Today was okay.
Here's my problem:
I'm sick of my healthy food. I am 95% sure it's just what we're preparing and how, but everything either tastes bad or like nothing, and the textures of everything are driving me batty. Specifically protein. And... we're rotating recipes and I'm already bored. This is causing me to skimp on meals which I know is not good. Thankfully, it's not really causing any hunger pangs or anything, so I think I'm still eating enough to subsist on (because hey, I'm a fat kid -- if I get hungry enough, I'll eat anything...) but.. bleh.
Today for dinner we had the pulled chicken and salsa stuff with avocado and I could barely get through half. Derek had to tell me to stop eating because every bite was making me gag. I felt bad but I just couldn't do it.
I miss... sauces. And crispiness. Cooked healthy food doesn't have crispiness. I've been noshing the hell out of raw cucumbers and carrots and peppers and nuts. Why? Crispy crunchy yumminess. Everything else?
Mush.
I am a big fan of having a variety of flavors on my plate. Whenever I go to Subway, for example, I get like a zillion of the veggies. I like the variety of flavor. It's why buffets are a gigantic no-no for me -- cuz there's a lot of things I want to try and even a little bit of all of them is way too much food. It's why bad food in general is a bad idea for me because I always want something else to go with my meal. I'm trying to get over it, but it's hard. But the majority of the meals we've had on Whole30 have been simple and boring and blah and it's kind of making me crazy. I like that the stuff we're making isn't totally a challenge and that it has been easy to accomplish this stuff in a short amount of time (especially with prepping on Sundays), but I'm so. bored.
But I'm not giving up. Which is what the timeline says frequently happens. The Whole30 "timeline", which gives a general idea of what to expect at each stage of the 30 days, says that most people quit around days 10-11. I MADE IT! WOOT.
I do need to make clear that with all this complaining, I'm still planning on staying the course. I guess I just see this blog as my opportunity to let it out so that I can brush it off and put my big girl pants back on and get back to work.
I just... would love to find some foods to eat that whet my appetite the way some of the bad foods do. And MAN do I want a sandwich!
Anyway.
What I Ate:
Breakfast: Two hard-boiled eggs, an orange, cherry tomatoes and some nuts.
Lunch: Leftover taco burger salad, cucumber slices, pepper slices, carrots
Dinner: Chicken mush; aka pulled chicken & salsa with avocado.
How I Feel:
Not terrible. My eyelids are maybe slightly less heavy today than they usually are? I didn't sleep well last night so probably not a fair call. Aside from my eyes feeling tired I don't feel quite as physically tired as I usually do, I think.
I do feel a little discouraged as a result of the food boredom. I feel like everyone talks about how great all this fresh, healthy food tastes and I'm just sitting here trying not to gag on a piece of chicken (which you'll note happened to me with yesterday's lunch too). I know I need to just spice up the menu (literally and figuratively) but I thought I'd be appreciating the healthy yumminess more.
Onward and upward, though!
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