How to get started

Hola! 
I got a text this am from a friend who prompted this entry. A relatively healthy, athletic, female with all that conventional wisdom public education has given us, and a Master's degree to boot, but when she put it all together, it still wasn't jiving for her needs!

"I'm looking to do a nutrition overhaul for myself, tired of the same old stuff, lack of energy, etc. "

People are reluctant to change. People like routine and same old, same old even if they tell you otherwise.
That's the hardest part- change, not the "diet" itself. Paleo isn't a diet. You can live on it because it is not a restriction of calories, like other fad diets.


Here is the run down on how to start LIVING!

1. DETOX- as in "get rid of the crap". If it stays FRESH for longer than 2-3 days (excluding bananas- those buggers can stay ripe for a while), to the trash it goes, or donate it. For some, any food is good food! Don't waste.
1. Including dairy, anything in the pantry other than oils, spices, and such. Those crackers, cookies, bars, oatmeal, flour, candies, and chocolate other than >75%cacao
2. RETRAIN- Retrain yourself from that bad habit of grabbing a bag of chips before sitting on the couch to watch Dancing with the Stars. Have you ever got to work, then thought, "How did I get here?" Your brain makes patterns of recognition when you do a tasks repetitively. Having something engrained is true. Start a new habit! Something crunchy, carrots or kale chips!!!
3. START- Make your next meal, regardless of the day of week or if you have a party this weekend where you will be tempted with crap. There are no MONDAY'S to Paleo. Just begin at your next meal and you will see the difference. If your next meal was supposed to be spaghetti, still divulge, but make it spaghetti squash!

Give it 3 solid days of B/L/D. the fullness, belly bloat, and energy crashes (well, maybe this one takes a few more days) will be GONE.

Long story short-

Food pyramid as seen on Mark's Daily Apple

EAT- Fruits, Vegetables, and Meats.

Don't EAT- processed foods, dairy, things from a box, things that you can keep on your shelf for months and then eat, and, lastly, no alcohol. 

I know, I know. However, it's known that Clear aged Tequila is PALEO! 

Cheers!



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What's eating you? Part 1

Got milk? Ha, what a terrible joke. Sorry. 

Someone asked me about being paleo and nursing. I have been successful nursing/pumping/expressing for 9 months on a paleo diet. Though it hasn't been super-duper strict (basically because I have no time to prepare meals like I used to and eating tons of fruit) I still am paleo. I'm back to the straight and narrow for a few weeks and can tell a difference.

I have to say that Paleo eating is SIMPLE, if you have time. It's also SUPER expensive, if you don't plan, and it's STUPID ( i don't like using that word) if you think you can't eat Paleo!

Here's why....then I'll get to the breastfeeding part-

I'm going to talk to myself right now.....

Hypothetically speaking.....

What did you have for dinner last night?

-steak, greenbeans and mashed potatoes- 

Awesome choices- to make that meal paleo change the white potato to sweet potato and the green beans to squash. DONE.

What about breakfast? 

- cereal with milk, orange juice and breakfast bar 

 Here's where it gets tricky....

 no cereal

no milk

no juice from concentrate

 and no processed ANYTHING.

What do I eat?

-Make your own cereal

- 1/4 c raspberries

-1/4c blueberries

-1/4c almonds

-1/2 banana

-1/2 pecans

For MILK, use unflavored, unsweetened almond milk (NO SOYYYYYYYY; another rant later).

Or use applesauce (specifically applesauce you make yourself).

De-Freaking-Licious!!!

Or try this recipe from Marks Daily Apple

No oatmeal 

Get the drift? If not here is the low-down on Paleo. Try and make your next meal paleo and let me know what you think. If you don't know how to PALEOIZE it, comment. There are no useless questions!!!

How to make a meal paleo

1. Eat the colorful stuff from the produce section of the store. Produce means fresh (I won't get picky and say you can't have greenbeans and lentils and things. That is later.)

2. Eat the meat

3. Avoid anything that has more ingredients then what exactly it is. (ie. Twinkie. ingredients- sugar, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated blah blah blah...NO; carrots. Ingredients- CARROTS YES.. Ka-peesh??)