Day 1 - Feb 6, 2017

[Zara R]

Hi. I am Zara. I am 46 years old. Mother of 2 grown children. I am also have a step son who is 14. He is with us part-time. My boyfriend is supportive of this program, but is not participating. 

I am 5'11" and I weigh 300 pounds. I've tried many, many diets. I'm relatively active and enjoy working out. However, I've been battling with shoulder tendinitis for the past 6 months. So my exercise has been sporadic. 

I am looking forward to cleaning up my diet and hopefully losing some inflammation in my shoulder. 

[Garts Girl]

Hi Zara,

I'm Christine and also starting today February 6th.  I'm 49, 5'1" and 153.  After four years of chronic headache pain I was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia about six months ago.  My doc put me on anti seizure meds which really helped.  The goal was to have a procedure called Gamma Knife radiation to stop the pain. However, I had to go on a series of medications, maxing them out before the procedure would be approved.  There were six medications ending with Oxy.  I declined, changed doctors and started looking holistically at the situation.  My new doc recommended the Ketogenic diet which did actually help but as soon as I started eating my old way the pain came back.  Long story short, I stumbled on Whole30 and decided to give it a go.  I'm sure it's going to be tough and I appreciate all the support i can get.

Thanks for reading and good luck!!

[Zara R]

Wow. That sounds bad. I'm glad you are looking into fixing things holistically. I was also looking at keto, but whole30 looks easier to manage. All the macro counting on keto looked overwhelming. 

 

Good luck!!