The New Whole30 The Definitive Plan to Transform Your Health, Habits, and Relationship with Food

And then we do some research and we do some digging and we're like, well that's dumb potatoes are whole real nutrient dense food like of course you can have potatoes on the Whole30.

we put together a 40-page PDF on how to do the whole three, it was essentially our seminar packaged down into PDF format, all of the stuff that we talked about, the science behind it, the big picture recommendations, the rules of the program, how to do it, tips for grocery shopping and meal planning and we put that all into a PDF and we sold it through our website for $39.99.

It didn't hit the New York Times bestseller list right away, it was published in June, but I got the call from my publisher in September that it had gained enough traction and it made the list which was huge. I never expected that.

I still felt like I had so much to say about the Whole30 and so many different pieces of advice and tips and resources I could offer down to just the most granular, oh I'm doing the Whole30 alone, my husband's not doing it with me like how, how should I go about this or what tips do you have, I'd so much to offer that the idea for the second book came up almost immediately after the first one was published.

And you guys wrote that book, but you also your partnership your marriage was was was kind of coming apart, and I again you know don't always talk about this on the show unless it's connected to the business and this was inextricably linked because the two of you had a business together, but your personal life was coming apart.

the book of Leviticus at points reads more like a Whole30 book than it does like a Scripture verse because all the dietary restrictions are there.