Our first weekend on the Whole 30 and we survived!
When I told my Mom I was doing this diet she said at one point, "You should wait until the summer is over! There's so much going on and you might want to wait till all the parties and events are over."
But honestly, that is why I needed to do it now! Otherwise I would have gone this whole month eating junk and feeling like junk. Then after a month or two I would be able to say, 'Well it's the holiday season so I should wait till that's over.'
On Saturday I had a baby shower and I am so glad that I am doing this diet despite having events and parties to go to. The experience of going to this party while on the Whole 30 couldn't have been more perfect.
Leading up to the party I knew there may not be much (or any) food that is compliant so I was prepared and put an apple and a Larabar into my purse. I ate other stuff before I left the house and had those as backup. When I got there, I was really able to focus on having a good time and socializing instead of what usually happens, which is agonizing over food choices.
There were two egg bakes that were loaded with cream and cheese, blueberry muffins, cupcakes, and thankfully a bowl of watermelon and blackberries. Bingo! So I filled my plate with watermelon and blackberries and called it good!
So many times at stuff like this I just drive myself crazy with food choices. "Should I eat this? It doesn't look too healthy. Yeah I'll just have a little bit." Then I eat it and my body craves more because that's the addictive power of processed foods. I would usually end up having too much and then the rest of the day beat myself up about how much junk I ended up having.
I still just do not crave bad food! Don't get me wrong, those cupcakes looked amazing and I'm sure they tasted wonderful, but since I knew from the beginning that they were off limits I didn't have to even sit and think about it. I knew I couldn't have them so I moved on and didn't dwell on having any.
Sunday was our church picnic which I thought could be kind of tricky but ironically in the end, I sat in the car for over an hour letting Judah nap and didn't even go over to where all the food was. Phil said there were plenty of fruit options and he was actually able to have one of the hamburger patties.
It was also our 6th wedding anniversary and normally we would have gone out to a huge dinner and stuffed our face with unhealthy foods, cause that's what you do when you're celebrating something right?! It felt very weird to NOT do that for once. We decided to just go to a movie instead. I will say that the smell of the popcorn was very enticing but again, my brain knew it wasn't even an option so it moved onto other thoughts quickly.
I definitely felt some mood swings and tiredness over the weekend but I know that my hormones are also all over the place trying to regulate after stopping breastfeeding so I'm not sure which to attribute it to.
Either way, we officially survived our first week!!
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