I made it! 30 days
without grains, or chocolate (that’s huge for me), or sugar (other than the
previously mentioned bit that was in bacon) or even Stevia in my coffee. What’s funny is I couldn’t wait to get back
to sweetening my coffee and this morning even 1/3 of what I used to use was too
sweet. I had the weirdest experience on
Sunday though—I hadn’t had serious sugar cravings in a couple of weeks. My kids are both sick and not sleeping well
and I was exhausted and cranky and just done.
THIS is why you clean out your house before you do Whole30 because if I
had any chocolate in my house that day I would have probably eaten it. I really badly wanted treats but since I had
none, I didn’t eat any. We had Thai takeout
for dinner and I also could have had grains but stuck to chicken salad.
Results: I lost 4 pounds and 2.5% bodyfat. I know some people have crazy amounts of
weight loss, but this was amazing for me because I wasn’t really trying to lose
weight and am below what I weighed before I had Max. My smallest old pair of jeans I had been optimistically hanging onto forever are now probably a half size too big.
My challenge now: to
keep treats and sugar to rare occasions (my birthday is coming! And
Thanksgiving, and the baby’s birthday and Christmas. Hmm.) I am also trying to figure out how to
eat enough to fuel Crossfit AND breastfeeding which is my new challenge. I felt like I was barely getting in enough
for the breastfeeding and now I’m doing Crossfit three times a week too and my
supply has dropped again. I find it
challenging to eat enough carbs—there is only so much sweet potato and squash I
can eat. Speaking of that, I had an
early dinner and it is 9pm and I’m starving again so time to eat once more.
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