and somehow, it's spring now

Spring break style update post!

It's been several months. We are on our last weekday of Spring Break and honestly, I could use another week. We had a medical adventure resulting in our second-ever ER visit with one of our kids, Aidan (age 5). He is OK, healing up from his trauma. No stitches, no broken bones, and in the end, we are fortunate with how that all turned out.

I am participating in the Crossfit Open for the first time. I'm "competing with myself" as a benchmark for future years. It's been mostly fun, although Workout 16.3 sucked in a big way. Jumping chest to bar pull ups are NOT my thing. I'm looking forward to running 16.4 tonight.

The kids are doing well. I'm looking forward to school concluding, however well they are doing! I am dreading science projects and looking forward to warmer weather. Required science projects should burn in hell... that's my opinion of a 'required' graded major pain in the @ assignment.

I am on day 24 of a "Whole 30" diet. So far, I've lost 11 lbs. I like the awareness of 'added sugars' that I really don't need to be eating. This particular day, I'm feeling like I could eat ANY and EVERY thing without discrimination, but most of the days I have NOT felt like that.

Due to the whole Spring Break starting off with an ER run thing, it's been a bit stressful to 'come down' from. I'm wondering if that is playing into the wanting to eat everything feeling. Not typically something I do. In any event.... ugh. Here's hoping the roasted veggie surprise I have going in the oven right now hits the spot. If I get back to regular blogging, I'll try to post an update on how that all ended up going. I'm a little bummed that my Day 31 is actually Good Friday - so no big feast for me on Day 31 either!!!

If you've done this, how did you 'maintain' after the Whole 30? I'm considering sticking to Whole 30 or paleo-ish stuff unless there's a legitimate special event like people in town, a holiday, etc. I've been disciplined like crazy, no licking ice cream spoons, making but not sharing in pancakes for kids, and so on. I don't want to eat myself unhealthy and I think more attention to food is a really good thing!