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

Since 2009, Melissa Hartwig Urban’s critically-acclaimed Whole30 program has quietly led hundreds of thousands of people to effortless weight loss and a new foundation for healthy eating—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, establish new healthy habits, 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 nutrition 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 healthy 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.

This comprehensive 30-day guide gives you everything you need to succeed:

• A Step-by-Step Meal Plan: Over 100 delicious, simple recipes using familiar ingredients, plus kitchen fundamentals to build your confidence and inspire your taste buds.
• The 30-Day Reset: A powerful elimination diet designed to identify food sensitivities, improve digestion, and strengthen your immune system, with detailed reintroduction guidelines.
• Break Unhealthy Cravings: Finally end your reliance on sugar and carbs, stop stress-related comfort eating, and fix your emotional relationship with food.
• Not Just Weight Loss: Discover stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem as you build a healthier, happier lifestyle.