Recap

It feels good to be done. I was in no rush to reintroduce, but figured I needed to start today to be methodical about it. So I had an English muffin. It was delicious. I had a tiny smear of jam on one bite and immediately coughed and felt pain in my throat. I knew about the sugar problem, and was just testing and reconfirming. 

What I did not know about was the gluten problem. By the time I got home, my stomach started hurting. And soon after running to the bathroom, a headache started. And got worse for a few hours. 

I had a glass of wine this evening, and it was delicious. I feel fine so far. 

 I took off my band. I want to focus on doing other types of exercise than just pounding steps.

I ate too many nuts and dates today. That was really what I missed. Now hopefully I've got this out of my system and I can regain balance.

Here's how I started. The white is from day zero. The red from today.

note: I know #5 totally breaks W30 official rules. These are my rules. Some are beyond W30, some contradict it. 

I learned that I do not need to eat after dinner, and that I should go hours without eating. I learned that just writing down what I eat publicly (that no one reads, but they could), even just in a list without details makes me think twice about eating more than my planned meal. I would finish my illustration right after dinner most nights, and push the post, so I wouldn't want to have to go back and revise it, so I stopped eating for the day.

I really liked what we ate this month. I made a lot of really good food. I didn't feel like I was missing anything other than mindless eating.

I lost 6.2 pounds. I'm at 146.2 now. I'm happy with that for a month's work. It's not over. I have a plan for Feb. that I'll write about later.