{"id":1902,"date":"2017-08-10T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T02:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2017-08-10T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:24:36","slug":"whole30-4-and-why-i-keep-doing-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/whole30-4-and-why-i-keep-doing-these\/","title":{"rendered":"WHOLE30 #4 AND WHY I KEEP DOING THESE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of my favorite Whole30 meals I cooked in January<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m currently on Day 11 of my fourth Whole30 and the last couple days I’ve been questioning my sanity. At this point, I generally\u00a0know<\/em> what foods are not my friends, but it’s still good to reorient, especially after a vacation in which there may or may not have been cake available practically 24\/7.<\/p>\n

***To be honest, it’s actually not that hard to stay healthy on a cruise. Yes, you can eat whatever you want, whenever you want. I don’t drink that much, so a few beverages over the course of a week (I think I bought four plus had some at the wedding reception) was really my main concession to ridiculous behavior. At our meals, I made the attempt to always have some sort of salad or veg, and often stuck with meats and potatoes and the like. I honestly don’t think I ate a single noodle!<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway, so after traveling through the Caribbean and having a (birthday) month of not eating so great, I knew that a summer Whole30 was in the cards in order to get myself back on track. I’ve found that doing these every six months or so has been very beneficial to my mental health because even though last weekend I wanted to eat ALLLLL the Pop Tarts, I generally have a sunnier disposition and am less crabby when I’m eating clean and healthy. Which – hmmm. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So some of the things that I’ve learned while doing these include the following:<\/p>\n