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I done cheated. Again. I'm throwing a small party this weekend as a belated house warming party, so I purchased some potato chips and other snack items for the party... and am eating them now *facepalm*. What I need to do is have three "good" days. If I eat a lower carb paleo diet for that long, then the cravings will go away and I won't feel the need to eat potato chips (my kryptonite). I'm going to fast tomorrow, which should help, as well as I will be away from home when I eat today so I will not be surrounded by my chips. If I can make it through Wednesday and Thursday intact, I think that will help at least until the party.
I tried out a sauna for the first time yesterday, and I really liked it! It took me a while to start sweating (about 10 min or so, and 15 before I really started sweating), so next time I will do a quick strength workout beforehand to warm up my muscles and get the sweating process started sooner. I never got to the point where I was dripping sweat, but it was beading up pretty good, and I did feel much better afterward! I wanted to see how I handled being in a sauna before I worked out beforehand though. There is definitely such a thing as too much too quickly!
On a kind of sad note, I finally confirmed my gluten intolerance a couple of days ago. There was a birthday party at my dad's parent's house and they had cake. It occurred to me that I'd never actually tested my gluten intolerance. I just knew that once I went gluten free, all of my cramps and bloating went away. So I had a piece of the cake. It was so rich (one of the store bought ones) that I couldn't finish more than 1/3 of it, and I immediately started cramping. Overall, the cramping wasn't as bad as it was before I came off of gluten, but I could tell that if I kept eating gluten like that, I would really start hurting! Bummer!
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