Day 30.
DAY 30?!?!? I made
it? The end is nigh?
The last 30 days
(OK, 29 ½-ish at time of writing) are behind me. And I did it. I survived the
Whole30®. Admittedly, I wasn’t a complete purist (nor am I made of money!; my
bacon had sugar in it and my eggs were not pasture raised, except for the dozen
a co-worker of Fella’s gifted to us for our anniversary—I need chickens!)
A feat in and of
itself: I haven’t had chocolate in 30 days. CHOCOLATE! 30 DAYS! AND ONE OF THOSE
WAS HALLOWEEN!!!
Alright, alright.
You get it.
So after the
question “what do you miss the most?” people are also very curious to know: “are
you going to stick with it after you’re done?”
Maybe these people
are just serial dieters. I’m a little bit of a serial dieter. I finally broke
it off (for good!) with Weight Watchers® a couple of years ago. I purged YEARS
of program materials into the recycling bin as recently as a couple of months
ago. Seriously. I had stuff dating back to high school (not as far back as to
my first foray into WW…in the 8th grade, but that’s for another post
entirely). So to them, this is just another “diet” to go on, get results, and
revert back to “normal” rather than a dietary lifestyle.
So…what is next? More of the same (or at least
similar)! Eating Paleo makes my body happy and I know this from previous
experience. I will probably allow myself to incorporate some dairy and certain generally accepted sweeteners (although unsweetened applesauce and bananas worked wonders where recipes
called for honey throughout the challenge).
What I really ought
to focus on is my relationship with food. When things are good, I shouldn’t
reward myself with crappy food (tomorrow notwithstanding). Nor should I soothe
myself with it when things are not so good.
What has been the
best part of the Whole30? Nobody but me has asked, but it’s that I feel like I’m
cooking again. Like, really cooking. Not just throwing together a bunch of
premade things together and calling it cooking. Troubleshooting when a recipe includes an
ingredient that is verboten (I’m looking at you Worcestershire sauce!) Creative
cooking. It’s great.
Will I do another Whole30? I’m not
sure. Right now, I simply want to navigate through the holidays and do the
least harm to the 30 days of progress I’ve made.
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Just dropping over from Nablopomo to say YAY you! You're a champion and you definitely deserve a reward... or at the very least a cyber-high-5 from a total stranger.
ReplyDeleteWendy of The Rock.
Congrats you made it! I remember seeing you after I got my first Almond Milk Latte post-whole 30. Hope you treated yourself yesterday and are having eggs and veggies again for breakfast this morning.
ReplyDeleteDropping by from NaBloPoMo. I heartily agree with your insight about relationship to food. It was such a PING! moment for me. Yes. I need to stop rewarding my efforts with crap food tomorrow! And go you, for sticking out for 30 days. :-)
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