Kingston, I have an opinion for you that isn't very popular around here, but one that I have tested and found to be true from real experience in my life. It might help you understand why you didn't experience any of the changes you were looking for during your 30 day trials.
Here's my opinion in short:
30 Day Trials Don't Work.
I wrote a whole article on it on my blog (
Why 30 Day Trials Don’t Work | Inspired Money Maker - How To Make Money Doing What You Love ) but I'll try to summarize for you.
Firstly, in almost all cases of doing anything worthwhile such as quitting smoking, stopping drinking, improving your diet, starting to exercise, studying a martial art, etc. there are VERY VERY MINIMAL benefits experienced within the first 30 days of a new program like this. In a lot of cases within the first 30 days you actually feel worse than before you started.
In the case of dietary changes, the body needs time to adjust to the new diet, it needs time to be trained to accept the new nutrients etc. Basically if you're normally eating pizza and drinking pop, the body has adjust itself to handle that kind of food. You can't just feed it healthy food for a few days and expect the body to change it's entire structure and process.
When you do start eating healthier, the body will for example release stored toxins from your fat cells and put them back in your blood for the liver to filter out. This has the same effect on you as the first time you ate the toxins. So for example if you ate a Big Mac a year ago and the body couldn't handle the toxins in that big mac due to lack of nutrients, it stored the toxins in your fat cells to be removed at a future time. Now that you start feeding your body a healthy diet, the body will slowly try to release those toxins which puts them back in the blood.
I don't want to get too technical here but from all my studies on nutrition (I'm studying to be a nutritionist right now), and the consultations and chats I've had with my Naturopath, changing diets is not a process that happens overnight or even in a 30 day period of time.
So, that's the first flaw of 30 day trials. You experience MINIMAL benefits during the first 30 days. In my martial arts training, after the first 30 days all I learned was that I was definitely out of shape, not very flexible, not very co-ordinated, didn't know how to punch properly, and that people half my size could kick my ass quite easily. After 30 days of training, I didn't feel ANY more confident in my self-defence ability than I did when I started. However, 2.5 years later it's a different story.
So that's the first flaw.
The second flaw is that the human brain takes AT LEAST 21-30 days to form a new habit. During this time, it is often very difficult to keep yourself on-track with a plan. You have to exert a lot of mental discipline, you have to change some of your other habits affected as well, and it is not an easy time. It may not be until after 45 or even 90 days that your newly formed habit is actually quite effortless.
For example, when I did a 30 day trial back when I believed in them, I ran into problems like not having enough room in the fridge to store all the veggies I had because the fridge we had was too small. Eventually about a month after I finished my 30 day trial I was at a store and they had a big fridge for sale because it had a small tiny dent somewhere (I never saw it) so I bought it and now I had a "veggie fridge" which made things WAY easier, however I was already "Off" my 30 day trial by then.
This brings me to my second point about 30 day trials. The first 30 days are usually the HARDEST due to the fact that you have to form a habit, get organized, gather resources, allow the people around you to adjust, etc.
So, basically what a 30 day trial of ANYTHING does to you is that it gives you an UNREALISTIC picture of the thing you are trying out. It shows you how DIFFICULT it is to do the thing you're trying out, and simultaneously it shows you how LITTLE BENEFIT you get from it.
In my opinion, this is STUPID. It never worked for me, so after my 30 day trials I just ended up getting disheartened.
Since then I've formulated a new plan and I've been having way more success with it. If I'm going to try something now, I'll do it for 6 months or a year MINIMUM to give it a chance.
I did a 30 day trial of eating healthy food because someone told me I would have WAY more energy and I would also feel a much stronger spiritual connection. After 30 days I felt no such thing.
I did a 30 day trial of working out every day because I thought I could see results after just 30 days of working out. After 30 days I saw no results.
After 30 days of martial arts training I so no beneficial gain in self confidence or ability to defend myself. If anything, I was more scared of people than before because prior to training I thought I was actually more capable.
You seem like a very smart guy. Why not do more research on diets and nutrition so that you can get a feel for what is healthy and good for you and design a diet for yourself that you can follow for 6months or a year at least, and ideally for life. That's what I ended up doing.
I decided to just take a 2 year Nutrition course to become a nutritionist. In the course I've learned what I believe to be the truth about nutrition based on the latest research done by scientists, not biased by one specific doctor or corporate entity. On top of that I also studied many diets from different doctors and looked for what fits and what sticks out.
As of Jan 1st, I started on my new diet and exercise plan and I plan on sticking to it forever, with adjustments made to the diet after 6months or more.
Sorry for the long post, but it might help you out.
In my opinion, 30 day trials are only good for generating traffic to your blog.