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  1. 23 hours ago, CGinDC said:

    The fries triggered a little bit of heartburn - it's not the potatoes, I've been eating them basically day. So it's either just that they were deep fried or it was the oil they used - I didn't ask. Also today, my SI joint is achy - that hasn't happened in a while.

    That's such a bummer - I hope your pain goes away soon and that you're able to pinpoint what caused it.

     

    I did a day with no sugar yesterday (I don't remember exactly what I ate all day, but I think my only non Whole30-compliant item was a small plain latte).  By the end of the day, I had a low level headache - I can't believe I was having sugar withdrawals again after only being back on sugar for 4-5 days! I think I'm going to incorporate no-sugar-added days into my diet semi-regularly.  My choice to not just toss all of the leftover holiday candy before my Whole30 was not a good choice, lol.  I've made the decision not to replace that candy as I consume it, so I won't have it all sitting around soon. I'm also considering doing another Whole30 in April (after my birthday, lol).  I should have time to do a full reintroduction after that round, so I might try to do that as well since I haven't done one of those since 2018.  It'll all depend on whether I get pregnant before then as I am not going to attempt a Whole30 during pregnancy

  2. Day 30 - Jan 31 

    Breakfast (10:00 am) Two hardboiled eggs (sort of... I only ate half of each because they had a bizarre taste tot hem.  Potentially they've gone bad or absorbed some weird fridge smell)

    Lunch (12:15pm): Two scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and chili crunch

    Dinner (7:00pm) Taco Night

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? Excited to be done! I was pretty low energy all day thanks to the rain and recovering from the day before.  But I am so glad to have remained compliant for the entire 30 days.

     

    Results

    My measurable differences:

    - 13.6 lbs lost (5% of my bodyweight - I started Whole30 severely obese and am now only in the obese category)

    - Lost 1.25 inches around my bust (wouldn't have minded keeping those inches lol)

    - lost 1.5 inches from under my bust 

    - lost 2 inches from my waist 

    - lost 1.25 inches from my gut/lower belly 

    - lost 1.25 inches from my hips

    - lost 1.5 inches from my left thigh (assuming the same for the right, but I don't measure both)

    - My resting heart rate plummeted toward the end of this Whole30 (was 74 bpm on day 1 and 64 bpm on day 30, but it took about half the month for it to start decreasing)

     

    My non-measurable differences:

    - reduced cravings (can't say no more, because PMS hit me hard this cycle)

    - I'm able to better recognize whether I'm actually hungry, or just eating because it tastes good or I'm bored

    - more consistent energy throughout the day

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  3. Congrats to all as well!  I started my morning with a stop at Starbucks for a Pistachio Latte.  As I was ordering it, I noticed that it was 320 calories :blink:.  That's 320 calories I have been regularly drinking that I cut out without even noticing this whole month!  I don't always get a pistachio latte, but it is generally lattes. My main meals for the day will be complaint - eggs for breakfast, sausages with mustard and carrots and guacamole for lunch, and a curry for dinner.  So I think my only noncompliant foods will be my latte and potentially some candy :P.

     

    My measurable differences:

    - 13.6 lbs lost (5% of my bodyweight - I started Whole30 severely obese and am now only in the obese category)

    - Lost 1.25 inches around my bust (wouldn't have minded keeping those inches lol)

    - lost 1.5 inches from under my bust 

    - lost 2 inches from my waist 

    - lost 1.25 inches from my gut/lower belly 

    - lost 1.25 inches from my hips

    - lost 1.5 inches from my left thigh (assuming the same for the right, but I don't measure both)

     

    My non-measurable differences:

    - reduced cravings (can't say no more, because PMS hit me hard this cycle)

    - I'm able to better recognize whether I'm actually hungry, or just eating because it tastes good or I'm bored

    - more consistent energy throughout the day

     

    I did not manage to get pregnant this cycle, unfortunately, but I did ovulate (which hasn't happened for a lot of my cycles)

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  4. Day 29 - Jan 30 

    Lunch (3:00pm): Two scrambled eggs with chili crunch, Two Italian sausages, diced and sauteed

    Snack (time unknown, maybe like 3:30?) Two oranges

    Dinner (7:30pm) Shakshuka

    Snack (time unknown, maybe like 9:00?) Fruit gummies and applesauce

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? Well, after not falling asleep until 7:30 am, it was a rough day.  I called in sick to work and spent most of the day in bed, but not asleep (I slept about 3-4 hours).  Not the best way to end my Whole30 (writing this on Day 30, still feeling blah)

  5. I'm pretty excited for the end of this Whole30.  I don't do the reintroduction anymore after my first time, but I probably should since it has been about 4.5 years since then and I'm sure my body has changed.  I also haven't given a ton of thought to how I'll eat starting day 31... I would like to cut back on added sugar for sure.  I'm planning to pack my normal breakfast and lunch for work, so that'll be compliant, but otherwise I don't know

     

    I kind of inadvertently gave up caffeine for most of this Whole30.  Got a small nitro cold brew at my coffee shop yesterday and wound up drinking it all (normally I'd sip on it during my meeting and dump most of it after I left the coffee shop).  I was up until 7:30am this morning... I had to call off work since I would only get about 1 hour of sleep before having to start.  So I'm actually a bit nervous about how my body will react when I get lattes again after reintroducing dairy...

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  6. Day 28 - Jan 29 

    Coffee (11:00am) 

    Lunch (2:30pm): Two fried eggs (used Trader Joes Umami seasoning) with sauteed onions; smoked salmon with chili crunch; oranges 

    Snack (3:00pm) Two oranges

    Dinner (7:30pm) Hot wings; sweet potato fries with southwest aioli

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? Overall good.  My husband came back from the bachelor party and he's now back on Whole30 til the end of my Whole30.  For some reason I had insomnia at the end of Day 28.  I think it may have been the coffee since I've basically cut it out otherwise.  Didn't get to bed until like 7:30am the following day :wacko:

  7. Day 26 - Jan 27 

    Breakfast (9:15am) Two hardboiled eggs

    Lunch (12:45pm): A Three-egg omelet with the spinach and artichoke filling from the stuffed mushroom recipe

    Snack (2:15pm) Solely gummies and applesauce

    Dinner Part 1 (6:30pm): I baked up some of the spinach and artichoke filling in a ramekin and ate it like spinach and artichoke dip with the plantain chips

    Dinner Part 2 (7:30pm) sweet potato fries with a southwest aioli

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? I'm PMSing, which means I'm craving carbs so I was really struggling with wanting snacks

     

    Day 27 - Jan 28 

    Brunch (11:00am) Two eggs, scrambled with diced onions, smoked salmon and chili crunch on the side

    Dinner Part 1 (6:15pm): Salad with a vinaigrette 

    Dinner Part 2 (6:45pm) Used the remaining filling to make more stuffed mushrooms (got portobello caps this time)

    Snack (9:00pm) Three oranges (lol, the carb cravings) 

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? good.  Was meant to go to the gym and didn't... Definitely failed at adding exercise into my Whole30

  8. I got sick so I've been a bit behind in updating this.  I'm sure I forgot to write down some snacks...

    Day 22 - Jan 23 

    Coffee (8:15am) In-office day so I grabbed a coffee for the commute.  I actually bought a nitro cold brew from Starbucks and added some of my milk

    Breakfast (10:15am): 2 hard boiled eggs

    Lunch (1:00pm): Meatballs and marinara

    Snack (4:00pm) mixed fruit (leftovers from a program we're running at work - blackberries, pineapple, blueberries, and grapes)  

    Dinner (8:30pm): Roasted broccoli.  There's a story to this - it was meant to be salmon and roasted broccoli, but I accidentally bought too much broccoli (or tried to make too much) and my husband told me it was too much broccoli, but I got stubborn and said it wasn't too much to eat for two people and that I could eat ALL of it myself.  So he had two pieces of salmon and I had 2 lbs of broccoli.  In case anyone is wondering - 2 lbs of broccoli is too much broccoli...

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? Good.  This was my last day in the office before Whole30 ends.  

     

    Day 23 - Jan 24 

    Lunch (1:00pm): Diced cucumbers, shredded carrots, smoked salmon and the chili crunch aioli

    Dinner (7:00pm): Taco night - ground beef with the Siete seasoning on a bed of shredded lettuce with salsa, pickled jalapenos, guacamole and diced tomatoes

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? Lol, besides my stomach processing all that broccoli, good.  I was full until lunchtime, when I still wasn't hungry, lol. I was also super bloated all day.  Toward the end of the day, I started getting a headache so I went to bed early... it didn't help  

     

    Day 24 - Jan 25 

    Lunch (1:00pm): Scrambled eggs (three eggs) with smoked salmon, chili crunch, and Togarashi seasoning; I also had some applesauce and fruit gummies

    Dinner (7:00pm): Shakshuka 

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? Massive migraine all day.  I called off work and spent the entire morning in bed or the bathtub, then laid on the couch all afternoon before going to bed early after dinner.  I'm sure I missed recording some snacks

     

    Day 25 - Jan 26 

    Breakfast (10:00am) Two hardboiled eggs

    Lunch (12:00pm): diced cucumbers, chopped carrots, smoked salmon + chili crunch aioli

    Dinner (7:30pm): Spinach and Artichoke stuffed mushrooms (the leftover filling will make an appearance in Day 26 meals for sure - it was tasty); 2-3 plantain chips (see note below)

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel? I still had a small headache for most of Thursday, but was feeling better by the evening.  My husband has left for a bachelor party (so obviously ended Whole30 early).  I was tempted to end early as well, but decided to stick to it anyway.  Made the stuffed mushrooms as a little treat, something different from my normal standard meals. 

    I have purchased something that isn't exactly compliant as a treat as well - store-bought plantain chips (fully compliant ingredients, just against the Pancake Rule).  I've opened them and had a couple to scrape the sides of the Spinach and Artichoke filling bowl after I transferred the leftovers into a container.  They are okay - definitely intended to replicate potato chips.  I don't normally eat chips, and when I do, it's usually about 7-10 chips and I'm done, so I wasn't too worried about breaking that part of the Pancake Rule (which in my opinion is meant to help break bad habits and cravings).  We'll see if I wind up eating my words and binging on plantain chips, but I doubt it

     

  9. Hope everyone's weeks are going well!  It's hard to believe we're in the home-stretch.  Only 5 more days for those of us who started Jan 2nd!

     

    My husband is done since he left for a Bachelor party today, so I'm on my own now. I'm so tempted to finish up early too - especially since I'm PMSing and craving chocolate. I made this Spinach and Artichoke stuffed mushroom recipe today for dinner to treat myself (sans the parmesan and with Kite Hill dairy-free cream cheese, obviously).  It turned out pretty good!  Although in hindsight, it'd have been better with larger mushrooms like portabella, instead of baby bella.  The tiny mushrooms were hard to stuff, and I'd have preferred a bigger filling to mushroom ratio.  I have the leftover filling to have at a later time - just trying to figure out what I want to do with it.  Thinking about maybe doing an omelet tomorrow or Saturday.

  10. Day 21 - Jan 22 

    Breakfast (10:00am): Epic Venison meat bar, Cinnamon Applesauce, iced coffee with my compliant milk

    Lunch (2:30pm): Three fried eggs with Shichimi Togarashi seasoning (newly at Costco) + sauteed peppers and onions   

    Dinner (8:45pm): Hot wings + Sweet potato fries and southwest aioli 

    Snack (9:30pm) fruit roll and gummies

    Exercise (6:15pm): Went to the gym and did 20 minutes of Pilates, 15 minutes of strength classes (mainly upper body but a little bit of core) and a 10 minute full-body stretch

    How did I feel? Went to my favorite wine bar for a boor club and ordered a tea. Was very distracted by the yummy smell of cinnamon rolls at the coffee shop in the AM. Spent my evening browsing online chocolate shops. Definitely counting down the last 9 days...

  11. 1 hour ago, CGinDC said:

    Also going to try to get more movement into my week. I had made a good start but was so worn out last week from being sick that I only did my pilates class on Saturday, and nothing else. I'm aiming for doing at least something - even just a 15 minutes walk outside - ~3 days a week.

    Every Whole30, I've made it a goal to get more movement and then I never do.  I think I've been to the gym like 4-5 times all month.  Thinking about trying to do C25K starting in February or March once it starts warming up.  I just live such a sedentary life since I WFH most days now and drive into work (before the pandemic, I took public transit and walked to work 5 days a week, which netted me at least 8000 steps a day), so I need to find a way to routinely incorporate movement into my day

  12. Day 19 - Jan 20 

    Breakfast (10:15am): 2 hardboiled eggs and 1 banana

    Lunch (12:00pm): Diced cucumber, sliced carrots, smoked salmon with chili crunch aioli  

    Dinner (7:00pm): Shakshuka 

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? I'm sure I'm forgetting something - I totally forgot to write my food down throughout the day

     

    Day 20 - Jan 21 

    Breakfast (11:00am): two poached eggs, with smoked salmon and a lemon aioli

    Lunch (2:45pm): meatballs and marinara  

    Dinner (9:00pm): went to a seafood boil place and got a pound of snow crabs and some raw oysters 

    Snack (10:30pm) fruit roll and gummies

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? Met up with some friends at a bar in the evening and drank water.... I really miss wine and cocktails.  I shouldn't have gotten the evening snack but my husband got one so I did. Of course, I never should have bought those fruit snacks in the first place.

  13. I'm getting to the point where I'm both ready to be done and also thinking I could do this forever.  It's feeling easy, but also I am bored with food in general.

    Went to a book club at a wine bar and got peppermint tea.  I really miss wine, lol.  Someone else in the group is doing Whole30 as well so it was fun to talk about.  Also spent this morning at a coffee shop, which I do every Sunday morning; today the coffee shop smelled so strongly of cinnamon rolls.  I've never gotten a cinnamon roll from that coffee shop before (and I've been going every Sunday for over 5 years now), but they smelled pretty tempting today, lol

    I'm also struggling with the rule against weighing yourself/measuring.  I can tell I've lost weight/inches and I'm so ready to see how much!

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  14. On 1/18/2023 at 8:04 PM, KalinaM said:

    It stared 3 days earlier than expected this month ,which isn't totally out of the ordinary, but it did catch me by surprise

    3 hours ago, CGinDC said:

    So funny, same thing happened to me this morning—2 days early

    Not sure if either of you all are on the Whole30 subreddit on Reddit, but there was a discussion about that over there as well.  Apparently it's a common side affect.  Since I'm tracking my cycle so closely since I'm TTC, I'll be interested to see if it's going to shorten my luteal phase (I hope not since I already have a luteal phase of only 10-11 days, which is on the short side of normal). I did just successfully ovulate this cycle on CD23, which is earlier than its been lately (last time I ovulated was on CD32 and then I had an entire 36-day anovulatory cycle). Based on my normal timing, I should start my period in the last couple of days of this Whole30 so we'll see

  15. Day 18 - Jan 19 

    Breakfast (10:15am): 2 hardboiled eggs

    Lunch (12:15pm): 4 Amylu Italian Meatballs, Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce, riced broccoli (lol, a very Costco meal)  

    Dinner 1 (5:45pm): 2 Italian sausages

    Dinner 2 (7pm): Mixed Fruit and Cornichons (Wegmans)

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? Had two dinners because I had a book club, where I normally would have just eaten dinner, but I was worried I wouldn't be able to find something to actually eat so I ate protein before I left.  The club was held at the cafeteria area of Wegmans so I just bought a couple of snacks and noshed durng the meeting.  A bunch of other people got sushi and I was pretty jealous - I miss sushi so much. 

  16. Day 17 - Jan 18 

    Coffee (8:15) (it's my in-office day, so coffee for the commute)

    Breakfast (9:45am): 2 hardboiled eggs

    Lunch (12:30pm): Two bratwurst with the Whole Foods brand German Mustard; carrots and guacamole (I ate half the carrots at lunch and finished them up midafternoon sometime) 

    Dinner (8:30pm): leftover Jamaican Chicken Curry

    Snacks (9pm): Gogo Squeeze Applesauce, Bear Fruit Rolls, and That's It Mini Fruit Bars (I made the mistake of going to Costco hungry:blink:)

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? Fine.  I regret the impulse shopping at Costco, but I'm sure I'll happily eat my goodies

  17. Day 15 - Jan 16 

    Breakfast (11:15am): 2 fried eggs (with TJ's everything bagel seasoning), topped with chili crunch + smoked salmon on the side with a chili crunch aioli (mayo + chili crunch)

    Lunch (4:00pm): 2 Chicken and Apple sausages 

    Snack (8:15pm): 1 banana 

    Dinner (8:30pm): Jamaican Chicken Curry, Solely fruit gummies 

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? It was a day off work for me on Monday, and I barely left my couch.  I should have gone to the gym with the extra time, but after a super busy weekend, I just wanted to be lazy. 

     

    Day 16 - Jan 17 

    Breakfast (9am): 2 hardboiled eggs

    Lunch (12:00pm): Smoked salmon with shredded carrots and diced cucumbers and the chili crunch aioli 

    Dinner (6pm): Taco Tuesday! Diced onion, pepper and ground beef with the Siete seasoning, on a bed of shredded lettuce, topped with guacamole, salsa, hot sauce, and pickled jalapenos

    Snack (9pm): 1 banana (my husband bought these and, honestly, it's such a bad idea for me to have them sitting around)

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? Busy day at work so I didn't have a lot of control over when I ate (thanks all-day meetings). Otherwise, uneventful day

     

  18. Day 12 - Jan 13 

    Breakfast (10:30am): 2 hard boiled eggs

    Lunch (12:30pm): Leftover casserole

    Dinner (7pm): Baked salmon and roasted broccoli 

    Exercise: none

     

    Day 13 - Jan 14 

    Breakfast (7:45am): 2 hard boiled eggs

    Lunch (1:00pm): Leftover curry

    Dinner 1 (4pm): 2 hard boiled eggs

    Snack (8:30pm): plantains

    Dinner 2 (11:15pm): 2 poached eggs + smoked salmon + lemon aioli (mayo + lemon juice + capers) 

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? Saturday was a tough day.  I was in a training from 9am til 4pm, then a book club til 8pm. I should have just recognized that 2 hard boiled eggs weren't enough for dinner and eaten something more substantial when I got home, but instead i tried to tide myself over with a snack.  It didn't work and I just simply made dinner at 11pm. 

     

    Day 14 - Jan 15 

    Breakfast (9:45am): 2 hard boiled eggs (coffee at 10:15am)

    Lunch (12:00pm): 2 Archer mini meat sticks and a Solely fruit jerky 

    Snack (4pm): 1 Archer mini meat stick 

    Snack (6pm): a layered fruit bar

    Dinner (7pm): Hot wings and sweet potato fries 

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel? I didn't have much of a break for lunch - basically left book club to go straight to more training til 5pm. So I packed some meat sticks to hold me over til dinner.  It worked thankfully, but I was definitely ready for a more chill day at home for day 15 

     

  19. Hope everyone had a great weekend!  I was super busy - I've been doing training to volunteer as a community tax preparer (plus I had a couple of book clubs). On Saturday I left my house at 8am and didn't get back until 9pm.  I really wanted to give up to be honest, especially at my evening book club, which was held at a cool food hall.  But I ate a couple hard boiled eggs before I went, and just ordered a tea to have while everyone else had drinks and dinner. 

     

    Also, halfway through as of today! 

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  20. Day 11 - Jan 12 

    Lunch (12:30pm): Leftover casserole; mango/orange fruit gummies and layered fruit bars (just one of each).

    Snack (7pm): two beets (finished off my pack of marinated beets)

    Dinner (7:30pm): Taco night! We make a taco salad with shredded lettuce, ground beef + onion + bell pepper sauteed with compliant taco seasoning, salsa, guacamole, sliced black olives, and hot sauce

    Exercise: none

    How did I feel?  Just feeling really tired.  I wound up accidentally skipping breakfast because I got engrossed in work (and before that overslept, lol). I'm also getting really tired of that leftover casserole... 

  21. Day 10 - Jan 11 

    Coffee (8am) Poured my coffee for the drive into work

    Breakfast (11am): two hard boiled eggs 

    Lunch (12:30pm): Leftover casserole (I ate half of the dish I packed - the rest will make an appearance later in the day)

    Snack (4:30pm) The remainder of the casserole; carrots and guacamole

    Dinner (10pm): Leftover curry from earlier in the week

    Exercise (7pm): 20 minute treadmill walk (3% incline - 1 mile); 15 minute arms and shoulders class, 10 minute core class, and 20 minutes of stretching (10 minutes legs, 5 minutes upper body and 5 minutes core)

    How did I feel?  Much better after getting more hours of sleep than normal. I'm proud of myself for my discipline on Day 10.  I turned down croissants and pastries, as well as some chocolate and marzipan.  Then I went to the gym instead of going home to laze on the couch (which is what I reallllly wanted to do).  I could have pushed myself harder on the treadmill, or even during the strength workouts, but I'm happy I went at all. 

  22. Day 10 and 11 are apparently the days we're all statistically most likely to quit, and I feel that.  Yesterday was my in-office day and one of my coworkers brought croissants and pastries for us all, so I had to turn him down but it was very tempting.  And then a different coworker brought in marzipan chocolate from her trip to Europe and I had to turn that down as well. I'm glad to be back home, where I have fewer temptations (although the corner of the pantry where my noncompliant foods is also calling out to me today).  It's not so much that I'm craving the junk, but I just miss it.  I'm reaching the point where my standard meals are beginning to feel monotonous and I'm jealous at the ease with which I used to able to eat anything that looked or sounded decent, without having to consider whether it was compliant and whether it would be filling enough to get me through to my next meal.  I've done this many times before though, so I know I'll get through it and feel better on the other side.

    Stay strong all!

  23. Day 9 - Jan 10 

    Breakfast (10:30am): two hard boiled eggs 

    Lunch (1pm): Leftover casserole (this will be making a lot of appearances this week lol)

    Dinner (7pm): Hot wings, Sweet potato fries with mayo + southwest seasoning (I'm nearly out of my southwest seasoning and they don't make it any more, so I'm a little sad to be using the last of it.  Hoping I'll like the alternate kind I've found just as much)

    Exercise: None

    How did I feel?  Had a rough evening.  I'm not sure what caused it, but I developed a very bad headache near the end of my workday.  I wound up going to bed before 10pm (probably climbed into bed around 9, which isn't very long after I finished eating since I'm a slow eater), which is highly unusual for me.  I was going to exercise last night, but I couldn't handle it with the headache.  

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