- [Narrator] Previously on SoulPancake
does the Whole30 Challenge,
seven people in the SoulPancake office decided
to do the Whole30 Challenge together.
The last time we saw them, was getting real.
- So I'm here at Disney, and it's been okay so far.
I haven't bought any food here.
- We are out in here in the Los Padres National Forest
eating trailblazers, which is ground beef,
potatoes, carrots, jalapeno, onions, and red peppers.
- Whole30 Disney is going fine.
- So, apparently you are able to do the Whole30 and camp.
- [Narrator] Wait, Chelsea had no problem camping
on Whole30 and Kenzie thought Disney was fine?
It seemed like things were a little too easy for the group.
So we decided to make it more challenging
and push them to their limits.
We poked the bear, so to speak.
As they all headed to the conference room for a meeting,
Maggie and I put out some sweet and savory surprises,
and then we waited.
- Wait, what?
- You've just been pranked.
You guys were just pranked. How do you feel?
- I just cried and now you're putting cheese on my desk.
- You just cried?
- I did. It's been a really rough week.
I haven't eaten anything all day.
- All day?
- Yeah. And I just want to stress eat that cheese.
- I want the donut.
- You want a donut?
- I think it did say that we could smell food.
- Yeah.
- Guys, I feel like I can do this.
- [Narrator] Overall, we thought that went well
and we were pretty proud of ourselves,
but we did frustrate a few people.
Within our group of diligent dieters,
we have one special case study. Natalie.
As we know, Natalie didn't want
to exclude alcohol from her life for a month.
- I'm going to limit it to maybe one or two times a week.
- [Narrator] Which begs the question,
could wine be a gateway poison
that could lead her to unplanned slip-ups?
Upon further investigation, we uncovered this gif.
Could someone who believes such a truth really
keep themselves from indulging in taste-first foods?
So we dug a little deeper and you'd be shocked
with what we found on Instagram.
This picture looks innocent at first glance,
but never forget to check the caption.
"Baby bottle pop".
This next photo was like a Where's Waldo? game,
but after 47 minutes of hard looking, I spotted it.
A half-eaten cupcake.
Maybe it's not hers, but maybe it is.
Wait, what's this?
Olivia posting about Natalie?
Are they conspiring to cover potential cheating?
Because Natalie seemed to be on thin ice,
but Olivia, on the other hand, seemed to be doing fine.
- I think I'm gonna do it after Whole30 is done with.
I think I'm just going to reintroduce wine, duh.
- [Narrator] Without vlog footage,
people have a hard time keeping an eye
on this particular subject,
but we will continue to monitor her closely.
- So I'm setting up for our shoot tomorrow,
and this is what I'm up against for the next five days,
is all of this goodness right here.
- [Off-Camera] Do you think anyone
else has fallen off the wagon?
- If I'm being totally honest,
I feel like every single person
except for Tiffany has probably eaten at least one thing
and not told anybody about it.
- Probably there was slip-up when they were at a restaurant
and they were like, "Yeah, there's probably dairy in here."
- I think Oskar may have inadvertently
fallen off a few times.
He's been out to dinner way too much.
- Okay, so last week, I was having lunch
at the restaurant across the street
and I got all this breakfast food
which we're allowed to get there,
and out of habit, I went for the ketchup
and I just poured it on my eggs.
I swear to God, I didn't know,
I just did it out of habit.
I put ketchup all over my eggs and I ate them all.
And it wasn't until I was done with everything
that I realized that I just ate ketchup, which is forbidden.
I want you guys to know that I didn't make a choice
to eat ketchup, it just happened.
I didn't think to myself, I want ketchup.
I'm going to put it on my eggs
even though I know I'm not supposed to.
I just did it.
- [Narrator] Day 30.
Our participants have almost made it to the finish line.
For the final day of the Whole30,
a last supper was held by all the partaking SoulPancakers.
- It's been a really fun 30 days,
so let's do a little roundtable.
How did it go?
- My journey was really hard the first week and a half.
I kind of had a perspective shift,
and I was a little less hard on myself.
Then the last few weeks were smooth sailing.
- The Whole30 felt like it almost flew by for me,
especially the last two weeks
because everything was so busy,
so I'm almost disappointed that it's ending,
but I know that that's only the camaraderie part.
- I went on a family vacation
and we had dinner so many times
and I really couldn't eat anything, but you just say no
and then you eat later or you eat before.
- So I got this cyst and it got infected.
I've had it for a year.
When we started the Whole30, it started shrinking.
- You're kidding me. - I'm not kidding.
- You're kidding me. - It could be the Whole30.
- About a year ago, I got a blood panel done
and my TSH levels came back really high,
which is for your thyroid and the past year
it's always come back between a five and a seven.
Two weeks into the diet, I got another blood test done
and it was 3.5, for the first time in a year.
- Whoa.
- Yeah.
- That's wild.
- I feel changed. It had some very unexpected benefits.
- I was feeling a little more motivated because every day
I was accomplishing sticking to the Whole30.
- Whole30 plus is what we've been calling it.
It's the remix version with wine.
- I didn't really accomplish my whole
I want to be more disciplined and that kind of mindset.
- I feel a lot better, for sure.
Which I didn't think was going to be the case.
- I would totally recommend this
to anybody who is interested in trying.
- I think everyone should do it,
just to really look at the ingredients in your food.
- You are being conscious of your own health.
It kind of rubs off on other people a little bit.
- Everyone should be doing this.
Everyone should at least
take this step to be eating healthier.
- I do not think that I would recommend Whole30 to everyone.
My greatest struggle with it was
that it was very restrictive
and I also think it would be very demotivating
for a lot of people to go cold turkey so suddenly.
I think that if I ever kind of fell off the bandwagon
of these new routines, that I might go back and do it again.
- I would even do it again.
- Would I do it again? I don't know.
- I would do it again.
- February 2019.
- [Narrator] But now we get to the crux of our experiment.
Why do our SoulPancakers think it is so hard
to do things that are good for them?
- Having done the Whole30, I feel like it is stressful
to do things that are good for you.
- When you do something that's good for you,
sometimes you don't see the results right away.
- I think once you start setting goals for yourself
and have a challenge, it kind of opens your eyes.
- Hard work isn't fun or sexy. It sucks, you know?
- I think that it is hard to start new things
that are good for you, but we are honestly so adaptable.
- I think it becomes easier.
It's a muscle you have to exercise.
- [Narrator] Although skepticism still remains
among some of us, you can not deny
that everyone got some sort of benefit from the Whole30.
We are proud of our SoulPancakers
that completed this challenge and we encourage you
to start a new habit that's good for you.
Why do you think it can be so hard to do things
that are good for you?
Have you tried the Whole30?
What was your experience?
Let us know in the comments!
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