Whole 30 Eating Plan

What you are saying makes sense. The website does not explain this at all.

i am allergic to dairy and I can't digest beans.. it took a while but I adjusted very well.. I

we don't need dairy, or beans or grains...

I have a niece who is quite an advocate for Whole 30.  I think she even has youtube videos about it.  I also have close friends/neighbors who have tried this with extended family to see if it might help with issues like chronic headaches, etc.--none of these people have needed to lose weight, nor have they done it as a weight loss vehicle.  My 83-yr-old mother has also been trying it for about a month.

Although Whole 30 has many similarities with other eating plans, it is basically an elimination diet.  You cut things out for 30 days, focusing on organic, unprocessed foods from the lists they provide. The goal is not weight loss, and it is not just healthy eating--the goal is to determine if there are things in our modern diet that affect your body adversely. 

The only way to see if that is the case is to eliminate these things for a period of time to clear your system, then gradually add them back in.  Although Whole 30 may have some detractors, eliminations diets themselves are not quackery--they are one of the oldest medical approaches to finding what ails you.  My 11-yr-old son has had severe GI issues since he was a baby, and we have done many elimination diets under medical advice from pediatricians, GI specialists, and allergy specialists to see if we can target his challenges.

As with any other elimination diet, after the elimination portion of the program, you then start adding things back in gradually, and you see if you have any strong reactions to any of the items.  This helps you target particular foods that your body might not tolerate well, and then you can choose to avoid them.  

What Whole 30 does is try to target many common trouble foods at once.  (Truthfully, it is not as restrictive as some medical elimination diets, but it is more restrictive than others.)

IMO, there is no harm in trying it.

Here is what I know from the people in my circle who have tried it:

--Niece.  I am not really close to her, but I know she does it every so often and includes her family in it.  She is a young mom with 4 children ages 2-9, so she must find some benefit to it to go to the effort of it.

--Neighbors and their extended family.  Very supportive family when it comes to helping each other.  They tried to see if this would help one aunt's and one daughter's migraine headaches.  It did seem to help the aunt, who overall just felt better in general, and she intends to keep following the Whole 30 food plan in general, though she does not follow it religiously every day.  The daughter's migraines did not go away with Whole 30--and she in fact felt more light-headed sometimes.  She went back to eating as usual, and they are working with doctors more to find solutions to her headaches.  My friend (the sister of the aunt and the mom of the daughter) felt like she "does better when I stay away from dairy."  So she has cut back on dairy, but not eliminated it entirely.

--My 83-yr-old mom.  She loves it, and feels like it has given her a new fountain of youth, with much more energy all around.

So, no harm in trying.   You may learn something about your body and yourself.