Denny :-) Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I'm from UK and on my 3rd Whole 30 - We've done one a year for past few years and in between try to stick to the key principles - sadly we fail on a weekend with the beer and wine! An annual detox certainly does us good and I am sleeping like a baby!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwUK Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 The start of day 11 and I’m really pleased that a cold I’ve been carrying for the last fortnight finally seems to be on the wane - so not tiger blood exactly but a 100% better feeling than at the start of Whole30! I’m really enjoying the fact that I’m finding the cooking part of Whole30 much more manageable than some of the rounds when cooking and shopping seemed onerous. Whole30 always seems to lead to a much bigger requirement to always be buying something as our food stores go down so quickly but it all seems a lot swifter to resolve than it did for the first and subsequent rounds. I’ve been reading the ‘monomeals’ thread about the benefits of eating the same thing constantly. Whilst this isn’t specifically something that would work for me and my family I tend to follow a relatively consistent pattern of an 3 eggs with sweet potato and avocado breakfast, a baked potato and tuna salad/vegetables lunch and a meat and olives/vegetables/potatoes mashed with olive oil dinner which has just about the right amount of repetition in it to feel like a ‘habit’ rather than monotony. This week has definitely tested me on the snacking front - I’ve had cashews, almonds and a nakd bar fix on different days and need to knock that on the head today - possibly by having a bigger portion of fat at lunch and making sure I have a cup of tea to drink whilst walking the school run rather than the need for a snack. Every whole30 brings something different - my first had a big dependency on almond butter, my second was highly dependent on coconut pieces, my third was completely nut and largely fruit free and this one has felt great to fall into a rhythm with so far but is still different than the previous ones. I hope everyone else in this UK thread is doing well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtracyb Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 I have survived my week away in California. I ended up buying a big bag of spinach, a carton of cherry tomatoes and some frozen pre-cooked hamburgers, and continued the monomeal mania from my hotel room. The hotel had boiled eggs and bacon at breakfast so I was able to remain compliant. (While closing my eyes a bit to the probable chance of the bacon having sugar in it, this being the US and all.) I'll be back in the UK and back to my home where I can start cooking again - whoopee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britgirl Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 @drtracyb do you think you could give your mate my address?? How sweet is that?! @JwUK thanks for book review. I think you and I are in a similar mental place. I couldn't believe over xmas how very quickly I forgot how bad I feel after wheat or lattes so would vow to give them up then do it all over again the next day. It's like a self-destruct button. Well done for surviving Starbucks with the family. I LOVE coffee shops and I really miss the coffee and cake thing but I've also enjoyed 'the not blowing it' but that's only really effective for the 30 days and reintro plan. Have you come across Gillian Riley and Eating Less website? She writes about the addiction and emotional side of food and I've found her massively helpful in the past and will dig out her book again as we near the end. Her website is full of interesting well-researched stuff. Any good recipes for cold dull weather, guys? I'm so so sick of sweet potato and eggs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayo Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Hey guys! I'm officially on Day 16 of the Whole30 so passed the halfway mark! Pretty chuffed that I've kept it up so long. How have you guys found it in the UK so far. I've found that it's relatively easy to get compliant fresh food that seem to be a struggle in the US such as bacon, smoked salmon etc. I find it stressful to eat however, as you can't always control where to go and I hate being fussy and getting them to change the whole meal (I don't think it's really the done thing in England...). Also I find that so much socialising is based around drinking, especially with work colleagues who find it bizarre that I'm not having a beer after work on a Friday. London is particularly challenging in that respect I think but I've got away with telling people I'm just doing dry January without having to explain the whole thing! I've found this website to be a great repository of recipes - http://greatist.com/eat/guide-to-whole30. In the dinner section there are loads of good ideas. Yesterday I made the lemon chicken and baby potatoes recipe and heated it up for lunch today, it was really good! Also, I love courgetti with a homemade pesto sauce and salmon. Super quick to make and yummy! @JwUK I've also been struggling with snacking, particularly after dinner. I just feel the need to eat something else even though I know I'm full from dinner. Particularly nakd bars, cashews, cashew butter - I'm trying not to buy these things and then I'll only get a nakd bar if I'm totally desperate and there's nothing else to eat! Anyone got any good tips for stopping the snack attack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwUK Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 @kayo great news that you are on day 16 - I’ve just finished day 15. I raised a wry eyebrow at what you were saying ‘I don’t really think it is the done thing in England...’ to ask people in restaurants for modifications...I have started to feel very high maintenance even starting the conversation or asking a question when ordering food out! I totally agree with you and yet should it be that way? I think we’ve got some way to go here on that score. Having said that we have got access to all sorts of good things to cook at home. I had 24 hours working away yesterday and was really pleased that today (a tired day after travel and delivery of work) there was a lot of pre-cooked W30 food in the fridge that just needed heating up - I think I might have been writing that I’d only managed to get half way through this W30 otherwise! Today has been hard; tiredness is one of my key triggers for over-eating and eating the wrong things....good to know, more difficult to manage! Hope everyone is doing okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwUK Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Major NSV yesterday - I went to a Board meeting between 6-8.30pm yesterday evening which meant that we ended up having a family tea before 5.30 (way better than waiting until after the meeting to eat). All good. I took two packets of biscuits with me as it has become a meeting habit to have them whilst we are there as it cuts across dinner time for most of the attendees; it didn’t bother me that I wasn’t going to eat them but I like to play my part in the ’team’ element of the board. I arrived just on 6pm and had to take the only available seat which was next to the existing packets of biscuits and chocolate bars that others had brought. I sat for the entire meeting alongside them, passed a few of them around and even gathered up the spare ones at the end without eating one of them or even wanting to. The reason I’m writing this down is because biscuits, chocolate bars and crisps are all food without brakes for me. An "open packet of jaffa cakes is almost certainly an empty packet of jaffa cakes" is a mantra I have repeated, laughed about and made a reality on too many occasions. Whether it is a mental or physical response to Whole30, I can truly leave all of these foods alone whilst eating a Whole30 way but have found almost impossible beyond the 30 days as the sugar addiction kicks back in. So, today I’m reflective about this NSV and about how it didn’t make me feel deprived not to indulge during the meeting, it didn’t make me feel anything other than aware of the difference in biscuit behaviour between the December Board meeting and the January Board meeting. How is everyone else doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtracyb Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Hey - I'm back. I survived my trip to the US but don't trust that some of the food I ate did not contain added sugar, so I am going to continue my whole30 for an extra two weeks to make up for that. I am going back to the US for a week starting 17 Feb to do the same work, so I think that I would like to continue my whole30 until that date and then give myself a break. The food got pretty disgusting trying to stay compliant in a hotel for a week. Glad to hear everyone is doing well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwUK Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Welcome back @drtracyb - I smiled with recognition about trying to stay compliant in a hotel for a week. That feels like my life that led me (and my extra weight) to the Whole30 in the first place. Years of not being able to eat brilliantly - so every empathy for you and the hidden sugars. I’m on the road this week and stopped for lunch at a place which on the face of it didn’t have anything compliant at all - but then spotted a jacket potato and amended the fillings and accompanying salad and it was there. I am not at all comfortable feeling this high maintenance around food at all. I always imagine them going back to the kitchen going "...you’ll never guess what the woman at table 2 wants to do to our menu!” Is everyone else in the UK in this thread still going? I’m planning on extending the 30 days into Feb as a mechanism to keep me going physically and mentally otherwise this quarter’s travel will derail me completely and I’ll be missing the energy I need to keep everything on track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtracyb Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 I do think there is a way to do a Whole30 without appearing to be high maintenance. It is the tiny things - the type of oil the food is cooked in, and the additives to the food, that make it difficult and make us appear obnoxious and demanding. Hence my difficulties in California, trying to find a beef patty that doesn't have a smidge of something noncompliant. I do my best to not make special requests at restaurants, but find a way to get a piece of grilled meat and some veggies to fly under the radar if I can. But it also means that my whole30s get derailed quite often. I think the true celiacs find it, in a way, easier to stay compliant, because they get punished for eating foods that disagree with them. Dairy is my only absolute "no", as it triggers my fibromyalgia, and as I've said before, there is nothing like the threat of bone pain to make you stay compliant. If they ask, I just say I have a food allergy. You are lucky that you are in the whole30 since they permitted white potatoes ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crastney Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I sabotaged myself at the weekend - finished off my sons dinner without thinking, when he hadn't eaten it all, and was annoying me playing with his food, and generally being a little git. I won't tell you what, but the combination covered pretty much all the food groups (except alcohol - he is only 3). I asked my wife if she felt like stopping W30, for a few days and starting again in February, and shouldn't have been surprised when got angry with me, 'hell no! I'm only doing this because you told me it was only for 30 days!' Hopefully, by the end of the month, she'll have seen more NSVs, and will be more inclined to continue this better way of eating and not resume her 'normal' pre W30 habits... we'll see. I shall get right back on it and try to do the best I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JwUK Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Hello. Is anyone from this thread still going in the UK? If you are I hope it is going well for you. I’ve reached day 30 today with a few slips in the last few days due to the types of food available whilst travelling. I’m going to keep going for the next month on the basis of the last few weeks. I’ve got lots of non-scale victories - more energy spread more evenly though the day, some very decent nights of sleep and dealing with ups and downs externally with less ups and downs internally. Onwards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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