The weekend has come and gone and with it came challenges, realizations, and successes. Friday night we attended the gym's Whole 30 and Whole 9 kick-off meeting. It was a duplication of a lot of stuff I already knew from my research, but I did learn some things. I am not sure how the Porters will do in the actually "contest" portion of this challenge because of Patrick's participation in the Death Race and the party we are planning afterwards, but we are going to do OUR best. What I have learned this weekend is that I/we have to focus on only ourselves and what works for US. It is easy to get sucked into the "competition" of this process, but I don't want to do that. As much as I would like to say we have been 100%, we just haven't. I would say we have been closer to 90% and I am perfectly fine with that because I get it. I understand because those little detours have been noticeable to my body.
So, with that being said, I am not going to blog everything that I put in my mouth each and every day. That is obsessive. Instead, I will talk about how this journey is going for us, what we have learned, and how we have grown. That is what really matters. I have found great enjoyment the past two weeks in discovering new ways to prepare my food and different snacks to eat. For example, Saturday evening I made kale chips. Everyone in my house liked them including Madelyn's friend, Alex. That is a victory in my book because it was a healthy snack that we could all agree on.
We will be as compliant as we can because we want to be healthier. We want to look and feel good. We want to model a healthy lifestyle for our children. Patrick said the other day how glad he is that we are doing this because he realized the negative, never-ending cycle that eating bad creates. Neither of us wants that to continue. We will keep plugging along on this Paleo journey and only time will tell where it takes us.
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