Whole30, Day 5, Saturday 1/6/2017
What is this post about? Day 5 of 30 days of clean eating, spanning roughly the month of January. Our goal, to determine if body aches are linked to my diet by getting the usual suspects off my plate and out of my glass for a while: sugar, alcohol, legumes, dairy, carrageenan, MSG or sulfites, and grains or baked goods.
I am behind. I intended to post once a day for the duration of my 30 days on the Whole30. Life intervened and now I am playing catch-up (mmmmm ketchup). So, I shall do a couple of short posts to get caught up.
Day 5 was my first Saturday and at least this time I managed to stay on track with the eating plan, even on a weekend day.
In the evening my daughter made cookies. With delicious homemade cookies coming out of the oven featuring several things that are currently banned from my feedbag, including wheat flour, sugar and butter, I was still able to hold firm. This is a good thing, but I missed the bonding that occurs over a nice hot batch of cookies. My daughter’s pride in making something yummy everyone in the house wants to share, the opportunity to accept this gift from her, the glass of milk, the Hallmark Card moment. I just can’t see having that kind of bonding over a plate of kale chips or even sliced strawberries. It felt like a loss. As bad as I think white flour and sugar and most of the contents of a standard cookie are for me, it felt like a loss.
What I ate Saturday 1/6/2017
Breakfast: Almond milk, eggs, coffee
Lunch: Green beans, corn, homemade marinara (no sugar)
Dinner: Cauliflower rice, almond milk, butternut squash soup, broiled tilapia
Snack: Almond milk, mixed nuts (no peanuts) bananas and berries
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