Well I love this way of eating..

I'm sold!  I'm not going back to a traditional american diet, nor just regular low carb.  In my 21.5 days so far im very very sold.  I feel amazing!
I can finally drinking my coffee black (I like it iced).  I don't miss the dairy, I'm enjoying the fruits. 

Let me just say, the RED cherries are in season, and they are amazing.  I can just eat and eat them nonstop.  I also feel they are helping me with weightloss.
I'm down to 172lbs, so im down about 7lbs in 21 days. I'll take it!  I couldnt hardly lose weight just low carbing and starving myself on fat fasts etc.  Now I'm eating all i'd like, not counting calories, not exercising as much as i'd like and the weights just commign off.  So that means i'm sold on starting Chalean Extreme again.  I should be hot and buff in no time!  Can't wait!  I'll contue to keep everyone updated.  Really thanks everyone for reading! 

Day 15! whoaaa half way thereeee whoaaaa living on a prayerrrrr

ok so im feeling great.. the coffee headaches are finally gone! YAYYY no more caffene/artifical sweetner withdrawls...  Today for brunch I had left over rattattooie (spelling) with ground chicken in it (that was last nights dinner)  and a late lunch I had some left over baby bok choi with fish.  Dinner was slow cooker pork shoulder cooked with onions, tomato, celery and we had mashed cauliflower.  For a snack was a handfull of pumpkin seeds and a smoothie that was a cup of coconut milk, half a banana, half a kiwi and a few blue berries topped and blended with ice. 

I'm only half way there but I could get use to living this way.  I like the simpleness of it, and my meals that I'm making are so much better now.  Its strange for me to say but I don't even miss the butter or heavy cream right now.  I miss mayo (helmans or craft) and I miss cheese but thats it, and its not killing me either, just once in a while im like HECK THIS WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER WITH MAYO.  I could try making it myself but im not sure how that would turn out.  I don't have a blender.  I have a food processor and a stick blender, I know my magic bullet would not work for that at all.. 

I have been feeding my son our dinner blended in the bullet, he like the paleo thing too lol.  I'm afraid to get my daughter into it because some of the family was worried when my daugher would ask if something was "low carb" even though she didn't know what it ment, she was just saying it because she hears mommy and daddy say it.  They thought I was imposing my strict dieting on my child and she would end up with disordered eating in no time.   I will just feed her as healthy as I can with out worring about it so much.  Eventually I'll phase out the crappy stuff for her like boxed cereals and things.  I need to get her more into eggs. 

I was wondering if anyone eats raw eggs.  On low carb I ate raw eggs all the time in shakes, I wondered if I could turn a smoothie more into a meal with a couple of raw eggs? That would be a great breakfast for me. 
Another thing I wonder about is stevia?  I have a box kit to grow my own stevia, so I was thinking about that and I have a food dehydrator.  Is that even allowed?  I see mixed things like in Robb Wolfs book NO SWEETNERS, but in the book Everyday Paleo she uses raw honey.  I'm really really really not a honey fan so thats kinda out of it for me.. 

Welllllllll I must go, its late and I need to write up my order for vitacost.com (very very inexpensive vitimin/suppliment site and they have great cheap coconut oil there) 

Is there anyone actually out there reading this besides me?  hey let me know! 

sorry its been a while! Today is day 14!

Ok, so I'm still keeping up with the paleo eating, eating clean.  I should be exercising more but im not.  I'm atleast TRYING to get my 10,000 steps in a day. 
I feel pretty good I can't complain. The only thing I still miss is coffee.  I did have a 7-11 ice coffee the other day black with nothing in it (of course except ice) and it was pretty good. 

This morning I had a YUMMY breakfast.  Sauteed spinich, topped with 2 eggs over easy, topped with left over curry ground veal. OMG SO TASTY! 

I snuck a weigh, and I'm down to 175.4 which is great for me!  YAYYYYYY! 

ok time to go, gonna go attempt to drink coffee black with just coconut milk lol

Day 6 down!

Totally stressful day at work today...  It sucked, but oh well.  I'm starting to feel really good, I am already falling in love with this way of life! Had my regular breakfast andlunch, and a totally amazing dinner omg yum!
Baked chicken breast smothered in olive oil, onions, garlic, oregino, basil and pepper.  Also had snow peas tossed in toasted sesame oil and pepper, and fennel tossed in olive oil and sea salt and toasted in the oven...
Well its late for me and I have to work tomorrow... 

These are the amazing people im doing paleo for

They are the reason I want to live to 100.. The best things that ever happend to me in my life.  Every morning I wake up and thank God that I have them, I take care of myself so I can always care for them and so they never have to worry about Mommy being sick. 

Dinner Update (for day 5)

So dinner was sooooooo amazing.. I had Swai (fish) baked in the oven over baby bok choi seasoned with garlic powder, dried onions, pepper, and old bay then sprinkled with toasted sesame seed oil. 
OH MY GOD SO TASTY! 

The fish was amazing and the bok choi was so delish.. the funny thing is I think the best part was some of the bok choi that wasn't covered by the fish and the edges got toasted and dried out, IT WAS AMAZING! 

Hey if anyone has any words of wisdom, hints, tips etc please feel free to chime in! 

YAY 5 Down 25 to go!

So today is day 5 and im starting to feel a little better.  ITS ABOUT TIME! 
Between stress of work, stress of having 2 kids and paying bills and taking care of a family.. I really needed to start to feel better.. 
It was so cute, last night we took some of our asparigus and beef and blended them with some water in our magic bullet and the baby LOVED IT!  Pat (hubby) was saying aww our little paleo baby boy!

so breakfast was the same again today
veggie omlett
Snacks was : raw almonds, hard boiled egg, and celery sticks
Lunch was mixed greens with chicken olive oil and vinegar
NO CLUE WHAT DINNER WILL BE YET..

I can't wait till I have an entire week under my belt them im sure that it will be all down hill from there..  This deff is not as easy as just doing low carb was, this is a big change, but obviously im willing to do it..

Day 4 head still hurts!

Day 4 down, 26 days to go..  Well once again veggie omelet for breakfast, mixed greens with steak for lunch
Snacks were celery, pistachios, almonds, hard boiled egg
Dinner was london broil with artichoke, and asparagus.  
I made a great dressing for the choke with my magic bullet..
1/4th cup olive oil, pepper, oregino, basil, 3 cloves of garlic, vinegar and dried onions. Then blended
Very well..  It was AMAZING!

I was bad and weigh myself today, I had to know if it was working, I'm down to 177.
So I have read a few paleo books and I feel like they all seem to say different things are ok, like in everyday paleo they use honey in recipes...  I dunno, ill deff steer clear of that stuff... Well it's almost bed time & almost day 5! Go us for sticking this long so far ....
Oh and I still been getting headaches, I can't wait till that stops.....

Woot! Day 3!

Soooooo last night we had curry ground beef over salad greens  VERY YUMMY! and so spicy and filling.. 

Today for breakfast was a veggie omlet
snacks was carrot, hard boiled egg and pistacios
Lunch was dinner left overs and dinner tonight will also be dinner left overs lolol

The headaches are starting to get better, not so blah feeling anymore, and I think I'm starting to have a little more energy even though the caffene withdrawls are icky..   I tried black coffee today with no cream and no sweetners.. NOT FOR ME! 

I really want to weigh myself.. like really really really really bad.. BOOOOOO FIGHT THE URGE!

Day 2! Baking brownies, caffene/splenda withdrawls...

ok so day one was something like this:
breakfast: veggie omlett
snacks: carrot sticks, some raw almonds, some pistaciaos
Lunch/dinner: 3 sishkabobs and a steamed artichoke.. not so bad

today was hmm
Breakfast:Veggie omlett
Snacks: celery sticks, raw almonds, pistaciaos, hard boiled egg
mixed greens with some other salad veggies
not sure what dinner will be yet..

Well work was so not fun today, I had to take some asperin before even leaving the house, my head was pounding from the lack of caffene and artifical sweetner.  I tried to drink some yogi tea with no sweetner and it kinda tasted like soup broth with out any veggies or meat.. not to tasty..  Maybe tomorrow I will be brave and attempt to drink black coffee with no sweetner and no cream?  HMMMM?  Today was a girl Melissa @ works birthday they got a carvel icecream cake.  Very easy for me to not want that, I have been eating low carb for some time now, we sang happy birthday and I was on my merry way..
Tomorrow is another girl Marissas birthday (I'm actually her supervisor) and I asked her if she would like me to bake her something instead (which we should have been doing as a group for a while already since an icecream cake can set someone back like 30$ and you can bake a boxed cake for like 5$) anyway..  So she wanted brownies, they are in the oven as I type this.. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS NOT TO LICK THE SPOON?  Well I didn't lick the spoon, or my fingers ( I should admit since I didn't have any "veggie oil" for the brownies I used coconut oil and I did steal a lick of that off the spoon... lol)
I was going to start chalean extreme today, but I think i'd like to get a week of paleo under my belt before I start that.  But I still have on my bodybugg and im making sure I get all my walking in (atleast 10000 steps a day)
OOOH I bought the book "Everyday Paleo" yesterday.. Can't wait to finish reading that too! 

I promised I wouldn't weigh myself for 30 days, now thats hard.. I really want to weigh myself tomorrow so bad.  Well I think its about time for me to go check on those goddamn brownies....  oh and since I haven't pooped in about 3 days I think its time I take some extra magnesium and down a huge bottle of water (hopefully that will make the poop gods bless me lmao)

XOXO
Kerry

Size...

ok so hubbys 241.4 and 24.3% bodyfat (im jealous of that btw lolol) hes about 5'11


I am 5'8 179.2 lbs and 39% bodyfat (holy moly im a jiggly poof)
Its a good thing I'm starting CHALEAN EXTREME TOMORROW!  WE ARE GOING TO KICK ARSE!

I will take pictures later or tomorrow..

30 days Paleo

Sooooooooo my first post on my first blog (that I'm actually going to be serious with lol)
I have been eating low carb for years (about 5) hubby jumped on board with me in Jan 2011, after I had our second child.
We have been doing ok. (well hes been doing amazing, don't tell him I told you lol) and I have been doing EHH.
Anywho after reading about going cleannnnnn yadda yadda, reading all sorts of web info, and books etc. I decided to give Paleo a try for 30 days ( I read "the whole30" web site, "The Paleo Solution The original Human Diet" by Robb Wolf, and got the "Paleo diet cook book" by Loren Cordain)
So I cleaned out my cabnits, fridge etc.. Went shopping more shopping and more shopping. I am on board to do this clean paleo no cheats for 30 days. See how I feel, how I loose, how working out goes..
I plan on weighing and logging all my food (im going to log it on my bodybugg software for my phone)
So we started today. Hubby had to go to work today, So I made him an Omlet with spinich, tomato and olive oil.
I have no clue what to eat, or even how I'm going to give up my coffee (or enjoy it black with no splenda and no cream)

I'm going to weigh myself soon, post my and hubbys stats.. then put away the scale for a month.. (thats going to be really hard, I like to weigh a few times a week)

I see there is a lack of a huge paleo community on the web, I belong to a low carb community, so if anyone has any suggestions of sites please comment.