Whole30 September 2013

I am! But I started today lol

Would love to be in a group! Whole30 is paleo so I'm down for support!!

I started eating paleo today at my doctor's request to see if it will clear up some medical problems I'm having. I have another appointment in 30 days so I'm going to try to be really strict for the first month so we can determine if it's helping or not....so the whole 30 sounds perfect! Feel free to add me.

I finished a Whole30 on June 30th!! Good luck to you all!! It's do-able!

I'm starting a Whole30 on September 2nd, I would love to join a group!

i want to say that once you reindroduce those aliments you need to do it very slownly or you may see a weight gain. Be careful with these challenges! it is much more healthy to eat little of everything staying under you calorie intake and trying to make healthy choices but without eliminating foods you know you will eat!

Hey Guys!

I just stepped on the scale for the first time in exactly a month and my jaw dropped. I appear to have lost TWENTY flipping pounds - not starving myself in the slightest, or even exercising.

I am going to do the re-introduction now and begin a really basic exercise program, but given these results, I think that I'm going to try to keep mostly paleo.

Recently, I have not experienced the full effect that people describe with excellent sleep (hello 3.45 AM) and low anxiety/depression (hello PMS and Seasonal Affective Disorder). However, I have generally felt a lot more energetic and positive (which were the key reasons that I decided to go for it) and my acne has definitely reduced tenfold.

I definitely need to eat a lot more vegetables and rely less on juice than I have in the past 30 days (98% of the time with meals - and always a monitored amount (no more than one serving)) and I would like to be more hardcore about the nitpicks - no eating 2 hours before dinner (for example). My whole30 was far from perfect, but good enough for me to feel a substantial impact. I didn't cheat - but, I don't think that I'll ever be able to be "that guy" at a restaurant.

I'd say that the hardest part for me was actually the removal of milk - I've been craaaaaaving hot chocolate, coffee (with sugar and milk), pancakes, and ice cream like no other. Usually cravings occur when I skip or hold off on a meal, and reduce substantially when I eat.

I also missed alcohol. The first thing I did was drink a solid Bulleit and San Pellegrino Limonata (watered down with some seltzer because it tasted overwhelmingly sweet). I think that I'm definitely going to try to stick to mixing my alcohol with seltzer however (which is actually not much of a change at all - as my go to before was whiskey, seltzer, lemon, and bitters).

I think that I am largely going to try to avoid the aforementioned group and limit my alcohol intake as I don't think that my psychological relationship with either of these areas is healthy. That said: I don't really want to beat myself up too much, as I think that a large part of my success thus far is because I have not been overly stressed out about complying fully.

Anyway, that's my check in for now. A fraction of this months results over the next few months would please me greatly.

Fingers crossed and good luck, soldiers. Truck on. ;-)

- Chels