• It’s a popular nutrition challenge where you ditch a few food groups for 30 days to improve health and eating habits
• Focuses on whole foods
• Removes things from your diet that are commonly linked with:
  • food sensitivities
  • cravings
  • disrupted hormones
  • poor sleep and MORE

What you CAN eat

• veggies
• fruit
• unprocessed meats
• seafood
• eggs
• nuts/seeds
• oils (olive, coconut, avocado) & ghee (a type of clarified butter)

What you CAN’T eat

• added sugar
• soy
• alcohol
• grains
• legumes
• dairy
• additives (gums, “natural” claimed ingredients, citric acid, etc.)
• processed foods

PROS

• no calorie restrictions
• no weighing yourself/measuring things as it’s designed to focus on how you feel vs. a number
  • encourages you to educate yourself on ingredients and read labels
• discover potential sensitives to food

CONS

• expensive
• strict
• eliminating foods that have beneficial vitamins & nutrients
  • rye, barley, oats, millet, quinoa, other grains, etc.
  • fiber, vitamin E, iron, folate, magnesium, B vitamins
• whole30 excludes even natural sweeteners like honey and maple syrup, so if you have a raging sweet tooth…good luck

TIP:

• After 30 days try this:
  • 1st, re-introduce one food item and wait 2 days/ make note of how you feel
  • 2nd, re-introduce the next food (so on and so forth)
  • This will help you determine potential food sensitives!