It's been 19 days!!! I am so stoked that I've made it this far! Here are some new things I've discovered:
Fuck you, processed anything! Fuck you added sugar in everything! Fuck you, constant food brain! Fuck you, constant food preparation! And still... fuck you, black coffee. :( Yes, this post might be full of fucks.
I just came home from spending some time with family over Easter. They are mostly all living Whole30 right now, so I didn't cheat! Yay me!!
And, speaking to my parents and sister and brother-in-law, I learned that my body was constantly battling me the first 3 weeks, so really- be super prepared for that! Like I'm not even kidding; I am a hell of a stubborn person, you cannot tell me how to think. But I battled my brain for the first 3 weeks! You may have read the posts; they are really negative.
But now, I have turned the corner. Whole30 claims to change your outlook on food, well it does in a number of ways. Firstly, you have the all-I-think-about-is-food battle and the all-I-do-is-prep-and-cook battle and the my-kitchen-is-always-a-mess battle. It has the grocery-shopping-blues battle, it has the time-crunch battle. Then around week 2, you're seriously questioning if this is all worth it or not. (Hang in there, this is your brain fighting for junk.) Then a holiday rolls around and you see your niece eating a tray bun (dinner roll, whatever, you know, those soft, yeast-y gluten-y, melty, buttery goodness rolls served with holiday dinners, you know what I'm talking about) and you seriously consider attacking her to steal that chewy goodness! And then, you suddenly stop at the grocery store on the way home, grab just a couple provisions for dinner and all of it just stops. It just seems natural that dinner will be an hour and a half of prep and cooking. So what? I don't have any babies around or mouths demanding I feed them.
It has gotten easier. And here's another thing. I think you can do Whole30 and drink smoothies. I think you can do Whole30 and accidentally and unintentionally cheat and you don't have to start over. Teavana Peach Tranquility.... augh, there is NO need to add sugar to a tea bag!!!! Just, don't intentionally go for that blob of icing from the cake from the work birthdays. Don't sneak a dessert just because. Don't break and have that beer just because you deserve it after a hard day. Don't. If you do, start over. Otherwise, roll with it.
Today, I tried to mix coconut milk in with my coffee again (it worked at my sister's house). I got the grainy weirdness again... it's even the same brand. My coffee in Calgary hates coconut milk. But I am down 13 lbs, so pft. 10 whole days to go. Just watch me.
#Whole30
Fuck you, processed anything! Fuck you added sugar in everything! Fuck you, constant food brain! Fuck you, constant food preparation! And still... fuck you, black coffee. :( Yes, this post might be full of fucks.
I just came home from spending some time with family over Easter. They are mostly all living Whole30 right now, so I didn't cheat! Yay me!!
And, speaking to my parents and sister and brother-in-law, I learned that my body was constantly battling me the first 3 weeks, so really- be super prepared for that! Like I'm not even kidding; I am a hell of a stubborn person, you cannot tell me how to think. But I battled my brain for the first 3 weeks! You may have read the posts; they are really negative.
But now, I have turned the corner. Whole30 claims to change your outlook on food, well it does in a number of ways. Firstly, you have the all-I-think-about-is-food battle and the all-I-do-is-prep-and-cook battle and the my-kitchen-is-always-a-mess battle. It has the grocery-shopping-blues battle, it has the time-crunch battle. Then around week 2, you're seriously questioning if this is all worth it or not. (Hang in there, this is your brain fighting for junk.) Then a holiday rolls around and you see your niece eating a tray bun (dinner roll, whatever, you know, those soft, yeast-y gluten-y, melty, buttery goodness rolls served with holiday dinners, you know what I'm talking about) and you seriously consider attacking her to steal that chewy goodness! And then, you suddenly stop at the grocery store on the way home, grab just a couple provisions for dinner and all of it just stops. It just seems natural that dinner will be an hour and a half of prep and cooking. So what? I don't have any babies around or mouths demanding I feed them.
It has gotten easier. And here's another thing. I think you can do Whole30 and drink smoothies. I think you can do Whole30 and accidentally and unintentionally cheat and you don't have to start over. Teavana Peach Tranquility.... augh, there is NO need to add sugar to a tea bag!!!! Just, don't intentionally go for that blob of icing from the cake from the work birthdays. Don't sneak a dessert just because. Don't break and have that beer just because you deserve it after a hard day. Don't. If you do, start over. Otherwise, roll with it.
Today, I tried to mix coconut milk in with my coffee again (it worked at my sister's house). I got the grainy weirdness again... it's even the same brand. My coffee in Calgary hates coconut milk. But I am down 13 lbs, so pft. 10 whole days to go. Just watch me.
#Whole30
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