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"Well - after a very conscious choice, I am on Day 2 again.\n \n\n\n\tThursday (Day 5) and Friday (Day 6) both went well, For dinner Thursday, the kids and I went over to a friend's house with two other moms whose husbands were ate different meetings. The kids at whatever she found in her fridge and I brought leftovers from the night before - as well as some of my Zuppa Toscano to share. Friday evening, I took the kids to Chick-fil-a; I should have eaten before I took them, but I survived. \n \n\n\n\tSaturday (Day 7) I took the kids to a birthday party in the morning (where I avoided DD donuts!!). Husband got home around lunch and we set up dinner plans with his parents to celebrate his mom's birthday, which I didn't account for when planning my menu, but did keep in the back of my mind. My IF/THEN plan was to eat whatever was compliant or eat at home afterwards. We went over to their house and she cooked (they had already celebrated two nights before so I guess she was ok cooking her birthday meal); she just threw what she could find together, not making a big deal out of the meal, just wanting to get together (PERFECT!) - chicken, baked potatoes, lima beans, homemade mac and cheese, homemade bread. Then my father-in-law pulls out a special bottle of wine. I'm not going to go in to the backstory, but it was pretty significant that he wanted to share this with us. So I said yes to a glass of wine. Then, I decided to take this as an opportunity for another self-experiment: could I eat something off Whole30 and not spiral out of control eating everything available, using this as an opportunity to splurge? And since I made a deliberate decision about this, could I allow myself to not feel guilty about it and let my guilt sabotage things going forward? Yes I know, this is something that should take place after the Whole30, while defining food freedom, but let's be honest, I'm still sort of intimidated by food freedom; I work best with strict rules. And it ended up being a good experiment which I feel no guilt whatsoever about doing. I drank a glass of wine while I ate my slightly dry chicken with no sauce and a plain baked potato, I said no thanks to the limas, mac, and bread. Then I decided to say yes to one piece of lemon cake (my absolute favorite dessert) - but no to multiple helpings of it and the offer to take part of it home with us. My choices didn't offend anyone, and I am not upset with myself that I am on Day 2 again.\n \n\n\n\tSo Sunday (Day 1):\n \n\n\n\tM1: technically compliant but not encouraged smoothie (a break from eggs), coffee w/ almond milk (I keep forgetting to include the coffee)\n \n\n\n\tM2: chicken salad, carrots, apple slices\n \n\n\n\tSnack: two Paleo energy balls*\n \n\n\n\tM3: Salisbury steak meatballs w/ mashed potatoes and green beans\n \n\n\n\tIt was also prep day so I made Cauliflower Soup for lunches, another breakfast casserole, cooked the taco meat for tonight, lunch and dinner for yesterday, and some complaint Paleo energy balls because my husband has to have some snacks or he will eat all the groceries. *In being honest, I ate two of them after I started getting cranky because it felt like I cooked (or cleaned up after it) all day. I felt like I was (for a large part) ignoring my children and other things that I would have liked to have been doing. I was hungry and thought that  might have something to do with my bad attitude. Next week's meal prep will not tackle so much at once.\n "
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