Whole30 Challenge

In a nutshell the Whole30 Challenge is basically eating clean, real, unprocessed food, with more stringent conditions set forth by the Whole9 group in 30 days; no cheating. That’s my dumbed down interpretation anyway. If you want to know what it really is, and the technicality of it, check out their website here:  Whole30

If I did not suffer from skin allergy from hell, and did not succeed eating Paleo in the last 3 weeks, I would probably tell myself that I’m crazy for even thinking of doing this. No dairy, no grains, no legumes or soy. Crazy. But with my allergies as my motivation, these past 3 weeks as experience, and almost 7 pounds off of me, I really think that I can do this. I even bought the book behind the Whole9  Community, It Starts with Food.

 

 

I’m not going to lie, I did not read the entire book. It got too science-y and I got bored. But I got the gist (I think).  Besides, there’s so many resources on the web that sometimes I ask myself why I even bought the book.  And yup! Here’s me taking on the 30-day challenge beginning tomorrow, August 1. Hope to see you at the end of the tunnel!

Let’s Get Real

Three weeks ago, I decided to follow the Paleo principles of eating.  I was having some health issues and I felt it was time to make a change. So what is Paleo? Some people call it a diet, some people say it’s a lifestyle. I will call it a diet, because at this point, I’m not sure that I can call it a lifestyle yet. I’m relatively new to this, so it is still a lot of work for me just to get the right food on the table. Okay, so really what is Paleo? I call it Paleo for lack of better term, but my practice of eating mostly evolves in eating real, unprocessed (as much as possible), clean food. The types of food I used to eat growing up, and I took for granted. But to provide a straight forward answer that question, “what is Paleo?” I shall refer to most popular, ergo, most accurate reference on the internet: Wikipedia.

“The paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a modern nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era—a period of about 2.5 million years which ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture and grain-based diets. In common usage, the term “paleolithic diet” can also refer to actual ancestral human diets, insofar as these can been reconstructed.”

So how is it working out, you might ask. It’s working out quite fine! As long as I follow the ‘diet’, I am allergy free and the food if not horrible. Mostly of course because I make sure it does not taste horrible, since I practically prepare everything I eat, except for fruits and other raw vegetables; God prepared that. Okay, the farmers did too.

Like I said, I’ve been doing this for 3 weeks now with fairly good success that I’m curious about all the good it can really do to my health. So I have dedicated this blog to document my journey, whether it be a success or failure, into leading a Paleo lifestyle.