The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom

Melissa Hartwig Urban · Dallas Hartwig

Apr 2015 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

Over 1.5 million copies sold!

Millions of people visit Whole30.com every month and share their dramatic life-changing testimonials. Get started on your Whole30 transformation with the #1 New York Times best-selling The Whole30.

Since 2009, Melissa Hartwig Urban's critically-acclaimed Whole30 program has quietly led hundreds of thousands of people to effortless weight loss and better health—along with stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem. The program accomplishes all of this by specifically targeting people’s habits and emotional relationships with food. The Whole30 is designed to help break unhealthy patterns of behavior, stop stress-related comfort eating, and reduce cravings, particularly for sugar and carbohydrates. Many Whole30 participants have described achieving “food freedom”—in just thirty days.
 
Now, The Whole30 offers a stand-alone, step-by-step plan to break unhealthy habits, reduce cravings, improve digestion, and strengthen your immune system. The Whole30 prepares participants for the program in five easy steps, previews a typical thirty days, teaches the basic meal preparation and cooking skills needed to succeed, and provides a month’s worth of recipes designed to build confidence in the kitchen and inspire the taste buds. Motivating and inspiring with just the right amount of signature tough love, The Whole30 features real-life success stories, an extensive quick-reference FAQ, detailed elimination and reintroduction guidelines, and more than 100 recipes using familiar ingredients, from simple one-pot meals to complete dinner party menus.

Ratings and reviews

Since 2009, Melissa Hartwig Urban's critically-acclaimed Whole30 program has quietly led hundreds of thousands of people to effortless weight loss and better health—along with stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem. The program accomplishes all of this by specifically targeting people’s habits and emotional relationships with food. The Whole30 is designed to help break unhealthy patterns of behavior, stop stress-related comfort eating, and reduce cravings, particularly for sugar and carbohydrates. Many Whole30 participants have described achieving “food freedom”—in just thirty days.

Loosely based Paleo diet , really.. whole30 seems like it'll give you a whole lot of problems.. such as iron and calcium deficiencies.. beans provide iron if I'm not mistaken and dairy provides calcium .. which is mandatory for women to have unless they want brittle bones or osteoporosis.. and calcium supplements can clog your arteries.. idk , this just seems like a fad diet to me. I'm sticking to a flexitarian diet 👍😁👍

Waste of money. there is absolutely no new information in this book. if you've read one paleo book you've read them all. Gut this, leptin that. Stay aware from sugars and "bad" carbs. I returned this book after the first 2 chapters. When you place lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, etc. under lifestyle diseases and conditions; you have completely lost me. What a crock. As far as I am concerned this book is just another cog in the wheel that is the "diet business". Bold claims, a few anecdotes, and a group of followers. Don't wast your money, all this info is available online, no purchase required. Also when a diet makes claims like helping/curing diseases be very skeptical.You may say, "science doesn't know everything." Then I would say, "neither do you."

About the author

MELISSA URBAN is the co-founder and CEO of Whole30, and a six-time New York Times bestselling author. She is the host of the Do the Thing podcast, and is a prominent keynote speaker on social media and branding, health trends, and entrepreneurship. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.

DALLAS HARTWIG is a Certified Sports Nutritionist, licensed physical therapist, and functional medical practitioner who specializes in treating lifestyle-related hormonal, digestive, and metabolic health issues. In 2012, he co-authored the New York Times bestselling book It Starts With Food and founded his functional medicine practice, mentoring under Dr. Daniel Kalish and enrolling in the Institute for Functional Medicine's certification program. Dallas has presented more than 200 health and nutrition seminars worldwide, is a member of the PaleoF(x) Advisory Board and Fitwall advisory boards, and provides support and lifestyle recommendations to more than 1.5 million people a month through the Whole30 and Whole9 websites.