I had no clue what Whole 30 until a sweet girl I follow on Instagram posted about doing it. If you are on IG, I urge you to follow Molly Runs For Life. She is so stinking cute. I just adore her posts about her running, clean eating and her journey to a healthy lifestyle. So thank you Molly for being one motivational person and sharing your journey. I probably would have never done this if I hadn't seen your posts of the delicious food you ate. ;)
So, what is Whole 30?! What can you have?! Can I modify it?! Is it hard?!
Whole 30 is quite simple...seriously. Its the best plan that I have ever seen. You can have meats, veggies and eggs. You can totally eat your heart out on eggs. I wasn't an egg fan much but during this I have consumed more eggs in 30 days than I have all year long. I figured I would get burned out on them but that wasn't the case at all. Whole 30 stops and makes you look at labels and see what is actually going into the product. The rules are simple... no sugar, processed foods, no dairy, grains, etc. No alcohol, even with cooking foods. No weighing yourself during the 30 days. I weighed the morning of Day 1 but that was the only time I stepped on a scale. Modifing is out....sorry folks but it just is. And why would you want to modify something that is geared to help you end those bad habits and get healthy?! Kinda defeats the purpose of it. Honestly, it isn't hard. After you get passed the first 3 days its easy. Day 2 of my journey, I literally took a 15 minute nap in my truck at lunch at work. Yep, that tired. But after that, I was good to go with energy. Running and hitting the gym was rough the first few days as well because I couldn't have any pre-workout. But after day 3, I was just fine. :) You can read more on how to start your new journey here.
There are tons of recipes out there that are Whole 30 approved. A few of my favorite links for yummy deliciousness are:
and my favorite that I had a few times was a slow cooker chicken rotisserie. Oh my! It was so yummy. Ray even loved it and requested I make it again. You can find it here.
This is the rotisserie chicken. Ah-mazing!! |
Does this not look yummy?! You can find this on Whole 30 Recipes |
As mentioned above, about the first 3 days are the hardest. But once you get past that point, you totally got this. There were days I lost track of what day I was actually on. When I started, I weighed 139. Which really isn't bad considering I am pretty active. I really didn't do this for the weight loss factor. I did it because I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Literally I needed, heck I wanted a reset. My 30 days ended on Tuesday, Novemeber 25. I just today weighed myself. And I am so stinking giddy over my results.
So are you thinking about starting your journey?! You just have to ask yourself..how bad do you want it?! Dig deep and find the courage to commit to it. Because I know that YOU CAN do this. It's one month but can totally end up being the best thing you do. :)
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