STILL ALIVE

Well its Day 3 and we are still alive even without any dairy and no wheat. Who would have believed it :-)
If you listen to the negative voices we will probably fall apart from Osteoporosis and heart disease due to a lack of fibre and dairy not to mention way too much fat.  I suppose its only 3 days so you never know :-)

Another good so far for me :-)  Lester caved again today because he just wanted to fit in.  He didn't do too bad yesterday had a good lunch and used his life line and called me instead of cruising into Maccas for coffee and a snack - well done.

I didn't sleep as well last night but maybe there were other factors like getting ready to go away and lots of things to think about but generally I think I am feeling good and not really missing the bread so much.  We had a nice breakfast this morning of Baby spinach, avocado and poached eggs and I managed to get some left overs of the shepherds pie from Andrew for my lunch.

All in all we are going quite well considering we said this was not our official start time for Whole 30.  Date and coconut logs and snack bacgs are helping me a lot.  Today I passed up a cake given to me by one of my work friends and felt pretty good about it.  I had a banana instead :-)

How do I feel

I know its only been 1 day but I slept better than I have in quite a while and woke up feeling quite a lot better than I have.  Lester even said he felt like going for a walk!.... didn't go though?

Breakfast this morning was eggs, bacon, tomato, baby spinach and we didn't even miss the bread that much.  Its not easy to change old ways.  While I was making breaky I kept thinking that this is bad all this fried food..... but that's just what has been drilled into us for years and years so I just need to put those thoughts aside and keep frying :-)

We still need to be very careful that we don't eat too much fat.  Fat is good but everything in moderation.  Black coffee again today and I am quite liking it I don't have that bloated feeling that I tend to get after a large cuppacino. Date and almond and coconut rolls are good especially with a black coffee :-)  Shopping on the way home for some dates and organic coconut :-)

A SLOW BEGINING

Today was not our official first day but we thought we would ease into it. I started rather badly with two slices of toast for breakfast but after that I did very well.  I quite enjoy the black coffee and tea and only missed sugar a little bit.  On the way home I bought some appropriate snack food to keep us on track.

Lester on the other hand didn't do so well.  He started off ok with bacon and eggs for breakfast but forgot to say no to the toast and cappuccino and then had a subway sandwich for lunch.  Tut Tut Lester.

We managed to avoid dessert after dinner and just had a camomile tea.

All in all a good start for me.

MAKING A CHANGE

After some reading and listening to reports on telly and talking we decided we wanted to try Paleo.  I have considered it in the past but decided that its was just too hard but after some time eating as much basic natural food as we can we think we can go the next and step.... The Whole 30. 

Its only 30 days..... No dairy, no alcohol, no grains....NO LIFE :-)  We are very much aware there some events coming up where we wont be able to stick to this but as long as we try our best to comply as much as possible and add more days for each day off the plan we should be at least giving it a go.

Hopefully this will make a difference to the way we feel.

We intend to keep a record here of whether or not it makes a difference.