but it’s not.
I finished my #whole30 feeling and looking like a rock star!!! Then I went into a work weekend with birthday celebrations and good bye parties for my coworker.
A sugar starbux became a pumpkin cookie, which became 2 or 12. Chips and salsa overload, ice cream cake, a twix bar from the vending machine (what?), not 1 but 2 caramel apples.
I had slain the sugar dragon, I thought I could slowly let things back in, but it wasn’t slow. It was like a mack truck crashing into my gut.
Sudden
ly, all the symptoms of bloat, stomach upset, cramping, and more reared it’s ugly head again. I was doubled over and miserable in pain.
And that great workout schedule I had created myself…it doesn’t work when my stomach feels like it could explode.
Lesson learned: Whole 30, while completely strict, may be closer to an actual representation of what I should be eating. While I won’t call it Whole 30 and I tinker with how much stevia, honey, and such I will allow, I’m playing close attention to how food makes me feel.
I’m not trying to complicate things by any means….I know what feeling good feels like…and I imagine that is what God intends for me!!!
So I’m back on a exploration- balancing the foods I crave, the foods I want to splurge on, and the foods that fuel me!!! I hope that this paradigm shift into looking at food this way can help me continue this road to better health!!!
I’m linking this post up with Meredith and
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Why do we let ourselves live in this constant revolving door of good choices/ terrible choices? Why can’t we just accept that the good choices are the BEST choices, and that we are NOT missing out on anything except pain, suffering and discouragement???
Get back at it girl, you are STILL my inspiration!
This sounds like my weekend! I met my goal weight and then “celebrated” Hubby coming home from his trip. It went from an evening of celebrating to like 5 days. Not good.
Dreading vacation next week…hoping I can keep it together and yet still enjoy our time.
You can do IT!!
I had a few things I haven’t been eating with my birthday week-pizza with cheese, more pizza with cheese…some ice cream. I was happy to find that they don’t have a hold on me like they once did. I have hot tea with stevia, and sweet tea once every day. I don’t crave it more than it is just what I like. I don’t need multiple cups like I once did.
Thinking of food as fuel, especially when working out hard, is very helpful. Eating vegetarian/vegan has done that for me in ways no other way of eating has. Much luck as you adjust!