Assuming each lasts me 10 days, that means one day of breakfast costs me roughly $0.65. Typically, I eat a bowl of passably healthy cereal (Cheerios) that I buy on sale at CVS for $2.50/box, and it lasts me over a week, along with milk from the grocery store that also lasts me over a week, for which I pay under $4.00. To give an example of the runaway costs I had on Whole30, I site breakfast. I'm not exaggerating when I say my weekly grocery bills doubled. The main reason is that it was astronomically expensive for me.
#Whole 30 timelime full#
That's a big-ass number, especially considering that low-carb flu sidelined me for a full week and I didn't really start working out in earnest until the final third of the program.Īnd yet, I don't think I would ever do this again. I still have a long way to go, but holy hell, y'all. Above all, it punted me out of my I-don't-wanna stupor, and gave me results along the way: my final weight-loss number from Whole30 is 17.2 pounds (most of which was knocked off in the first 2 weeks). And ya know, it just feels great to have set out to do something for 30 days, and to have inarguably risen to the challenge. It forced me to become comfortable with discussing my dietary habits with people, out loud. I got something I really wanted out of this, which was improved sleep. What I thought was already great skin, became even greater. I reached rain-man levels of label-reading expertise. It (eventually) made me feel great physically and like totally baller mentally. It got me back into the gym on a routine basis. Sticking to Whole30 truly did help me tame my "sugar dragon," challenged me to face the way I've been using food to punish or reward myself instead of to nourish myself, and gave me the feeling of power and control over what I put into my body (ironically enough, on such a restrictive diet). If I could high five myself without looking like a total dork who never learned to clap right, I would do it. I stuck with it the whole time and I owned this process, and it wasn't without its challenges or massive frustrations.
At no point did I falter, or even consider abandoning ship. Trust me blindly or keep reading, champ.įirst of all, let me say up front that I'm proud of myself for doing this. HUH? WHY?! There is no TL DR way to answer this question. Was it worth doing this shockingly expensive, drawn-out, often infuriating dietary experiment to feel awesome for less than a third of the time?YES. I unfortunately didn't start keeping a symptoms calendar until I started that wretched, wretched 4-day stretch of constipation, and by that point, I could only recall back a few days.īROAD SUMMARY (MENTALLY )ĭays feeling meh/normal/pretty much fine: 16 (1 - 16)ĭays feeling fucking terrible: 5 (17 - 21)ĭays feeling fucking awesome: 9 (22 - 30) * I think there were more of these in the beginning at least, I recall having loose stools often and going at least once per day. Here's the official Whole30 timeline of what to loosely expect along the way. *** FOR BEST VIEWING, READ ON MY BLOG: I MADE IT.
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