HeatherW30 Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 I'm on my third W30 attempt (since Jan!). The first one I made it 8 days before I had out of town visitors and allowed myself to get derailed by eating out. The second one I made it 15 days before falling off the wagon during a stressful work trip. This time I'm on day 20 and feeling *mostly OK. Yesterday was my son's birthday, so I was navigating lots of sweets, eating out at an Italian place for dinner etc. I made it through beautifully or so I thought. At the very end of the day, I lit the candles on the cake, carefully cut pieces for everyone else and watched them eat. Subconsciously I think I was feeling deprived. I had been white knuckling it all day watching everyone around me eat candy, cake, bread, pasta etc. I decided to eat a handful of dates & macadamia nuts. After the first handful, I told myself no more. But that turned into another handful and another and another. If I'm being honest, I think I probably ate more than 1000 calories worth of dates & nuts. I felt sick, went to bed and now here I am. Do I start over at day 1? Do I just keep on keeping on, learn from the experience and move on for the next 10 days? Clearly, I have some serious sugar issues still to deal with. /sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted March 9, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 9, 2015 You don't have to start over, you didn't break your physical reset. Your emotional reset on the other hand............. Sometimes it helps to remember why you chose to undertake the Whole30. For health improvement, mood levelling, changing relationship with food, better energy etc. In the heat of the cake-moment, those things can be tough to remember so perhaps marking them on a post-it and keeping it with you? As far as not feeling deprived, physically there are things you can do next time also. Make sure that you eat enough at your meals. Nice, big satisfying ones, balanced to the template, so that you are not feeling edgy or hungry. You can bump up the starchy veggies (sweet potato works great here) in the meals heading into a "cake situation". Often when we are craving sugars it's actually because we've been too low carb leading up to it. You can also remind yourself that it's just cake. And when your 30 days is up you can go to the store and buy 6 of them if you want (hint: you won't want to) so there is nothing to feel deprived about. You might want to clear the house of the nuts and dates going forward, you've probably awoken whatever cravings and sugar dragon you have an it could be an ongoing fight for awhile trying to put it back to sleep so trying to negotiate compliant-but-problematic foods with yourself is going to be rough and you might not win the battles. Toss 'em or freeze them or get your husband to hide them in the garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 All of those foods were compliant so no need to start over. The answer is to eliminate all snacks. They become play foods which leads to thrill eating and more snacking. Eat three meals aday. The rules state that snacks are not forbidden but discouraged. Snacks have been the bane of many a Whole 30 filled with compliant snacks which mimic all of the old behaviours of snacking. Mimicry or Mim-I-Cry is not the best form of flattery on a Whole 30. Eliminating all snacks breaks the cycle of snack food addiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrohne Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 I had a similar moment with larabars I had to eliminate them from my house completely. I also realized I needed to be eating more at my meals and I've felt great since. It's been a few days now and I was having these massive cravings for about a week. Don't start over. Learn and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkor Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Subconsciously I think I was feeling deprived. I had been white knuckling it all day watching everyone around me eat candy, cake, bread, pasta etc. Thinking about these feelings will benefit you the most. hat were you feeling deprived of? The camaraderie of sharing the same food as the others? The sweetness of the candy/cake? The starchiness of the bread/pasta? Was it missing the specifics of each single food item, or what you associate with the food? Picture a drug addict in a rehab clinic going through the DTs ... is that an image you identify with? In white-knuckling it all day, did you feel like a junkie craving his fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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