Whole30 : The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom

Over 1.5 million copies sold!

Millions of people visit Whole30.com every month and share their dramatic life-changing testimonials. Get started on your Whole30 transformation with the #1 New York Times best-selling The Whole30.

Since 2009, Melissa Hartwig Urban’s critically-acclaimed Whole30 program has quietly led hundreds of thousands of people to effortless weight loss and a new foundation for healthy eating―along with stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem. The program accomplishes all of this by specifically targeting people’s habits and emotional relationships with food. The Whole30 is designed to help break unhealthy patterns of behavior, establish new healthy habits, stop stress-related comfort eating, and reduce cravings, particularly for sugar and carbohydrates. Many Whole30 participants have described achieving “food freedom”―in just thirty days.

Now, The Whole30 offers a stand-alone, step-by-step nutrition plan to break unhealthy habits, reduce cravings, improve digestion, and strengthen your immune system. The Whole30 prepares participants for the program in five easy steps, previews a typical thirty days, teaches the basic meal preparation and cooking skills needed to succeed, and provides a month’s worth of healthy recipes designed to build confidence in the kitchen and inspire the taste buds. Motivating and inspiring with just the right amount of signature tough love, The Whole30 features real-life success stories, an extensive quick-reference FAQ, detailed elimination and reintroduction guidelines, and more than 100 recipes using familiar ingredients, from simple one-pot meals to complete dinner party menus.

This comprehensive 30-day guide gives you everything you need to succeed:

• A Step-by-Step Meal Plan: Over 100 delicious, simple recipes using familiar ingredients, plus kitchen fundamentals to build your confidence and inspire your taste buds.
• The 30-Day Reset: A powerful elimination diet designed to identify food sensitivities, improve digestion, and strengthen your immune system, with detailed reintroduction guidelines.
• Break Unhealthy Cravings: Finally end your reliance on sugar and carbs, stop stress-related comfort eating, and fix your emotional relationship with food.
• Not Just Weight Loss: Discover stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem as you build a healthier, happier lifestyle.

Melissa Urban is the Whole30 co-founder and CEO, and an authority on helping people create lifelong healthy habits. She is an eight-time New York Times bestselling author, and her books have sold millions of copies in twenty languages. She is a prominent keynote speaker on building community, health trends, and entrepreneurship. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.

DALLAS HARTWIG is a Certified Sports Nutritionist, licensed physical therapist, and functional medical practitioner who specializes in treating lifestyle-related hormonal, digestive, and metabolic health issues. In 2012, he co-authored the New York Times bestselling book It Starts With Food and founded his functional medicine practice, mentoring under Dr. Daniel Kalish and enrolling in the Institute for Functional Medicine's certification program. Dallas has presented more than 200 health and nutrition seminars worldwide, is a member of the PaleoF(x) Advisory Board and Fitwall advisory boards, and provides support and lifestyle recommendations to more than 1.5 million people a month through the Whole30 and Whole9 websites.