Day 15

Breakfast:  Leftover grilled hamburger with green beans/ghee

Lunch:  Whole foods salad bar (romaine, spinach, kale, unprocessed turkey, carrots, zucchini, peas, almonds and olive oil/lemon dressing), raspberries

Dinner:  Leftover steak with eggs and asparagus, raspberries

Current ailments:  knee pain, arm rash is back

Feeling:  Worse headache all day

Reflecting on my worries from day 1

·         Eating within an hour of waking up—this still proves to be difficult and about half the time I’m eating at work, it’s just not worth the nausea for me to eat within in a hour of waking up.  I’m eating much earlier than I was pre-W30 so I’m doing what I can. 

·         Not weighing myself for 30 days—I’m horrible at this one.  Personally I think they are bat shit crazy for saying you can’t weigh yourself.  Weighed in today, down 12 lbs.  Wearing jeans today—they’re tighter than when I started.  Makes so much sense?!

·         Headaches—the true headaches for me didn’t start until this week, all week I had one and they progressively got worse.  Thankfully none were that bad that it affected my day but still annoying. 

·         Sugar—I am pleasantly surprised with this one.  Probably because I’m still eating fruit but it hasn’t been that difficult giving it up.  Dairy is much harder.

·         Work—I’m proud of myself for taking myself out of situations at work where I may be tempted.  It’s meant more eating lunch at my desk and having a lot of self control—why does everyone have candy at their desk?  Jerks. 

·         Snacking—Overall, I’ve done pretty good with this one.  There were a couple days where I needed to snack because I could tell my blood sugar was super low.  That was always during the day.  I’m great at night, no snacking needed.  This has probably been the most eye opening for me.  Not snacking unless you’re really hungry makes me hyper-aware of how much mindless eating I do and how habitual it is.  I hope, hope, hope to keep this new rule when I’m done with the Whole 30.  It’s such a good feeling only eating when you’re hungry. 

I think I’m a little behind on their timeline, I’m wondering if it’s because I had SO much crap in my system it took longer for the detox to start and everything to get out of my system.  The last couple days I definitely felt crappy, headache, runny nose, nauseous, etc.  I kept wondering where it was the first week…now I know.  Still, much better than I expected. 

I haven’t had the ah-hah oh my gosh this is the best thing ever quite yet.  I hear that comes in the last part of the plan.  I notice I have a bit more energy, the brain fog is pretty much gone but I don’t feel that much different than I did before.  Just little things.  Which is better than nothing. 

I have no plans of giving up or stopping and my goal is to still continue this type of eating, adding in good cheese 90% of the time and have some cheats the other 10%.  When I’m done with this, I would like to start working out again.  I feel like I will be ready to combine the two once I’m done with the 30 days.

I remember days 1-5, I was seriously thinking how the f*&^ am I going to make 30 days?!  Those were the slowest days of my entire life. I remember thinking there's no way I'm going to last 30 days, this is taking forever.  Now I'm half way there and it's flying by.  Keeping yourself busy and getting a lot of sleep has been very helpful.  

I’m half way there!