The Whole30 program centers around four Good Food Standards that we should be asking ourselves about each thing we put in our bodies. Keep in mind, the food that we eat should:
1. Promote a healthy psychological response - foods that do NOT promote a healthy psychological response light up pleasure, reward, and emotional pathways in the brain, offering super-normally stimulating flavors without providing the nutrition that nature intended. These are foods-with-no-breaks, promoting over consumption and the inability to control your cravings, habits, and behaviors.
2 - Promote a healthy hormonal response - foods that do NOT promote a healthy hormonal response disrupt your normal hormonal balance, promoting leptin resistance, insulin resistance (and all of the negative downstream effects that follow), disrupting glucagon's energy-access function and elevating cortisol levels.
3 - Support a healthy gut - foods that do NOT support a healthy gut directly promote intestinal permeability, leading to a less-than-intact barrier that lets foreign substances get inside the body (where they do not belong). Foods that fail this good food standard by default also fail the fourth.
4 - Support immune function and minimize inflammation - foods that do NOT support immune function and minimize inflammation by creating intestinal permeability (as mentioned above) or directly promoting chronic systemic inflammation force your immune system out of a healthy balance. This can lead to the development of systemic inflammatory symptoms or auto-immune diseases and is a central risk factor for many lifestyle related diseases or conditions.
Day 15 Food Log: (HALFWAY THERE!!)
Pre-camp - shredded turkey meat, apples, almond butter
Meal 1 - turkey sausage, sweet potato, bell pepper, mushroom "casserole"
pre-workout - 2 turkey meatballs
Meal 2 - Roasted green beans, turkey twice-baked sweet potatoes
Meal 3 - Grilled chicken salad with bacon, avocado, sun-dried tomatoes, and pico, roasted Brussels sprouts
WATER ALL DAY!
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