Still a loser.
But in a dietary way.
My Paleo diet has been working pretty well. I've lost some weight, and I've been religiously good eating only meat, nuts, veggies and fruit. I feel fabulous and while I do crave cheese, it's not horrible and I don't have to count or weigh anything. Awesome. Easiest diet I've ever done. Also, no carbs means I don't need butter, so while I could have butter (it's allowed on the regular Paleo diet, I'm just doing a more strict version without dairy for these 2 months), I don't actually need it. Bonus.
I was doing fabulously well. Until last night. Apple had a crab feed and we went to that. The plate had:
1 dungeness crab
1 bulb of roasted garlic
1 pile of 3-cheese ravioli (about 7 pieces)
caesar salad
2 french bread garlic toast pieces
a tub of melted butter
1 scoop of vanilla ice cream with ghirardelli hot fudge.
And I ate it ALL (ok, except salad croutons and french bread garlic toast).
On top of that, there were extra scoops of ice cream at the end, so I went and got another and the guy said, "hey, take 2". So I did! Hah!
We ate til about 7p and then sat around talking til 8p when the cafe closed, and at that point I was fairly vibrating. Literally. So I went shopping at one place til they closed at 9, then shopping at another place til they closed at 10, then went home, did a bunch of little things I'd been putting off, laundry, and other little things. Finally went to bed by 1:30, and read til 2:00a. I wasn't sleepy then either, but I managed to fall asleep pretty quickly.
There was no vegging out in front of the TV. There was no sluggishness. I was totally wired!
The major downside: I could feel my heartburn trying to come back, and even at 2am it was a little uncomfortable to lay down. Nothing like how it was in November, but still, yuck. It appears that large amount of carbs (7 ravioli and 3 hot fudge sundaes) makes my innards unhappy with me. So even after the 2 months is up, I think I'll try to stay on the Paleo diet (though I'll add in dairy) simply because I don't hurt as much in the end. Also, if I do eat some carbs, I'll try to keep it to before 3pm so maybe that will help too.
Anyway. Very interesting. At least to me.
My Paleo diet has been working pretty well. I've lost some weight, and I've been religiously good eating only meat, nuts, veggies and fruit. I feel fabulous and while I do crave cheese, it's not horrible and I don't have to count or weigh anything. Awesome. Easiest diet I've ever done. Also, no carbs means I don't need butter, so while I could have butter (it's allowed on the regular Paleo diet, I'm just doing a more strict version without dairy for these 2 months), I don't actually need it. Bonus.
I was doing fabulously well. Until last night. Apple had a crab feed and we went to that. The plate had:
1 dungeness crab
1 bulb of roasted garlic
1 pile of 3-cheese ravioli (about 7 pieces)
caesar salad
2 french bread garlic toast pieces
a tub of melted butter
1 scoop of vanilla ice cream with ghirardelli hot fudge.
And I ate it ALL (ok, except salad croutons and french bread garlic toast).
On top of that, there were extra scoops of ice cream at the end, so I went and got another and the guy said, "hey, take 2". So I did! Hah!
We ate til about 7p and then sat around talking til 8p when the cafe closed, and at that point I was fairly vibrating. Literally. So I went shopping at one place til they closed at 9, then shopping at another place til they closed at 10, then went home, did a bunch of little things I'd been putting off, laundry, and other little things. Finally went to bed by 1:30, and read til 2:00a. I wasn't sleepy then either, but I managed to fall asleep pretty quickly.
There was no vegging out in front of the TV. There was no sluggishness. I was totally wired!
The major downside: I could feel my heartburn trying to come back, and even at 2am it was a little uncomfortable to lay down. Nothing like how it was in November, but still, yuck. It appears that large amount of carbs (7 ravioli and 3 hot fudge sundaes) makes my innards unhappy with me. So even after the 2 months is up, I think I'll try to stay on the Paleo diet (though I'll add in dairy) simply because I don't hurt as much in the end. Also, if I do eat some carbs, I'll try to keep it to before 3pm so maybe that will help too.
Anyway. Very interesting. At least to me.