Whole Info

It's come to my mind, through a week of doing Whole30 and discussion with my wife, that the calling Whole30 a "diet" does not do Whole30 justice. We are not undertaking this to loose weight (though that appears to be a side effect). We are not doing this for 30 days and going back to the way we ate last month. We are hoping to have major paradigm shifts in our lives.

By eating closer to the ancestral diet from our human past we hope to escape many of the pitfalls of modern life. My cholesterol numbers are considered high by modern medical standards. Whole30 should moderate that. Megan has digestive sensitivity issues. Whole30 removes the trouble makers. Whole30 eliminates all the grain, refined sugar, beans, dairy, and alcohol from our kitchen for 30 days. This allows the body to start using food properly, stops the insulin roller coster, balance your metabolism, reduce chronic inflammation, allow better sleep, and the list goes on.

Another side effect of doing Whole30? Because of the seeming drastic reduction of available ingredients we are forced to experiment and expand what comes out of our kitchen. The dinner rotation was getting kind of stale. This has introduced a new batch of recipes.

After 30 days, we get to start adding the eliminated items back into the mix. Any issues that arise with be easily tracked down, and reduced or removed from our long term eating. Any food item we choose not to continue eating has been removed. We get to make long term changes to our lives, and how we relate to food.

We LOVE to cook and bake and eat. Don't worry Mom, Megan will continue to bake! Leading up to Whole30 we ate organic and natural as much as possible. We cooked and ate together as a family 6 or more days a week. Yet we still had health issues that food choices could effect.

The elimination changes made in our diet are similar to what we had done with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. They are similar to the Paleo or Caveman diet which we had been experimenting with just prior to starting Whole30. Discovering the book It Starts With Food which spells out Whole30 in simple language allowed us to take the bull by the horns.

And with that, I'm off to BBQ some skewered Asian Sesame Beef!