Whole38: Week 2

I wrote this on Monday and forgot to post it! Whoops! :) 

Well, Week 1 of the Whole30 is in the books! I had a great week all in all, there were a few minor adjustments I had to make, as well as two more trips to the grocery store. I wish I could say that this last week was PERFECT, but it wasn't, which honestly, I'm totally okay with. I went to Malone's the other night and cut myself a very small piece of bread and put garlic and chive butter on it, I had a few sushi rolls and didn't take the rice off, and I had several bites of an apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. The next morning I went to Middle Fork Kitchen Bar, one of, if not my all time FAVORITE places to go eat in Lexington and had the chicken and waffle for brunch. Their waffle machine broke and so it was more like chicken (seasoned and lightly breaded) and two paper thin pancakes made with waffle batter... but it was FANTASTIC.

Something interesting happened though, as I went outside the boundary lines of the Whole30. I realized I didn't miss the bread and butter from Malone's, and the apple crisp, though it was really good, wasn't as WORTH IT as I had built it up to be in my mind. I also found myself more obsessed with the chicken than with the waffle/pancakes. 

I share this for a few reasons:

1. I think it's important for people to know that you can deviate from a pretty strenuous meal plan/detox/metabolism reset and not jump off into the deep end and stuff your face with snickers bars, ice cream, and cinnamon rolls.

2. I think it's important to be honest about my experience and not hide things in order to paint a certain picture of myself or my experience.

3. I LOVE sugar, but since being on the Whole30 I really don't miss it. I eat a LOT of fruit, and I'm finding there's nothing as good as the natural sugars that are found in fresh fruit. <---That's a BOLD statement coming from a girl who was raised in Texas and knows ALL about some good, old fashioned, home made, from scratch, sweets.

4. I think that the majority of the bread, sugar, sweets, and filler foods I was eating were because I was either bored, emotional, etc... 

5. I'm learning that purposeful eating is way more satisfying and gratifying than mindless eating.

6. My body really likes clean, unprocessed food.

I just got done grocery shopping for Week 2 and I spent $30 less than last week.  Last week I bought wayyyyyy too much fruit and not enough protein. So I'm hoping this week I will find that I did a better job. Other than that I've had to have a talk with this sweet older gentleman that we call "the candy man" where I work. He brings everyone's favorite candy to them whenever he comes in, so telling him that I can't have snickers or almond joy's was really hard. Surprisingly, I haven't missed them. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

I will say that the Whole30 discourages people weighing themselves, but because I have a deadline I'm weighing myself once a week to keep up with my Weight Watchers points. I make sure every day that I eat my points, but I don't go over them. When I weighed myself I had lost weight, which was awesome. I think people who have done the Whole30 and not lost weight took the suggestion on the Whole30's website too seriously when they said "eat as much as you want". I could eat a tub of almond butter if I let myself, especially with bananas and apples! Four tablespoons of almond butter is 12 POINTS!!!! Imagine going to town on a tub of almond butter because the website said "eat as much as you want"... I'd probably GAIN weight. Anyhow, that's something I was wondering about for the people who were complaining online that they hadn't lost any weight or "only 3 pounds", maybe they just ate more than they needed to and/or didn't work out as well? I don't know, but I know that for me, staying with my daily points and boxing 3-4 times a week is paying off. #grateful

I'll write again next week and let  y'all know how Week 2 was!!!