Whole 30 Week 1 Wrap-Up

Well, let’s do the numbers first, even though the number on the scale isn’t what it’s all about, yadda yadda. I started out last Tuesday at 170. This morning, I weighed in at 163.2. That’s a loss of 6.8 pounds in a week. And it would have been more if I hadn’t spent the whole weekend gorging myself on strawberries and almonds. But, those things are out of the house now, I recognize them as triggers to overeat, and I’m going to try to keep that in mind when I go to the store and the strawberries look so delicious. Although, their season is about up anyway, so I should be OK when the strawberries are sort of tart instead of so perfectly red, ripe and sweet.

Anyway, other than that, I’ve been having some intestinal discomfort lately. I thought that taking basically everything out of my diet would help my digestion, but apparently it’s somewhat common to have a digestive adjustment period, or so I read in the comments on the Whole 30 blog post. It could also be the five or so pounds of strawberries that I ate over the past few days. Just maybe.

My headaches are gone, and after several days of feeling exhausted and going to sleep early, I think I’m back to normal. I stay up until 10:30 or so fairly easily now (I was hitting the sack around 9 at the latest for the first few days), and I actually am waking up earlier (before my alarm goes off), refreshed and wide awake.

So, I’m looking forward to the next week. I’m all but certain my serious weight loss won’t continue at the ridiculous rate, but I’m hoping to maintain the downward trend and possibly get to some “new” territory by the end of this experiment. (That would be anything below about 159.8 or 159.6, maybe.) I don’t think three more pounds in three more weeks is TOO much to hope for. And it might set me up to be fairly CLOSE to my goal of 150 by my birthday, even though I recognize that that’s not really a realistic goal anymore.

Anyway, week 2, here I come!