It's always when I'm in a hurry that Blogger acts up... I'm rushing off to sit down and watch a movie after being on my feet all day - and of course nothing I do in Blogger works right tonight. Ugh.
Anyway - I'm not planning on updating every 3 days, but since I made it to the weekend on Whole 30, I want to crow about it. I got this far! I'm pretty amazed that I've been able to say no to chocolate all week. It has NOT been easy.
The week started off rough - I was cranky, tired and hungry. Today I am FINALLY less tired. In fact I got a surge of energy this afternoon that I'm still riding on. I hope that means all this good food is finally kicking in. My mood is decidedly better and I had the willpower to walk away from mini-donuts at the flea market even though I was hungry. I've eating good food all week and I found I've really enjoyed my food. Fruit has never tasted better and I appreciate every bite of everything else - probably because I'm so hungry.
Tomorrow I'm breaking a cardinal rule of Whole 30 and I'm making paleo pancakes for breakfast.
Why?
Simple. Whole 30 doesn't tell me what to do. And some stupid rules are made to be broken. I get why the authors of the book FORBID pancakes of any kind. 1) They're pandering to people who enjoy that feeling of having to 'be good' in order to prove themselves worthy. I got nothin' to prove. 2) They want you to get used to not having some of the trigger foods that can lead you down the garden path to bad eating. I get that. A paleo pancake is perfectly fine - but if you get used to eating pancakes every day, what happens when paleo pancakes aren't available? You'll just have regular pancakes and that's a different animal altogether. I get it. That's why I'm allowed to break the rule. It's like in writing. Know what the rules are and break them only for a good reason. My good reason is this: Eating right is NOT about never having something you like or about having the will power not to make something decadent out of good ingredients. LIVING WELL is about LIVING - not about sticking to arbitrary rules.
So, I'm having paleo pancakes because I can eat an egg and I can eat a banana and that's fine - there's NO REASON I can't mix them together and cook them and eat the result if that will make me happy, fuller, well fed and give me some variety. Arbitrary rules are stupid.
That being said, I am having the food dreams that so many people report having. In my dreams I've eaten corn, walnut chicken with soy sauce and bleu cheese - and I felt bad about it each time. But I did it anyway.
On that note, here's a before and after photo of one of my terrariums. Interesting to see the difference a year has made.
Then
Now
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