Needless to say, I've more than made up for the 10 pounds I lost last Spring. Or was it Winter? Whichever. Anyway, I was messing around a few weeks ago and posted on Facebook that I was eating something marginally healthy, when all of a sudden, all these people started posting comments about how great it is that I'm eating healthy and taking care of myself.
Now, hold up....
I had a wild hair and decided I wanted some celery and decided to listen to that voice before the voice that wanted Ben & Jerry's got too loud, and all of a sudden I've got virtual cheerleaders trying to make me feel all good and noble about it? What the...? I felt two things almost instantaneously: 1) I felt every bit the Fat Chick I know myself to be but have spent the summer hiding from, but only moreso because everybody else seems to agree, and 2) apparently, I'm in danger of exploding if I don't fix this crap and NOW!
Among the comments to my healthy snack post was one from somebody, I don't even remember who now. She was talking about Whole 30 and a book called It Starts With Food. Yeah, yeah, yeah.... yawn, yawn, whatever.... Well, I didn't say that. I said something like, "I hate reading non-fiction so, probably not. Thanks, though!" She said, well, just Google Whole30 and take a look. She added on a "It changed my life!" for good measure.
Alright. Fine.
So I Googled Whole30 and took a look-see. What's the first thing I see?
LET US CHANGE YOUR LIFE
In big purple letters. Well, I'll just be darned.
So I read a bunch of stuff on the website. Whole 30 is a 30-day challenge to let the Whole 9 way of eating, well... CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Yes, there's a book, but pretty much everything you need to know about the mechanics of the Whole 9 way of doing things is right there. The book re-enforces WHY Whole 9 works and is better for you. Essentially, it's eating only meats, veggies, fruits, and nuts. It's keeping ingredients to a minimum, and keeping food as "whole" as possible.
It's no dairy, grains (CORN IS A GRAIN), or legumes. What? No legumes? No peas or lima beans? Be still my beating heart! It's also cutting out all sugars, artificial and otherwise. I guess sugars that occur naturally, like in fruit, are fine in moderation, but no cane sugar, honey, stevia, or nutrisweet or whatever.
After Googling and look-see-ing, I was very interested, so I got the book. I have read the first chapter. That's it. That's all it took, really. Today was day one of my own Whole 30 challenge.
Thankfully, I'm not doing this one alone. My good friend and chief cheerleader, Iker S. is doing this with me. Today was his day one as well.
As far as Day Ones go, this hasn't been too heinous. I had two boiled eggs and a bunch of mixed fruit for breakfast. I didn't have time for a formal lunch, but I had a Lara Bar. I'll be having turkey burger patties and a spinach salad for dinner. One concession I'm making, but only until Thursday is Diet Coke. I can't have a caffeine headache in the middle of my week when children are present and making noise. It's more danger than I want to take on.
A weird note about this morning: Both Iker and I felt better before we even started our day. It's hard to explain, but I actually felt thinner and more energetic without even eating a thing! Just knowing that I was doing this made me feel great! Like my life was changing or something!
In case you are interested....
Link to Whole30
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