I stuck to my plan and I began the Whole 30 June 1st. It seems silly to be writing an update at Day 3, but hey, I made it this far...with no sugar or chocolate or coffee. So that's an accomplishment in itself.
[BTW, that's a baby lemon tree in an awesome planter I found this weekend at a garage sale]
PROS: So far? No real pros. I'm still on board with the program and eager to see if it lives up to the hype. My goal is to achieve that 'I've never felt better in my life' feeling that so many people who have written about their Whole 30 results report. One pro is I don't have a really hard time eating food that's simple and good for me. I had a baked chicken cutlet, a baked sweet potato and a salad for dinner and I thought it was excellent. I don't need lasagna to feel like I 'ate' - but I think I do need cheese to be happy.
CONS: It's only day 3. It's going to be a LONG month. I did tell my co-workers about the plan and of course my family and I put it on Facebook. Of course on Facebook I got crickets - which is how most of my post are received. If they're received at all. I don't really know. Facebook generally sucks.
The problem with telling too many people is that of course the inevitable has happened already. "How are you doing on your diet?" [Ugh - really? I've been on it 72 hours, and you asked me at 24 hours and at 48 hours. Can we NOT do this every damn day?] I get that maybe people are interested and are hoping I will stumble across the Holy Grail of Weight Loss [for which I am not looking], but really? It's like telling people you submitted a novel to a publisher and they ask every day thereafter, "Have you heard from the publisher?" [If I had, don't you think that would be the first thing I'd mention?]
I've also gotten "Is that on your diet?" Which is the SINGULAR most inane question that I absolutely hate to hear from anyone. Because 1) If I'm eating it, it's ON MY DIET. 2) You are not the diet police. 3) I know what's ON MY DIET better than you do. I know the people who ask it actually do mean well - but enough already.
So if I do fall off the program, I imagine it will be from the stress of having to answer these inane questions and not from lack of food.
The final con is that I have been hungry the last three days. I don't like that. It took me YEARS to adjust my 'diet' to a point where I wasn't suffering blood sugar spikes and valleys that made me feel ravenous all day long and now they're back. One of my cardinal rules of diet is feeling hungry all the time and having to ignore it in order to stay on the diet is NOT ACCEPTABLE. I'm hoping it's a residual blood sugar drop from actual lack of sugar - and not true hunger. To combat it, I added a little more food to my breakfast and I'm now back to having an afternoon snack, which I didn't need on my regular eating plan. With Whole 30 you are technically not supposed to snack or need snacks, but hell, if I'm hungry then the plan isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing.
I made a small before chart to plot how things change over the 30 days - I'm assessing back pain, mood, sleep quality, GI health, skin and joint health. I also took a before weight and will weigh myself on July 1, but I took no measurements. This isn't about size, it's about how I feel.
I suppose the crankiness I'm experiencing is part of it - I recall on keto having an elevated mood and right now I'm a little short-fused. I think because on keto I was not hungry and on this I am. We'll see how that shapes up over the next four weeks.
Onward!
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