Five days in and going strong! If you've been worried that I gave up and fell face first into a bowl of M&M's, fear not! I will not quit. I finish what I start, and I WILL finish this.
The last few days have been very busy at work, so I haven't felt much like writing when I got home. Jerry made an amazing pot roast the on Tuesday night and awesome veggie soup last night. I really am blessed to have such a great chef at home! Without him, working late nights and staying on plan would be very difficult.
On Tuesday, a coworker called to tell me that she brought some sweets into the office to share and I should help myself. My first instinct was to explain to her that I couldn't have anything that she was offering because it didn't fall into the Whole 30. Then I would have to explain what Whole 30 is and why I'm doing it, answer a bunch of questions, yada yada yada. I wasn't really in the mood for that conversation, and I decided that saying those things would just insult the coworker and her kind offer. So, instead, I just said, "Thank you! That was so nice of you!" And then I stayed out of the kitchen. And you know what? It felt good!
As I mentioned on Day 1, there are many people doing this plan with me in January. As we have all talked and one or the other of us has said "I can't have" this or that, I've tried to correct the thinking into "I'm choosing not to have" so that we feel less controlled and more IN control. But this one act of self control, a simple, "Thank You! instead of a long drawn out explaination was so empowering.
As grown, free, independent human beings, we do not owe anyone an excuse for not eating something we do not wish to eat. Just as we tell our children to say no to alcohol and drugs, we can say no, too! Or, we can just say thank you and not partake. To many of you reading this, that may seem like a no brainer. You may have known this all along. I'm happy for you. I, on the other hand, must be a slow learner.
I have never viewed food as a drug, even though sugar is more addictive than cocaine (don't believe me? Watch the documentary Fed Up on Netflix). When someone offers me something sweet, even if I don't want it, I usually accept. I accept because they are being nice and I like it when people are nice to be. I accept it because sugar is a drug and I am an addict. Do you? What do you accept, just to spare someone's feelings, when you don't even want it? Do you realize that you are putting their feelings in front of your own health? When I think of it that way, exercising self control is way easier.
Here's to another great day tomorrow!
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