Paleo Update

Hello to my faithful followers. Sorry to be MIA for over two weeks, this new eating lifestyle has kinda taken over in the beginning. However I now have a good rhythm. Speaking of which I love my 'diet'! It has helped in so many ways in areas like

• Better sleep
• Clear head
• Weight loss
• Less grouchy with the boys in my life

These benefits have out weighted the hurdles of changing my diet. I really and truly don't miss grains (except for pizza), I really don't miss sugar at all, and even though I will be continuing this lifestyle past my 30 days I will be having full dairy, full sugar, full grain CHEESECAKE for my birthday!

Anyway I have been experimenting with different things for meals and my staples for sure are

• eggs
• assorted raw nuts
• fruit
• cut veggies
• lettuce/spinach
• rotisserie chicken
• beef stew meat
• veggie stir fry
• Paleo quiche 
• Chicken stir-fry 

I will be sharing some pretty yummy recipes that I have tried this month. They are forth coming. If you have some yummy paleo friendly recipes I'd love to share them! Let me know!!

Going Paleo

I have for a while been trying to loose weight. Now I can't full blame any of diets because I haven't followed them to the letter. But I have been doing some searching and keep hearing about the Paleo diet. At first I said
 NO WAY I am not giving up grains and dairy.
I can give up sugar and legumes no problem. But I love my cheese and bread. So after reading about my friends' testimony about following Whole30 program. I was inspired by her changes, but did nothing. However last week I checked out The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
from the library and was intrigued. 

Now to fully believe in the Paleo lifestyle mean believing in evolution as the site the 'cave men' who lived 10,000 years ago and hunted and gathered. This I don't believe, I believe things started with creation as stated in Genesis 1. But the theory applies still, people still hunted for meat, had no sugar, the grains they ate were obviously not GMO. 

So I am going Paleo, which means I eat ONLY real foods - 

• meat-pasture raised, grass-fed, free-ranged
• seafood - wild caught
• eggs - omega3 enriched
• tons of vegetable - organic if possible
• some fruits- organic if possible
• plenty of good fats from fruit, nuts oils and seeds- raw nuts, extra virgin oils

This also means I DO NOT eat - 

• no grains of any kind 
• no sugar real or artificial {some folks make a honey exception}
• no legumes 
• no alcohol 
• no dairy
• no white potatoes

Sound crazy, well maybe I am a bit, but what could it hurt?

The possibility of being healthier, losing some weight and have more energy 

Why not!

What do you think about Paleo?

Motivation

So as I have stated, I want to have a new body. My ultimate goal is to be lean, tone, and healthy. However, being a new mom and trying to make healthy changes isn't a walk in the park. Two word Sleep Deprivation. OK well maybe not total sleep deprivation, but not getting your normal night of continual sleep makes it hard to stick to things. For instance, eating clean and exercising require time. However when your baby is fussing and you are tired it is SOOO easy to do what is easy. Like for breakfast cereal, or nothing at all for that matter (yes I know as a breastfeeding mom I need to eat my breakfast!) is easier than making steal cut oatmeal (which take 30 mins!) or eggs. This is just one way that it is easy for me to do what is easy. But I know that I will never have the lean, tone healthy body and life I want if I don't make the time. So I make a point to go to my closet and look a particular brick red button front knee length dress, and say " If I want to fit in you and look fabulous I must make the time!" I have made this dress my motivation, that and reading the amazing success stories from the Oxygen magazine. So what is your motivation for being healthy?

New Body

So I am ready to get back to pre-baby, pre-marriage, pre-college weight! If you type in "weight loss" in Google, OMG what you will find. Promises of 15 lbs in 15 hrs and other crazy things like that. As much as I would LOVE to loose weight that fast I know it is at all healthy. I have been looking into a lifestyle change not a quick fix. So I was super excited about the Eating Clean Diet. Writer and figure competitor Tosca Reno has some really good books on eating clean. I love what I have read. I know that it will make me healthier and fit. Which is the most important thing. So here it to my new body.

I promise to be kind to the current one, no negative thinking, or criticism. I promise to feed my body healthy wholesome fresh food. I promise to move my body in exercise. And I promise to have a positive and happy outlook no matter how fast or slow the weight come off! OK!