Day 1 went really well. I need to concentrate on how I'm feeling whiile I eat and also look for my signals to stop eating. Thats hard to do. I realize I'm very distracted while eating and don' treally pay attention to my food.

Hello fellow Whole-30ers! So, here we are, almost a quarter of the way through! How exciting! There are two things that have really surprised me this week. 1). My after 8pm food cravings seem to have vanished. I don't feel like I am really eating more than I did before, just different.... but really, I haven't been eating at night. 2) Wow! I have a lot of opportunities to drink alcohol in my life. I went to get my hair cut on Wednesday, and the salon offered me a glass of wine, I had mint tea. I went to my book club/happy hour.... and drank water instead of craft beer... I went to visit a friend of mine in Denver and we met some people out....and they drank beer... no lager for me.... I had water... and more water.... and more water..... And told everyone about Whole 30! :-)

In fab news, when I went out to Denver, I wore a pair of blue jeans I hadn't been able to wear before. This is exciting!

After one week you can wear blue jeans you haven't been able to before!! Thats awesome!

Yes. They weren't super smaller jeans. They are jeans that had fit me and then when I had washed them shrank so that they were too tight. So, it wasn't like I shrank a size in a week or anything, but I was able to happily wear by shrunken jeans. That said, I can see in the mirror that something is happening. I am DYING to weigh myself but have so far resisted. I think the fact that I am working out five days a week is also helping.

I haven't had time to post in my diary between work school working out cooking... life.... but so far I have been consistent with my food and consistent with my exercise

How is everyone else doing?.

Today is day 7 and I am so stuffy and have a runny nose! Its a bit miserable. I am hoping this is all a part of the detoxing process. I feel really foggy too.
I noticed last night my appetite has increased and I'm having a bit of a nut problem! Cashews and macadamia nuts are so yummy. I really need to start using them for flavor and not as a snack. I am usually starving between lunch and dinner and reach for nuts to eat. Not the best choice for weight loss. I'm going to try to not snack tonight. I really want to get to 3 meals a day ONLY! I also noticed last night, I was fine with half the amount of food I ate, but kept going anyway. That needs to end as well.

Thanks for the suggestion Healther. I am trying to be more aware. Yesterday went really well. I didn't snack and had my normal meals and felt fine. I know if I'm hungry more than an hour before my next meal, I didn't eat enough at the previous meal. I also know alot of this extra eating is wanting comfort foods when I feel sick. For me evaluating between true hunger and psychological cravings is the challenge. I am amazed that the sugar cravins went away so quickly. That use to be my nemisis.

Day 14, still feeling good. Craving salt and looking foward to the end of the W30. I'm already planning my cheat day! Then I'm goign to turn around and jump right back on the wagon. Those chips in the pantry are really appealing this week!!

Hey Terri and all!
So, I completed my Whole 30. The only cheat I had was a single beer about two weeks in. My gym did an an ultra-sound type body scan at the beginning and at the end, so here are the results: 5 lbs of fat last, 2 lbs of muscle gained. An inch off the waist and 2.5 inches from my hips. I am reintroducing foods one at a time, but honestly, I think I going to keep going with the Whole 30 thing. I like it. I LOVE not having to count calories. I do wish I had lost more weight, but I am still happy that I got results. I felt like I was eating a lot of fat.... so maybe if I scaled that back I would have slimmed down a little more. But overall, this is good. Of course, now that the 30 days ended... food is popping up everywhere at work... pizza, doughnuts, Reese's peanut butter cups. OMG!! Seriously! I haven't touched it, but I did have to move it so I wouldn't be walking by.

I think I am going to introduce some heavier lifting and some HIIT and keep going. Even if I keep going how I am, 5lbs of fat every 30 days, I will be a total of 25 lbs of fat down by the end of August. That makes me VERY excited.

I would love to hear how other's did. Also, we could start another one.

Anyone?