Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

Over a week and a half in and I'm down 8 pounds. I know today's a special day with it being the twins birthday so I'm trying to set myself up for success. This means dark chocolate and macadamia nuts when everyone else is splurging on ice-cream or cake etc. I might be adventurous and make some kind of paleo/primal cake tonight. We'll see how long today is out. Lunch at Chick-fil-a and a trip to the zoo... oh what fun! Looking forward  to learning how to manage around special times.

I fixed our Cobb salads for lunch today last night. I wanted to try and be ahead of the game. There's nothing worse than trying to start a new plan and not being prepared for it. You're starving and questioning yourself, what can I eat, what can I eat? I think one of the biggest differences between Paleo and Primal diets is that Primal allows you to have dairy. Not often and not much but still. So this morning all I could think is I don't want MEAT for breakfast. So I ate Greek yogurt and was satisfied. Off to munch on my Cobb salad now. Grateful it's already made and all I have to do is shake my home made dressing again and toss my salad.

What is primal blueprint you might ask... Here's a simplified answer...

My husband recently came home from a trip and was enthused about us trying a new lifestyle... Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson. (It's Paleo with a twist.) So we bought two books. Primal Bluepring and the 21 day total body transformation. I was amazed at how he talked about how we are killing our bodies with overproduction of insulin that causes us to store fat and have inflammation throughout the body. After reading the first book I was trying to decide when was a good time to start. This past Monday I decided enough's enough and I started. I cleared out the pantry. Gone went most of the carbs and other pitfalls to our new eating style. I still kept a couple of boxes of cereal for the kids and their granola bars, etc. I went grocery shopping and loaded the cart with fresh salmon, vegetable and grass-fed beef. I could tell detoxing from carbs was hitting me on Monday and severely on Tuesday. Headaches, dizzy, fever, sluggishness. I continued eating primal anyway. We have pe