Whole30 Day 2 Review

Day 2 of my Whole30 challenge was even harder than Day 1. I felt kind of achey all day and nothing I ate felt very satisfying. I don't think it was the food because I had some pretty delicious food. I think it's just me. Here's a look at what I ate:

Breakfast: Roasted chicken and a banana

Lunch: Roasted chicken, kale/spinach salad with a tomato and cashews

Snack: Cashews

Dinner: Sauteed Shrimp in Coconut Oil, Avocado and broccoli

Dessert: Grapes and an apple

So the food is good and it's good for me, but I realized during my Day 2 trek that I've been eating food for all the wrong reasons for the past twenty-five years. I've eaten to celebrate the good times and to suffocate the sadness. I've eaten to fill the void and to keep from saying things I shouldn't. I've watched people I love make bad choices in their lives because they didn't know how to deal with their emotions. I swore I wasn't going to be one of those people, and I realized after just 48 hours on the Whole30 challenge that I am exactly one of those people.

I get upset, I eat. I get angry, I eat. I'm happy about something, I eat. And I eat really delicious food every single time, so taste and emotion have become one and the same. It's been an emotional couple of days denying myself bad food, but I know what I'm doing is life-changing and good. So if I have to cry through it to get to the other side of it, then I better stock up on some Kleenexes because that's exactly what I'm going to do.