How Whole30 Changed My Relationship with Food — 30 Days of Whole30

When I decided to do Whole30 in January of 2017, I was apprehensive about the program. I got into writing about food because I strongly believe that food can and should bring people joy, and the idea of restricting what you eat made me immensely uncomfortable for a variety of different reasons.

But Kitchn wanted to cover this trend in wellness, and I thought it was important to try it out for editorial reasons. Plus, it was just 30 days, so I didn't think I was making a huge lifestyle change.

When I was first reading up on what Whole30 entails, Melissa Hartwig (the co-founder of Whole30), said that this program will "change your life." Yeah, right, I remember thinking. It felt like one of those cheesy tag lines that a bad infomercial would have. So I was surprised to find that, after over a year of finishing Whole30, in retrospect it really had changed my life and the way I eat — but not in the way you might think.

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