A few months ago, I decided to participate in my first ever food challenge. My Crossfit gym takes part in Lurong challenges, which focuses on both nutrition and fitness. The nutritional part is a complete clean eating diet. No added sugars, no dairy, and no preservatives (if you can help it). The no preservatives part is what initially got me interested in this style of eating. The second thing that caught my interested was the fact that I was still hanging on to some baby weight that I just couldn't get rid of.
After hearing about all of the inches people lost during the last challenge, I signed up. I lost an inch around both of my arms, an inch and a half around both of my legs and...........four and half inches from my waste! The time frame was five weeks, and honestly the most challenging part was meal prepping. Oh and being limited to one beer or glass of wine a night.
I was sold. For the amount of effort I put in, I was extremely happy with my results. There was no working out ha...