OK. It's day 20, and I feel like I'm back tracking.
I have slept terribly the past two nights, in spite of taking melatonin on Sunday night. Last night, after 2+ hours of trying and failing to fall asleep, I ultimately gave up and went to the kitchen to start preparing today's lunch and tonight's dinner. Still not wound down from that, I went ahead and filed my taxes. Finally, I trudged back upstairs around 2 AM where I lay awake for another hour before finally dozing off sometime after 3. I also peed four times between when I first lay down and when I scraped myself off the mattress when my alarm went off for the 5th time this morning. I usually only get up once or twice throughout the night.
I also had the worst headache yesterday that I've had since starting Whole30. Two pills didn't kill it during the day, and it clung on and on until I took another dosage before my first attempt at going to sleep at night. It then took a while to dissipate, which at least it finally did. As I sit here typing this, I can feel another one creeping on.
I continue to have inexplicable and frustrating stretches of constipation. That just infuriates me. In. fur. i. ates. Me. Anti-bloat diet, my ass.
And to add injury to insult, I am all of a sudden having knee pain. KNEE PAIN. For the first time in my life, I have aching, stiff, sore knees through absolutely no strain or exertion. I've been totally phoning it in on the physical activity, and what little I've gotten has been pretty non-strenuous. Even at my heaviest weight of 303 pounds, my knees were fine. I'm years and miles away from that point now, and partway through this healthy dietary tweak, I'm struck with it out of absolutely nowhere? Not fair. Also, not logical.
What the eff is going on here?!
This better be the death throes of toxins leaving my body or something. I am SO irked about what I'm experiencing this far into the program. The hardest shit is supposed to be over. It's been almost 3 weeks and I have experienced, mmm, approximately zero of the program's touted health benefits. For all the extra investment -- and I do mean investment -- of time and money to stick to the strident rules of Whole30, to experience nothing even close to "tiger blood" is outrageous. Not only am I not feeling better, but I'm actually feeling worse. I am so glad I've ignored the guideline about not weighing yourself; if it weren't for my knowledge that I've dropped a lot of weight, it's hard to imagine I could convince myself to stick out these last 10 days.
Oh, oh, oh! But THEN! I'm all skittish about stopping after day 30 because what if all the pounds that fell off were just water weight, and I instantly gain it all back during reintroduction? I won't fit into my MoH dress. I'll be miserable and inconsolable. It will all have been an utter waste, in every possible sense. Ugh, I can't even let myself think about that, but the thought keeps popping into my head.
I'm exhausted. What I wouldn't give for a guilty food dream right now.