{"id":1911,"date":"2018-05-02T19:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:51:52","slug":"whole30-and-food-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"Whole30 and food news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whole30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1912 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whole30.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whole30.png 660w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whole30-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whole30-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/whole30.com\/\">Whole30<\/a>\u00a0in January and February of this year, and it pretty much changed my life. So much so that since then, I&#8217;ve listened to the audiobooks at least twice each (no, seriously, I have both <a href=\"https:\/\/whole30.com\/itstartswithfood\">It Starts with Food<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/whole30.com\/foodfreedom\">Food Freedom Forever!<\/a> on my Audible and I&#8217;ve listened to both recently, again), and I&#8217;m about to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/whole30.com\/whole30book\">The Whole30<\/a>. It&#8217;s amazing how different just eating real food has been. And it&#8217;s had an effect on my writing, which is why I feel I might be going overboard a bit in my love for it, but seriously, it has. So much so that I&#8217;m starting another round on June 1, not because I feel like I&#8217;m slipping (although by then, I might be) but because I want to enjoy all the fresh fruits and vegetables that will start coming in to the farmer&#8217;s markets, and because by then, I&#8217;ll have done my two cons and will need a bit of a reset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yes, this is a writing blog, but I wanted to talk about how your health in general affects your writing. While there is a certain weird glamour in being &#8220;artistic&#8221; and drunk\/stoned and generally unhealthy, in the long run, it doesn&#8217;t bode well for your creative endeavors. Seriously. Take care of your body, and you&#8217;ll be able to be creative for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t have to be Whole30, either. Find a lifestyle that works for you, and don&#8217;t get caught up in the minutiae of what you &#8220;Should&#8221; be doing. I know one writer who has a little foot pedal set-up in front of his couch. He bikes while he watches TV. Another writer I know runs (actually, quite a few of them do, now that I think of it). I&#8217;m hoping to get my bike going this summer, and getting a pair of roller skates. What about you guys? What are you going to do to get healthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I did a Whole30\u00a0in January and February of this year, and it pretty much changed my life. So much so that since then, I&#8217;ve listened to the audiobooks at least twice each (no, seriously, I have both It Starts with Food and Food Freedom Forever! on my Audible and I&#8217;ve listened to both recently, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1911\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,41,12,1,111],"tags":[81,78,7,60,112],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-personal","category-uncategorized","category-whole30","tag-food","tag-health","tag-life","tag-personal","tag-whole30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}