Already hitting a stall...

I am at the end of week two of eating primally. I lost six pounds in the first 4 or 5 days, and have lost nothing since then. I am starting to get irritated, eating no grains with no result is a little maddening. I find it hard to keep going when I feel like there is no point, but for now I am pushing on with it. We'll see what happens.

It's almost spring break and next month I have a week off of work. Man am I ready for that! It will be nice to see my husband for a week. It's getting so, so old to never see him and never get any alone time. I am ready to move to California. He keeps saying he has absolutely no interest but I think we'd have more opportunities there. Not that we don't have support here. We love our family here. But, everyone here is so busy with their own stuff... it's just not how I imagined my kids growing up I guess. Everyone says that California life moves fast... Oregon is really no different honestly. Growing up, my sister, brother and I spent all of our extra time at my grandparents house. We could walk over there any time we wanted to play and hang out. We spent the weekends over there. I miss waking up Saturday mornings at my grandparents and hearing my grandma flip through the newspaper in the living room with the TV on and eating breakfast.

Oh well, it's Friday!! Gotta love the weekends.

Here we go... primal

I had dinner with my friend, Debi, on Friday night after work. I had not seen her for a few months, and she looks fantastic!! She and her husband are pretty darn good in my opinion about eating organic, eating well and exercising. I very much admire them. She informed me that they had started a new diet, the Primal Diet, about two months ago. Two months! I still can't get over how great she looks.

Shortly after the new year, my husband and I decided that we needed to start eating better and taking care of ourselves, and we did great... for a few weeks. Man, once you cheat a couple times, it is so hard to get back on track.

I have spent the weekend researching going primal, and I am taking the plunge! The main concept is that you cut out grains altogether, and even cut way back (or out) on dairy. Agriculture did not exist in the time of our primal ancestors, and so the belief is that our genes are not any different now than they were then, so we are not designed to digest grains or dairy.

I love me some bread and pasta. I am worried about how much I will crave not having a sandwich with bread, or ravioli or a cookie or a cracker even. Not that I will never have a cookie again, but I really want to be committed to changing the way I eat. I have already had the notion for quite some time that my body does not metabolize grain carbohydrates well anyway, I have just never had the intention of giving them up.

So, after having read a ton of articles and information on Mark's Daily Apple, I feel confident that there is plenty to eat while cutting out grains. Lots, and I mean lots, of veggies, meat, eggs, good fats... nuts, seeds, etc. and fruit (berries). It really makes a lot of sense to me, so I am excited to see what happens.

I am the heaviest right now that I have ever been, except that I have lost about five pounds so far already before the Primal Diet that I will start tomorrow. The picture isn't a great one of me, because obviously I avoid pictures at all costs. But it is at Thanksgiving. Just a frame of reference because hopefully in a few months I will have a much better one to post!! :)