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Learn about the 9 factors of optimal health from Dallas & Melissa Hartwig, creators of the popular Whole30 program.

Pregnancy and Body Image

by Melissa Hartwig, who knows of what she writes Going into this pregnancy, I had some, shall we say, misconceptions. (Dallas calls it “mythical thinking” on a good day, “damned delusional” on others.) I thought I’d gain maybe 15 pounds total, because I’m super fit and healthy and the baby will only weigh like 8 pounds, right? I thought all that weight would show up only in my cute little basketball belly, and nowhere else. I thought I’d still be wearing my same pre-pregnancy skinny jeans … [Read more...]

The Language of Food

Since 2009, our Whole30® program has helped you change your relationship with food. Last month, Whole9’s Erin Handley encouraged you to change your relationship with your body image. Today, we ask you to take an honest look at one more aspect of your life-changing transformation. Your vocabulary. Negative self-talk is one of the fastest ways of destroying self-esteem, sabotaging your goals, and negatively influencing your mood and emotions. “Fat-talk” (negative self-talk about your body) … [Read more...]

How Perfect is the Perfect Body?

A special guest post by Stefani Ruper of Paleo for Women, who wants to remind you that the pressure to achieve the "ideal body" extends to men, too. In the health and fitness world, we think a lot about health, and we think a lot about weight loss. And it’s not unusual for many (in secret or not) to care more about the weight loss part than the health part. We use words like "health" and "energy" to describe our goals to our friends—but if we are being honest with ourselves, might it be more … [Read more...]

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 an extraordinary force to be summoned to deal with emergencies, but studies show that desires – specifically, … [Read more...]

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