My 5 Takeaways from Doing Whole30 for the First Time — Life in the Kitchen

November 16, 2016

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I finished my first round of Whole30 about two weeks ago. In case you aren’t familiar with the program, Whole30 is a 30-day nutritional program during which you remove added sugar, alcohol, grains, legumes, dairy, carrageenan, MSG, and sulfites from your diet in an effort to reset your metabolism and emotional relationship with food. I decided to take the month-long plunge just to see if I could do it and reset before the holidays. You can read more about my personal reasons for trying it here.

Whole30 forced me to think deliberately about the food I eat and the way I live. There are countless other methods I could have tried to go through a similar process of realization, and it’s important for anyone considering a lifestyle change like this to consider what’s best for their individual needs. Whole30 was just the one I happened to try.

Here are the five biggest takeaways I learned from my first time.

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