229: Melissa Hartwig - The Whole30 Origin Story
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Melissa Hartwig (@melissa_hartwig) is a four-time New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of the original Whole30 program. She's a Certified Sports Nutritionist who specializes in helping people change their relationship with food and create life-long, healthy habits.
Melissa enjoys kettlebell training, yoga, hiking, solo traveling, and riding her motorcycle. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Escaping from her life with drugs
- The gym kinda saved Melissa's life
- Blogging... the early years
- Whole30's origin story
- Using food like a drug
- Do you have an emotional relationship with food?
- What makes Whole30 different from other dietary approaches?
- Not combining Whole30 approved ingredients to make hyperpalatable foods
- The organic growth of the Whole30 community
- The most important part of Melissa's job
- Having a vision from the very beginning
- Foods to avoid on Whole30
- Whole30 teaches you what foods work for you... on an individual basis
- The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) vs. Whole30
- Melissa hikes more than anybody she knows
- Are you "paying yourself" first?
- Don't get stuck on the saddest ferris wheel, of all time
- Teaming up to do Whole30 with family or other groups
- Are you hanging out with the right people?
- How to make new connections as a grown up
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Related links:
Melissa Hartwig & Dallas Hartwig - The Whole30 (book)
Melissa Hartwig & Dallas Hartwig - It Starts With Food (book)
Melissa Hartwig - Food Freedom Forever (book)
Melissa Hartwig - The Whole30 Cookbook
Melissa Hartwig - The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook
Melissa Hartwig - The Whole30 Day by Day (book)
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| 0:00.0 | then you end up with all this guilt and shame around the stuff that you ate and that leads to stress and that makes you feel worse and then you eat more bad stuff and it's really hard to get off this cycle. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 229. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:21.0 | and we are here on weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:24.6 | This week our featured guest is Melissa Hartwig. |
| 0:26.9 | She's a four-time New York Times best-selling author and co-creator of the original Whole30 program. |
| 0:32.7 | She's a certified sports nutritionist who specializes in helping people change |
| 0:36.5 | their relationship with food and create lifelong healthy habits. |
| 0:40.6 | Melissa enjoys kettlebell training, yoga, hiking, solo traveling, and riding her motorcycle. |
| 0:46.4 | She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:48.6 | We are so thrilled to have Melissa on the show. |
| 0:50.8 | It's been a long time coming. |
| 0:51.9 | We've had lots of requests to have |
| 0:53.8 | Melissa dig into her story and also talk about the whole 30 which is one of the |
| 0:58.8 | most popular dietary approaches out there right now and you guys are going to learn not only about |
| 1:04.8 | the origin of the Whole 30 but why this differs from so many other dietary approaches |
| 1:10.0 | and we definitely get into what's included, what's not included in Whole 30, |
| 1:14.4 | all about our emotional connection to food and how deep that runs and |
| 1:18.5 | Melissa shares her story about her relationship with food. |
| 1:21.9 | And we also get into figuring out if you're hanging out |
| 1:24.5 | with the right people and making new connections as grown-ups. So much great |
| 1:29.2 | conversation. Here we go with Melissa Hartwig. Hi Melissa, how are you? Welcome to the show. |
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