Nutrition

My Story

The bottom line is the best way to reduce inflammation fast is to avoid these three things: gluten, dairy, and sugar. You can add on from here if you have further sensitivities, but this is the best place to start.

You may think "well I don't really eat that much gluten" or "I don't drink milk", or even "I've cut down so much on my sweets", but I'm here to tell you I said those EXACT SAME THINGS for years. In my mind, I justified everything I ate, thinking "I don't eat this every day. It's fine just this once." Well guess what...it's not! By saying that every other time I ate something pretty unhealthy, it had turned into a huge issue and had started affecting my health. Because I exercised A LOT, I was able to stay pretty much in shape, but honestly I wasn't healthy at all.

By the time I had my third child, I knew something had to change and I started implementing some of these things here and there. It wasn't until I had my fourth child that I had finally had it with my health and my body. I completed a second Whole30 challenge and had made up my mind. There was no going back to the junk food diet I had eaten for decades.

While this clean eating guide certainly has some of the same concepts, it's not nearly as strict as the Whole30 plan is. I find this to be the perfect mixture between that and real life (with four busy children).

I hope you enjoy this guide and you find yourself on the way to better health!