Archives: December2009

• Family Ties

  ShareI'm curious as to everyone's experience with their families.  Are your families supportive of your efforts to eat Paleo?  Are you the lone modern hunter-gatherer lost in a vast gluten wasteland?  Or is it somewhere in the middle, where your strange eating habits are tolerated, but not embraced.  Do people ask you about your eating?  And why you choose to eat that way? My immediate family- my daughter Nina, and boyfriend Jack are completely on board.  Jack eats Paleo effortlessly [...]

• BREAKFAST!!!

  Share   How many of us claim to "not have time" for breakfast in the morning?  With the carpools, sending of kids to school, early office calls, coffee is the best we can do.  Time to re-think that and go back to what our mother's have always told us – breakfast IS the most important meal of the day.  Some don't care for breakfast per se, but then find themselves glaring at the vending machine or unable to resist a donut prior [...]

• Goal for 2010

  ShareWhat’s your Nutrition goal for 2010? Is it strict Paleo for 30days? Is it giving up sweets until Easter? Maybe you will commit to meal prep every Sunday and prepare your meals for the week. Is your goal is to lose weight? How much? My goal is to eat more vegetables. I love protein but I want to balance my Paleo Plan and make an effort to load up on a variety of vegetables. I plan on trying something new [...]

• Make way for Change

  Share"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."  ~Mark Twain   I said last week that today’s post would be about light. but I changed my mind! Today, it’s all about habits.   First, a confession: Long ago, I smoked cigarettes. Not because I liked the effects, but because they were a part of daily life around the college I attended, and most of my [...]

• Penny Pinchin’ Paleo

  ShareOne thing that may  be stopping you from going (pardon the pun) whole hog paleo is the perceived cost of this lifestyle.  I'll tell you some of my tricks of how I feed 3 people, and 2 cats on an average of $100/week.  Yes, the 2 cats, Zaida (my cat, petite tortoiseshell with lovely exotic Arabic name) and Pudder (chubsy wubsy male cat of Jack's)  when not dueling to the death, are carnivores and eat both cooked and raw food.  [...]

• A not so sweet surprise

  Share   When I began Paleo I gathered recipes and ideas from here, there and everywhere.  I tried just about everything I could that I had never heard of before and came across agave nectar. Looked interesting. Hmmmmm it's supposed to taste similar to honey and was marketed as a "raw" or "whole" food. This was something I could not wait to try!  How had I never heard of it?! What a treat!!!  It was yummy and sweet and tasted better than butter and brown sugar on my butternut squash!  Oh [...]

• PALEO 2010 Just Do IT!!

  ShareWhy Paleo in 2010? Top Ten Reasons To Do PALEO in 2010 10. You will no longer feel lethargic after a meal. 9. Spaghetti Squash is so yummy I will never crave pasta again 8. You will understand after two weeks exactly how harsh preservatives are on your body 7. Your family will LOVE eating the same foods you are! 6. You will lose your crave for sugar and processed garbage 5. No food measuring “Eat When Your Hungry” and [...]

• To Sleep, perchance to dream…

  ShareToday is the Winter Solstice. If you’re in the Northern hemisphere, as I am, this is the shortest day  and longest night of the year. Thinking about that has prompted me to spend some time pondering the subjects of sleep and light. In the interests of staying brief, we’ll look at sleep this week, and light next week! “The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” ~Wilson MizenerSleep is an essential, and often neglected, component of our [...]

• Paleo, Results, Holidays

  ShareResults so soon?   Two weeks ago a small group of friends started visiting my home on Sunday’s to prep our meals for the week.  We donated money to a family in need, chopped our food and packaged it together, and yes we even lost inches, and pounds in just two short weeks.  Don’t get me wrong this has not been an easy two weeks, many felt sluggish, had sugar withdrawals, someone even wanted to beat up the poor postman [...]

• DERAILED

  Share       I eat when I’m happy.  I eat when I’m sad.   In other words, I eat A LOT!! When we are hit suddenly with major stress, it’s easy to grab the bag of chips or pint of Ben&Jerry's.  But how will that make you feel afterward?  That was my Sunday.  Cookie dough in hand,  I attempted to eat away my woes.  I felt horrible.  I reverted to my non-Paleo self and went for the sugar.  The sugar crash and coma were [...]