Well, I really meant to post about Christmas/the holiday season, but I haven't gotten around to it (obviously). But its 2012 already and I figure I should post about what's relevant today. I'll go back and post about Christmas when I have anything interesting to say.
Today is day 5 of our Whole30 challenge. For the past 5 days, I haven't had any coffee (no caffeine at all!). I've just had meats, veggies, and...that's about it. And tons of water. I think I'm trying to replace my coffee with water, which sounds good in theory. However, I drank a lot of water *anyway*, so this is a little ridiculous.
I did not realize how much of a sugar addict I was/AM. It is HARD. The food I'm eating is really awesome, because I mean...I cooked it, and I'm good at that. But also, I really like my coffee with yummy (full of crap) creamer, and cutting out coffee meant cutting out that sweet stuff, too. And anything else that secretly has sugar in it. I've been trying to stay away from fruits because they are sweet, and I think that might be one of the hardest parts. The coffee part was hard for the first couple of days, especially since it was when school started back after break and I had to get up early and take Gavin to school (not so good with the planning). I did feel like several times I was just going to fall asleep driving. Which sounds scary but, I didn't. It was just in the back of my mind. :) But I feel okay now. Yeah coffee sounds delicious but my head isn't splitting open, at least. However, I did want to rip Sophie's candy cane out of her hand earlier today and put it in MY mouth.
Regardless of that (which made me sound a little bit crazy), I am doing good with this. I really have no willpower so I am surprised at how easy it is. We've tried to eat mostly paleo for quite a while, but this is the first time we've really gotten super strict about it. I have had moments where I wanted to cheat over the last few days, but not overwhelming.
Going to the grocery store with the kids and Target was probably the hardest. Man they do make junk food appealing, don't they?! All pretty and shiny and brightly colored. But I survived. Which has been making me feel pretty good about myself. :)
I've also tried just working out whenever I feel like I want to cheat. That helps a TON. And I got my craft tub out and have been doing a lot of crafts so that I'm busy when I'm having my "down" time.
So 25 days to go! So far so good. I hope it can continue this way! I haven't noticied a difference yet, but it hasn't been very long. Ernie and I did take "before" pictures, and we'll be taking them each week, but there's no way in H-E-double hockeysticks that I will be sharing those, so, you'll just have to take my word for it when I report any progress. :)
I am excited! (slash exhausted)
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