My 30 Day Challenge of a Plant-Based Diet: Goals & Results

My 30 Day Challenge of a Plant-Based Diet: Goals & Results

Like anything it is easier to be successful when you have a partner or others joining you. I was lucky to have a few interested in doing this 30 day challenge with me. My husband, friends, new members on Facebook and clients joined in.

So here was my goals:

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My goal was to eat a plant-based diet and NOT supplement vegan processed food. I stayed away from wheat 100%. When I was a vegetarian in college, My diet included bagels, mac & cheese, and Ramen noodles. But I?ve learned a lot about food since then.?

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My goal was to stay away from GMO ingredients and eat as organic as I could. With weekly shipments of organic veggies and fruit from the Misfits market, Other than eating out I would say we were close to 95% organic and GMO free.?

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My goal was to be 100% animal byproducts free for 30 days. What I found was a cut my grocery bills in more than half, eating a plant-based diet. This was a challenge for my husband and I, And my kids eat animal byproducts. But we still cut our grocery bills in more then half.

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My goal is to eat the least amount of processed food reading labels even more carefully and any more protein through grains beans and nuts.

Here are the Results

Weight:I lost 8 pounds and leaned up, looking to gain eating more times in the day. My husband lost 9 pounds in 30 days, added stretching and getting up at 3:00 am with me. A friend lost 4 pounds, which is amazing since she?s near goal weight.?

Clarity: Each of us within the first two weeks noticed more clarity in the mind and energy in the body. A sense of a clear head, and more productive through the day.

Less pain:Before this month 2 slices of sausage pizza from my favorite place was my treat. But the last 30 days I?ve noticed a drastic difference of inflammation in my body. Each of us have a better sense of the food we eat and how it affects our body.

Night sweats: this one?s hard for me to admit that I have to share. Up to this past month I believe I began my changes, For months I wake up in a sweat. This past month NOT once! That?s a huge change. Hormones in the meat? IDK just listening to my body.?

A Healthy Lifestyle Versus a Diet

Any healthy lifestyle is about balance and making changes you can stick with. Like packing a snowball and pushing it in the snow to make it bigger only to watch you can?t speed and go downhill growing in strength and power.?So today I had my treat, two slices of sausage pizza then frozen yogurt… and gearing back up to another 30 day challenge of plant based eating and adding eggs this time.

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