New Things

Hi folks!

It's me, your trusty Paleo lover. This week has been good. It started as you all know with the farmers market and great finds there but it just got better. Not because of anything specific but because it's a new week.

Paleo is an adventure that I see as an adventure. I will have my good journeys and my bad ones and I will get lost and I will find friends along the way and I will find rivers and I will be bored with the scenery at certain points.

But all in all this week is good. TMI alert: I had my period and that made Paleo a little more challenging. We ventured to a different dining hall and I was BEGGING (in my head) for cookies. I resisted and instead got dark chocolate from my desk drawer and that hit the spot just right. 

I have had two long days in a row and I found that I was a little hungry all day but mostly because the food options were uninspired and boring. This morning I had fruit for breakfast, a big plate of fruit, before a breakfast meeting, at the breakfast meeting, I ate a mound of bacon. I got strange looks but I'm finding that I love explaining the lifestyle and how it has worked for me. I'm enjoying educating others while I'm being educated.

I went and lifted yesterday morning AFTER my walk with Stella, which felt great. I'm seeing some real differences in my jeans, definition in my arms and legs. I just all around feel better. Even right now, I'm sleepy but I'm not exhausted the way I was when I was eating gluten. 

Eating this way, I'm finding that I want less amounts of food. It might be boredom but I just eat less and move on through my day without severe hunger.

I'm finding in my third week that it is getting easier and that my cravings are going away and I'm looking at gluten, grain, and processed foods differently. I'm not convincing myself I'm missing something outstanding or that I won't be living if I don't eat that piece of pound cake. I'm really convincing myself that I just feel better. I feel good and clean and energetic and plain old myself. Almost my 20 year old self or maybe even younger. Who knows.

I know I haven't lost any weight since last week but I kind of no longer care. I'm seeing this as a benefit in ways I didn't think a "diet" could benefit me.

Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for more!