We would like to ask you to join our mission by taking the 10 Days of Real Food pledge. As you probably noticed, this website is about our family taking the 100 Days of Real Food pledge. If all four of us can do it for 100 days, I am convinced that absolutely anyone can do it for only 10 days. And what harm is there in trying?
On the other hand, if you feel the need to ease into things then check out our list of suggested alternatives on the rules page. These may help you get ready for the pledge or simply help you make some general changes for the better. However, if you want a true wake up call to just how pervasive processed foods are in everyday life, we believe there is no substitute for the pledge! We promise that your newfound perspective will be worth the effort.
Benefits of Taking the 10-Day Pledge
Upon completing your goal we predict you will gain the following:
- A first-hand, eye opening experience of how to identify the real food in our processed food world.
- At least one improved health benefit such as having more energy, losing weight, improving regularity, or just feeling healthier overall.
- The realization that some of those pre-packaged processed food-like substances don’t even taste that good compared to real food.
- The opportunity to teach your children (if you have them), by example, the healthiest way to eat and enjoy the food mother nature has given us.
- A congratulatory letter and complimentary gift – a silicone wristband debossed with “10 Days of Real Food” which you can wear to make sure all of your friends know what you accomplished!
- The ability to continue on with your life however you chose, but with the new knowledge of how and why to avoid processed foods. Hopefully your 10-day experience will convince you to consider making at least a few changes for life.
How to Take the 10-Day Pledge:
- Review the rules that you must follow for the full 10 days. In case you need some more convincing you may also want to review 10 reasons to cut out processed food.
- Complete the form below including your start date. We recommend that you take at least a few days or longer to plan and prepare your kitchen with whole foods so you have enough to eat once your mission starts. Also, consider boxing away the stuff that might tempt you to break the rules – we want you to succeed!
- We also recommend that you spend a few moments reviewing some of the tips and recipes on my other blog, The Food Illusion, to help you figure out what to eat along the way. Or, to make things easier, you can check out the concise list of real food meal ideas (that link directly to the recipes) on the Real Food Resources page of this site.
- Don’t forget to update your facebook status to let your friends know that you are starting the 10 Days of Real Food pledge so they can provide you with support and accountability!
- Once you have completed your 10-day pledge visit the Real Food Graduates page to tell us about your experience. We want to know how it went, keep track of how many people have come this far, and be able to send you your free gift.
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Great challenge. I certainly would like to swear off processed foods all together. 10 days seems like a great start.
Congrats on taking charge of your health! We are a family of six and when our 16 year old daughter started getting really sick from MSG (in ALL processed foods), we all started to eat only real foods. It’s been seven months now and although it was a really big adjustment, it is well worth it. Most of us now will not touch anything processed, mostly because we can now taste the chemicals in the food. Good luck!
I am so excited to participate – my husband and i have been very strict with our eating for the past 5 days – due to a medical condition, he cannot have salt, dairy, grains, chicken or seafood for 2 weeks…so we are only eating fruits, veggies and very little red meat….
Greetings, I am SSSSSOOO looking forward to the benefits of this pledge. Thank You in advance!
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Tomorrow I start the 10 day challenge. Doing this alone. Husband dragged in a bunch of really horrible processed foods for snacks yesterday. I brought home fresh fruits! I have a large garden with veggies and fruit. I have free-roaming chickens that supply my lots of eggs. We also raise beef cattle so good meat is always available. Going to miss my one daily soda the most.
Good luck to you….you can do it! The whole point of us doing this for 100 days is to convince people that 10 days will fly by…
I am not too awfully worried about it but it would be easier if I could just not have the crappy processed food in the house at all. Husband sure likes it though.
I don’t know if this is allowed, but if not, just delete this post. I am making my first blog and am going to blog about the 10 day challenge as part of my learning to blog. If anyone wants to follow my adventures in the 10 day challenge they can read about it in the Musings by Roxie blog.
Day one is here and there is a package of Oreo cookies on the counter whispering to me when I walk by. I should have made husband take them to work with him. Note to self: push him to take his junk food with him.
And Here we go! Very excited.
It is a great point!
Help – I don’t see the form for the pledge – I only see “Loading….” where I expect the form should be. I’ve tried both IE and Mozilla…Any help?
thanks!
Mary
Thanks for letting me know…it is fixed now!
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Hi there! I am thrilled to say I completed my 10 day pledge with flying colors and am wondering how I get my special achievement bracelet? Also, I am having trouble and wondering the easiest and fastest way to direct communication with you as I am very interested in joining the 100 day challenge (my 10 days feel like a tease and I feel amazing and want to take this to the next level!) but wanted to “chat” with yoiu about a few details first. I look forward to all of it! Take good care and have a wonderful day!
-Devonne
Good for you!! All you do is fill out the form on this page: http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/real-food-graduates/ and we will send you your wristband within a few weeks. Also, you can email me at info@fliggity.com. I try to respond to everyone within 24 – 48 hours.