A Healthier Me

I've recently been told I need to go on a Paleo diet for the benefit of my health. I've made this blog because I feel like it might help me feel better about it, and not so hard done by. I'll be recording the progress of my health and weight, and what meals I'm eating. Maybe I will help someone who's in the same boat as I am. sc_hit(370922,11,4); free Hit Counter

[healthier-em]

Well this is me, at my lowest point. 73kgs, overweight and unhappy. 
Time to change.
I will try and post weekly updates of how I’m going. 
I have bought some garcinia cambogia to try and help. 
As always eating healthy has to come into it. I’m not going to be super strict, and mainly just staying gluten free, but try and eat more fruit and veggies.
I know it’ll be hard to not just give up and say ‘fuck it’ because that’s what got me here in the first place. So I’ll try my hardest, not for anyone else but myself. :)

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it was fantastic.  I went to a restaurant and they had a basically Paleo friendly meal.  Moroccan Lamb salad with kumera chips and roast veg.  I tried eggplant for the first time too and I actually liked it.  It was soo tasty and there was decent meat too it as well.  So happy I didn't feel like I had to take things out too much (apart from Feta and Potato) and I enjoyed it SO much!  I'm a happy camper tonight. ^^  

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Christmas wasn't bad in the "having bad things" department. The fews things I had which I shouldn't have was plain rice crackers with hummus and roast potatoes... but other than that, Christmas breakfast, and Dinner were pretty much to the book ^^ which is always nice to see a table full of food that I can actually eat :) 

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As at 8am Sunday Decemeber 16th 2012 I weighed 62.2kg

since the last time I checked and recorded my weight (63.6kg) I have lost: 1.4kg

though in that time I fluctuated back up to 64.4kg and stayed there for about a week. 

Start weight:  64.8kg 

Total weight loss since November 13th: 2.6kg 

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I got told I looked thinner tonight.  which is good, though I don't feel any thinner :/ 

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Wow I haven't posted in a while.  I've been slack lately too, not overly so, but I've been having sugar, because I was given chocolate for my birthday and I just couldn't say no (though I haven't have many of them, because they're FAR too sweet to have more than one at a time)  but I've been having potato too... which isn't good, and now my back and my knees ache again and it's really sore, and I just want to eat food and not be sore, but It helps so I have too D: It's not hard eating this way, it's just a bit restrictive at times, and it depresses me seeing food I wish I could eat (e.g. Sushi!) that's the one thing I really really miss, Sushi. I only just recently started liking it too, and then I went on this diet :/  but hopefully one day when my back is all better, I can have sushi every now and again and it won't be a problem. one day.  

[tramonti]

MERRY BIRTHDAY TO MEE :D

[healthier-em]

decided to make Banana Pancakes!  1 x Banana 1 x Egg Pinch of salt

 mixed well, then fried in a pan with butter ^^ 

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Woops I haven't posted in the last 4 days...  I haven't really had anything different the last few days, except yesterday was a bit harder because I went to rainbows end, and they don't have paleo friendly food, though all I had that was "naughty" was hot chips, and a chocolate Frappe. so not overly horribly bad ^^

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Day 16

Breakfast: Bacon, eggs and mushrooms.

Morning Tea: Apple and a Slab of Dark Ghana 70% Chocolate  

Lunch: Salad, left over meatballs, celery, carrot and red capsicum.

Afternoon tea: Grapes, Strawberries, Beer sticks and crackling(I shouldn't be eating so much crackling but it's so bloody addictive!) 

Dinner: Roast Kumera, Pumpkin, Carrot and Parsnip, Lamb and steamed Cauliflower and Broccoli. 

I'm considering not posting what I eat every day, seeing as it's the same thing most days. well, while I'm at work it's the same. 

I'll keep doing it until i've made up my mind though :3  

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Day 15

Breakfast: Bacon, eggs and mushrooms.

Morning Tea: Apple and Paleo Choc cookie 

Lunch: Salad, left over snitchel, celery, carrot and red capsicum.

Afternoon tea: Grapes, Strawberries, Kumera fries (Burger Fuel), and crackling. 

Dinner: Kumera, Meatballs with home made tomato sause, salad, carrot, avocado, red capsicum, and celery

I'm not finding it as difficult any more, which is a plus, I eat mostly the same foods day by day because I'm not overly fond of veggies, but I'm learning to like some, slowly. 

I just need to find ways of cooking the food that's a little more interesting than just basic meat, and veg. 

If you have some really good recipes, I would love to give them a try :)  

[healthier-em]

Day 14

Back to the week meals, 

Breakfast: Bacon, eggs and mushrooms.

Morning tea: Apple and Paleo cookie.

Lunch: Salad, celery, green capsicum, left over snitchel, fried kumera and onion.

afternoon tea: Grapes and Strawberries, cashews, almonds. 

snack: beer stick and crackling.

Dinner: Pork, Kumera fries, Carrots, celery, mushrooms and onions. 

I'm really happy with the diet at the moment, it's getting a lot easier, and one of my work mates had a friend who makes crackling and sells it by bag. I love crackling and I'm actually allowed to eat it with no problems.  things are looking up for once.  

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Day 13

Today was similar to yesterday, bacon and eggs for breakfast, and didn't really keep track of what I ate during the day.  Breakfast was pretty much brunch anyway.

I had sausages, roast kumera and pumpkin, with grilled cabbage for dinner :)  

Weekends are a bit harder to track because I haven't planned what I'll be eating, I didn't prepare anything for tomorrow though, which I should have, but it's far too late now.  it'll just have to be salad again.

I'm so sick of salads... :( 

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Day 12

Because it's the weekend I haven't really had a decent structure of what I was eating when, so I know I had bacon and eggs for breakfast, but I was just snacking throughout the day. I'm not even sure if I had lunch. 

but dinner was interesting.  I was originally going to cook sausages, but they weren't defrosted, so I went for snitchel instead.  This was the first time making snitchel so I wasn't really sure how it would turn out, but in the end it wasn't actually bad.  Instead of normal flour for the coating I used ground almonds. 

  I'll definitely do this again :) 

[healthier-em]

weight progress

week 2 Saturday 24/11/12 - 63.6 kg 

lost 1.6kg since 14/11/12 

[healthier-em]

Day 11

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs with mushroom. 

morning tea: Apple and paleo choc biscuit

Lunch: Salad, carrot, mushroom, green capsicum, with roast lamb   

afternoon tea: grapes, strawberries 

after work snack: prawns, bacon and mushrooms fried with lemon pepper

Dinner: Steak, salad, carrot, avocado, and kumera fries.