Day 1--On My Period

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.  Or something.  I woke up craving a bit of Pepsi.  Since I hadn't done my measurements or anything yet, I convinced myself that taking a swig of Pepsi at 2 a.m. wasn't technically cheating.  Yeah, the addiction is real in the streets.

At a more reasonable hour of 5:30 a.m., my sweet sister, Taylor, was kind enough to photography me in a sports bra and pajama bottoms.  I'm VERY nervous about posting these.  Despite my oversharing nature, there's something so vulnerable about putting my flaws out here on display.  What if someone shares these photos with people I don't like (or, worse, people that don't like me)?  I realized that there's nothing that I can do about it.  So, without further ado, here's my starting look (Yes, I'm smiling.  I hate when the "before" pics look so sad like life is perpetually miserable if you're not thin.):

Front view, hands on hips (side note: why do my legs look so dark?):                         

Front view, throwing up little muskels

Side view of my upper and lower belly

Back view, showing off "muscles" (you can really see my tan when you compare my arms and my back)

       

Back view, hands on hips

When I got to work this morning, I was confronted by my most recent soda binge.  This represents approximately 2 weeks of soda consumption, but doesn't include any soda that I have away from the job.  *sigh*

Giving up Pepsi is likely to be the toughest part of this whole experience.

The other difficult aspect will be sticking to one of the fundamental rules of Whole30:

DO NOT STEP ON THE SCALE OR TAKE ANY BODY MEASUREMENTS FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROGRAM.

The reasons are explained below: 

And now, it's time for breakfast.  Here are photos of the things that I brought to work to consume today:

For Meal 1 (Whole30 recommends changing your way of thinking from Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner to Meal 1, Meal 2, and Meal 3), I'm having a hard boiled egg and Shepherd's Pie.

For Meal 2, I'm having Captain's Country Chicken, 1/2 of a sweet potato, and some red seedless grapes.  To wash my meals down, I'll be having water.  Whole30 also frowns upon drinking juices, even fresh fruit juices, because the satiety signal that your body gets when it drinks is different from the one it gets when you chew.

I promise to post a short video at the end of each day, and also to update with dinner.

2:18 p.m.
Just finished 32 oz. of water.  I'd like to get in another 48 oz. before bed tonight.  I'm also behind on my squat & plank challenges.  I need to catch up on those.

8:30 p.m.
I ended up feeling kinda tired for a lot of the day.  It could be because of the yoga and physical therapy that I did yesterday.  Or it could be the lack of sugar and caffeine.  Either way, I fell asleep on the sofa right around 8:00.  Here's my video recap.  Excuse the eyes rolling around.