I Am Going To Be So Amazingly Humble After This

day 5...

Hey guys! Just checking in to let you know:

1. I'm alive. It was touch and go there the first 5 days,* but I think Blair and I are starting to level out? I had a 24-hour headache which was unpleasant and I'm sure due to the detoxification of my body from the heroine-sugar everyone's slingin' these days!! Bonus: I went to my sister's house (way, way far away) DESPITE my Day of Headache, toughed it out, and had a great time!! Normally Migraine Jenny would be out for the day and night, so I was happy that I could choose to work around my baggage which was one of my goals: being able to opt out of things on my own terms rather than from physical/ mental blah-ness. (Hurrah!)

I was SUPER grumpy the next day (also perhaps because I had to go to work on a lovely spring day!) and posted this on Instagram:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

 Which my friend Mat thought was related to my new diet and digestion (fair), but was more me feeling sorry for myself. But my headache abated (thank you Whole30 for letting me drink coffee or this** would have been at Fair's Fair that day):

Heeeeere's JENNY!

2. THE FOOD HAS BEEN SO GOOD. I'm not even lying to try to trick you into doing this with me! It is FOR SURE more work and WAY more planning, and I'm lucky that Blair's doing this with me or I'd be very frustrated. I made a large calendar for the month to detail the 3 meals per day, but also am making daily shopping lists and trying to incorporate previous ingredients to limit waste. Because I'm friggin' amazing.

MY hang-up is eating the same meal more than twice. Day 2's coconut curry chicken was AWESOME but not over and over! This is hereditary, apparently, as my mom and sister are the same, and my brother-in-law also thinks it's a tad high maintenance. As the Cartah Girls will tell you:***

"I'm not a policeman I'm a princess!"

3. My partner of (almost) 10 years just asked me if I knew how sexy I was (I do), and someone at work today asked him how much weight he's lost AND IT'S DAY FIVE. There's no weighing ourselves (Whole30 rules, and I don't believe in owning a scale) but damn! Days 1 & 2 I was hungry, but we found the whole "add more fat" thing to work, and now we're cookin' with gas!)

So do the Cabbage Patch dance with me! Only... um... 25 days to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????

Dammit I'm a Blogger not a Mathematician!

Right now my mom would say: "one day at a time, sweet Jesus!" (She's not a black woman from old-timey Mississippi, she just talks like that sometimes...)

Thanks for reading!

~ Writing Jenny

* I know this is Day 5, I'm hilarious, remember?
** I was going to put a pic from The Exorcist but a) they all scared me, and b) my Chapters Girls would never forgive me!
*** I've been misquoting this for 27 years. No big deal. ("I'm a PRINCESS not a policeman," has been my go-to defence since for the last 10 years. Whatever. It's not like she said, "I'm not a policeman, I'm a person with an extremely good memory for movie quotes.")