Clean Eating, or Eating Clean, is the new buzzword when it comes to healthy diets nowadays. This is my take on it and what I mean when I say that’s how I eat *most of the time*. I’ll also give you my thoughts on the Whole 30 program, where I first heard and learned about whole foods and clean eating.
You can learn about Whole30 from their website, where they conveniently break down the program into 8 steps. But in my own words, Whole30 is a 30 day digestive reset for your system. You remove all the processed foods and potentially inflammatory foods from your diet and only eat real, unprocessed foods from the approved food list. Yes, there are some real foods on the list of do not eat items. You can scour the site and find out why you shouldn’t eat them on whole30 but from all the researching I have done, the items are potentially inflammatory or harsh on your system. So for the 30 days you’re on whole30, you don’t eat them and see how your body responds.
I first heard about Whole30 from an old coworkers Instagram post. Just want to take a moment and acknowledge how influential Instagram has been on my journey to health! Instagram brought me Whole30 and Kayla Itsines! She and her boyfriend were doing ‘Whole30′ and I was looking to lose weight. Her pictures of super healthy food were intriguing. So I googled it and read up on program and decided to give this thing a try. Yes, the no alcohol and sugar were going to be tough but I can do anything for 30 days!
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