So MUCH INFORMATION! And some REAL fun!

Ok, for the real fun.  This blog~ Free The Animal is AMAZING!  This post (the one I linked to) is amazing!  Its not for the faint of heart, and he's got a pretty strong foul moth (I LOVE HIM) If I weren't already happily married to my own foul mouthed man, I would propose!  He pisses EVERYONE off at some point or another, yet he makes the most sense out of EVERYONE that is writing about Paleo or Primal or any other sort of Caveperson diet.  A direct quote from this particular post "Get good sleep, give your lover a decent fucking, and laugh at anyone and everyone who wants to prescribe a life for you, especially as concerns politics and its whores."
The message?  EAT REAL FOOD.  Eat it and enjoy it. Live life.  Don't let people peg you into one single way of eating. but eat REAL food. no crap.

I've been trying to figure out how to calculate how many calories I need to eat in order to get to my goal weight. I need to figure out how to eat what I feel I need to be satisfied.  Then I had someone remind me. Calculate the calories a person needs to be at your goal weight and maintain.  Go from there!  WOW! What an amazing idea!?!  How could I have forgotten about that?

So~ I have a calorie intake that I am gearing for.  1900 calories a day to be a sedentary 175 pound woman. that is TOTALLY doable!  Make sure I get enough protein, enough fat and TONS OF VEGGIES!  I can eat for days and never get to my max 70g of carbs in a day.  Especially since I only get those carbs from REAL food.  Non starchy Veggies, a minimal amount of fruit (because its GOOD), good quality protein and good FAT! yes... FAT!  Coconut oil is my current fat of choice.  that and butter. 


I will be starting to do a meal planner for the week~ My breakfasts and lunches are easy.  I can eat the same thing almost every day and be happy.  Dinner needs to be different sometimes. BUT I think I've tried to be TOO different sometimes.  Back to basic home style cooking, just tweaking it a bit to make it paleo/primal.  My family can eat the pasta and whatever else they want, and I'll eat what I eat. it will be similar, but different for the most part.  I'll use two pans to make a skillet meal, or they can learn to like what I cook.  Even if I use veggies. 

Carb Control

I have found it easier and easier to control the amount of carbs that I ingest on a daily basis, and still get a great amount of fiber!! I need to look at getting more and more frozen veggies into the freezer as well.  This is going to take some organization for sure.  Perhaps the fridge freezer will be for my planned weekly meals, and the big freezer will be for the stocking up of those foods. 

I need to get out there and pull some of the great frozen veggies that I know are in there and start USING them! I can make soups and stews and simple things like that to eat.  It doesn't always just have to be a meat course, and two veggie sides.  Time to start using the great recipe archives I have on hand here on the computer as well as in cook books.  I have tons of fresh and frozen foods that I can be making myself meals with!  My only problem is that I'm always worried that my family wont like it, or my husband is going to start pushing back at the way I've been cooking.  He already rolls his eyes when I talk about how I've been eating, or what I've cut out of my diet, or when he sees my plate for dinner with my salad that covers over half of my plate, some meat and a cooked veggie. 

I'm keeping the carbs low for a few weeks to see if that will jumpstart some weight loss.  I know that I've lost inches, but I am overweight enough to know that I need to loose pounds as well.  LOTS of pounds.  When I started my weight loss 'battle' I weighed 250 pounds.  My goal is 170 pounds by the end of 2012.  That's a total of 80 pounds to have lost.  I've lost 8 of those pounds so far.  That is 1/10th of my goal =)  I say thats pretty good, especially since I've been doing this mostly on my own, with zero support here at home.  My dr says to do whatever works for me to loose the weight and get healthy.

I got my workout done today~ Feels great.  I honestly cant wait to do my workout tomorrow as well.  More squats, lunges and some shimmy drills for sure.  Need to get those layers down!!!  I can shimmy with the best of them, but getting the other parts of my body to do movements on top of those shimmy's is what I'm going for.  LAYERS! 

I'm excited to have joined the new forum "Being Primal" and am enjoying the course material that he has to offer, and I cant wait until more people get active and start sharing their tips, tricks, recipes, and more. 

I'm hoping to get a decent night sleep tonight.  my belly feels full, but I didn't over eat.  I added my coconut oil to my chili instead of having it on the side with coconut milk.  It was a nice addition, and I think it helped me feel fuller faster.

Time to get the kids into bed~ Then a shower for me and into bed myself.  Or at least to watch a show. 
And here is a picture of a REAL strumpet from StoryVille in New Orleans. 

What is Primal/Paleo?? Diagram

Found this diagram while looking at Pintrest.com
Its from http://www.uncommonwellness.com/ultimate-guide-eating-paleo/


I cant seem to get it to load up here on blogger so here it is~  http://pinterest.com/pin/146085581632785892/

A diagram of what I do and how I eat!!


I'm feeling pretty good!!
Had 4 slices of bacon this morning with my cup of coconut milk, oil and manna~
Drinking water and feel GOOD. I feel light and ready to take on the day.

I've done my 30 min of dance and HIIT workout~ I could go more, but would like to be able to do some tomorrow too. Its been over a week since I've done much in the way of fitness, I don't want to kill myself on day one!! I did ok on my squats, abs and even shimmies and other body drills that I work myself through. I need to make a better list because I always seem to forget... whoops! I broke a light sweat and my heart rate was up and down quite a few times (this is GOOD) I didn't loose it all! =)

I've got my lunch planned out, but I've got hours before I'm even hungry!! =) I can already tell!

Off to the sewing machine for me~ Lets see if I can get my back orders out and some new stuff sewn by the end of the week!!! I've got a show at the end of the month! Must have goodies to sell!

Leptin Reset~ Some thoughts~ Rambling thoughts...

Really~ this is a ramble that runs all over the place~ My thoughts sometimes make better sense to me as I type them out.  This is what I'm doing.  Don't feel as though you need to even read it. ahahah

So, I've been doing the Leptin Reset for 8 days now.  Pushing huge breakfast, some days eating lunch, others not.  Yesterday I felt like I almost died when I got my migraine and honestly feel pretty crappy today. I'm struggling to recover from my own body!!

I'm fighting with the lack of fitness.  My workouts are done best in the morning, AFTER I eat breakfast.  I prefer a much LIGHTER breakfast and a moderate sized lunch.  Dinner doesn't have to be big at all.   I'm questioning my reasoning behind doing the reset now.  I know that I have to give it more than a week to even see if there is a change, but I'm not feeling it.  I was feeling a low carb primal eating style.  My veggies have been cut by 3/4 and I DON'T like that feeling.  I've had acid reflux the last 3 days and haven't changed my way of eating.  

I honestly believe that this reset is for people who haven't been eating paleo/primal for a while, and are needing that jump start to the body repair. Mine was already started, and I dont feel that this was the right step for me.  I want to feel good, not lethargic and half dead.  I want to have a well rounded diet including lots of veggies and a few fruits.  I can cut back on my nut intake, I quit buying macadamias because I was eating them all the time. 

I'm thinking... that since I seem to change everything every week anyway, why not do it again.  Keep with eating when I feel hungry, not over stuff my body with protein first thing in the morning.  I honestly believe that my body was well on its way to healing itself before I started messing with everything by changing things constantly.  I'm going to eat how I feel to eat.  Sauteed veggies and eggs in the morning.  Salad or left over dinner for lunch and whatever I make for dinner.  I'm going to work on no snacks, because I could graze all day and be pleased.  Its a matter of feeding my hunger or boredom~  I have a handle on my hunger and boredom now. 
I dont do chronic cardio, I love my HIIT workouts with rocofit.com and honestly feel WAY better and WAY more energized when I am eating properly and working out.  I was getting results before, I was just ignoring them.  Why not just be who I am and do what I need to do?  I have ZERO thoughts of changing my way of eating back to anything near standard.  Grain is gone gone gone.  refined sugar is gone gone gone.  My old way of thinking and eating is GONE GONE GONE!  I cant obsess about every bite I eat.  I cant feel sick constantly because of what I'm trying to get my body to do.  I need to do what I need to do in order to feel good.   I DON'T FEEL GOOD.

My face feels thinner when I touch it. My body feels smaller, I see myself differently.  I refuse to give up and I will continue to eat super healthy good for me food. I FEEL DIFFERENT.  

I really need to get hubby to take some fat pictures of me today.  My mirror is too small to get any sort of decent pictures.  I need to measure again in the morning and get some base line measurements.  I will be adding my bust, under bust, thighs, and arms to my neck, waist and hips measurements.  I'm going to move on with my life and not obsess constantly about what I am or am not eating.  I dont eat tons of carbs.  I keep em pretty low.  BUT I NEED more veggies in my diet, and stuffing myself with so many proteins in the morning is cutting out breakfast plant food, lunch plant food and doesn't leave much in the way of space to eat plant food and not feel over stuffed when I want to eat my protein at dinner time.

Primal/Paleo is NOT a fad 'diet' to me.  It is a way of life, a way of eating and a way to heath. I just need to let it keep moving and let it take me where I need to be.   I need to just get on and enjoy the ride.  Quit obsessing and be me.  Let it work.  It shouldn't be this hard.

Paleo Magazine~ Does anyone Subscribe?

They have a discounted pdf version as well. I have downloaded the latest issue~

www.paleomagonline.com/

Looks like a GREAT magazine with lots of info and recipes! *YUM*

LR~ Day 9~ No blog Yesterday

I was going to blog yesterday evening, but went down at about 345 in the afternoon with a migraine. I was inches away from having hubby take me to the urgent care. I haven't had one like that in a VERY VERY long time. This one was vomit inducing. I had a handful of almonds at about 8 pm so that I could take another pain pill and my other pills, and was out for the rest of the night. I was STARVING, but any time I tried to eat anything, it would just come back up.

I'm shoving my 50g of protein down right now, but blarg. I'm going to eat this, and take a shower. I'm still in a hazy daze of blah.

My mom brought me some 'swiss steak' from where she works as a cook at a 'frat' type house. says, "you can rinse the wheat breading off, but the sauce should be fine" Really mom? You are a pro cook and you dont realize that there is wheat in ALL of the sauce and has been cooked INTO the meat itself? *face palm* At least she thought of me.

Making tacos for dinner tonight. I'll have taco salad. YUM. Then if I make enough taco meat, I can have that in my eggs! or just have another taco salad for breakfast!

What an exciting day! haahahah

Dance class tonight. I'm excited! Missed last night (for obvious reasons)~

Its What's For Dinner~

"Fluffy Coconut Waffles" with whipped cream, sliced strawberries and BACON!
SO GOOD! Made a few pancakes and decided that I didn't want them, I wanted WAFFLES! I have a belgin waffle maker, so I filled one of the quarters with the batter and let her go~ Would love to have had them more crispy, but so good! I ended up doing the rest in the waffle maker. I have them to put into the toaster for tomorrow too =)

LR Day 7~ Whew~

I thought it was going to be harder to stick to this experiment!!

This morning (ok just before noon, I slept in) I had left over 'pizza' and made more than my goal for my 50g of protein!! Yes, the pizza crust is made from chicken breast as well as mozzarella cheese! Entire family loved it!!! Check out yourlighterside.com for TONS of low carb and healthy recipes!!

I'm making waffles tonight for dinner. I will be making coconut flour pancakes for myself. though, you never know, I may pour some of the batter into the waffle maker to make good waffles! Then I can put butter and coconut manna on them!! AND strawberries and whipped cream... *drool*
Of course there will be bacon on the side. I imagine that hubby will have an egg and bacon sandwich. I guess that means I need to go and get some bread today O.o

I am kinda in a fog right now~ Slept too much perhaps, or it was the muscle relaxer I took last night. (was getting a neck tension headache)

Must get to the bank and do a few other things... I think I need to hit the fabric store too~ Both kids need hair cuts as well... *sigh*