Day #14...You take the good...You take the bad

Today's word is...blah. It was a completely compliant Whole30 day, but it was just a blah day. I felt all day that I was falling into food traps. I had a piece of crustless quiche for breakfast (ham, spinach, broccoli and onion). From there I was just completely unmotivated to get excited about food...which led to me being hungry...which led to me cravings. I craved dips and anything sweet. I also think that a piece of today's mood was due to the fact that the kids were off from school and Wes was home from work for MLK Day. As I have blogged about before, our family culture is centered around food, so I want to share our time together with food...but because of the restrictions of Whole 30 and pouring all my food creativity into our "football food," I just didn't have anything in me today. We spent time together playing board games and watching a movie. I thought about the future...when we have other days like today when we are not on Whole 30. Will I just go back to the way things were? I really don't believe that I will. What I can see happening is me getting excited about making what we used to do better. Maybe offer apple "nachos" instead of chocolate gnache brownies (2 c sugar, 2 stix butter, 2 c. heavy whipping cream are a few of the ingredients in that dessert!) on days like today. I will be please with this entire experience if I can indeed make those changes sustainable. Lunch was a great salad, full of greens, cukes, tomatoes, green olives, sliced almonds and chopped turkey. Dinner was some leftover eggplant and sauce. I was out the door, so I did not have time for a salad and am too lazy to make one now, so off to bed I go...a little hungry. This is what Whole 30 leftovers look like: ~Jen