the way I feel right now on the whole 30 after having been five days of eating really really I feel mentally there have been no changes- probably about the same amount of memory problems and fog- I can't remember;)-. But physically I feel like I have a little bit more energy. I'm not having those walls that are used to hit at three and 4 PM where I would crash right before I had to make dinner. I think the biggest difference so far is this serious lack of bloating. I used to only be able to do core exercises in the morning before I ate. Because after I ate breakfast my gut would begin bloating. And slowly throughout the day I would lose my ability to engage my core because my belly was so distended. I used to think that I couldn't engage my core because I had so many children and my core was weak and throughout The day I would lose the battle to gravity and weakness combined. But that is not the case. Giving up some of these foods the whole 30 has encouraged me to give up has helped me to see that it's not gravoty and muscle weakness and fatigue that I was fighting- it was bloating due to eating inflammatory foods. On the whole 30 I can eat a giant meal and do core exercises pretty much right after (though I don't). I can just engage my core and that's good enough for me.
Because I can now enlist my core in all of the daily duties I have : doing laundry, picking up the babies, pushing a stroller, carrying groceries, and bending over picking up toys. My back was always at risk with me not being able to support it with my abdominal muscles.
Now all of this is for myself. This journaling is for myself. So that maybe one day in the future when I start kind of falling off the whole 30 wagon I can come back and read and see exactly how it's affecting me in positive ways.
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Peace,
Elizabeth
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