WildFit Review (2023): My Personal Experience – Was It Worth It?

Many of us are guilty of neglecting our health…

Maybe like me, you’ve tried fad diets in the past, you’ve eaten the wrong things (who hasn’t?!), or just generally not taken care of yourself in the way you know you should.

If so, the promises made by Eric Edmeades WildFit program could have caught your eye:

Lose weight, truly nourish your body in the way it needs, and even have fun doing it.

This is an eating program that promises to remove the “no pain no gain” motto once and for all.

But does it actually work?

I’ve taken WildFit in full and I’m going to share my results, along with everything I liked and didn’t like about the program.

Buckle up because we’re about to take a very deep dive into the WilFit eating program.

What is Wildfit?

WildFit is a three month health plan designed to help you lose weight, improve your energy levels, and basically feel better than ever before.

It was created by entrepreneur Eric Edmeades (more on him and his credentials later) and is available through the online learning platform, Mindvalley.

The biggest differentiator of this program is that rather than most diets and nutrition plans which are restrictive, its ultimate aim is to provide you with food freedom.

**Spoiler alert** In my experience, I’d say that it does achieve this…and it doesn’t.

Sorry for the contradiction. But I intend on being 100% transparent in this review, so you have all the info I think you need to make your own decision.

In many ways, Wildfit does give you greater freedom because it psychologically shifts your perspective on the food that you eat. Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom— the freedom that starts in your mind.

But at the same time, it can feel restrictive sometimes, as it suggests eliminating and adding certain things to and from your diet for optimal health (Coffee drinkers, prepare yourself!).

That’s because it is based on the premise that an optimal natural diet for us humans does exist. And it’s going to recommend that you follow this diet. Sadly that doesn’t include Reese’s peanut butter cups (apparently cavemen didn’t eat these, who knew?!).

As soon as you give the body what it really needs you naturally feel and look better as a consequence.

Why I decided to do Wildfit

I’m not in bad shape as you can see (that’s me above).

I try to stay fit and healthy. And whilst I am pretty active, I have always known that my diet can leave a lot to be desired at times.

I can end up skipping meals when I’m busy or stressed. I turn to “naughty” foods as a pick-me-up or for convenience. And junk food like soda, potato chips, and candy bars was an all too regular indulgence.

When I was younger, I’ll admit I was probably more concerned with how I looked rather than how I felt. But with age, feeling good in my body as well as looking good is more of a priority.

I guess the older I get, the more I realize that my health really is the most precious thing I can take care of. And that meant I needed to make some changes to my relationship with food.

I felt like I had this ingrained habit of associating food that was bad for me with pleasure.

After reading the marketing for WildFit, one of the things that most appealed about the program was that it mixes together nutritional science with behavioural psychology.

Basically, it rewires the way you think about food so that eating healthily doesn’t feel like a chore. You genuinely don’t want to eat the junk anymore.

And that sounded exactly what I was looking for — a sustainable lifestyle change rather than a quick fix diet doomed to fail because it relied on willpower that I quite frankly don’t have.

(BTW: I will reveal how well this worked for me in the section about my tangible results from completing WildFit.)

What is Mindvalley?

As I’ve mentioned Mindvalley already, I want to quickly explain what exactly it is, in case the platform is new to you.

Mindvalley is an online education platform that offers all kinds of courses on personal development.

We’re talking about a range of things from business, life, wellness, spirituality, fitness, and more.

They team up with world experts in their respective fields to create in-depth courses that help people learn and grow.

But rather than hard skills, their focus is slightly different. The founder of the site, Vishen Lakhiani explains it as providing you with all the life skills you should have learned at school but didn’t.

There are currently over 60 courses to choose from, and more are added all the time.

**Important info** Unlike pretty much the rest of Mindvalley’s programs, Wildfit is classed as a “partner program”. This is really important as it heavily affects pricing.

I am going to go into the cost and how you can access Wildfit very soon. But for now, I just want to highlight that WildFit is not available through the Mindvalley annual membership.

Who is Eric Edmeades?

Eric Edmeades is apparently known as the Indiana Jones of the speaker’s circuit because of his love of Africa.

Other than giving him a kick-ass nickname, his passion for Africa also provided what would turn out to be a lot of the basis for his WildFit program.

It was there where he joined bushmen and studied eating habits. He combined this with research on nutritional data, evolutionary biology, and functional anthropology…

And voila WildFit was born.

But rather than just coming at this from a science perspective, Edmeades himself had skin in the game.

He struggled for years with things like weight issues, bad skin, chronic fatigue, and constant throat and sinus infections. He says the thing that healed it all was simply changing his diet.

How much does Wildfit cost?

$899.

The reason I want to straight away —no messing around— tell you the price is that it took me far longer than it should have to learn this very basic fact.

I clicked on several pages and scrolled for what felt like an eternity to discover that WildFit will cost you $899 to purchase lifetime digital access to the course.

And let’s face it, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why they aren’t particularly forthcoming with this info right off the bat.

It is a lot of money. No matter how you package it up, that’s pricey.

So they understandably want you to read pages and pages about why it’s so awesome and see all the life-changing transformations of the people who’ve taken the course before hitting you with the price.

I’m not going to sit here and pretend that kind of money is loose change, when it is obviously a big commitment.

For me, the reasons I went ahead, despite the price tag, were:

• You get what you pay for. For someone who has joined rubbish gyms and not ended up even going, I do believe in the old adage that you get what you pay for.
• My health is my biggest priority right now. Maybe it’s hitting 40. Perhaps it is realizations that have come from the Covid pandemic. Who knows, but my overall health has increasingly felt so precious. I promised myself I would give it the prominence it deserves. And sometimes that means putting your money where your mouth is to see results.
• There is a 15-day money-back guarantee. This made me way more confident in at least giving it a go and seeing what I thought. If it was rubbish, I could always get a refund. I don’t think I’d have taken the risk without this reassurance to fall back on.
• I had a little bit of cash saved up. The one thing about the pandemic is that a lot of the things I had wasted money on, I no longer could because we were all on lock downs. So by some minor miracle, I had managed to put a little bit away. Yes, it’s a lot of money for most of us, and a lot of it will probably come down to our own personal circumstances at the time, and whether you can afford that investment or not.

**Note** I paid in full. You can pay in three instalments of $349 to make it more affordable and spread the cost. But then you will end up paying $1047 in total rather than $899.

Is Wildfit available with the Mindvalley Membership?

Sadly not.

The Mindvalley membership gives you access to pretty much all of their entire catalog of programs for $499 a year…with the exception of Lifebook and WildFit.

It’s obviously a real shame. But what I will say in their defense is that WildFit is much longer than the typical Mindvalley program — lasting 3 months. So you do feel like you are getting a lot for your money.

Wildfit is not technically a Mindvalley product, I think that’s the problem. It is a so-called partner program and so only hosted by Mindvalley, rather than made in-house.

What to expect doing Wildfit?

Ok, so how does WildFit actually work? And what is it like doing Wildfit?

Let’s start with some important basic facts about the course:

• The program is spread over 3 months (90 days).
• It’s broken down into daily video lessons and tasks to complete, that can take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. But if that sounds like a lot, don’t worry, that includes things like Q+A’s and pre recorded coaching sessions. I personally didn’t always watch them all. The daily essential videos are more like 20 mins long.
• Each day you also get some simple tasks to complete (for example, “drink 6-8 glasses of water” and “Continue to remove dairy”)
• You get accompanying PDF’s to download providing you with information like food guidelines and guidance on recipes.
• There is an online community that I really suggest you join for support and motivation throughout the program.

What does WildFit teach you?

Lasting 3 months, it’s obviously a really thorough program, so it’s not easy to briefly summarise quickly. But I’m going to try.

In this program:

• Don’t expect to do exercise. It’s a fitness plan that heavily focuses on your diet and how you fuel your body. The only exercises you will do are breathing ones. If you’re wondering why, it’s because countless scientific studies have proven how beneficial mindful slow breathing is for our entire nervous system.
• Think of WildFit as a nutritional re-education program. The biggest focus is on making gradual and long-lasting changes to your overall attitude when it comes to food and diet. This isn’t about quick fixes.
• The psychology of why you eat the way you do is a big feature of how this course works. For example:
  • Dissecting the emotional connection you have with food.
  • Looking hard at your eating habits.
  • How marketing and advertising are controlling your food choices.
  • How our childhood creates unhealthy and unconscious attachments to food that doesn’t serve us.
• In line with what Eric Edmeades’ research concludes is the optimal diet, you will systematically eliminate and introduce certain foods. The overall diet you can expect to be eating by the end of the program consists of about 65% of your plate being plant foods and about 35% made up of meats, fats, and oils.

My results after doing Wildfit

For something that isn’t meant to be about weight loss, they talk a lot about weight in the marketing pages of WildFit.

In fact, it’s jam-packed with people showing their before and after pictures and talking about how much weight they’ve dropped. But I totally understand why.

A lot of people are undoubtedly motivated to change their diet because they want to shed some pounds. I think that’s perfectly normal.

But that wasn’t my stand-out result.

I did lose some weight. And I felt more trim in general. My clothes fit better and I just felt more toned I guess. But I didn’t lose loads of weight for the reason that I didn’t have a lot of weight to lose going into this.

So for me, my two biggest takeaways from finishing the course were:

1) Increased energy levels. Feeling less tired, and feeling like my immune system was stronger.

2) Not reaching for that 3pm candy bar to keep me going for the rest of the afternoon. Not feeling the desire to “treat myself” at the end of a hard day by turning to foods that ultimately do more harm than good. In short: a change in my attitude towards what I eat and why.

I know it probably doesn’t sound as flashy to put on the marketing page, but honestly, my most significant results were in the long-term attitudes I’ve held about food.

But I think that’s why so many other nutrition plans probably fail, because they’re trying to address the symptoms without tackling the root cause.

The pros and cons of WildFit

For me, the main pros of WildFit were:

• How in-depth the program is, tackling the psychology behind healthy eating, not just the nutrition of it. To be fair, you do get a lot for your money.
• How effective it can be for general weight loss as well as your overall health.
• How sustainable it is as an ongoing lifestyle change. This isn’t just another fad diet.
• The 15 day hassle-free money-back guarantee which lets you try it yourself without any commitment.
• It makes you the master of your food choices, revealing how we’re controlled by marketing and advertisements promoting junk food.
• It’s not just about your fitness and diet, you will probably experience other benefits like better focus, more energy, better sleep, better skin, looking younger, etc.

Unfortunanately, Wildfit has some pretty big cons which you need to be aware of before you sign up:

• The price tag of $899, and not being able to access it through the Mindvalley Membership.
• The 3-month commitment. I actually liked how long the program was. You cannot reprogram habits of a lifetime overnight. But for some people they might be put off by the time frame.
• You’re encouraged to make diet changes that can feel restrictive at times. It should come as no surprise that you’ll be asked to give certain things up. It’s not magic. You will be told to eliminate things from your diet. Sometimes this felt easier than other times. I was happy to increase my water intake, I was far less happy to moderate my carb intake. I guess in reality there really is no gain without a little bit of pain along the way.

Who will like Wildfit?

In general, WildFit will be a good fit for anyone who wants to improve their overall health and well-being.

One of the obvious shiny results from WildFit is weight loss. So, I’d definitely say it will attract people who want to get rid of stubborn fat.

But, importantly, in a responsible way. I really think it’s great for people who are sick and tired of yo-yo diets and the damaging effects of the more shallow led diet culture in society.

Rather than beating yourself up, it’s about making better choices and arming you with the tools to do that, rather than relying on willpower alone.

If you are ready to dive deeper into your food habits and unlearn a lot of the crap you have been stuck with since a young age, I think you’ll really enjoy WildFit and get a lot out of it.

Who won’t like Wildfit?

Let’s be realistic. A lot of us want change, but we deep down we also want magic wand waving change.

I say that with zero judgement. This has been me time and time again in the past. We all know deep down that being healthy is always going to involve time and effort. This program isn’t going to let you short-cut that.

After stumping up the cash, you aren’t going to get much out of it if you don’t have the time or strong enough inclination to see it through.

The daily lessons are brief, and I think even busy people should be able to comfortably schedule them.

But I think before stumping up the money for WildFit it’s always worth having an honest word with yourself to decide, will I get my money’s worth and commit to this program?

The only other reason I think you might not enjoy WildFit is if you are vegetarian or vegan. Personally, I’m not.

The program says it is suitable for you even if you are, but at the same time, the “ideal” diet this program promotes does include certain meats and fish.

You obviously don’t have to eat it to follow the program (neither is this a core feature of WildFit), but I think it’s worth giving you a heads-up that it will be suggested as part of a so-called balanced diet.

Is the Wildfit program worth it?

I’m not someone who sits on the fence about things. So I can decisively say that yes, for me, doing Wildfit was worth it.

But neither am I someone who blindly focuses on only the good and ignores the bad.

So for me it was worth it, despite the $899 price tag, the obvious time commitment of 3 months, and being asked to forfeit some things that were deeply ingrained habits (particularly my alcohol and coffee consumption.)

This program isn’t without sacrifices. So why do I confidently say it was worth it?

For the reason I invested in it in the first place — my health matters most to me.

I decided to put it first for the sake of my overall well-being. And WildFit delivered on this.

I do feel healthier. I can see the improvements in the mirror from changing my diet, but more importantly to me, I feel the difference on the inside.