Day 6:
B - 2 fried eggs, mixed greens & tomato, chicken, a slice of honeydew melon.
L - Bacon (not rashers, like roast bacon; we just call that bacon here), mixed greens & tomato, a medium sized potato.
D - Starters: Prawns. Main course: Roast lamb shank, potatoes, chips.
- I'm so full of mixed emotions right now - today I've had some FODMAP fails but I also successfully navigated dinner in a restaurant!
- I think I've gotten to the bottom of my digestive distress the last two days - the sweet potato I've been eating! I've been eating it in the same way as butternut squash as I thought that sweet potatoes were compliant. Turns out they are, but only a 1/2 cup serving. :( So I'm going to have to majorly watch my portions on them and when mine are gone I'm just going to replace them with normal potatoes. Sad.
- I totally didn't think and forgot that the bacon I ate was roasted in honey (by my lovely well-meaning Dad)! I could have cried. As a result my digestive distress has only increased today - it's so upsetting as I'd been doing so well!
- I know I should start over, but I just don't have time as I have to go to a college ball in early February - it's a last hurrah type thing so I'm definitely going to be drinking at it. My plan at the minute is to proceed as normal, and then do another low-FODMAP Whole30 in March. I can still reintroduce other foods in February, like dairy, grains, avocado, onions, etc. that I have managed to avoid! And at least the sweet potatoes were Whole30 compliant, and although the honey wasn't compliant I was still eating in the spirit of Whole30 when I ate it (whole, home-cooked foods, three meals a day, no dessert, etc.) so I don't think it's such a big deal.
- BUT on the happy side of things, I went out for dinner this evening and it went so well! I handled it by letting the waitress know I couldn't eat dairy, and they were so good. The prawns I had for a starter are usually cooked in butter, but they cooked them in oil for me. I ignored the side salad and salsa as I couldn't be sure that the dressing and salsa didn't have garlic in them - shame though as they looked lovely! Then for my main I had lamb shank (amazing), and the chef was again amazing - leaving off the mash and giving me side dishes without butter - my own sugar snap peas without butter (everyone else had a separate dish with buttered ones), baby potatoes with olive oil, and chips. Obviously the chips aren't ideal for a Whole30 - but they're just potatoes cooked in oil so I don't feel bad. Unfortunately after a secret hasty 'sugar snap peas fodmaps' google search on my phone at the dinner table I found them to be high in FODMAPs so I couldn't eat them at all! I didn't even want dessert after such a great meal - my cravings are gone really - so I sipped my tea contentedly. So much love for that restaurant now!