Day 12 hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought I had this Whole30 down. Thought people who were just ready to throw in the towel and quit didn’t have enough will-power…until day 12.
I woke up this morning (or evening since that’s my morning) just feeling horrible. Not physically horrible but so easily irritated. Then I got upset, and then all I wanted to do was cry. I am not a cryer. I don’t cry often, I hate crying. And, I don’t often get the urge to just cry for no reason. And cry I did. But I managed to pull myself together, get my butt to work, and have a successful night. I felt slightly off all night though and I hate that.
I did a little Whole30 forum reading and found out this is pretty common. I even found some people who had the exact same descriptions of how they were feeling on both days 11 and 12 so I guess I’m not that abnormal. I also read that eating more sweet potatoes (or other starchy foods) when you feel like this can help your body cope with the changes it’s going through. I know I mentioned before a lot of my issues are hormone related…so maybe my body is actually producing hormones now? I don’t know, that’s only a theory. A lot of people said it’s part of the detox from sugars, and that’s probably it exactly. Here I thought I could make it through this unscathed.
The good news is that I didn’t cheat. I didn’t even have the urge to cheat, I just couldn’t understand why I was feeling the way I did. Lame.
Breakfast
Breakfast was spinach mixed with what I had leftover of the stuffing of the acorn squash which consisted of ground turkey, celery, onion, and diced apples. I scrambled this all together with three eggs and had some olives to go with it. So delicious, even though I was still teary-eyed when I ate it.
Lunch
For lunch I decided to mix a bunch of stuff together. I added some cauliflower rice, crack slaw, and roasted brussels sprouts into my lunch container. Once I heated it all up I added in some mayo then mixed it all together. It makes a nice creamy sauce, really good!
Dinner
I forgot I had a leftover sweet potato (or is it a yam?) from last week so I “baked” that in the microwave hoping that the extra starchy foods will help improve my mood. I did cut down from a lot of sweet potatoes last week to zero this week, completely unintentionally. I also had a bowl of thai chicken soup with cauliflower rice added and topped with a squeeze of fresh lime and an avocado. This soup is amazing!
I guess my positive spin on the day is that I didn’t kill anyone, I’m still alive, and I didn’t eat any non-compliant foods! Life and Whole30 go on!
I’m ready for a better day 13! Because I’m not superstitious 😉