The Whole30 Day By Day: Your Daily Guide to Whole30 Success

Tips, hacks, advice, and inspiration to help you achieve Whole30 success every day of the program.

The Whole30 Day by Day is the essential companion to the New York Times bestseller The Whole30; a daily handbook and motivational food journal to keep you motivated, inspired, accountable, and engaged during your Whole30 journey. It’s like having Whole30’s own Melissa Hartwig coaching you through the Whole30 one day at a time, sharing a day-by-day timeline, personal motivation, community inspiration, habit hacks, and meal tips. Plus, each day offers guidance for self-reflection, a focus on habit formation, food journaling, and tracking your non-scale victories to keep your momentum going and help you plan for the days to come.

The Whole30 Day by Day also serves as a quick-reference guide for the program: keeping the rules handy, sharing helpful resources, and walking you through the important reintroduction phase, one day at a time. You’ll carry it everywhere during the program, using it to stay accountable and motivated during the 30 days, and letting the observations and reflections guide your healthy lifestyle and food freedom plan long after your Whole30 is over.

This essential handbook provides day-by-day support to make your Whole30 a success:

• Daily Motivation & Tough Love: Start each morning with a personal pep talk from Whole30 co-creator Melissa Hartwig, offering the encouragement―and tough love―you need to stay on track.
• A Day-by-Day Timeline: Know exactly what to expect from Day 1’s hangover to the arrival of “Tiger Blood,” with insights that show you what you’re feeling is normal and expected.
• Science-Based Habit Hacks: Learn simple, powerful tricks from habit and willpower science to navigate cravings, avoid trouble spots, and build new, healthy routines that last.
• The Reintroduction Guide: Move past Day 30 with confidence using a clear, step-by-step plan for reintroducing foods, helping you turn your 30-day reset into true food freedom.
• Non-Scale Victory Tracking: Focus on what really matters with guided journaling space to track improvements in energy, sleep, mood, and confidence―the wins that go far beyond the scale.

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.