A few words come to mind when referring to week 3 of paleo: frustrating. annoying. wasteoftime.
Frustrating and annoying derangement
I received my results from a hormone check I had before I started the paleo challenge. Ok I actually have had my results for a while, I have just been confused by them. I am not going to go into too much detail here, you know - too much information and care factor=zero and all that, let’s just say I am now googling terms like insulin resistance and hormone elevations and derangement.
After many online searches and the resulting self-diagnosis, I am stating to you I am no longer on a ‘30 day paleo challenge’. I am now on a ‘paleo for the rest of my life challenge’. Fun times.
Weight loss will be a challenge for me, evidently I lost and gained 100 grams this week. But I am pretty smart (and by that I mean, I am good on the interwebs and google searches) so I will work out a way to drop my pesky pounds and maintain.
I will even find out the best way to have a few very naughty and very occasional treats such as cheese and crackers, lemon tarts, beer, pizza and ham and cheese croissants.
And maybe one day too I can feature as paleo testimonial porn and be no longer hormonally challenged.
Wasteoftime
This week I had a bit of sads and woe is me’s. I ate a few too many paleo banana and berry muffins (I will post the recipe next post). I got carried away with salted macadamia nuts and started a national salted macadamia eating crisis among the paleo twitter community (well not really, I am not that well connected, but I may have been responsible for one or two paleo #faileo's). I ate feta. I ate a few paleo brownie slices (ok almost a whole batch). And I ate fruit fresh and dried. And I drank a few large strong latte coffees. With full cream milk.
I was out of control!!
I guessed now I am doing the ‘paleo for the rest of my life challenge’ thing, I could relax while I overcome my ‘I am not 100% perfect' moment (who would have thought?). What is a few grams of lactose and fructose between friends?
Doing it right? Last week I didn’t really care.
This week, well that is another matter. Back to it. Long blacks. No dairy. Minimum fruit and nuts (I know they are paleo – I am just a recovering nut addict). Good quality meats, fish, vege, lots of water and daily fish oil. I am permitting myself a few paleo treats. I will just try to make it not an every day (sometimes even twice a day) thing and only for specials.
Gosh look out friends. I am going to be so fun to be around. for. the. rest. of. my. life.
Anyway, enough FML. Having self medicated my brain with information and indulged my self-sabotage with entire batches of paleo treats, I have this covered now. And next week is the new attitude.
Next xx
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