Toughest days by far. According to the official timeline of what to expect, days 10 and 11 are usually the days when people quit. I see how this would be true.
I am discouraged by how little vegetables I am liking. I am trying them, but my palate is still not cooperating. I know that without a high veggie intake, I am skewing my results a bit and making this more a fruit and white meat diet...which was not my intent. But I also didn't intend on force feeding myself veg all day. In hindsight, I should have spent some time leading up to this trying different veggie dishes every night until I found some I liked...and THEN started my 30 days. It might have gone smoother in this mid section.
Even with that, I am still determined to finish it out strong. We have discovered many useful things to take forward from this already and I am sure more will follow. Another amazing benefit to this is the effect it has had on our kids. They have not only eaten the whole30 dinners, but raved about them. They loved the BBQ chicken and I will never tell them that BBQ sauce is made from sweet potato! But I won't buy store bought anymore, I will make our own. Same with mayo and ranch dressing. Jack likes them both more than store bought. This journey is definitely changing our family's kitchen habits for the better.
Something we are playing with this week is the food dehydrator that Jack got me for my birthday, such a perfectly timed present! We are experimenting with fruits and veggies to make dried 'chips' to have with homemade salsa. We also have some jerky marinading and waiting to go in...hope it turns out good!
So, in short...rough few days...still don't like veggies, wish I did...carrying on and trying new things...almost halfway there!!
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