Engine 2 Diet Immersion

This past week and weekend at the Retreat at Balcones Springs, we hosted Engine 2, a plant-based dietary group based out of Austin, Texas. Approximately seventy Whole Foods employees from all over the country entered our gates last Wednesday for the Engine 2 immersion program, spending seven days eating a plant-based, Engine 2-designed diet, exercising, and having their cholesterol and blood pressure tested to measure the effectiveness of the Engine 2 program.

Aside from eating specially-crafted meals designed by Engine 2 and prepared by our retreat's renown chefs, our Engine 2 guests had time to take full advantage of everything our property has to offer, going running, playing tennis, paddle boarding and kayaking on our private lake, and even taking a ride down the zip line!

The Engine 2 diet is a vegan-based diet that also eliminates all plant-based oils (olive oil, coconut oil, flax seed oil, etc.), salt, processed sugars, and refined grains. We hope to have picked up some healthy cooking and eating habits from Engine 2 over this last week that we can apply to future events at our retreat and maybe even to summer camp!