Day 1: Ready, Set, EAT!

It's day ONE of my Whole 30 experience and I could not be more ready. I decided to do this diet about 3 weeks ago and I wanted to start at the beginning of a calendar month. The result of that was 3 weeks of saying, "I can eat this cause pretty soon I won't be able to."

Needless to say my diet is going from one extreme to the other.

For those who don't know, here is a very basic description of The Whole 30

One huge factor in doing something like this is having the right accountability. After much prompting from both me and one of his best friends, Phil reluctantly agreed to do it with me! He is training for a marathon that he will do next year and he wants to drop about 10 pounds to lessen the impact on his knees, so it makes so much sense for him to do this with me.

Weight loss is absolutely not the goal. The book even says you are not allowed to weigh yourself the whole 30 days. This diet is completely about health; mind, body, and spirit. Choosing to eat what is best for your body and letting the good choices impact our whole life. (At least, that's what it is for me.)

The two books written by the creators of The Whole 30

This diet is also about inspiring others. (Talking about you ladies!!) It's like when you find something in your life that you absolutely love, and you are just bursting at the seams to share it with everyone you know and love because you want them to experience it too. Getting/being healthy does that for me. When I started reading the Whole 30 book, I literally wished I could buy a copy for everyone in my life and have them read it, because it truly is life changing.

Another amazing factor in us doing this right now is that we have a vegetable garden that is overflowing with ripe tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, green peppers, banana peppers, and herbs. Doesn't get more fresh than that!

I am an overall healthy person, even when I'm not eating healthy. I don't struggle with diabetes or joint pain or psoriasis. The main problem I have that I'm hoping this diet gets rid of is bloating and gas. I have had both of those 60% of the time in the last 3 weeks and I'm so over it. I am also hoping to have a little more energy to chase the kids around.

So here's to a 30 day journey that I hope will help inspire you to make your own healthy life choices.