Factor #3: The universe speaks – For the past several months, I have been listening to podcasts while I am at work, and of the ones that I have come to really enjoy is the ‘ For the Love‘ podcast with Jen Hatmaker.Spilling out of my bra in every direction, trying to find a loose enough top so that it wouldn’t show, I knew that I was going to have to go up a size…yet another confirmation of how my weight gain has affected my body. Factor #1: Buying a bigger bra – It was that moment last fall, one morning when I was getting dressed to go to work, when I could not hide from the truth any longer.My weight had now become unhealthy. So as I sat on the exam table, expressing my frustration to my doctor at my seemingly impossible efforts to lose weight, her response was “you’re going to have to do something drastic with your diet.” She went on to explain that although exercise has many excellent health benefits, for post-menopausal women, losing weight is 90% a function of diet. A number that was alarming from a vanity aspect, but even more so alarming from an actual, physical health perspective. It was a number that has been creeping steadily-upward these past five years. Factor #1: The number on the scale – When I saw the number on the scale at my doctor’s visit last fall, I really hit me hard.My decision to try Whole30 and commit to this dietary reset wasn’t based on one thing, but rather it was prompted by a few key factors: If you have the time and are inclined to read it, I am sharing the whole story of my Whole30 in this blog post, But the condensed version is this – Whole30 has changed my life – mentally, physically, and emotionally. You know how sometimes you keep running up on the same thing over and over? How you feel like maybe the universe is trying to tell you something? Well that’s what happened with me and The Whole30 Program.
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