I've been playing around with the idea of doing a Whole 30 for a few months now but haven't committed to doing it because 1.) it would be super hard and I'm not sure if I have that much determination and self control and 2.) my anti-veggie/fruit eating husband would definitely not be on board to do it with me so it would be extra hard to do it by myself and have to make different dinners and I'm not sure I have that much determination and self control!

Over Labor Day weekend when we were with family, we were talking about clean eating with my Aunt Beth who had just finished a Whole 30. I started thinking more seriously about doing it and asked if anyone wanted to do it with me. My mom and sister are both dealing with health issues that we think clean eating could help with and well, theres always the desire to shed a few pounds right? I was ready to commit but 30 days seemed daunting. Thats when we read over on M is for Mama that she was doing a 14 Day Clean Eating Challenge! 14 days seemed a lot more reasonable to us, so we decided to go with that! Ha.

My aunt had a great idea to create a facebook page for our challenge so I invited my aunts and female cousins around the country - Virginia, Massachusetts, Alabama, Texas, California and Oregon - to participate! The facebook page has already made it fun! We've talked about recipes, grocery shopping and today posted pictures of our last minute sugary indulgences before starting our clean eating tomorrow!

• No processed food (no canned soup, no fast food, no chips, no pre-made salad dressings, etc.)
• No sugar
• No dairy/limited dairy 
• No simple carbs (basically a reiteration of no sugar)
• No bread/tortillas/pasta/oats (with the exception of steel-cut oats) 
• Nothing to drink but water