Weightloss Monday + a 30 day challenge

Mondays. Usually people hate the word. I feel this way to at time, but not this Monday. This Monday, I am excited! I am excited because I finally decided to stop putting bad things into my body. This Saturday I started the {Whole9} Nutritional lifestyle. I say lifestyle because I hate the connotation that the word "Diet" comes with and I don't do diets. I do lifestyle changes. I was vegan for 5 years and vegetarian for 4 years before that. I definitely don't do short term diets that don't work. This Saturday {06/16/12} I started the 30 day challenge. I am doing this challenge with one of my favorite blogger friends {Party_of_four}. Both of us will be showing our results once a week over the next 4 weeks {It's our new Mini-series}.


This is the program.

"We eat real food – meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, healthy oils, nuts and seeds. We choose foods that were raised, fed and grown naturally, and foods that are nutrient-dense, with lots of naturally occurring vitamins and minerals.

This is not a “diet” – we eat as much as we need to maintain strength, energy, activity levels and a healthy body weight. We aim for well-balanced nutrition, so we eat animals and a significant amount of plants.

Eating like this has helped us to look, feel, live and perform our best, and reduces our risk for a variety of lifestyle-related diseases and conditions." {Whole9 Website}

In the past 2 days I have felt fantastic, physically. It has definitely been hard not eating grains and flours and sugar since sadly it was part of every meal... I have been forcibly strong as my body detoxes off all the bad food I have been consuming. I am not to going to lie and say it's been easy. It has been hard but I just keep thinking that I don't want that bread or cookie in my body, my body deserves better. 


If you want to read more about this lifestyle and the 30 day challenge, read {HERE}


Here is a peak at what I have been eating this weekend...

{orange and lemon chicken with sun dried tomatoes and cucumber}

{Believe it or not, but I have never BBQ'ed myself. I've only watched}

{Free range angus beef with lemon zest, and seasoning. Topped with avocado and lemon zest}

{Sausage, carrot, sun dried tomato's, wrapped in egg = Burrito}

And of course here is my weight loss update.


No weight loss, but I can see definition and toning from my work outs and I am way less bloated. 


Current weight 156
Start Weight 228

{Starting Weight Photo's}

{Current Weight Photo's}

I am so ready to be feeling better and looking fitter, aren't you? Wanna join our 30 day challenge? Let me know. Comment below.