Whole 30 completed

We finished the Whole 30 challenge.  With no cheats until the last night when we chose the wrong restaurant for dinner, seriously what restaurant does not have vegetables?  I do not count corn succotash as a vegetable.  I am way proud of us and I enjoyed it so much that I'm keeping it up.

Its amazing how when you start eating better foods and you see results it motivates you to do more.  I want to exercise more, just get out and get moving.  I want everyone to eat better.

I haven't changed the boys diet all that much so I still have snacks and grains in the house.  Amazingly this hasn't been tempting.  I do feel bad about feeding them processed snacks but I appreciate the ease of them.  I want to try and make some of these things from scratch so that I don't feel guilty about what I'm feeding the kids.

The biggest difference you can really notice is in my face.  I had no idea I had so much excess in my face but it is gone.  I lost a total of 12 pounds.  That is crazy.  I didn't undertake this challenge to lose weight but instead to change my long ingrained awful habits and my overly emotional relationship with food.  Which it definitely helped. I do realize that I have to keep at it so that I don't immediately restart those habits.

I have enjoyed cooking for us, and it has been a good challenge to have to prepare all of the food we ate for 30 days.  I am super proud during the month of August we made it through multiple food driven events and did not indulge.  These events included pizza at the office, a super adorable 2 year old birthday party, annual church dinner, and home group (we have the best food there).


I love finding recipes and trying something new.  Some weeks I would buy a new vegetable and then search for a recipe or a video showing me how to cut it open.  I have a new obsession with cauliflower and butternut squash.  Spaghetti squash was a bit of a failure but I think it was my cooking method that ruined it.