I am back babe! And boy do I feel GREAT!
After a week and a half of headaches and stomach issues, all is well. Purging session! The energy levels are back, my moods are stable (sort of... hee hee) and my clothing feels a bit looser!
This time around the only dairy I am consuming is cream in my coffee. I have some concerns about calcium and magnesium but I do eat green leafy veggies more than not, a supplement, though I question the aide of that and and and... So that leaves, veg, fruit (loving cherries and blueberries this year!) and MEAT.
We've ordered a 1/4 of a grass fed cow!
K, my sis law, has the other 1/4. We are able to pick the way we want it cut up AND packaged! I cannot imagine how this amount of meat is going to look like!! This place that is providing the cow.. name has escaped me... has been tinkering with the amount of grain they feed at the end, for the past 6-7 years. They taste tested a cow fully grass fed and found it to be too tough. From that point, they played with the amount of grain and found a nice balance. The grain provides fat, the marbling in the meat! So much to learn but WHEN??? As far as i know, this will be my first time eating mostly grass fed anything. I am hoping it's not too ?
Ash wants the organs too! He's into trying these sorts of um, delicacies?? I've come around to liver but it's dressed up with red wine, rosemary and ONIONS! I read on a blog that shared a survival tip while eating organ meats....plug your nose, mince up the organ meat, put it in the old trap and then chase it with lime water. The lime water helps wash away that gaggy aftertaste from your mouth. Wyatt was excited about this way of consuming liver!
Plain and simple but boy what a difference! Here's to betterness at the MacDougall zoo!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Goodness Gracious
I need to do 4 hail caveman's! Forgive me ol' primitive one, I have sinned beyond repair! Chocolate, frappes, homemade cobbler, meringues oh my! Sigh. I've fallen right off the boulder damnit.
Soooo, energy is low, my dear friend and clothes are tight. I am furious with myself for letting things slip. It started when Wy decided to come back to us. The stress levels dropped, my guard was down and the desire to eat returned. However, I started to eat the wrong things.
Now it's time to find a way back. I miss the constant energy like a dear friend. I think I'd do okay with the slips in the food if only I could get my lazy ass out and about. All I wish to do is stay home and nest.
However, today we went for a monstrous hike and it was invigorating! Wow. The drive to continue was weird! LOL! But I also felt beat down because I am so out of shape. We want to do more hikes but to do ones like today... I need to 'train'. With eating Paleo, the energy is just there, which drives you out and moving.
Where did you go inner strength? Please find me or let me find you? I don't like this game of hide and seek. I want my body and mind back.
No more chips. No more sugary treats. More walks. More stair running, push ups at the sink and and and I don't know.
Dig deep sista!!!!!!!!!!! Summer is sort of here and the bathing suit reveals all. I guess coming back here to vent and 'report' how I've done will whip me into shape?
I need a slap or push, anyone?
Soooo, energy is low, my dear friend and clothes are tight. I am furious with myself for letting things slip. It started when Wy decided to come back to us. The stress levels dropped, my guard was down and the desire to eat returned. However, I started to eat the wrong things.
Now it's time to find a way back. I miss the constant energy like a dear friend. I think I'd do okay with the slips in the food if only I could get my lazy ass out and about. All I wish to do is stay home and nest.
However, today we went for a monstrous hike and it was invigorating! Wow. The drive to continue was weird! LOL! But I also felt beat down because I am so out of shape. We want to do more hikes but to do ones like today... I need to 'train'. With eating Paleo, the energy is just there, which drives you out and moving.
Where did you go inner strength? Please find me or let me find you? I don't like this game of hide and seek. I want my body and mind back.
No more chips. No more sugary treats. More walks. More stair running, push ups at the sink and and and I don't know.
Dig deep sista!!!!!!!!!!! Summer is sort of here and the bathing suit reveals all. I guess coming back here to vent and 'report' how I've done will whip me into shape?
I need a slap or push, anyone?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Forgive Me
Paleo God, it's been several month since I've had a proper blog confession/entry!
Well I am coasting... I think another 30 day challenge is in order to shed those last bits and solidify my ways. There has been some indulgences in the way of sugar... sweeter coffees (1/2 sweet! and that's too sweet sometimes!), chocolate, cakes.... but I've done well with grains, with the exception of rice. What bothers me is my cavalier attitude towards my choices. No conviction. That makes for a slippery slope to ugliness.
For a solid month I think I ate very little with snacks. Stress. I didn't feel hungry either! And I still had energy! This is one element I find fascinating, I don't have that dull sense of exhaustion or full exhaustion. Things can be stressful and I fall into a slight depression but that energy is there to hold me above the ugliness. It's wild and it's become a friend! Yes, I said it. I would be sad to see this constant source of energy leave. Hence it's one of the reasons I continue to eat this way. The other big one is weight loss. This isn't to say I don't get tired but it's because I haven't slept well. It's wild.
Again, exercise. I crave it now! This is a foreign sensation! I find myself running up the stairs, doing the odd exercises here and there but NO real stuff. I've come to love yoga and find my body longs for it. Time is always an issue. Though I'd like to get my sister in law to hook me up with a routine i could do at home. i like the meditative part of it too. While I tried meditation, the stationary setting didn't mesh with my need to move. Yoga combines movement with the meditation. Perfect match.
I really need to tap back into some blogs. Some inspiration would be nice and give me some freshness. I am grateful for my culinary training and the ease in the kitchen that brings but even the "best" chefs need inspiration!
Well that's it. Done. I continue on with energy!
Well I am coasting... I think another 30 day challenge is in order to shed those last bits and solidify my ways. There has been some indulgences in the way of sugar... sweeter coffees (1/2 sweet! and that's too sweet sometimes!), chocolate, cakes.... but I've done well with grains, with the exception of rice. What bothers me is my cavalier attitude towards my choices. No conviction. That makes for a slippery slope to ugliness.
For a solid month I think I ate very little with snacks. Stress. I didn't feel hungry either! And I still had energy! This is one element I find fascinating, I don't have that dull sense of exhaustion or full exhaustion. Things can be stressful and I fall into a slight depression but that energy is there to hold me above the ugliness. It's wild and it's become a friend! Yes, I said it. I would be sad to see this constant source of energy leave. Hence it's one of the reasons I continue to eat this way. The other big one is weight loss. This isn't to say I don't get tired but it's because I haven't slept well. It's wild.
Again, exercise. I crave it now! This is a foreign sensation! I find myself running up the stairs, doing the odd exercises here and there but NO real stuff. I've come to love yoga and find my body longs for it. Time is always an issue. Though I'd like to get my sister in law to hook me up with a routine i could do at home. i like the meditative part of it too. While I tried meditation, the stationary setting didn't mesh with my need to move. Yoga combines movement with the meditation. Perfect match.
I really need to tap back into some blogs. Some inspiration would be nice and give me some freshness. I am grateful for my culinary training and the ease in the kitchen that brings but even the "best" chefs need inspiration!
Well that's it. Done. I continue on with energy!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Ahhhhhh
baked goods.
my demise.
Over the holidays, I indulged. Not like I used to but for my paleo butt, it was enough to pudge. Ah well. The grand thing about Paleo is you can pretty well bounce back rather quickly. No carbo, no bulgo.
There's been a great deal of stress lately and food hasn't necessarily been my vice. I think shock is my vice. Just walking around in a state of WTF. This isn't to say i haven't purchased the odd bag of chips or eaten one or two extra chocolates but in the past, it was booze and food. The oo's.
Without those oo vices, I am forces to actually see myself. Cannot say I like it. In the face of conflict, quite simply, i am a selfish bitch. Now that i finally know this, probably the last to know, lol, what to do about it? A side of conflict management, a healthy serving of anger management or get your shit together and grow upment? The glories of growing up. That's right I am at the ripe ol' age of 40 and there's still a lot of learnin' to be done.
I am grateful to be eating properly so that I may come out on top. I don't have the dips and jumps of energy. I can pretty well go all day, IF, I get proper zz's. So now that i have the eating under control.... it's mental therapy time.
Anyone... point me in a direction... forward with a smile please.
my demise.
Over the holidays, I indulged. Not like I used to but for my paleo butt, it was enough to pudge. Ah well. The grand thing about Paleo is you can pretty well bounce back rather quickly. No carbo, no bulgo.
There's been a great deal of stress lately and food hasn't necessarily been my vice. I think shock is my vice. Just walking around in a state of WTF. This isn't to say i haven't purchased the odd bag of chips or eaten one or two extra chocolates but in the past, it was booze and food. The oo's.
Without those oo vices, I am forces to actually see myself. Cannot say I like it. In the face of conflict, quite simply, i am a selfish bitch. Now that i finally know this, probably the last to know, lol, what to do about it? A side of conflict management, a healthy serving of anger management or get your shit together and grow upment? The glories of growing up. That's right I am at the ripe ol' age of 40 and there's still a lot of learnin' to be done.
I am grateful to be eating properly so that I may come out on top. I don't have the dips and jumps of energy. I can pretty well go all day, IF, I get proper zz's. So now that i have the eating under control.... it's mental therapy time.
Anyone... point me in a direction... forward with a smile please.
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