Exactly one month ago, I started on my Whole30 journey. The beginning of this year was pretty rough for my family and myself. In the span of a week, I lost my mother, my uncle, and we moved into our new house. It was devastating and stressful to say the least. The lack of routine, emotional eating, and a broken refrigerator when we moved in accounted for some very poor health choices.
I planned to start on February 18th, the same day my husband and I got baptized at our church and exactly one month since I lost my mom. I did some serious grocery shopping after we received our new refrigerator (that kind of worked out!) and I was ready!
The name of the game with Whole30 is all about preparation. Knowing what you’re going to have for each meal, including snacks, helped immensely. Even outside of the book, there are so many resources! Pinterest, Instagram, and searching #whole30 are filled with tons of recipes, grocery store hacks, and motivating stories.
There a very few things we can control in life and that’s a hard lesson I’ve had to learn recently. But I can control what and how I eat.