Nuts and Whole 30 Update

Nuts. In both senses of the word. We haven’t eaten nuts in over a week. If you will recall, nuts force you to stay near the bathroom if you eat too many (see Whole 30 Update). I warned a friend about this fact, but she was suckered by the nuts when she began the Whole 30 and, predictably, she paid.

So you think we would learn, right? Stay away from the nuts, right? WRONG! I know that they are bad for us – they are not fresh at best and often rancid when purchasing from a place like Whole Foods (not to mention the nasty canola oil they are cooked in – we very rarely bought these nuts before the Whole 30). But they were convenient, and Ryan and I haven’t really wanted to eat anything, so we thought we would try some nuts again.

This time was different, though. At the beginning of the Whole 30 we were able to overlook the less than yummy taste of the nuts. Twenty-four days into it, we can’t overlook the disgusting, rancid taste. Our stomachs quickly registered their upset after about ¼ cup each. There is no way we could eat more. And now we have these nuts that we don’t want. Tomorrow I will return them to Whole Foods.

As for food as a whole, we haven’t craved anything at all. We don’t even really want to eat. Nothing is tempting. Until the nuts we ate tonight. Thanks to them, suddenly the homemade bone broth chicken soup was outstanding and very soothing.

Just the thought of nuts makes me shudder. I am cured forever.

Oh…and one other thing. Both Ryan and I experience body odor that comes and goes. We must be detoxing in pulses. It is funny, because for both of us only our right armpit smells. A friend suggested that it is related to our livers detoxing. I can’t link the odor to any particular food – it wasn’t the rancid nuts because the right arm began to smell before eating them today.

And that’s it for now. Chicken soup for breakfast tomorrow, which is a nice change of pace from all of the eggs we have been eating.