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Day four and not feeling symptoms, what am I doing wrong?


estrock

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I know this may not be the best place to post this but I'm on day four and I haven't been feeling any of the negative side effects that other people have been talking about. I almost feel like I'm doing something wrong. Is this normal? What could be causing it? I feel like I've always eaten healthy. Sugar has never been a problem, I've been more of a cheese and wine binger. Maybe that has something to do with it? 

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By posting a few days of your meals, we could offer serious feedback about whether you are doing well with your Whole30. Otherwise, if you want to experience symptoms you could go for a 5 mile run. :) Almost everybody notices feeling sluggish when they are new to the Whole30 and run very far. 

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This is my second Whole 30 and I have never looked at the timeline.  Other people's symptoms have no effect on me.  I am me, and I just want to have my experience and not factor in the (powerful) power of suggestion.

 

Many people who come to the Whole 30 are undoing a lifetime of poor food choices.  It is a HUGE transition.  For some of us, not so much.  The Whole 30 is very similar to a candida diet I started over 13 years ago -- so we have eaten pretty healthy for the most part since then -- so it is not a huge "shock" to my system when I decide to stop hitting the drive-through for ice cream and clean things up again.   ;)

 

If you are following the meal planning template:

http://whole30.com/downloads/whole30-meal-planning.pdf

 

I'm sure you are doing fine.  Enjoy!   :)

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Same here -- I had a headache all of day 2, and that's it. But I generally eat paleo and my W30 goal was to quit the constant nibbles that I sneak in all day (a handful of granola here, 10 M&Ms there, two bites of my son's PB&J sandwich here...). But my workouts were definitely a bit challenging in the beginning and my equivalent of Tiger Blood has been going from feeling great almost all the time to feeling great all the time, plus no more post-lunch drowsiness and even better sleep at night. Not a huge change.

Sounds like you're doing just fine!

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Thanks for the responses everyone! I may post some of my meals here later to see if anyone has any feedback but I guess the important thing is that everyone is different. Come to think of it most of my symptoms that have motivated me to start the whole30 have to do with low energy levels and feeling sluggish so maybe part of the reason i haven't been suffering from those symptoms is because it's kind of the norm for me! 

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estrock, I didn't have any of those negative symptoms either (except maybe irritability, but it's hard to tell because I'm often irritable no matter what ;) ).  I had been eating a paleo-ish diet since June 1, and started Whole30 on September 1, and I think that helped.  Anyway, consider yourself lucky! 

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My first whole 30 (Aug 2012) I had very few symptoms.  Day 4 or 5 I think I had a burst of kill all of the things - but it didn't last terribly long.  I had started going dairy free 2 months prior so I kind of thought that may have some bearing.  All I can tell you is that I was tired for a long time.  Sure I would have bursts of energy here and there, overall I felt pretty good, but I was exhausted until about day 22.

 

But I have done 5 whole 30's in the last 2 years.  Each one has been completely different from the last. 

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Thanks for posting this question because I have been experiencing the same thing - practically NO detox symptoms and I'm on Day 9.  I attribute it to my pre-Whole30 fairly clean diet of mostly organic everything, however with lots of dairy (mostly raw and goats milk, even my cheese and yogurt) and tons of bread/pasta, again organic.  Maybe because most of the sugar I ate was organic pure maple syrup and raw honey, I haven't had to kill a raging sugar dragon?  (I say mostly because I would indulge from time to time in mindless candy consumption on the rare occasion when my daughter would leave a bag of something like Sour Gummy Worms around).  To keep me from sounding too health conscious, I have been known to eat a huge bowl of popcorn with real butter for dinner and chase it with ice cream and cookies at Christmas time?  There's nothing like Gingerbread Cookies and coffee for breakfast!  

 

However, after yesterday's workout, my heart rate was way elevated - stayed above 135 BPM for 4 hours and I was feeling too weak to even clean up the kitchen.  I got worried till I attributed it to this new eating plan, which is the only thing that makes sense, especially since I am feeling much better this morning.  It's good to know that I am not the only one who isn't following the Timeline.  I tried an elimination diet some time ago and fully understand all the symptoms mentioned, so it concerned me that I was doing something wrong when I did't experience them.  For the most part, I have been feeling GREAT and am sleeping well.  I'm grateful for that.

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Did you just say that your Hr stayed well over 135 for FOUR HOURS after exercise? What's your normal RHR? Do you have any preexisting heart conditions? I work in health care with cardiac patients and that sounds a bit worrisome to me. Keep an eye on that, ok?

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