Day four - Whole 30

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Today was the first day I've had without ANY caffeine in ages, years, decades... okay not really true but close? I love me my ice tea (but with sweetnlow only, apparently). So today I drank water, La Croix bubbly water, and one Kombucha Gingerade (mmmm). Breakfast was... NOT THERE! I woke up late, dragged out of bed, and ended up grabbing a Lara bar (allowed! but not to be eaten every day) and some nuts for breakfast. HORRIBLE!! SO BAD!!!

Lunch: lunch was a repeat of yesterday except an apple instead of an orange. Except it was a warm apple, not a cold apple, and I like my apples cold. LOL.

Dinner: Salmon and eggs! I first had this in Cardiff at our beloved Ty Rosa (will I ever get there again? I feel so far away from there anymore). Such great memories though, yeah. That was dinner with a touch of ghee and I also had some oven-fried cubed sweet potato.

Today was pretty good, honestly. Work was good, eating was easy, I wasn't hungry at all and I felt good all day. No severe toe-stabbities today. Who knows why? Not sure. We'll see how it goes.

So, day four is done, and my sister started today. I do feel a bit dragged down but I know that I am going through a detox stage a lot of people experience 'flu-like' symptoms. Or just the blahs, lack of energy, etc. It will pass. Quickly, I hope.

Onward and upward! It is October! I have a very small writing goal to meet this month, with Nano just around the corner. I've signed up here for the mini_wrimo, setting my goal at 25k. That would be 25k more than I have the last six months put together, so I think it is a good goal.

Stepped away a bit as I had a headache - lack of caffeine, yes? SO I cleaned the kitchen and made a fabulous lunch for tomorrow. I should've taken a picture. LOL I will tomorrow.

Comments

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Does this diet exclude caffeine? Ugh. LOL I recently thought about doing a cleanse/detox sort of thing until I saw you had to cut out caffeine. That's just too painful for me to contemplate right now. Why does the paleo diet exclude normal sorts of fats like olive oil? That part seems weird to me.

I hope you feel more energetic soon.

Oh, I might do mini-wrimo too.

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Oh no I just didn't have any yesterday on accident! I had a big cuppa this morning.

All healthy fats are a major part of this. Avocado, coconut and olive oils are win win. And ghee aka clarified butter. Paleo debunks the low fat theory and I don't believe in it either. Neither does my doc. It does however exclude all vegetable and seed oils. Canola, corn, grapeseed, sunflower... all not the 'good' fats.

Do it! that would be fun to know someone else doing it!

[caninepawprints.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this diet would help with my knee pain? I know it won't get rid of the loose ligaments, but maybe it'll help ease the pain.

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It is super easy. Yeah it is like Paleo but just a little stricter but only for the 30 days. www.whole30.com, go check it out. Also a thread on Reddit, and nomnompaleo.com is also awesome. :)

[caninepawprints.livejournal.com]

I tried doing Paleo. I had such horrible cravings that I wound up caving. That seems like something I'd have to ease my way into to reduce the cravings.