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1 hour ago, KalinaM said:
So far today, I've stayed compliant. I'm contemplating what I want to intro first, but I was up so much last night with my son, who was having nightmares and just a bad night and ended up with me--- so-- not sure I want to intro anything today since I'm already feeling yucky due to no sleep.
Ugh, those nights (and the days that follow) are so hard. I have not planned my reintroduction day well but I did add a big scoop of peanut butter with my sliced apples this morning. I was on the fence about just doing a normal W30 day but then figured I can wing it a bit.
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You guys. I was made aware yesterday that I have been doing reintroduction wrong EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I thought that once you added something back in, it was back in - even as you add in other things one by one. Apparently that is wrong, and a quick look at the Whole30 website guidance confirmed. So, for example, I'm adding in legumes today. After today I shouldn't eat legumes again until I've gone through everything else one by one.
Maybe this is why I've never been able to pinpoint things....
What is everyone starting with?
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6 hours ago, KalinaM said:
WOW, good for you for changing so much in your life this month! Sounds like you've hit your stride. I need to amp up the movement, but it is soooo hard with my young kids. I need to find a way to make it work.
Seriously so hard. No time during the day and by the time they're in bed I'm exhausted. Also, I'm not someone who can work out at night - it revs me up and then my sleep suffers. I like the idea - in theory - of waking up a bit early to take a walk before the kids are up, but let's be real. I'm getting 7 hours of sleep on a good night, and when I get less than that I pay for it. I really don't want to willingly cut an hour out of my sleeping time.
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31 minutes ago, Sheila B said:
Yeah, that makes sense. Over time makes it hard enough to identify, but then when you think about all the possible combinations of things...
Yes, it becomes a bit overwhelming. I'm doing legumes first because I don't eat them that much anyway, so I don't think they're the problem. With non-gluten grains, I'll probably do rice first and then corn separately - those are the two that I eat the most frequently. Then dairy, then gluten will be last.
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40 minutes ago, Sheila B said:
I'm so interested in the experiences of those of you who have done Whole30 before (this is my first one). If you did reintroduction before, and already know what does/doesn't affect you, do you still do re-introduction of the things that didn't show an effect last time? If so, is that because things can change over time, or...?
Not trying to be nosy, just want to learn.
I have done a few but I need to do a slow roll reintroduction. I have never had a ton of immediate effects when I add things back in, but over time my reflux gets bad and moods become much more variable. I'd like to pinpoint whether it's just processed carbs in general, the combination of carbs and dairy, alcohol...like, is it something specific or is it just the combination of certain things over time?
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Day 29, can you guys believe it? I feel like I've kind of been coasting the last week, it hasn't seemed as hard but I also think I'm not sticking to the meal template quite as well as I should be (filling the plate with veggies can be challenging).
I'm having mixed feelings about reintroduction. While I haven't exactly felt tiger blood, my mood is significantly more stable, and my sleep is better (at least, when I can manage to get myself in bed on time). I've done multiple rounds before and eventually just go back to my old habits, so I'm really trying to be more introspective about how I want to transition off the W30 - particularly recognizing my patterns of self-soothing with alcohol or food (or both, let's be honest). This season of life is just really stressful, with young kids, aging parents, and career advancement. I definitely need to find better ways to cope. Part of that will be waiting to reintroduce alcohol or sugar. I think I'm going to start with reintroducing legumes. I don't eat a ton of them anyway and I've never noticed any issues when I've reintroduced them in the past.
What are everyone else's reintroduction plans?
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12 hours ago, ____Emily____ said:
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.
I hear you on this. It's gotten a lot easier to just throw something together out of what's in the fridge, but I'm also feeling kind of blah with meals lately. I had a couple cooking fails yesterday, which sucks because I'm not going to throw out food just because I'm not happy with it. The one exception with that is the roasted butternut I made with dinner last night that tasted like dish soap - not eating that. I think I hadn't rinsed the pan or the silicone mat well enough when I did the dishes. It was the last two squash from my summer garden so it was really disappointing.
My cold is just about gone, which is a relief. Now to make sure I'm continuing to get decent sleep (7.5-8 hours for the last four nights, which is a freaking miracle) and not slacking off on making sure I'm following the template. A couple times over the weekend I found myself skimping on the veggies because we didn't have a lot already made. 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.
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On 1/18/2023 at 8:04 PM, KalinaM said:
***TMI warning***
Good news for me!! I believe my couple days of stomach upset and bloat are totally to blame on my cycle starting! Once the flo began, I almost felt instantly deflated from the bloating (I mean, really, I could tell it was subsiding quickly) and my stomach issues disappeared, too! HOORAY! It stared 3 days earlier than expected this month ,which isn't totally out of the ordinary, but it did catch me by surprise. Anyway, I think my body uses my cycle for detox when I'm doing whole30, because this has happened in past rounds as well. So, the REALLY GOOD NEWS for me is that I'm finally feeling over the hump! Not great yet, because of my cycle, but trending upward. And I'm not fearing I might have FODMAP sensitivities anymore. Woot!
So funny, same thing happened to me this morning—2 days early. I’m feeling crappy because I have a cold but hoping once my cycle is over and I’ve kicked this virus I’ll be feeling amazing! I made a big pot of chicken veggie soup the other day and that’s been 50% of my meals this week. Just needing that comfort food.
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19 hours ago, Niya said:
Sooo my hardest days are NOW. My body is starting to trust me that I really mean it about health. I'm getting regular sleep and digestion is happy for the first time in forever. But the cravings are HUGE. Chocolate, bread, butter. OMG! The fantasies are driving me nuts. I thought I would be in the opposite place. But not breaking my stride. I've come this far. Also, I'm pretty sure - zero - weight loss. Though that was my secondary reason, it's a little disappointing. Probably will happen slowly by sticking with it.
Hate to admit it, but weight loss (or at least, kicking off healthier habits that can lead to weight loss) was a secondary goal for me too. I think I've probably dropped the extra holiday pounds but would like to lose some of the extra weight I've been carrying ever since I had my kids. I like that the standard response from the W30 people on that is that if you have weight to lose, you will likely lose some. And that rapid weight loss is never sustainable. It's hard to remind myself of that but it is true.
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24 minutes ago, KalinaM said:
How is everyone else doing at day 16?
Halfway there, woo hoo!
Things have been okay. Cravings have been minimal but we've been in a bit of a recipe rut. Wing night Friday was great - I tossed the wings in arrowroot flour with a few seasonings, put them in the air fryer for about 15 minutes, then tossed them in the Primal buffalo sauce, and put them in for another few minutes - delicious. Other than that I've been underwhelmed with what we're cooking. Last night I had my first food dream, but it was about alcohol. I was with a friend who currently lives in Honduras and figured it was fine to have a few drinks with her since she was out of town. The first few times I did a W30 the food dreams were so intense.
I am sleeping more soundly once I get to sleep but I still can't manage to get myself in bed before 11. And I am waking up to pee a couple times a night, which is annoying - even when I stop liquids by 7:00. What gives? So even though I'm in bed for 8 hours I'm only getting about 6.5-7 hours of sleep, and it isn't enough. My sleep tracker app consistently shows I get above normal light sleep and below normal deep sleep, so I do think it's important I'm actually sleeping (not just in bed, but sleeping) for 8 hours. It's tough with young kids, after they go to bed is the only time I have to myself and to connect with my husband so I often end up staying up too late. @KalinaM do you struggle with this at all?
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@KalinaM the kids are having pizza and I’m making wings for movie night. So excited!
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21 hours ago, Sheila B said:
I know what you mean about the recipe monotony... I LOVE to cook so I have tons of recipes but it's been surprisingly hard to find ones I can easily adapt to Whole 30. I did some internet searching yesterday and today I'm trying an "easy chicken curry" from NYT - even if I don't love it, at least it's something new!
I highly recommend the following blogs for recipe ideas - these are some of my go-tos. Most have Whole30 specific recipe sections.
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10 days down, guys! I am also feeling kind of blah today. I think I might have a sensitivity to avocado, I am not a huge fan of them to start with but every once in a while I’ll have some. And I recall a couple of instances in the past when they have not sit right in my stomach. Well, the past few days I’ve been adding avocado as a fat source. This morning I had some on my breakfast hash (that I’ve eaten two times prior with no incident) and almost immediately got a stomach ache and pressure headache. Weird. I’ll be avoiding avocado from here out.
We did a good job cooking large enough meals the last few days that we had leftovers for lunches and even dinner tonight, but I’ll have to get back in the kitchen tomorrow—fridge is starting to look kinda bare.
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Oh! One more post from me, something I'm pretty proud of. Our front yard is pretty small and until last winter had a very large maple tree in it. We had to take it down because we figured out is was hollow inside, so it was a in danger of falling on the house. The yard is south facing, so I turned the whole thing into a vegetable garden last year. It was a TON of work, and I grew way more than we could eat, but I froze a ton of stuff that we're making use of now. Last night I made sweet potato coins out of the smaller purple sweet potatoes, and I have blanched swiss chard in the freezer that will go into braised greens at some point. I also still have 5 different winter squash that I'll use to make a couple things - curried butternut soup, and I think I'll make a compliant version of this dish: https://realhealthyrecipes.com/recipes/butternut_squash_with_kale_and_sausage
I also have 4-5 bags of frozen tomatoes that I've been using to make sauces, okra that can go into some vegetable soup, and a bunch of dried peppers that I used to make a compliant chili crunch oil (loosely based on this recipe: https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/chili-crisp/. I also grew choricero peppers that I'll use to make this sauce, from the Basque region of Spain: https://clovegarden.com/recipes/djx_biscay1.html. It's seriously so good on fish, chicken, or just on a spoon. You can use prosciutto in place of serrano ham.
I also made a bunch of pickles but haven't been eating them because some of them definitely have sugar (the bread and butter ones) and I can't remember if I put sugar in the dill spears. I'll need to remember to mark things better next year.
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22 hours ago, KalinaM said:
And my wings, wedges and veggies were tasty enough that after the initial feeling sorry for myself for a couple minutes watching my family eat the pizza I made, I didn't miss it because my wings were crunchy and delicious! Hooray!
We do family pizza and movie night on Fridays too! How do you make your wings? I've got the primal buffalo sauce in the pantry and am looking for some ways to use it. I want to do the buffalo chicken lettuce wraps I keep hearing about, but we have two bottles (because Costco) and wings sound like a great option.
On 1/7/2023 at 9:30 AM, Artemis22 said:Good Morning Everyone,
Things are going ok. I am really trying to work on my relationship with food this time. My father has some really serious health issues and caretaking is stressful. Part of doing the Whole 30 is to break the cycle of eating something with sugar when I am stressed about him. I was picking up his medicine yesterday at the grocery store pharmacy and there was a problem. My first thought was a dessert. I think it is the " I don't want to feel this how do I make it stop" thing. So i bought some Larabars. They are compliant and I thought I would sneak around the rules that way. When I got in the car I asked myself if I was hungry. I wasn't. I just was tired from caretaking. So I didn't eat them. Being present and not using food to soothe is something I really need to be aware of.
@CGinDC I hope your family things are getting better.
@Artemis22 that is a major achievement. I have similar issues, for me it's "treating" myself when I have some time away from my kids. They're six and three, and my three year old is a handful. Amazing and funny and smart...but she's a lot. So when I have an afternoon to myself to run errands or whatever, I almost always find some way to treat myself with food and it's usually crap. I had to face that yesterday afternoon while I was out and about, but I didn't cave. Also, thank you for the kind words. My mother was recently diagnosed with dementia, so we're just kind of coming to terms with the long and difficult road ahead. It sucks.
Today I'm feeling the W30 fatigue. I've slept pretty well the last couple nights so I think I'm more or less caught up there. I was in the middle of a very weird and intense dream when my kids woke up up this morning and I've been in a fog ever since.
How is everyone else doing? Almost through the first week!
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51 minutes ago, ____Emily____ said:
According to the Whole30 timeline, this is totally normal around this time (they have it at days 6-7, but I personally think it's happening all the first week and we're not noticing until later thanks to the the sugar hangover), but I'm sure staying up late isn't helping. Sorry to hear about your family problems
I’ve been averaging 6-6.5 hours of sleep per night this week so in this case, it really is just that I’m not sleeping enough. Or it is the main factor, anyway. Gotta do better!
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On 1/4/2023 at 8:16 PM, CGinDC said:
It's not bad - saltier than other brands and when I make it myself, so I realized I don't need to add as much to whatever I'm making or else it's overkill. I like salty things, too!
@KalinaM following back up on this question, now that I've had the mayo a few more times. I'm not sure I like it on its own - it's thicker and saltier than homemade mayo and most other store-bought brands. I could happily eat homemade mayo on a spoon by itself, but not this. That said, it does make a good base for making different sauces. I've mixed it with chili crunch oil for a spicy ailoi and with lemon and minced garlic for something more tangy.
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How is everyone doing on Day 5 (ish...not sure if we're all exactly on the same schedule)?
My sugar headache is pretty much gone but I'm super tired. I don't think it's necessarily W30 related, maybe, but I have not gotten enough hours of sleep most nights this week and it's taking a toll. I've got some pretty heavy family stuff going on and that's been weighing on me in the evenings after kids are in bed, when I finally have time to think. I've been having a hard time just getting my brain to turn off. The good news is that I've slept soundly once I do finally get to bed, so that's a positive.
This morning I made a big frittata with pork sausage, mushrooms, and asparagus, and I had such high hopes for it. I just cannot get the texture right on frittatas though. It was good for the first couple bites but then I just kind of had to force myself to get through it. It's so disappointing to have all those beautiful ingredients in something I don't particularly want to eat! Tomorrow I think if I make a lemon aioli (literally just lemon juice and mayo) that might help a bit.
I'm aiming to do more meal planning/prepping this weekend so we have easy breakfast and lunch options available. Dinner isn't an issue, W30 is not too far off from what we would normally cook.
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Today has been pretty good. I've had a pressure headache (which I'm attributing to sugar withdrawal) off and on but it's mostly gone now. I am pretty tired, so will turn in a bit early - right after I finish the batch of chili that's on the stove and prepping the frittata ingredients for the morning. I didn't get quite enough to eat for lunch so I had a snack - I realized when my stomach was rumbling at like 3:30 that I had not eaten enough. It's kind of tough with me and my husband both doing it because a lot of the stuff I'll prep for breakfast and lunch is gone twice as fast! I haven't really adjusted to make up for that.
So, tonight I'm prepping a batch of chili that should feed us for one dinner (whole family) and probably one or two lunches for me and my husband. Also a frittata that should be good for 2 days worth of breakfast. I also stocked up a few compliant sauces (buffalo, pesto, chimichurri) from Costco and our local organic market, so I'll probably put a whole chicken in the instant pot in the next day or two to shred and use the sauces to make different easy meals with the chicken.
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5 hours ago, KalinaM said:
Yes, homemade mayo is a staple in my house now, even when no w30 taking place! It's so good! How is the primal? I got some hot sauce for wings from Costco primal brand! Can't wait to try it, that's on Fridays menu
It's not bad - saltier than other brands and when I make it myself, so I realized I don't need to add as much to whatever I'm making or else it's overkill. I like salty things, too!
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18 hours ago, KalinaM said:
CG- your chicken salad sounds good! I found a recipe that I've used in the past that uses Tahini for the "sauce" it's really good-- I'll have to put that on a to be made list for some Sunday batch cooking. Do you use Mayo or what for your chicken salad?
I use mayo - usually I make my own for a W30 but this time I saw the Primal brand at Costco and figured I'd give myself a break by removing one thing from the prep list. Also a little msutard.
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Day one could have been better. My in laws were over for dinner last night and we overindulged in the mixed drinks, so I had a bit of a hangover today. Not exactly the best way to start! But I had hard boiled eggs and ginger squash soup for breakfast. I made the soup with squash from my garden this summer and stuck it in the freezer thinking it would come in handy for a W30, and it sure did! I have another 2 servings in the freezer. I topped it with a good drizzle of homemade chili crunch oil (also with chilies from the garden). Lunch was chicken salad with celery, grapes, and walnuts over greens, and dinner was leftover lamb leg (from last night, made sure we made it compliant so we'd be able to eat the leftovers) and collards - again with chili oil. I didn't eat quite enough today and was hungry, so I just had some more squash soup with a little dollop of mayo and a compliant meat stick.
I'll try to keep more to the template tomorrow, hopefully I'll get a good night's sleep tonight and it'll be easier to really pay attention to my portions. I've got onions and red peppers already diced to sautee with hashbrowns and will have that with eggs or sausage (or a combo of the two). Lunch will be chicken salad again I think, and we've got a bunch of relatively easy options for dinner.
Hope everyone is finishing out the day on a good note!
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7 minutes ago, KalinaM said:
Yes!!!! I remember you too! We both got pregnant that round. That was my first round. I've done two more, this is day one of round 4. So crazy our babies are 6 now!
Such a small world, that's wild. I did a good round when my son was about a year, but since my daughter was born I've really struggled finishing a 100% compliant one. I know I'll feel better though, so I'm motivated to do it right this time!
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@KalinaM were we in the same group in 2016? Your name looks really familiar and I think I remember when you shared you had gotten pregnant too!
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We went out to eat last night for the first time since doing the W30. I had a glass of wine, steak, and fries. 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.
I'm adding dairy in today - had cream in my coffee this morning and cheese in an omelet. We're going to my in laws for dinner tonight and there will be some cheese in things there too. We'll see what happens!