Last night was tough for me — I craved something sweet. What I wanted was ice cream — what I had was an Apple Pie Larabar and some cashews. Not quite the same but I figured my body was trying to tell me about something it needed and might as well choose something healthy.
In my head – I have this feeling that I am eating too much lately. It’s all good, healthy, clean food and from what I am reading — its more about the approach to eating than limiting what you are eating, at least while you are getting used to it.
As someone who does not own a scale, nor the desire to own one — I have to wait and see on Monday – thats the day that Mikey, my trainer requires us all to get on the scale. I don’t agree with that approach but it’s part of his program so I oblige. Should be interesting to see how this 3rd week of Paleo affects the scale — if it does. I am not going to lie and say I don’t want to lose more weight — but if I don’t, I do feel so much better overall. So if nothing else — I know I have the power to make changes that improve my quality of life! We all know numbers on the scale are just that numbers –they are not who we are —
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I actually have down lowish carb (similar to paleo, but with nuts and dairy) a few times before and have felt fantastic. It’s amazing how getting the grains out of my diet helps me feel better. Maybe I do have some sort of gluten sensitivity (I guess the paleo theory is that most everyone does), I discovered in my last foray, that I don’t respond well to truly low carbs (less than 50 g per day). Somewhere between 50-100 g per day seeme to be my good spot. One reason I think I’m laid up with a cold right now is because I’ve been such a slacker with the healthy living for the past few months.
I’m interested to see what the scale says for you on Monday. Does your trainer take measurements as well? Do you? I find that’s always much more indicative of how I’m doing since muscle is heavier than fat, but takes up less space.
Btw, I love love love Larabars. They taste great and I love that their ingredient list is so simple.
3 weeks…wow! I tried my first Larabar the other day…pretty good, for what it is!
My husband is down 6lbs, on his 4th day…grr! BUT he was eating horrible CRAP every day, so he’s got a head start on his body needing to re-program…at least that is what I’m going with!
I weighed in on Wed nite (it had been 2 weeks since then, that I weighed in) and I was the same (BUT I’m sure I gained more weight before I started Paleo on Monday…and I feel so much better already.
Keep up the good work, I’m interested to see what Monday AM brings for you!