Congrats nottolate!! What's your plan for re-intro?
Bracken: people who "insist" on making me do something I don't want typically make me dig my heels in, not cave. Why should you accommodate them? Can you offer to cook instead, and make a fabulous compliant Easter spread?
I'm done with days 21 & 22. I decided to completely eliminate fruit for 5 days, just to see if it changed anything. I've been eating above the W30 RDA because I love fruit. Of course, day 1 of this I find huge pineapples on sale for $1.99. Bought a couple to ripen on the counter. They'll keep till 5 days are up. :-)
So are you day 2 of the fruit elimination? I'm curious how that goes for you!
Re: easter dinner. It's a 'pick my battles' situation. I don't have a great relationship with my in-laws really, we are all just *very* different people. But DH works for the family business, so playing nice is kinda a requirement upon occasion. They don't live near us anymore, so we haven't seen MIL in a couple months. They're just over for the afternoon, and MIL really wants to take the whole family out to Fancy Restaurant.
Added bonus is this keeps my very destructive druggy BIL out of our home. When we hosted Christmas, he brought people we didn't know, they all reeked of cigarette smoke, and then he passed out on the couch. So NOT hosting is actually pretty awesome for Easter.
So anyway, having to reset the timer after 2 weeks is preferable to the actual hosting, and saves months of rude, weird, passive aggressive, and inappropriate questions and comments.
Anyway, we're on day 13 I'm pretty sure. So far so good. I made a second meal plan and accompanying grocery list, so we'll rotate our plan for next week. I *did* talk to Friend who's baby shower it was. The frittatas were not made with butter, but the pans were greased with Pam. That's mainly canola oil (fine), but has soy lecitihin. I know I have issues with soy, so *maybe* that was the cause of the canker sore/acne flare? Or, like I said, could have just been stress, hard to say.
We eat a lot of potatoes on whole30 =P We're half way through our second 10lb bag, plus a couple sweet potatoes (I don't mind them in pork egg cups), so that means we do more than a pound of potatoes each day. (3-4 small red potatoes each per day is what that works out to). It's really interesting, I have found I have a major mental hangup about potatoes. Rice never equaled unhealthy to me. But potatoes equal unhealthy, because potato chips and french fries and all these things I avoid. Anyway, it's just really interesting, because white rice generally has a higher glycemic index than white potatoes (although apparently it depends on the person pretty significantly). Definitely a bias I noticed in myself.
Re: activity. I've still been doing well on my runs. I just finished week 9 of the couch to 10k, so 4 cycles of 10min run, 1 min walk. As usual, I am ravenous after my runs, but the potatoes seem to do a good job of getting me the carbs I'm craving.
If it's a *truly* fancy Italian place, they should be able to make you compliant food, no problem. Those restaurants are often my go-tos for safe gluten-free food. It doesn't all have to be pasta and cream sauces. :)
It still involves asking for modifications in front of my in-laws, which is what I want to avoid.