Day 15 (4/28/14): I'm HALFWAY THERE! Also, just kidding about the lost weight thing. I think the shorts just stretched out. (An aside: my body is pretty much incapable of losing weight. Only with a combination of extreme exercise and pretty serious calorie restriction do I EVER lose weight. I trained for a half marathon for like 4 months on 1400 calories a day and lost three pounds. THREE. POUNDS. And everything still jiggled and my clothes fit me, so don't give me that "you were building muscle" crap. My genetics want me to be shaped like a Teletubby forever. Ok. Rant over.) So today was leftover Bora Bora Fireballs, carrot sticks, eggs, brussels sprouts, and a gargantuan salad with shredded salmon and beets on top for dinner. Omg. Yum.
Day 16 (4/29/14): Two eggs and two strips of bacon for brekkie (been hanging out with my roommate too long). Looonnnng drive up into the mountains for field work today. 10 oz chia drink and a handful of carrot sticks snack attack keeps hunger at bay until... wait for it..... 5:00 p.m. Now don't get me wrong, I could have eaten during that time. I could have probably eaten an entire cow. But I didn't get that crazed I HAVE TO EAT RIGHT NOW feeling until I got home from work. And then salami and pineapple and brussels sprouts (not all at the same time) went into my mouth hole. (An aside: hooray for finally being too busy at work to stop and eat. For real. I've been waiting for this since last fall. Busy Mandy is happy Mandy.)
Day 17 (4/30/14): I thought I'd be getting sick of eggs by now, but I'm really not. Before I decided to do this challenge, I ate Kashi cereal for breakfast. Same cereal. Same flax milk. Every. Single. Day. But if I ate eggs two days in a row, I'd be sick of them. I'm not sick of eggs now! Finding something frustrating: I began to follow several "paleo" blogs on Instagram, Tumblr, Blogger, etc. to find some daily inspiration for recipes. I'd venture to guess that about 80% of recipes these people post are Paleo-fied desserts. People. This completely misses the point of the paleo lifestyle. -_- Bucket of salmon-beet-salad for lunch at work. The beets turned EVERYTHING bright pink. Funnest lunch ever! Sweet potato fries, steak, and huge salad for dinner.
Day 18 (5/1/14): Field day! Snacks include carrot sticks and almond butter, salami, and various other goodies. Spent much of the day talking about how wonderful coconut is in everything and how nut butters (excluding peanut butter) rule supreme. Made the best tostones I've ever made in my entire life for dinner with chicken cooked in green chile salsa and green beans. I can't even.
Day 19 (5/2/14): Still chugging along. Moving stress is becoming REAL right now. The house is getting emptier and emptier. D takes me out to dinner at a new place called True Foods Kitchen. I'm not going to lie to you all. I cheated. I got a chopped chicken salad that was DELICIOUS, but it had a dressing with some non-approved ingredients and some kind of unidentifiable pseudo-grain. Do I feel guilty about eating a delicious salad made with organic, locally grown, seasonal ingredients? Not even a little bit.
Day 20 (5/3/14): So much moving. How do we have so much stuff? I cheat again at lunch when we go to Outback Steakhouse. Small steak, coconut shrimp, and vegetables that I'm pretty sure were cooked in butter. Again. I'm not stressing. Bora Bora Fireballs for dinner tonight and for snacking tomorrow. So tired. Much sore. Many moving. Very furniture. Wow!
Day 21 (5/4/14): Champagne brunch at the old house. I resisted bagels, cream cheese, champagne, and muffins. Eggs, bacon, and fruit please! Very busy doing moving stuff today, not a lot of time to really sit down and eat. Leftover Bora Bora Fireballs for lunch, random snacking on veggies and fireballs throughout the day. Today's the last day I get to watch D jump into the pool. He's going back on the island early tomorrow morning. I am le sad :(
Summary: I am totally getting the hang of this. Hunger is way more under control. I still crave sweet things and bread every once in a while, but not every 5 minutes. My biggest disappointment is reading all these other blogs of people who lost all this weight during their Whole30 challenge, and I haven't lost a pound. I've maintained. Which, don't get me wrong, is WAY better than gaining when I'm supposed to be losing... but still. Once the move is complete I'll be ramping up the workouts like whoa (we're getting a new elliptical too! Weee!!), so that should help. And I've decided that I'm going to stick with Paleo diet/lifestyle, with the addition of some pseudo-grains and the subtraction of many much meats (nod to Liz). Not all meats. Just cutting back on red meat and salami. Cause I looooove salami and Ive been eating too much of it.
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