Catyler Jayd

So it's been a little over a week of this Whole30 thing and wow it is kicking my butt. I've been really working on time management because almost every meal on this diet requires 20-60 minutes of preparation, or 24 hours of defrosting meat, or some weird ingredient you have to get at Natural Grocers, etc. (The kind of food that is required for Whole30 is the type that takes you to stores that don't provide bags at all so I've been working on remembering to bring those too.) It's a whole new, difficult world of cooking for one... But don't let that fool you!! I'm happy to be doing it. It is going to be sooo rewarding I can already tell. I have to keep telling that to myself as my coworkers wag brownies and peanut butter chocolate bars and rice krispies under my nose. I've already been slimming down somehow. I have gotten a few comments even that others can tell! I've been taking some pictures of my progress as well, and it's reeeeally exciting. ...

Tomorrow I am starting the Whole30 and I am a little bit intimidated. If you've never heard of the Whole30 or you don't really know what it is, it's basically thirty days of resetting your body with a huge change in diet. It has shown to really have an incredible effect, but it definitely doesn't come easily. For those thirty days, you can not have any sugar (honey, cane, processed), wheat (all gluten, pasta, all my faves pretty much), no alcohol, no dairy, no legumes (sadly no peanut butter, my favorite spoonful of happiness), and no processed foods (MSG, and all that good stuff we don't actually understand completely). Oh, and there is no calorie counting, weighing yourself, and ABSOLUTELY NO CHEATING. If you have one bite of something on that list, you have to start all over.  It was painful throwing out all of my groceries and restocking my fridge/pantry with a ton of very expensive organic groceries along with some oddities I've definitely never experienc...