WholeDave Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 So here we go again. The past few months have been a bleak rejection of all whole30 goodness. After my huge success of last year, I've fallen off the path and never quite got back on. The organisation has been too hard, the rhythm too difficult to maintain. I've blown out in terms of weight and lack of fitness. Feeling like crap, lethargic, injured back, eye infections etc etc. I have a lot to look forward to and prepare for, so I seriously need the discipline back in my life!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share Posted June 9, 2016 Day 1 - veggie stir fry for breakfast with minestrone for lunch. Black coffee. Eyeing off the chocolate and bread around me, resisting strongly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share Posted June 9, 2016 Day 2 - survived the first day - cooked up a strange dish of pork strips, kale, leftover pumpkin with fresh cucumber for dinner. Tasted ok with a little fish sauce and coconut amigos*. And it was W30 as was the rest of my day. The ridiculous thing: I feel better already this morning. Might be psychosomatic, but it feels real enough. Less bloated for a start. Now to get organised - heading to the coast for the long weekend so it's the chance to have a clean break. My food shopping is all over the place so if I have a chance I'll duck to the markets and stock up on some fresh food for the trip. * Just re-read my post - why change the failure of my auto-correct from amigos to aminos - looks fine as it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Dave, what a lovely bunch of coconuts...amigos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 Day 2 continued - the first few days seem to drag whereas later on it whooshes by. Sardines and salad for lunch plus black tea and a couple of dried figs. Breakfast was a veggie & egg stir fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmcbn Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 * Just re-read my post - why change the failure of my auto-correct from amigos to aminos - looks fine as it is LOL Love it - good to see you back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 Day 3 - dealing with some mood swings (well, not really a swing, more a down ) in amongst the cravings and withdrawal symptoms. But I know from experience that it will only be a couple of days and I'll be in sunny land. Just need to get there. Heading down to my special place at the coast today so that will speed things up a bit - hope to get some fresh fish to cook after a surf. Yesterday finished with roast chicken marylands in a fresh lemon, paprika, sage, oregano, chilli flakes & oil marinade together with baked baby carrots and lots of greens. Plus a fruit salad. My insides certainly like me for that! No sugar, grain, dairy or alcohol. Woohoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 Day 4 - what a difference a day makes! Still feeling bloated and fat but my energy levels have increased and with a cloudless sky and little wind, it's a perfect winter's day for a bit of activity! After a solid breakfast of paleo sausages, eggs, piperki & mushrooms, we're headed into town for a bit of shopping to be followed by a surf and a walk. Dinner last night was stuffed sweet potato with mexican mince, and guacamole. Yumbo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 12, 2016 Author Share Posted June 12, 2016 Day 5 - I've had a very clean and positive weekend. Another W30 cooked breakfast, lunch was the excellent mince leftovers cooked up with spinach and fresh red onion, some chicken strips with chilli, and salad. Dinner was fresh bream panfried with coconut-oil baked chips with raw cauliflower salad plus a lettuce salad. A small amount of fruit and some dried figs. I also had a surf (a bit brisk! ). No sugar, grain, dairy or alcohol. Yes!! So overall, feeling a lot better. Less bloated, more energy. My herniated disc is still annoying me and my eye infection is slowly getting better although I think I will need further treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeMama623 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Sounds like you are doing great so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 Thank you Getting there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 Day 6 - not sure why I can't live like this all the time. I get into a pattern of bread, cheese, snacks, junk and alcohol and it just sucks me in and keeps me there. Takes extreme intervention to get out of that place. Well here I am again feeling all the better for it. Mixed brekkie yesterday - eggs, a little bacon, avocado, piper, tomato, mushrooms. Lunch was leftover chicken, potatoes and cauliflower salad. Dinner was a kale salad with tomatoes, pork spare ribs, avocado and olives. Back to work today and that will be a test - get myself well enough organised that I don't feel like snacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corimac Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Looks like you're off to a great start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 Day 7 - well doesn't a week go quickly! Had a work lunch yesterday which fortunately had a mix of meats and fish so I didn't have to worry. Breakfast was a simple stir fry and dinner was a late quick bit of pan fried chicken breast with roast pumpkin, avo and tomato. A bit of fruit and plenty of water and that's about it. Continuing to feel more energy and less bloated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 Day 8 - it's human nature to want faster results - lose weight more quickly, feel less uncomfortable in clothes more quickly, have more energy quickly. The trick is to adjust your expectations and to cruise through your Whole30 calmly and slowly. That's all well and good! I want results NOW! lols It is so difficult to adjust expectations. I'm trying to tone it down but frustration creeps in quickly. The behaviour that contributes to me overeating rubbish is also a factor in my obsessive attitude once I get back into the W30 groove. Now that I'm there, I am super focused and charging down the W30 freeway. Which is great, but the results never come fast enough. I also suspect that when the outcomes do come, there is a weird collective loss of memory. When I'm fit, healthy, fitting into clothes and generally on top of the world, I can flip back into the downward spiral without remembering how awful I felt before. To be frank, I don't know how to deal with that. It's happened many times. I can't off-road without leaving the road completely. Yesterday was another clean and wonderful day - veggie stir-fry, sardines & kale salad for lunch, and a veal cutlet with leftover baked pumpkin, avocado and cabbage salad for dinner. Some fruit, a couple of black teas and coffees and plenty of water. I know from experience I need to keep my good fats up and that's working out well - mainly olive oil, coconut oil and avocado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 WD30. It's like having a baby, Dave. Once the pain is gone, you just keep having them until the shoe is stuffed with children. 100% understood and appreciated, that collective loss of memory. It happens to the best of them but there's also science behind the fat cells with photographic memories. The fat wants you back and it will pull every trick in the book to see to it that we mumble and stumble along while eating it back. The food explosion coma is like sleep/nightwalking. You wake up in the backseat of your car with all kinds of wrappers....not knowing how you even got there. Freaky stuff, Dave. This time, you won't go back there. It will be different. I'm not reverting backwards either. I don't know if I would have the gumption to start all over again. I linger long on food stability. I think of all the years I've wasted not knowing what it was, keeps me tooling along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yeah food stability. That's a great concept. Aiming for food stability should be the goal, not the number of pounds you can lose or the size clothes you can get into. If you always have food stability, then theoretically, you shouldn't slip back into old, bad habits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Can we talk amongst ourselves, Dave....low serotonin levels are directly related to food addictions. Very few things can actually cross the blood-brain barriers. People self-medicate with carbs and caffeine. It's a very complex problem. I have a specialist/medical doctor that I've been working with for over a year. That recent leptin resistance study. Ayup. All that and many more pieces to the puzzle. You hit on it, yesterday. I know that driver. That driving, internal force that causes the food reckoning and eating it all back. I had to sit down with someone, face to face and get off the gerbil wheel. When I look back, I only see periods of food stability. Hit and miss, here a little and there a little. I hit the wall with that and I'm done with it. I mean it with everything within my being. Food stability means more to me than offing now. Thrill eating was a rollercoaster that left me stuck at the top without a way to come down from a temporary food fix. It was not comforting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Day 9 - entering into the weird sleeping zone of my W30 - had to go to bed at 8pm because I was so destroyed. Woke up at 2am, been awake ever since, got up at 4am. Lucky I'm into the Euro2016 football! I sailed through yesterday - big chicken-veggie stir fry for first meal, salad and tuna for lunch, and a noodle-less laksa for dinner. A bit of fruit but not overdoing it. Avoiding nuts like the plague (nom nom nom oh, bag gone!) but need to get some seeds into the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 Day 10 - a third of a W30 done already? How time flies! Starting to feel lumpy in my tummy which means the fat cells are breaking into divisions and battalions rather than the whole of the western front across my gut! Sleep is at a bit of a premium which I know will adjust when it needs to. I've been getting a bit of exercise with a table tennis tournament at work. It's one of my favourite games so apart from being a lot of fun, I'm getting workout bursts which are helping. Yesterday was a fry up of bacon, eggs, toms and mushrooms for brekkie, chicken salad for lunch and a pork stir fry for dins. I'm not really craving anything dramatically which is good. Perhaps the occasional sugar dragon which I hit with some dried fruit, but I'm keeping that to a minimum and as I said yesterday avoiding nuts altogether. It's a rainy winter's day today so it will be pretty much an inside day perhaps with a market visit to stock up on fresh food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Day 11 - it was what felt like a complex food day. Chicken strips, tomato and olives plus celery sticks for breakfast (yeah I dunno, just happened ), then a great lunch of pork hock mezze (grazing plate of different veggies and bits and pieces) followed by a slow greek lamb roast with mashed potato & parsnips & grated fresh black truffle (grown here around Canberra) and greens. Decadent and delicious! Some dried figs and a little fruit. Feels like I had too much protein or perhaps not enough veggies. Or not enough water more like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Day 12 - breakfast was a range of eggs, veggies and a little bacon. For lunch it was a board of meats, some fruit and a few nuts (yes, a few - job done!). Dinner was a lovely Macedonian spinach and chicken soup. A delicious fruit salad for afters. Caught up on my water intake - as I thought I was dehydrated the day before. Downed a couple of litres early on and felt a lot better for it during the day. Have to keep focused on that. Otherwise, feeling pretty good. Back is a bit sore again and I have an eye appointment this morning to work out what's going on with these recurring infections. Feeling lighter and brighter generally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 Day 13 - I cooked up pork & veal mince yesterday morning, together with onion, garlic, tomato, mushrooms and spinach. A somewhat heavy way to start the day (topped with a couple of eggs) but it certainly propelled me through my morning. Lunch was a much lighter tuna+salad, a few pepitas and a bit of dried fruit in the afternoon, then some baked chicken thighs on sweet potato with zucchini for dinner. Eye problem finally diagnosed as blepharitis. It's only taken a few years! Very pleased it's treatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 21, 2016 Author Share Posted June 21, 2016 Day 14 - celebration day! Two weeks with plenty of results. Less bloated, definitely lost a little weight, complexion a lot better, back improving, eyes improving, I'm starting to bounce again. Just need to keep it up! Yesterday was a mixed plate for breakfast - eggs, bacon, piperki, tomato, mushrooms. Lunch was a salad with the mince from the day before. Dinner a t-bone steak with a potato and a large and delicious kale salad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeDave Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 Day 15 - celebration day x 2! Halfway point and feelin good! Veggie stir fry with eggs for brekkie, a piece of steak for lunch (business lunch), and then grilled chicken and a cabbage, carrot & onion salad. No dense carbs (which I'll need to watch today). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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