The Whole 30 Lifestyle Challenge is coming to CrossFit 858!
Overview:
For 30 days, we will adopt the Whole 30 lifestyle AS A GROUP.
The Whole30 in a nut shell is, “Eat real food – meat, seafood, eggs, tons of vegetables, some fruit, and plenty of good fats from fruits, oils, nuts and seeds”. Eat foods with very few ingredients, all pronounceable ingredients, or better yet, no ingredients listed at all because they’re totally natural and unprocessed.
We don’t like to emphasize what you can’t eat during this 30 days, but just so we are clear: (taken from whole9life.com):
Here’s what NOT to eat during the duration of your Whole30 program. Omitting all of these foods and beverages will help you regain your healthy metabolism, reduce systemic inflammation, and help you discover how these foods are truly impacting your health, fitness and quality of life.
- Do not consume added sugar of any kind, real or artificial. No maple syrup, honey, agave nectar, Splenda, Equal, Nutrasweet, xylitol, stevia, etc. Read your labels (and your Success Guide FAQ), because companies sneak sugar into products in ways you might not recognize.
- Do not consume alcohol, in any form, not even for cooking. (And it should go without saying, but no tobacco products of any sort, either.)
- Do not eat grains. This includes (but is not limited to) wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, rice, millet, bulgur, sorghum, amaranth, buckwheat, sprouted grains and all of those gluten-free pseudo-grains like quinoa. Yes, we said corn… for the purposes of this program, corn is a grain! This also includes all the ways we add wheat, corn and rice into our foods in the form of bran, germ, starch and so on. Again, read your labels.
- Do not eat legumes. This includes beans of all kinds (black, red, pinto, navy, white, kidney, lima, fava, etc.), peas, chickpeas, lentils, and peanuts. No peanut butter, either. This also includes all forms of soy – soy sauce, miso, tofu, tempeh, edamame, and all the ways we sneak soy into foods (like lecithin).
- Do not eat dairy. This includes cow, goat or sheep’s milk products such as cream, cheese (hard or soft), kefir, yogurt (even Greek), and sour cream… with the exception of clarified butter or ghee. (See below for details.)
- Do not consume carrageenan, MSG or sulfites. If these ingredients appear in any form on the label of your processed food or beverage, it’s out for the Whole30.
- Do not eat white potatoes. This is somewhat arbitrary, but if we are trying to change your habits and improve the hormonal impact of your food choices, it’s best to leave white, red, purple, Yukon gold and fingerling potatoes off your plate.
- In addition, no Paleo-ifying dessert or junk food choices! This equals “Sex With Your Pants On” (SWYPO), and it will ruin your Whole30 faster than you can say, “paleo pizza.” Do not try to shove your old, unhealthy diet into a shiny new Whole30 mold. This means no “paleo-fying” desserts or junk food – no paleo pancakes, pizza, brownies or ice cream. Trying to replicate junk food with “technically approved” ingredients misses the point of the Whole30 entirely.
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Rules:
We will score points daily and enter them into a Google spreadsheet daily.
Points will accrue for the following:
- 3 Points for each meal of eating strictly from these guidelines (Max 9 points/day, 63 Points/week)
- 2 Points for each WOD at CrossFit 858, max 1 wod a day, 4 days per week (Max 8 Points/week)
- 2 Points for sleeping at least 8 hours per night (Max 14 Points/Week)
All points are on the honor system (AKA NO cheating!) For every “cheat meal” you partake in, you will lose one point. The maximum number of WODs is 4 weekly. This does not mean you cannot workout more…you just cannot collect points for more than 4 WODS per week.
We encourage you to take your own before and after photos and weigh ins. However, this is about so much more than just weight loss, and to focus on your body composition means you’ll miss out on the most dramatic and lifelong benefits this plan has to offer.
At the end of the 30 days, the top 3 winners will receive prizes
How to enter
There is a small buy in to participate in the amount of $15. Easily paid via online or in person.
If you wish to make things easy so you don’t need to cook, you can purchase Whole 30 meals from Pete’s Paleo.
We will start this challenge ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT, ON SUNDAY MARCH 9TH!! and will end on Sunday April 6th!
If you have any questions, please email me at coachmark@crossfit858.com
Good luck and have fun!