Kim's journal (comments welcome) - Out with the crap!

[kim532]

Hi I am Kim.

I am a 38 year old mother of 2 boys married to an awesome husband.

I am starting a journey to change my lifestyle! No diet here. This is a lifestyle change I am after.

I have fallen into very bad eating habits. Stress eating. Convenience eating. I am a working mom so anything easily pulled from the freezer or cooked from a box has become a staple in my household. It is all garbage.

I have known for a while that my eating habits were wretched. I feel bad. Have no energy. SO tired. Joints hurt. Want to sleep all the time. Even a little stress relief in alcohol becoming a little too frequent as well. Bowls of cereal right before bed. Frozen pizza for breakfast. Pepsi is the great love of my life next to my family.

A friend of mind mentioned she had been eating a Paleo diet and felt great. For those of you who are not familiar, Paleo is also known as the caveman diet. What would caveman have eaten? Meat (pasture fed), fruit, and veggies.

I have read several books. Practical Paleo and the Wheat Belly Diet. If I know one thing, it is that I want to drastically reduce bread products. Notice I did not say eliminate. I am shooting for a lifestyle and being able to have birthday cake is a must for me. (At least at this point in time).

I already have been in a semi-transition to Paleo eating over the past month and a half. I have lost 10 pounds. I am happy for the weight loss, but I have been eating only about 2 out of 3 meals the way I consider healthy per day. I am here to get serious. Journal my struggles and work thru my issues.

Here is my before picture taken in January in Disneyland.

[momof2minnies]

Hi Kim
Glad I found you.My cousin is 48 and was very overweight most of her adult life-she has been doing the Paleo diet for about a year now and has lost 110 lbs She now weighs 165 and is in a size 10.
She does exercise,doing croossfit about 3x/week, she had a tough time at first but not anymore-she stuck it out.

I myself read Tosca Renos books about clean eating and it is basically the same type of lifestyle change-I have lost 13 lbs in about 7 weeks,have tons of energy and feel so much better.
With the exception of the Pepsi I was feeling and eating the same as you 7 weeks ago.

Keep posting here for support-I will follow your journey and if you want me to ask my cousin anything for you I will.

Linda

[kim532]

Linda thanks so much for your support! I will check out the clean eating books you mentioned. At this point I don't have any questions for your cousin, maybe down the road I will. Right now I feel like I am in a battle for getting routines established. Meal planning. Recipes that I can go to in a pinch.

Today I was so awesome until dinner time. We ended up in Target. My boys were cranky / hungry and they got Pizza Hut from the snack bar. I of course played clean up on the leftovers.

In the big scheme, this was probably a reasonable calorie day, but I am mad cause I didn't want the bread!

The good news is that this did not trip me into a wave of eating all evening. I have done that in the past. Considering a day wasted so using that as an excuse to keep eating all evening. I was able to say I screwed up at Target and move on. I had a huge glass of water when I got home and some deviled eggs for the rest of my dinner. I should consider this a victory for the recovery. I am going to weigh myself in the morning. Hopefully I will be down another pound. I will let you all know.

Kim

[momof2minnies]

Hi Kim,
Yes small victories at a time.I do feel it is about having a routine. Eventually that routine turns to habit and it all becomes a little easier.

Your before picture was in Disneyland,your after picture should be in WDW!!!!!!!


Keep it up,

Linda

[kim532]

Originally Posted by momof2minnies

Hi Kim,

Your before picture was in Disneyland,your after picture should be in WDW!!!!!!!

AGREED!

We are debating our next trip timeline. For financial reasons we were thinking of waiting until 2015, but our boys are so young and SOOOO into Princesses. We may have to go in 2014. They are the perfect age for the magic of WDW and the expanded Fantasyland.

SO the scale was kind this morning. Down a pound like I hoped. According to myfitnesspal that is a total loss of 18 pounds, but that is from my all time high. Since trying to get the processed junk out of my diet in mid-April that would be 11 pounds. AT some point I will share my actual weight numbers, but right now I am not brave enough.

Today stress at work got the better of me. I did not do good this evening. The exact victory I had yesterday of isolating my failure, did not occur. I ended up with McD's cheeseburger and Coke (YIKES!)

I think I am being too good in the morning and lunch and then just needing more food by afternoon/evening. I am going to try to have a bigger (still healthy) breakfast and then eat lunch a little later. See if that helps.

Take care!

[momof2minnies]

Yes they say breakfast should be the power meal of the day!!!!!

Have a good one,
Linda

[coffeecassie]

Sounds like you are off to a good start! Interested to see how the Paleo diet goes for you.