Day Seventeen

Mood: 7/10 - Happy day!

Energy: 5/10 - This feels like a recurring theme. Good in the morning, bad in the evening!

Withdrawals? Seem to be a thing of the past.

Ate/Drank:

• Breakfast - Nakd bar
• Lunch & Dinner - Sausages, burgers, potatoes, steak, chicken (WE HAD A BBQ!)
• Drank: 2.5l water, 4 cups of peppermint/detox/camomile tea.

Today was a good day! What I have noticed now is I have other routines and patterns. My morning coffee and my morning coke have been replaced by a morning peppermint tea and a morning water & lime. My late night binge on ice cream, chocolate & sweets is gone, replaced by a handful of grapes. Honestly, a part of me is tempted to ditch the whole 30 and go back to normal, since the stuff I am missing from my daily diet now - grains, rice, legumes - feel like they'd be more beneficial to me than eating as much potato & sweet potato as I am (I can eat veg as well but there are few vegetables I actually like). Spuds kind of bloat me where rice or couscous can be eaten in small quantities, cooked easily, and don't make me feel weighed down.  

I can't believe we are already at the end of day 17. Two weeks left exactly. Another thing that keeps me with the program when in one sense I feel ready to move on, is the knowledge that my reality with food is changing almost daily. So if this is where I am now, where will I be in two weeks?

I will say this much though - today we had a barbecue in the sun. It was actually much nicer doing so without eating everything in a bread or on a bun. However, it was blazing hot and the barbecue was making me sweat even more. I was DYING for an ice cold sweet drink. I miss that. I am looking forward to being able to have that again. I have had a couple nice days with the girls - we went to a farm yesterday and had the barbecue today. I feel more present and more relaxed with them, like a better husband and dad because I'm not so up and down with sugar and caffeine all the time. That's really cool. Long may it continue!