When I made this blog, I swore that I would be completely, 100% honest with how my 30 day challenge was going. I also swore that I wouldn’t even bother trying to impress anyone by keeping a good attitude (some people are so artificially positive that you just want to smack some reality into them!). But my point is, I wanted anyone who found my blog to be able to read about a real-life, totally honest, 30 day experience on the Paleo diet, from start to finish. No frills, no dancing around how hard it was, and no selling of products! Now that I’ve explained myself and I have set forward what is motivating this post, let me just say that some cravings started to appear today, and today was the first day where I actually started to hate the idea of eating low-carb for 30 days! Ugh!! This diet is starting to remind me of the Atkins diet and I’m not very happy about it anymore! I have been on the Atkins diet before and when I came off of it I just ended up having even more of an eating/craving problem for a couple months.
But anyway, back to my story! At about 10am, my usual weekly craving for sushi hit. It was hard to ignore. I love sushi. It makes being stuck in our humdrum cubicles at work a little more tolerable. As every office worker knows, there's nothing like a quick carb fix to get your mood back on track and get back to work. I kept thinking about those spicy tuna rolls for sale in the grocery store that had avocado nestled in the middle. Then I thought about the spicy sauce and the wasabi. But unfortunately, I didn't think sushi was an option since it's loaded with rice (100 grams of carbs for 2 rolls). I know some Paleo eaters eat rice, and I know some eat sushi, but it was the point of the thing. I had already told myself 30 days of no grains. that was the deal. I can't go back on it just because I had a little craving.
As time went on I noticed I was feeling moodier and easily annoyed. I wanted some damn sushi!! I think I must have just wanted some CARBS!!! Sushi has carbs (the kind with rice anyway), as do pancakes, bagels, candy, ice cream, popcorn, and BREAD! Not having these foods anymore felt like a bunch of my friends weren't invited to the party! I sure missed them! Even if they were the type friends that dragged me down, made me feel tired, and enticed me to gain weight. What a wonderful friendship, lol.
But anyway, finally around 1pm it eased up, but I still was debating with myself whether there's any benefit in going totally strict with this. I knew I wouldn't like a strict diet! I want to go back to 80/20 eating, or have one day a week when I can eat junk food. I guess I'll give it a little longer to see if doing this without any occasional non-Paleo foods is worth it or not. I won't know unless I actually try.
But damn, on day 31, I want some pancakes!
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