I've had several serious lapses in the Whole30 program, I'm still trying my best to stick to it most of the time (as opposed to how I normally face challenges, which is, once I fail, I keep failing so hard over and over again because who cares? I failed.). I only have three more days, and I can definitely make them count.
Day 28 (5/11/14):Stuck with it today. Salad from Subway because I was running tons of errands. Very meh, but did the trick. I'm ready for this challenge to be over, honestly. Even though, yes, there is a wonderful variety of vegetables and meats available to eat, I'm not feeling fulfilled or satisfied by what I'm eating. Eating that shrimp burrito the other day, which had rice in it, was the most satisfied I've felt in the entire 30 days. Stomach still not 100% ok, but doing much better than a couple days ago.
Day 29 (5/12/14): Feeling so much better today. Eggs and bacon don't make my stomach buck.Salad, asparagus, lamb (OMG YUM), and curried sweet potato chips. Yup. All that happened.
Day 30 (5/13/14): My last day. I didn't make anything extraordinary, too tired from work. It was literally 100 degrees today, and a huge fire broke out in San Diego. No homes or lives lost (yet, fingers crossed it stays that way), but over 1500 acres of pristine coastal sage scrub gone. Just totally burned to a crisp. Screw droughts.
Summary: Doing this challenge with a move and Rx change right smack in the third/fourth week was a terrible idea. Combination of stress, feeling awful, and 90+ degree temperatures made the last week really miserable. I'm glad that I had some kind of guiding rule/light-force to keep me away from chocolate during this stressful, hormonal time, but I could have really used some toast to calm my stomach.
All in all, I'm really REALLY glad I tried this challenge. I didn't totally meet the standards of Whole30, but I got SUPER close and I'm proud of myself for that. I still crave sweet things and salty junk-food snacks from time to time, but my brain no longer goes crazy when I walk past the candy at the grocery check-out. I even watched an Almond Joy commercial yesterday and didn't cry (jk, I've never cried over candy). I'm going to allow myself one piece of chocolate on day 31, and then try out another 30 days of no processed sugar. I'll start to work pseudo-grains and regular grains back into my diet, natural sweeteners like honey and maple syrup (in tiny amounts), and a little bit of dairy (hard cheeses and small amounts of yogurt).
Kudos to you for making it through all of this nearly scot free. Pretty flippin' amazing. You may not stay within those eating habits 100% of the time, but at least you've ingrained them as HABIT now (they say 30 concerted days of focus on one thing will create habit). I could stand to focus on something with my diet like that for 30 days. I've had a bad few days of eating and I just feel heavy from it (boo). Did the Whole 30 ever make you feel heavy? I'm doubting it but...?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Whole 30 never ever made me feel heavy. Hungry, cranky, mad with cravings at times, yes. And honestly, if you'd asked me this question while I was still in the midst of Whole30 I would have cocked my head to the side and said, huh? But after only 6 days of "regular" eating, I feel HEAVY. I'm lethargic. I have headaches. My blood sugar levels have been going crazy again. I got my period randomly, like two weeks after my last one. Some of this may be attributable to my Rx change, but I'm sure I'm feeling lethargic and having blood sugar swings because of processed sugar and too many "bad carbs." I just ate a burger and had a cookie and ice cream for dessert and I feel FUCKING TERRIBLE now. So yeah... tomorrow I'm gonna hop (mostly) back on the paleo wagon.
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