Man, it has been a crazy past few weeks for me. Dogs, gaming, baby, work, cooking, minecraft, and most importantly: Sleeping. Other than being dead broke after all our bills fell on us at once (and we get paid throughout the month one week at a time), things are going all right. Despite not being a 100% paleo type of gal, I have continued to lose weight, albeit much slower than I did the few couple of weeks.
What I am most excited about and what I just can't get over is that my nails have never looked better since I laid off the dairy. Now, I can't say that I have been 100% strict on the no dairy, but if I can't get the high quality stuff I just go without. Anyway, since I stopped drinking the conventional stuff at your average grocer, all the white blemishes on my nails have gone away. I'm not really sure what else to call them. But, you probably had them a time or two in your life. Well, I always had one somewhere. As soon as one started to make its way to being cut off, I would inevitably produce another one. At one point all of my nails had these strange, white marks. Now I don't have a single one. I even flicked them on the edge of something hard to see if they would form and nothing.
So, that's exciting for me. Apparently I have gotten all that I need from the kale, broccoli, and other veggies I have been eating like an addict.
I think I might change the name of this blog to something a bit more open. I mean, I was really fired up about changing my lifestyle when it happened, but I'm a busy woman and there are so many other things I love to do. I write, game, raise a kid, and tend to my perpetual canine toddlers. I like to spend time with my parents and now my little brother is going to be a dad soon (barring sad events anyway). While I might not be happy about the circumstances, I am excited to be an aunt again, and I'm excited that my future niece or nephew will be close by for me get to know and to be a cousin to my little angel. I'm also going to be "adopting" his two future stepsons as my nephews, and that makes me happy as well. They're good kids and I hope to see more of them.
So, my diet isn't the most important thing about me. I've lost that fired up, evangelical passion that I had when I first started. I mean, I still get pretty ticked off when people go on and on about moderation just because they can stuff their faces with anything and everything and still be rail thin, but the reality for me is that I can't. I mean, I'm not 100% because I live in a food desert, and what I can get is insanely expensive. It's great that the paleo big names can talk about "Trader Joes", whatever the hell that is (I know it's a grocery store of some sort, but I've never seen one) or Cosco, Costco.. anyway, never seen one and the closest wholefoods is an hour away. I don't drive to Austin unless I'm visiting my best friend, and I'd rather go to Central Market since the company I work for owns it and I can get a discount if I shop smart. I substitute things. My cheat is the lean pork sausage that my company sells. Yeah, it has some sugar in it, but since I'm not eating twinkies I'm not too concerned right now. I'm not going to sweat sugar in my bacon either. I've decided that I just can't so I won't.
I wish I could afford to be obsessed with food quality, but it isn't in the cards.
However, if I finish writing my and it takes off I just might be able to one day.
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