We’ve been running our Whole30® program for 3-1/2 years now, and have received thousands of glowing testimonials. (There are even more floating around on the internet, too—Google “Whole30” and you get hundreds of thousands of hits. Literally.) We’ve proven the program improves people’s health, and many report the Whole30 really did change their life.
But the Whole30 isn’t perfect (no diet is, universally), and we will be the first to admit it. The program is as good as we can make it, to have the most significant impact on as many people as we can reach. We’ve tweaked it, adjusted it, made it better as the years went on. But it’s not perfect, by any means, and it’s not a miracle—despite the miraculous results some people do experience.
That’s not to say that a strict 30-day Paleo elimination program isn’t a damn fine protocol. In fact, the Whole30 generally works really, really well for the vast majority of people. Which is why, when we hear from those who say the Whole30 (or some other form of short-term Paleo intervention) “didn’t work” for them, we pay attention. We read their stories, ask questions of these participants, and over the years, have gathered some data on why, for these folks, “the magic” just didn’t come. (At least, not in the way they hoped it would. More on this soon.)
In many cases, it’s not your fault if it didn’t work. And the one thing we want you to take away from this article is that if the Whole30 didn’t work for you, you are not a failure, and there is nothing wrong with you. It just is what it is… but there are reasons for it.
So today, here are six reasons (infused with a gentle dose of tough love) why your perfect Paleo elimination program just “didn’t work”… and what you can do about it.
You Didn’t Do It Right
This is the most common reason for the “failure” of elimination programs like the Whole30 to provide results. You followed the technical letter of the rules, but didn’t embrace the spirit or intention of the program. You “slipped” or “treated yourself,” because you had to/wanted to/figured it wouldn’t really matter. You adjusted the program to suit your cravings, your social life, your idea of “healthy.” You only gave it two weeks before deciding it wasn’t working.
And if you’re really, truly honest with yourself, you know that you didn’t really give the Whole30 your full efforts. And as we’ve mentioned before, mediocre efforts yield mediocre results.
Of course, this isn’t everyone’s situation. So for those of you who really felt like you gave the program the attention and dedication it deserves, then maybe…
Thirty Days Wasn’t Long Enough
While radical health improvements can take place in just 30 days during the program, when you put it into context, decades of less than healthy behavior often can’t compete with 30 days of Whole30. Fat adaptation (teaching your body to use fat as fuel) takes time.* Stubborn medical issues, like psoriasis, migraines, chronic pain conditions, or diabetes, can’t be fully resolved with just a month of healthy eating. And an unhealthy psychological relationship with food—and the cravings, habits, and emotional ties that go along—are often the toughest battle to win.
*This is especially true if you’re coming from a S.A.D. (Standard American Diet). It can take several weeks before you learn to trust the “hungry” and “full” signals your body is sending you—and you may not have been eating enough in the beginning, because you were afraid of all that fat.
Many Whole30’ers report that they didn’t feel or see “the magic” until day 45, 60, or beyond. Whether you choose to extend your Paleo elimination program or not is entirely up to you, but think about your results in terms of the context of your life, your health history, and your habits—and realize that maybe, you’ll need longer than just 30 days to see the ultimate results you were hoping for. But then again, you also have to make sure you’re measuring the right thing. Quite possibly…
You Aren’t Paying Attention To The Right Stuff
You really, really wanted to lose weight on your Whole30, and you read tons of testimonials about effortless weight loss when nothing else worked—so of course, you expected this would be your outcome too. But you didn’t lose weight, or you didn’t lose as much as you had hoped. So you deemed the program a failure, because the number on the scale didn’t budge, or your pants still fit the same. (You could apply this same concept to anything—you were hoping your skin would clear up and glow, your gym performance would skyrocket, or your chronic pain would completely disappear.)
But were you paying attention to what else happened during your program? Are you falling asleep easier, staying asleep longer, waking more refreshed? Is your energy more consistent, or have you lost your usual mid-day slump? Has your pain decreased, has your skin improved, have your allergies diminished, are your sugar cravings easier to battle?
As we’ve written about so many times, the scale (and your body) aren’t the only measure of Whole30 success—in fact, we’d venture to say it’s pretty far down the list of potential life-changing results. And being open to embracing all of the changes the program has to offer—both the expected and the unexpected, the large and the small—can open your eyes to the results you’ve actually achieved.
So if you didn’t lose weight (or change one particular health factor as much as you were hoping), take a different approach and focus on all of the positive changes you have seen. Of course… it’s entirely possible that you’re barking up the wrong tree altogether.
You’re Looking For a Nutrition Solution To a Lifestyle Problem
If you come from a S.A.D.—even the “healthy” kind, with whole grains and low-fat dairy—we’d be stunned if the Whole30 didn’t make a huge impact on how you look, how you feel, and your quality of life. Stunned. But if you’ve been eating pretty Paleo for a while, decide to tighten things up that last 20% in the hopes of seeing the results you’ve been missing, and just don’t see them, you know what that tells us?
Diet ain’t your problem.
And no amount of additional Paleo elimination, carb-gram tweaks, or fasting cycles is going to completely resolve your issues. If this is your story, it’s time to look at your other factors. If you’re only sleeping five hours a night, doing high-intensity activity six days a week, and eating a purposefully very low-carb diet, you’ve got bigger fish to fry than the occasional cream in your coffee. Check out the Whole9 Health Equation, and see what other factors you need to prioritize to get things moving in the right direction.
In addition, just maybe, and we say this gently…
Your Expectations Are Simply Too High
This is a difficult one to tell people, because we hear “miracle” Whole30 testimonials every day. “The Whole30 made my hot flashes disappear!” “The Whole30 fixed my adrenal fatigue!” “My rheumatoid arthritis was cured thanks to Paleo!” So If you are in menopause, suffering from cortisol resistance, or have an autoimmune condition, you’re wondering, why didn’t this happen to me?
We understand. And we can’t blame you for feeling disappointed when you see other people “just like you” experiencing the results you desperately hoped to see… but didn’t. But the thing you have to understand is that no one is just like you. Your history, current context, genetics, environment all meld together to form a unique situation: you. Which means the same protocol applied to two very “similar” people can yield dramatically different results.
Here’s the other thing we need to be clear about—the Whole30, while a powerful dietary intervention, isn’t always a miracle cure. (We’re probably not going to use that as our next tag line, but it’s the truth.) To be blunt, the impact of your hormones during menopause far exceeds the benefits of not adding milk and sugar to your coffee. The long-reaching effects of chronic stress aren’t usually fixable with dietary intervention alone—that’s the exception, rather than the rule. And, as far as medical research has demonstrated to date, autoimmune conditions aren’t normally fully reversible.
So while the Whole30 could help you improve some symptoms, maybe all it’s going to do for you (depending on your history and context) is help you maintain—or not make things worse. It may improve your skin, your energy, your sleep, but if you’re battling a serious condition or disease (or are going through massive hormonal changes, such as during pregnancy or menopause), it’s just not reasonable to believe that any dietary intervention will magically see you through. It’s wonderful if it does, but it’s simply not realistic to expect.
Which brings us to the final reason, which plays on the above…
Lifestyle Interventions Can’t Fix Everything
Many come to the Whole30 with long histories of yo-yo dieting, chronic stress, poor lifestyle choices, and longstanding illness. The effects of health history are far-reaching, causing changes to your metabolism, your inflammatory status, and how your body responds to stimulus like food, stress, and exercise for years—decades—to come. And some of you are still working through these issues when you come to Paleo nutrition or the Whole30.
This situation requires the toughest love of all.
Lifestyle interventions can’t fix everything. In fact, you could pile a Whole30 on top of sleeping ten hours a night on top of smart exercise on top of stress management… and that still might not totally “fix” you. Because some issues are so longstanding, and so disruptive long-term, that you need targeted intervention with a trained and experienced professional to fix your stuff. (And we’re not talking about “Are you stressed a lot? You probably have adrenal fatigue. You should take some adaptogens and only do strength work.” This information is basically useless at your stage of the game.)
We’re talking about connecting with a good functional medicine practitioner, doing some very specific (and probably costly) testing to figure out exactly what’s going on, and then supplementing with the appropriate stuff, at the appropriate dose, for the appropriate amount of time. Months, generally. Perhaps a year or more.
We told you, this part would be hard to hear. And we’re sorry if this is your context. But trust us when we say we understand. (Melissa spent two years recovering from her stress addiction and cortisol resistance, working with several functional medicine practitioners, doing lots of testing, and following a very specific supplementation schedule and radical lifestyle interventions to get her to the very healthy place she’s at today.)
Of course, this doesn’t mean diet, sleep, exercise, and stress management don’t matter. In fact, in this situation, rigorous attention to these details (and we mean rigorous—change-your-entire-life-around-to-improve-these-lifestyle-factors rigorous) is a prerequisite for the work you’ll do with your practitioner. So don’t give up on the Whole30, or your other healthy lifestyle protocols. But in this case, in your context, please don’t expect even this level of attention to the lifestyle stuff to fix everything for you. (Believe us, we wish they could.)
The Good News
After all this, there is good news. If you’ve done the Whole30 with not-so-stellar results, go back and reevaluate your efforts, and your outcome. Perhaps you’ll see your program in a new light—or be motivated to try again. (Our Whole30® Daily has a series of questionnaires to help you be more aware of the benefits, large and small, you may see along the way.)
If you’ve got a complicated health history, don’t be discouraged! You didn’t get to this place overnight, and you’ll not get out of it quickly—but armed with a healthy lifestyle (and perhaps the help of an experienced professional) you are already back on the road to recovery. Patience is key. Being kind to and forgiving of yourself is key. And focusing on the positive changes you are already seeing could have the biggest impact on your experience. How you view the situation is sometimes more important than the details of the situation itself.
We’ll be talking a lot more about these complicated issues, and the fact that lifestyle interventions can’t fix everything, in future articles. In the meantime, if you’re one of those people for whom a perfect Paleo protocol just didn’t work for you, take heart. You are not alone, and we’ll do our best to provide you with the information and support you need to continue to move forward with your health initiatives.
OMG – did you mean to post this very article for me today? My first Whole 30 (in January 2012) was a bit of a disaster and I was sick the entire time. In retrospect, I think I was eating too many almonds and pecans. I had a friend with a bunch of pecan trees and I picked over 100# of free pecans and would snack on them a great deal. It was too much for me, I believe.
I am embarking (TODAY is Day 1) of my next Whole30 for the express purpose that I want to give this another shot. I am in a less stressful state than I was back in January and I know that it will get much easier after the 1st two weeks (it just becomes routine). If I don’t get the results I expect this time around, I will seek outside help. I have a very busy life and tend to overextend myself. My father led a similar life and he died at age 54 of a heart attack that I credit mainly to his stressful life (and his bad eating and no exercise). I have tried to fix my diet and exercise, but I also realized that I have a very negative inside voice. I am working to fix the negativity as well. I can’t believe I didn’t realize how unkind I was to myself until now (in my mid-30′s). I realize that this is a journey and there’s no quick fix, it will take time to get where I want to be.
Right now, I find that it is especially important for me to re-set my eating as I’d fallen completely off the bandwagon. I lost 30# once I began eating a paleo diet almost 3 years ago – my acne cleared up and many other things that I didn’t realize were issues. I wasn’t expecting earth shattering results from my intital Whole 30, but I did want to see some improvement. I was not happy that my digestive tract was such a mess during that time, but I’m giving it another go. Needless to say I’m hopeful that it will be a very different experience this time
I feel like this was me on #1, but to my credit I was also giving up “social” smoking, which gave me unbearable cravings, so I quenched them with coconut water, and I even had a paleo muffin with honey in it, so yeah there were a few mistakes I made, and if I had to grade myself I would have given me a C minus, so no wonder it wasn’t life-changing for me!
I think you’ve captured the main reasons that ANY program fails. TV commercials have convinced people it’s easy to reach our health goals, but unfortunately crawling out from underneath 30 years of rubble takes a lot of dedication.
I’ve been following you guys for quite some time now, and although I’ve never doubted the effectiveness of a Whole30 (mostly paleo + a couple Whole30s over the course of a year or so slowly exposed my gluten intolerance – I’ve been completely gluten free for over a year now) I have certainly experienced most of the roadblocks you describe above. I did some backsliding over the last 6 months, and as I’ve just started grad school, I decided I needed to get a leg up by being as healthy as possible. I’m on day 15 of another one right now, and I realized yesterday that this is not just a W30 – I’m currently tentatively planning on quite an extension to the protocol, something I probably mentally wouldn’t have been able to deal with in prior W30′s.
Also, I’d like to say that this article strikes just the right balance of empathy and tough love with none of the snark. Awesome article.
The timing on this was so helpful for me also having just visited my Rheumatologist today and being told I will never be able to put my arthritis in remission but can simply just improve my symptoms.
I don’t think I’ll ever have a “miracle cure”. But doing 2 sets of Whole 30 has resulted in less pain, improved sleeping, weight maintenance and relationship with food, so I’m still on board! Would still like to be off medications though.
I’m glad to hear this article’s tone and content are resonating. I’ll be honest – my first draft had a lot more tough love. That’s just my personality (Dallas’ too). But our audience is growing and changing, and so is our approach. And I really hope we’ll have a lot more opportunity to help people if we keep writing things like this.
Dr. Mark, there’s one more reason a dietary protocol didn’t work: because it’s a crappy protocol. These 17 day diets/3 day detoxes/get skinnier than your friends programs don’t work because they’re faulty in premise and content – I’d venture to say they won’t ever help anybody long-term. But that’s not one of OUR reasons, because programs like Robbs or ours are, we truly believe, solid in foundation, design, and intention (focusing on long-term health, not quick-fix weight loss).
Melissa
i would loooove to read your “tough love” draft!
Okay, this is the first time anyone in the paleo blogosphere I’ve encountered has even briefly mentioned menopause. But all you say is don’t expect much! Please, for the love of all that’s human, elaborate! I am sure I’m not the only menopausal female working hard to keep healthy. Passing it off with a phrase is just not enough help.
I have about 1 week left on my first Whole30 adventure. It has truly been a journey which i’ve appreciated and developed more insight on my body.
I’m currently an emotional wreck because my beloved dog is terminally ill (DAMN CANCER!). I’m contemplating extending the journey since all I can think about is a cupcake. I know that I’m struggling because my brain wants to run to sweets to calm my sadness in my heart for losing Clubber. It sucks, genuinely. However, I appreciate that I can at least recognize what is going on, and more importantly that I AM NOT GIVING IN!!!! So many times I wanted to, but I haven’t. That’s huge for me.
I hope that this last week will help prove that my sugar addiction is over, but considering the upcoming decision that will have to be made in the best interest of my boy, I think the biggest challenge is yet to come…..
Thank you for this program, and I truly look forward to learning more, trying it again and again, and also sharing it with SO many others!!! Anyone who says that they can’t is just not ready to TRY…. CAN’T isn’t a word in my vocabulary and all my clients know that.
Ape
Ape D: I’m so sorry to hear about your pup. Our pets our like our own furry little children. It is brave of you to continue your Whole30 considering the circumstances and so insightful for you to recognize that emotions are triggering your cravings. We know you can make it to day 30; your resolve to complete the program is palpable.
Take care. Sending blessings and prayers your way.
-Erin
Nancy,
I know, I know… And I’m sorry we haven’t addressed this yet! To be honest, we need to do more research and learn more from our functional medicine mentors before we attempt to tackle this subject – it’s extremely complex, and there are no easy one size fits all solutions. We’ll continue to dive into the research, so please know this topic is very much on our radar. We just don’t want to come out with advice before we feel like we’re adequately prepared.
Best,
Melissa
Ive been paleo for the last 6 months and yes I feel so much better, but Im also going thru menopause and a shift worker. I lose a couple of kilos then put it back on, its so frustrating as I eat paleo all the time (Im also gluten intolerant) and know the hormones are not helping at all.
So understanding how menopause interupts the diet will help a lot.
Thanks Brenda
wow..thanks you guys. this is really good to hear…i think i said one day last week f-it! just feel like eating pizza and ice cream! i didn’t…and i don’t REALLY want that but it has definitely been a longer journey for me than some of the quick miracles..but you are right, a lot of things are better and managed and i just need more specific help. this was a very helpful article …thank you very much.
I just purchased the book about 2 weeks ago. I haven’t fully gotten on board yet although I believe what is written in your book. I’ve been carrying it around everywhere so I can continue to read. I am an 80/20 eater (yes, I read about that in your book), and I do have a sugar addiction – not strong, but one nevertheless. I know I feel better when I eat according to Whole9. I can almost feel what sugar is doing when it enters my body.
Just an FYI concerning menopause: Two and a half years ago, I went for my yearly exam and blood work. When the blood work came back, I was informed that I was post menopausal. I was shocked. I’d had a few hot flashes here and there but no other indication. I am an avid exerciser; Taekwondo, I teach fitness classes, run, just started doing triathlons. My eating habits have been fairly healthy as compared to most diets – no drinks except water and coffee, no fried foods, no fast food limited processed foods (usually in the form of bread, pita chips, pretzels, dark chocolate, and occasional sweets). I still have had no menopausal symptoms except rare hot flashes. I’ve been waiting for the “bomb” to drop because my mother had a horrible time. The only thing my doctor could attribute the easy transition to was my diet and exercise. Maybe I’m just one of those exceptions, I don’t know. But I went on a health journey about 8 years ago after my mom died of cancer (it runs in my family) so maybe I was able to undo some of the damage to my body through my lifestyle changes.
I ordered the book today and look forward to learning the lifestyle. I have been yo-yo dieting for years and never see results. I know it will be hard to adjust my eating habits but I am READY to try something that will make me feel better. I don’t sleep well because of stress and have had to rely on Ambien to sleep. I am just SO READY for a change!
Thanks, as always. As a type-A “fix-it” freak with decades of really, really messed up self-inflicted body abuse and a current slew of both genetic and lifestyle based hormonal and systematic illnesses, I need to hear the “tough love” of “be patient” and “it’s not your fault.” 2 years of strict paleo plus strict exercise can’t fix all problems: I am a perfect example of that.
I’m glad to hear you are finding the article (and the message) helpful. We’ll continue to research and learn as much as we can, to help as many people as we can. In the meantime, keep up the good work, and don’t lose hope! I’ve got an amazing testimonial in the works that speaks to patience, a realistic set of expectations, and success that is definitely worth waiting for!
Melissa
Yes, yes, YES — THIS: “But if you’ve been eating pretty Paleo for a while, decide to tighten things up that last 20% in the hopes of seeing the results you’ve been missing, and just don’t see them, you know what that tells us? Diet ain’t your problem.”
Soooo true. I’ve come to think of it as “the happiness factor.” Lots of people out there (myself included, at times) tend to only look at diet and exercise. We tweak and experiment endlessly: a couple more grams of this, fewer ounces of that, a bottle of that new supplement everyone’s talking about. Higher intensity workouts, *lower* intensity workouts. Sometimes we very much miss the forest for the trees. We obsess over making everything “optimal,” and we wonder why things aren’t as rosy as we thought they’d be when we got everything in line.
The happiness factor, for me, is the *other stuff* that can potentially derail, delay, or otherwise prevent the kind of results we would expect to get by finding the magical balance of nutrients & exercise. For people who have tweaked everything to the max and still aren’t where they want to be, one of two things is happening. Either their expectations are just plain unrealistic, or like you said, it’s ain’t the diet. How much joy do they feel? Do they have career satisfaction? Are they in a fulfilling relationship? Are they stuck in a rut, be it in their job, marriage, whatever? I speak from experience (unfortunately) when I say “you can’t out-Paleo an unhappy life.” (Like “you can’t outrun a bad diet.) The cleanest Paleo eating and intelligent exercise will only get you so far if you’re sleepwalking through life, dreading the work day, and just kind of muddling from one day to the next without any infusions of enjoyment and excitement.
(Of course, eating well can certainly help those feelings, though! Especially if low moods are more a result of nutritional imbalances.) But I agree 100% — we tend to focus on diet and exercise exclusively, when there’s so much more to life that can help or hinder improvements in our health and physique.
I just finished my first Whole30– I’ve been eating pretty Paleo for about a year now, and decided to do Whole30 to see if I could fix up that last bit of gray area in my eating. I unfortunately fall into the “Just didn’t see the magic” camp: I think the biggest improvement/benefit I saw during my Whole30 was the 2 pounds I lost; other than that, I felt exactly the same. I think that, for me personally, this was more a testament to me already being pretty in check: I’m a very avid Crossfitter, get a ton of sleep, don’t have much stress at work, and I’m young (22) and relatively small (5’4″ and 143lbs), but was curious what a Whole30 would do for my body composition, mostly–just that stubborn last bit of weight I can’t seem to lose. The only foods I really plan to reintroduce are milk for my chai, the occasional yogurt, and dark chocolate, but overall I feel as though I wasn’t that far off track before. I’m not frustrated that Whole30 “didn’t work” for me, I’m just curious as to what other people in this kind of situation felt/think.
To be fair, when I first started eating Paleo about a year and a half ago, it was nowhere near as strict as Whole30 and I did definitely lose weight – probably around 15 pounds. So maybe I’m not a great counterexample to Whole30 after all!
Tara,
I’d suspect one of two things here. Either (a) diet isn’t your limiting factor in body comp, but other lifestyle factors are (the phrase “very avid CrossFitter” sticks out to me), or (b) the things you’ll have to do in terms of tightening up your diet, training, sleep, and recovery to lose that last big or body fat may not be worth it to you. Heck, I could have a six pack again if I wanted to, but the things I’d have to do to get back to that place – the strictness of my diet, the dedication to training and massive amounts of recovery, etc. – just aren’t worth it in terms of my life balance.
If the Whole30 didn’t help you tighten up those last few issues, then that’s pretty much what you’re left with. You may find changing your training up and spending more time on recovery practices eliminates just enough stress to help you lose those last few pounds – sometimes, it can be that easy.
Melissa
Hey,
I just read most of your stuff and it makes sense. I’m glad to see how realistic and honest you are about expectations and less than miraculous results. Short or long term. One thing I notice a lack of.
And that is testimonials from men. I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess. Just joking! I’m 54 and need to lose 20 lbs. I was directed to this info by a chiropractor friend who has had positive results. I hope over the long term I will benefit also. I’ll let you know.
Great article. I realise it may be a little personal, but as someone who is trying to find her way out of Stage 3 adrenal fatigue, it would be great to hear about Melissa’s journey of recovery. There is so much information and conflicting information out there (I have received conflicting advice from different practitioners), that it would be useful to hear of a ‘real life’ recovery story.
I’ve been a steadfast supporter of the Whole 30 mission for the last 28 days, despite seeing nothing in the way of positive results for myself. Prior to the whole 30, my diet was shit. I ate fried food at all hours, drank a lot of beer, and was pretty sedentary. A good portion of my job involves eating out, drinking, and being social, so I’ve taken a huge hit in that realm and only eaten out 5 or 6 times (a stark contrast to the 2x/day in 2012). I haven’t cheated once in the last 28 days, even trying to avoid nuts the last two weeks in an effort to make some progress. I’ve been working out (not too hardcore: just light jogging and pilates) about 4 days a week. The results? My pants are tighter than ever, my skin is totally broken out (usually only happens around my period), I have horrendous headaches nearly every day, and my energy has never been lower. I was diagnosed with depression a few years back, didn’t like being on meds for it, and have been able to tolerate my symptoms without them for the last year. Now I find myself completely unmotivated and feeling isolated like never before.
Sadly, this article leaves me more frustrated than ever as it looks like my only option for help with my weight, headaches, and depression is doctors, testing, and medicine, which is exactly what I wanted to avoid. I don’t know why, but I’m going to try to continue the Whole30 for a little while longer, just because I’ve had friends get great results. But there’s no “tiger blood,” no clear skin, no positive results… and I just feel like I’m barking up the wrong tree.
Kathleen,
I’m sorry you’re not seeing the results you wanted to see, and I really can’t say (without more details) what may be happening in your individual context. I can understand wanting to avoid doctors and testing, but there are some things that even the “perfect” diet can’t undo or mediate, and perhaps it’s time to see if you can find a good functional medicine doc or naturopath to help you figure out what may be going on behind the scenes.
I hope you are eating enough food – to say your energy has been in the tank makes me wonder if you’re under-feeding yourself. And with more info, we could potentially tweak your Whole30 meal timing, volume, and food choices, but it sounds like you may have more important things going on in your life, underneath the dietary choices. I wish you the best of luck, and hope that you are able to find something that works well for you. (And if you want to continue to give the Whole30 a little more time, consider a personal consultation, so one of our experts can help you tweak your program to ensure you’re making the most of the dietary changes.)
Best,
Melissa
I am on day day 19 with the whole30 and I’m not pleased! This has been one if the hardest things I’ve ever done with next to no results. I will say if I’m not having a crazy mood swing(witch is often) my energy levels and mood are better. I’ve only lost 3 lbs so far and no inches Bc my clothes feel like they are getting TIGHTER! I’m so frustrated and have gas many sobs over lack of results. I think I’m so much more upset Bc this is so HARD. I don’t understand why I wouldn’t have had a substantial weightloss by doing the whole 30 Bc I was drinking about 4 times a week, had diary multiple times per day and cheese at every meal, I picked and snacked on everything and def consumed a ton if sugar. I thought by just omitting those bad habits I would have lost 5lbs plus all the healthy eating I would have lost much more weight by now. I’m not even chewing gum. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I do eat fruit and nuts but in moderation. I drink a ton of water. I do snack butt that’s only if I’m starving and not able to eat until later.
So what is going on?!