Hmmm…not reality bites as in reality bites…more as in a few quick thoughts…
- I continue to be excited and amazed by how good I feel when I eat paleo. I’m also surprised that for the first time in my life, I don’t wake up starving.
Seriously.
I’ve always woken up with my stomach growing and have had to eat first thing. Now, I wake up and can take care of getting the kids off to school before enjoying a more leisurely breakfast.
Stable blood sugar is a good thing, friends. - I added up a guesstimate of all of the money I’ve spent over the years on Weight Watchers, online programs, diet books, even shots…and it was scary. All along, all I ever needed more fat, more protein, more vegetables, along with less sugar, no grains, no processed. Real food.
Good to know.
And I’ll keep doing all I can to spread the word: you can lose weight and get healthy without counting calories or points, and while eating real food that tastes good.
Even bacon. - I only lost about 3 pounds in January, putting me back at where I was at the end of my Whole 30 (I dove head-first into some not-great holiday eating - trust me, a few pounds gained was nothing compared to how terrible I felt). Kind of disappointing, but I added up the inches I’ve lost in the past two years yesterday.
48.5.
In two years, I’ve lost 48.5 inches when I add up the 8 spots I measure.
Holy cats.
Nearly 10 inches from my waist alone. And about a third of that has been since I went paleo in September.
I felt a lot better about that 3 pounds. - I stopped my second Whole30 on about day 8 while I was watching my son make his lunch for school: cheese, saltines and an orange. I had a bit of a bit of a lightbulb moment that I need to work on what the rest of the family is eating, and it’s easier to do that if my eating is a little bit looser than what a Whole30 allows. I’m sure I’ll do another one (maybe summer?) but until then, there’s more important work for me to focus on.
- I’m doing Clean Eats in the Zoo’s 30 Day At-Home Cross Fit Challenge, in addition to a couch to 5 k trainer right now. For the first 3 or 4 months of eating paleo, I didn’t exercise.
At all.
I started back to the gym last month, and was just miserable there. I’m finding I really want to be outside and am surprised again by how much I like running. And how much I like strength training, especially my kettlebell workouts.
And a few quick goals for February – and hey, what do you know! They fit in with my 2012 goals too:
- another 3 or 4 pounds and another 2 inches down would be awesome. 5 pounds would be even more awesome, but I know I’m building muscle with these workouts
- 25 workouts – split between the challenge, running and the kettlebell
- keep up with my daily devotional and prayer time
What are your Febrary goals?
