Hellobee Boards

@mrsdoily: @sweet_p: @Corduroy: Thank you!! I'm nervous, but feeling strangely confident. I usually suck at diets, but LO was MSPI, so I eliminated all dairy and soy for 10ish months. Going back to eating all the things was actually what got me in this predicament in the first place. I'm hoping that the old MSPI habits come back easily, though the added sugar is a problem. I think I'm counting today as Day 0, both because of this morning and because I didn't realize there was added sugar in my trail mix this evening. It helped me to feel less shaky, but now I know why. Live and learn.

So, fats, huh? Besides avocado and dried nuts, what are your favorites?

@NorCalWayfarer: Thank you! Today is Day 1, and so far, so good. I alternate between thinking that I can totally do this and being scared that I am going to give it my all and still fail I'm trying not to think too hard, but I also don't want to be mindless about it, either. I know that if I do that, I will get to the end and feel like I accidentally succeeded. That's what happened when I did WW. I lost 40 lbs and still didn't feel empowered, because I didn't stay at my goal range for very long. Granted, it is because I got pregnant, but still. I'm not doing it to lose weight, per se, but I need to radically redesign my relationship with food. I had looked at Whole30 before, and it never felt right. Now, it does. I'm hoping that is a good sign!

@mrsjazz: nice! How is it going?

@Mrs. Sunshine: Congratulations, that's awesome! How do you feel? Thanks for the tips! And yes, I would love some meal ideas! I love sweet potato and avocado, but I feel like that will get old after a while of eating it nonstop...

@NorCalWayfarer: right, so, it's not going as well as we might have hoped. I'm actually going to be starting over in September...sigh. I thought I was prepared with food, etc, but with only one of us in the house doing Whole30, it was kinda complicated. I was going to wholesale get rid of a lot of it, but that seemed like a huge waste. So the compromise that DH and I came up with is that we will both start together in September. Until then, we're using up what is in the house and replacing it with only Whole30 compliant foods. It is easing us into it, which I hope sets us up for success this time around! And I agree about feeling better at 12 month PP. That is when I finally started to feel normal again. I admit, it is nice after so much hormonal imbalance!