Round 2, Day 30: I MADE IT!!

It's my last day. PHEW!! (Before you get too excited, the results day isn't until tomorrow. Be patient, people). What an empowering feeling to be able to say that I completed this journey and stuck to the guidelines almost perfectly (I say "almost" because the program outlines include getting meat from reliable/non-cruelty/organic sources and that was hit or miss for me. But it's a "wobbly" rule, so I'm OK with it). I have to say that the first couple of weeks were so difficult, but after that, things got easier. I still almost want junk foods when I see them, but it's fleeting and easy to bypass. I have almost no cravings on a regular basis. There's an occasional fluke where I get a hankering for something, but it's generally short-lived and I feel perfectly OK without it. It's kind of awesome.

Today I sat down to plan meals for the next week. The Toddler was down for a nap, the binge-watching of "Chopped" had started; I was in my happy place. It dawned on me that since my Whole30 had come to an end, I could technically include some foods as outlined in the Reintroduction Phase of W30. Technically. It was a strange feeling knowing that I would be allowed to stray from the foods I had so carefully planned my life around for the past 6 weeks.

I had a meal planned for my last dinner on the Whole30, but it just wasn't meant to be. There was a tornado warning while we were on our way to Sprouts to get the remaining groceries for the week. Reluctantly, we turned around and spent some time watching the weather on my laptop from the basement. Once the sirens stopped and the tornado warnings were over, we packed up again and headed back to the store. It had been a rather exhausting day as it was; if there was ever a time I craved a pizza or instant food from the store, it was today. But I didn't work this hard for this long for nothing. We grabbed an unseasoned rotisserie chicken from Sprouts and once I got home, I roasted a sweet potato and topped it with leftover curry sauce from last night. My version of a quick meal. It was so much better than pizza.

I have such an odd excited/anxious feeling every time I think about results day tomorrow. It's a strange butterflies feeling. There is so much tangled up in the number on that scale. I'm thrilled to see that part of my results; I'm terrified that it won't be what I expect. Removing expectations is almost impossible in cases such as these. I almost can't wait until it's all over.


What I ate:

Breakfast: Leftover sweet potato/carrot/kale hash and chicken in curry sauce

Lunch: Celery and almond butter, fruit, hard boiled eggs

Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, sweet potatoes in curry sauce (we have a lot of that leftover)