Whole30 Diet

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We are starting a Whole30 Diet today. No dairy, no grains of any kind, no sugars or sugar substitutes, no legumes, but snow peas and green beans are ok, just not the seeds (beans or peas). It's a meat and vegetable diet. Almost ALL processed foods have sugar in them. A lot of label reading and putting it back.

I bought all 4 of the books, 2 cookbooks in the lot and we started off the morning with scrambled eggs with mushrooms and green onions and pan sausage. No toast.

We have played around with it since Thanksgiving, but wouldn't commit until after the holidays were over. We ate our last pieces of key lime pie last night. LOL Our son in law did the Whole30 from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas. He feels better, lost some weight and his clothes fit better. He says he will stay on some form of this diet the rest of his life in order to eat healthier.

We have two freezers full of meat. Half a grass fed steer, lamb, chicken and home raised pork. Also corn, purple hull peas and butterbeans which are not on the diet. :hit But we have turnip greens, mustard greens and collards in the freezer and lots of canned tomatoes.

So here we go!
 

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Best of luck! It's going to take a little while to adapt to the diet, but once your bodies are used to it and you start feeling better, you won't miss the sugar so much.
 

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I think just eliminating processed foods would be an extremely healthy choice. That's the route we are trying to take anyway. Have not done it completely yet tho.
 

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Our son in law had headaches for two weeks from dropping sugar and bread.
 

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Yes he does! He skidded off track over Christmas and is half on, half off right now. He said he'll be glad to go back to work and his daily routine. He is a teacher, DD is a college professor, so they both have time off over the holidays.
 

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Lunch today was cubed ham sautéed with mushrooms and red onion.

Supper tonight was home raised chicken breast, home grown/ home made smoked pork sausage sautéed with onion, broccoli and mushrooms. Seasoned with garlic, oregano, basil and Redmond sea salt. DH added salted, smoked almonds to the slaw.

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Really would like a big glass of chocolate milk, a brownie and half a loaf of bread......
 

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