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Your Guide to Non-Hormonal Birth Control

Over the years we have fielded many questions about non-hormonal birth control. Today we will address this issue in a special post by Erin Handley, our new Director of Operations. Erin’s experience in reproductive health includes outreach and education with Planned Parenthood, teaching an undergraduate college course in Human Sexuality, and evaluation of a contraceptive [...]

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Change Your Habits, Part 2: Willpower

 “I can resist everything except temptation.” –Oscar Wilde Willpower (or “self-control”) is what people use to restrain their desires and impulses. More precisely, Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney, authors of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, define willpower as “the capacity to override one response (and substitute another).” You may think of willpower as [...]

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Sometimes, It Is Hard

Last month on the Whole30 page, our most famous tough-love phrase was taken to task by two Whole30 participants. Today, we’d like to address their concerns, and share our thoughts on taking on the Whole30 while battling an eating disorder or food addiction.  The Quote  “It is not hard. Don’t you dare tell us this [...]

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Change Your Habits, Part 1: The Cue

Today’s post comes as a result of the habit research we’ve been doing for It Starts With Food, and a plea for help on our Whole30 Facebook page. Tamra, a valued and longstanding member of our Whole30 community, wrote: “I am having such a hard time riding my own bike! I keep falling off onto [...]

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5 Reasons to Break Up With Your Scale

We work hard to present our Whole30 program as a tool for creating optimal health, and not a weight-loss quick fix.  We have strict rules about weighing yourself during your program (you can’t) and focusing on weight loss as a measure of Whole30 success (you shouldn’t). But despite all our efforts, many people still find [...]

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Coming clean

Today’s post was both terrifying to write, and a gigantic relief. I’ve been wanting to talk about some of my personal experiences and history on the blog for years now, but was afraid to be judged. Afraid that my past would hurt my credibility. Afraid that people would look at me differently. [...]

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The Question

“We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” CrossFit Albuquerque. The Question comes in many forms. It is always different, yet universally the same. [...]

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The Whole30 and Depression

Today, we’re featuring a very personal story – a testimonial that we believe will resonate with so many readers for both the topic and the struggle. Depression affects 15 million American adults, and affects women twice as often as men. [...]

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Stress Addicts Anonymous (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our Stress Addicts Anonymous series (http://whole9life.com/2011/11/stress-addiction-1), we introduced the very real, very dangerous condition of stress addiction. Now, in part 2, let’s take a look at the physiological effects of living in a chronic state of stress, and more importantly, some steps you can take to rehabilitate your own inner stress junkie. [...]

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Stress Addicts Anonymous (Part 1)

Are you a stress junkie? Take our quick quiz, learn about the mechanism behind stress addiction and create some coping mechanisms to help you break the stress-cycle. [...]

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