5/10 Whole Life Wednesday & Happy Birthday Meg!

Alena has been consistently working out and doing the weekly lifestyle challenges. Keep up the good work girl! 
This week's lifestyle challenge is to eliminate dairy for a week. Starting today and ending next Wednesday we encourage you to go dairy free. The instructions are simple: 

1. 1. For the next seven days, you’ll avoid dairy products completely — a small experiment to see how it makes you feel, both mentally and physically.
2. Think less about the fact we’re omitting dairy, and more about the idea of creating a practice of quasi-scientific curiosity about your health. What happens if you change one small thing about your health habits for a short period of time? What do you learn?
3. We’re not differentiating between dairy products this week. Although the Challenge’s food rules allow some (like butter, yogurt, whey protein, and kefir) on some Nutrition Levels, we’re experimenting with a blanket “no-no” this week. This means you’ll omit everything dairy — milk, butter, ice cream, sour cream, yogurt, etc. 

I, and the WLC folks, think this is an important lifestyle practice because:

Success at lifelong habit change begins one habit at a time, and it stands on the willingness to change small things about your life. Often, it requires us to disrupt the automatic patterns we’ve adopted, dietary and otherwise.

We believe the greatest success often comes through “baby steps” — picking a single thing to change (for a limited duration) and paying careful attention to how you’re affected. Once you understand the effect, you can make the personal choice to continue with that change or go back to the way things were.

We picked dairy for this Habit Practice due to several factors:
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• While omitting it from your life may be difficult, it likely doesn’t feel impossible, making it a great first step with self-experimentation.
• In many of its forms, dairy can provoke an inflammatory effect in the body, and omitting it may result in feeling less achy and stuffy in a very short period of time.
• While conventional wisdom holds that dairy intake is necessary for skeletal health, we dispute that conclusion. Instead, we hold that dairy products should be evaluated on their propensity to be inflammatory, acid-forming, and indigestible for some people.

This week, you can join us in this small-scale experiment. It’s a great way to see how dairy affects you, as well as solid practice for the upcoming Challenge. Best of all, it’s a bona fide “baby step” — the precise move you’ll want to master if you’re committed to changing your life.

The Whole Life Challenge asks you to examine your life through a different lens – your physical health, your emotional health, and your overall lifestyle. This eight-week challenge will improve your daily habits, leaving you happier, healthier, and more in control of your outcomes.

Today we are continuing our Murph prep. Have you officially signed up for The Murph Challenge? Coach Jennisse is leading our Memorial Day Murph Challenge on Monday, May 29th at 10:30am. That will be our only class on Memorial Day Monday. 
Today's Workout 

Happy Birthday Meg!

We hope your special day is filled with love, laughter and a few burpees!