Here are pictures of my make-up-free face throughout the Whole30 experiment and beyond.
This is what I call an "I can't believe I'm actually sharing this" post, but if this helps anyone to decide to give the Whole30 challenge a whirl, then it's absolutely worth doing.
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| 3/17, the day I started Whole30 It actually doesn't look too bad here. |
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| 3/24, one week in It's worse! And I double-checked: these dates are correct. So glad I didn't give up at this point. |
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| 4/1, two weeks in This would be the point where I posted a message to Whole9's FB page and asked whether I should cut out more because it felt like I was making no progress at all. And their reply was essentially, "Patience, Grasshoppah." |
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| 4/8, three weeks in Some progress, but not great. |
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| 4/15, four weeks in Awful giant cysts have stopped! |
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| 4/21, five weeks in, & ready to test. Taken two days after adding daily soy intake. |
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| 4/25, six days after adding daily soy intake. Cysts return with a vengeance. Soy is now on the "Never worth eating" list. |
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| 5/1, 8 days after stopping daily soy intake. No cysts! For my skin, this is essentially clear; these are just old blemishes still healing, nothing NEW showing up. Time to test something else. |
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Find a recent picture of my perfectly clear skin right here.
Sabrina - this is great! Thank you so much for sharing, and for taking part in our survey. We hope you have continued to experience clear skin and happiness post-Whole30.
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Melissa & Dallas
Whole9
Looks good! Still going strong?
ReplyDeleteI think my sister needs to see this. She is vegetarian and eats a lot of soy, even though I've warned her about it. Maybe photographic evidence will help!
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