2 weeks of paleo

2 weeks and I have to say I am really settling into the paleo diet.

I'm loosing weight, felling pretty good, starting to feel comfortable with organizing my foods... it's all good right now.

There are a few surprises for me so far and the biggest one might be how much I am loving vegetables. When I was a kid the only vegetable I ever wanted to eat was corn. I didn't know back then that corn isn't a vegetable so strictly speaking I liked zero vegetables. Growing up only made me more empowered to choose not eating vegetables and so mostly, I didn't eat them.

Right now I am LOVING vegetables. I just grilled my first zucchini on the pit and it's damn sure not going to be my last. That sucker was delicious!!!

Another surprise is the effect of getting refined sugars out of my life. I'm becoming aware now that a lot of food cravings from the past were never actually about food...it was about the sugar. I think I was a hard core sugar addict and even eliminating "sweets" from your diet isn't enough. There are plenty of other ways to get sugar via simple carbs and if you need to even more complex carbs.. Cutting out not only sugars but grains is like taking a sledge hammer to the pesky fly that is sugar addiction. It's very destructive to the addiction. As long as you watch the fruit intake you wind up doing a massive re-direct. There is a real "smoothing out" I'm finding by loosing all those sugar sources.

I'm excited to see how things look at the end of this 30 day challenge phase and what transitions will be in store next but unless something happens I'm not sure yet if this isn't the best way of eating I've ever prescribed to.

More in a few days....