Fitness Whole Pizza In My Mouth

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Step one: remove as much refined and added sugars from your diet as you can
Step two: profit

My wife switched to a whole 30 almost 2 months ago, we started with the plan of doing it for the month but we both felt better so why not just keep going with it. Its crazy how much crap gets into your diet if you're not really paying attention, and we were already pretty good about doing most of our cooking and buying most of our produce/meat from the farmers markets.

Whenever you think you cook a lot, try doing a diet like that. Some weeks I feel like I'm chained to my kitchen, like last week when my in-laws were staying with us.

I hear you man! Wifey does most of the cooking but I really haven't changed my diet drastically in the last few years besides being better about what food we buy. Aside from a few basic junk items like frozen burritos and pizzas that I refuse to remove from my diet, in the last year and a half it's basically been an entire shift to true organic, no non-fat / low fat foods (ie we drink whole milk, whole milk yogurt, cook with butter/lard/olive oil etc.), drinking basically only water and dramatically lowering our added sugar intake. I have always had a terrible sweet tooth and the initial shift away from sweets (I am in the south for crying out loud, the land of SweetTea) was really hard. Like to the point I was actually getting blood sugar dips & dizziness. After a week or so of sugar detox, I felt best I have in my entire life. I quit grinding my teeth in my sleep, I slept better, my energy levels were consistent throughout the day vs. peaks and valleys and I could think more clearly.

With no other activity or lifestyle changes, my body shed 12 pounds in less than 3 weeks. That was only eclipsed by the change I saw when I quit drinking years ago. Sugar is one of the biggest long term poisons you can put in your body and really needs to be moderated. I watched this after I had actually made the lifestyle switch and it explains a lot of the reasons why, is a decent film and it's free with Amazon Prime: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.amazon.com/That-Sugar-Film-Damon-Gameau/dp/B0132TVFL8">https://www.amazon.com/That-Sugar-Film- ... B0132TVFL8</a><!-- m -->

I still cheat here and there (natural cream/sugar coffee creamer, a shamefully large dessert every now and then) but it's one habit that everyone needs to look at a lot more closely.