Whole30 Week 2 1/2: I Have to Keep Doing This How Long?

Tomato soup with sauteed shrimp and fresh basil -- and no baguette

The first few weeks of any new self-discipline are always a perverse sort of fun. You're just so proud of yourself for jogging/cutting caffeine/giving up cigarettes -- the deprivation, the self-denial. You're just such a good person. You're a frickin' hero. You are doing this.

And then the boredom sets in. You are doing this ... and you have to keep doing this forever. Uuuuuuuuuuuugggghhhh. It's like getting to the end of a great two-week vacation and being informed that no, you can't go home, you have to keep on vacationing. Forever. And this hotel is lovely but man, what you wouldn't give for a night in your own bed.

That's how I feel about Whole30 at this point.

Whole30 Week One

You guys, I'm kind of disappointed. I feel ... fine.

Tender Greens tuna salad Niçoise with spring lettuce, olives, capers, tomatoes, fingerling potatoes, quail eggs and seared tuna steak with a sherry vinaigrette

Micro Challenge: The Whole30 Diet

All diet posts should be required to feature at least a three-quarters shot. Let's know what we're really talking about here, am I right? The grenade launcher, as always, is just a bonus.

Real talk: not everything worth do is really worthy of being on a bucket list. I have never dreamed of going on a particular fad diet before I die, know what I mean? (Making out with a cowboy, on the other hand—there might have been a dream …) So I figure once in a while I’ll do what I’ll call a micro-challenge: not a bucket list item, exactly, but not a day at the beach, either. I’m envisioning a combination of hare-brained schemes I concoct on my own and the occasional recommendation (or, probably, flat-out dares) from friends. Today’s micro-challenge is pretty much the latter.