This week has been a bit rough. Mars felt better Sunday, but Monday brought on the IBS again. He's still having issues with it. He was able to work yesterday, with some discomfort but it's back again today. I'm having some real trouble figuring out what he can eat without it upsetting his delicate stomach. Plus, today he has a migraine.
I, with my ongoing sinus issues, have not felt well all week, and with the time change, I've been napping after work because I'm so exhausted and have a constant headache. Monday I made the mistake of taking my prescription cough syrup (with codeine) on an empty stomach. By dinner time time, I of course was nauseous and dizzy so I didn't eat. I just went back to bed. When I awoke on Tuesday, I still had a headache, but I went in to work anyway, and as soon as I got there, I started throwing up! Stupid. I know better than to take medicine on an empty stomach.
So anyway, I'm still having sinus headaches, and can't sleep because I'm so stopped up. I will be really glad when our new eating plan takes effect on these things the way I'm hoping and the way I know it will.
But, on the brighter side....one positive thing - so far, being paleo hasn't affected me the way I expected this time. I've had some cravings for sugary snacks and salty goodness, but nothing I couldn't handle. So that's a positive thing too. It's hard to say what effects I'm having from the so called "carb flu" (the detox stage where you literally feel like you have the flu from not having carbs) or if what I'm feeling is just from the sinus infection I have. Either way, I had to finally decide to get back on the medication I was prescribed for this sinus infection because I just can't handle it anymore. I don't want it to turn into pneumonia like it normally does. This summer I actually want to be well!
Another good thing is that even with all this going on, even with the fact that I haven't walked (for exercise) or done yoga in about three weeks, something strange and wonderful has happened...
I can't say when it happened, all I know is I finally noticed it yesterday evening. At the beginning of this year, I started a challenge through work, an 8-Week fitness challenge. Nothing specific, just increasing steps per day, increasing water intake, avoiding sodas, just general positive healthy steps. I did all the challenges (except being a vegetarian for a week, didn't even accept that challenge!) but I walked more, I ate lunches from home, I increased my water intake, avoided sodas, etc. During the challenge, I was weighing myself every day and seeing no results. So I decided since I felt differently, and clothes were feeling differently on me, I wouldn't be obsessed with the number on the scale, and I wouldn't weigh myself again. So I didn't.
But as I said, it's been three weeks since I've done any form of exercise, and I didn't start being fully Paleo till last weekend. But last night, I decided to get on the scale. I'm down 8 pounds from where I started at the beginning of the year! And I actually got comfortably into a pair of denim shorts and a pair of old Levi's I haven't worn in about five years!!! I was super stoked!! I couldn't believe it. It doesn't even feel like I've done anything to get there, and yet, there I was. I still have a long way to go but at least I'm actually seeing progress, and that in itself is encouraging to keep at it!
So that's what's been going on so far this week. I sure hope next week is better for us, as far as health is concerned.
I will be posting some of the recipes I've used this week, probably this weekend when I have more time.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Sunday Morning Shopping
Good morning everyone! :)
We slept in again, because my sinus infection is back in full swing, hit me again last night and I have a killer headache. But I believe that if it's not during the work/school week, if the body allows itself to sleep, we should allow ourselves to sleep as long as we can. My natural waking time is usually right before 7:00AM (too bad my job starts at 7:30!) but this morning, being Sunday, I allowed myself to sleep until 8:00, and lay in bed until about 9:30 just wishing to go back to sleep.
Good news this morning, from Mars (you may see me call him DH - Dear Husband sometimes, btw). When he awoke, and after getting his sleepy morning thoughts together, he informed me that his stomach feels much better, and none of the normal morning cramps or bathroom explosions he'd had the past week! I'm so happy with this news! So I will be posting some of the things we did yesterday on our "liquid" diet that may have helped soothe his IBS.
If you've been following me for all of a day that I've blogged on Pallid to Paleo, you know we've "done this before." So this is the first "OFFICIAL" day that me, Mars, and our son are fully Paleo. And I need to go grocery shopping. It's a little daunting, even though I know the gist of what I should be buying. Not that I'm afraid I'll "slip up" or anything, it's just that I haven't made an actual menu for the week yet, plus, the budget is pretty tight today, with Mars having had a week off from being attacked by the IBS last week.
So, this is my simple list, which I have to say, I do enjoy grocery shopping more when we're Paleo. It's so much easier. Note: Nothing in the way of meat that I'm buying is organic. I realize organic is preferred on the Paleo lifestyle, but the budget is just too tight for it right now. We'll do the best we can with what we have :)
- Chicken thighs (Fresh, not frozen, from Sam's)
Roast Beef (Sam's)- Ground Beef (Sam's)
- Sweet Potatoes (Sprout's Farmer's Market)
Onions (Sprouts)Cauliflower (Sprouts)Bacon- Eggs (2 dozen)
- Fresh organic spinach (2 packages)
- Tomatoes
Olive Oil- Canned Salmon
This is my plan for the week:
Breakfast
- Bacon, eggs, and a small fruit/green smoothie
- Meatloaf, hamburger patties or Salmon Patties
- Salad
- Homemade bars (like Larabars)
- Today - Venison chili (no beans!)
- Monday - eat at the Lodge (I have no idea what will be served, so that's a bit scary)
- Tuesday - Pork Roast with sweet potatoes,
onions, and a salad - Wednesday - Leftovers from Tuesday
- Thursday -
Sage & Bacon wrapped ChickenHerbed chicken breasts withcauliflower ricesauteed cabbage and steamed carrots - Friday - Leftovers from Thursday
So this should be interesting. I will update after our shopping trip to list what we were actually able to get on the budget, and through the week I will be posting the recipes I use and how well the quantities of food are lasting with our appetites!
UPDATE - this is how it went...you can also see above what we didn't get (stricken through on the list above)
Sprouts:3 lbs whole carrots
3 lbs (approx) vine tomatoes
2 lbs dried fruit (for Mars' snack through the week)
2 heads green cabbage
10 Haas avocados
6 lbs sweet potatoes
$31.18
Sams:
2 - 18ct
2 pkgs organic baby spinach
5 lbs ground beef (90%lean)
10 lbs chicken breasts (less expensive than the thighs this time)
5 cans pink salmon
14 lb pork butt (they didn't have the beef roast I normally buy)
$86.04
Grand total - $117.22
Did I do well as far as the budget is concerned? Well, quite honestly, I'm not sure at this point. As the week progresses I'll see how the food stretches and how we're all feeling.
One honest side note: I still have a package of Bob's Red Mill gluten free bread mix, that I will be making for our son's lunches. No, it's not paleo, but there is no grain in the mix. This is only because we're on such a tight budget this week, and we still have this, some cheese slices, lunch meat and four single serving bags of chips that I will not throw away. His skin is still bad, but he's really the only one in the house who can eat this stuff without as serious instant side effects as we seem to have, so it's his until it's gone. Then once it's gone, he'll be paleo with us. I can already tell he's going to have serious issues with this way of life just by some of the comments he makes about not having cheese and dairy. He has opportunities for work which gives him some extra money, and I know that when he's out, he's free to buy whatever he wants (and he does), which is fine with us. We won't be tyrants about his diet, and he knows that whatever he does will affect his skin, so he's old enough to know this is his choice. However, after the gluten free bread, cheese, lunchmeat and chips are gone, none of that poison will be brought into our house anymore, and he'll eat the same things we're eating.
I do know from past experience, that while being primal, not having the sugars and heavy carbs, after a few weeks, everything tasted better. It's like the sugars and empty carbs screw up your taste buds (I figure kind of the same way smoking does, but I've never been a smoker, so I can't say for sure) and once we're "off" of that addiction, everything good just tastes better. So hopefully this will help him in his transition to Paleo.
So, here we go. I'm off to the kitchen to cook for the rest of the day! Will be posting recipe pictures as they come...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Paleo Sweet Potato & Roast Cakes
Not only are we paleo, but we are paleo on a pretty darn tight budget. So anything we can do to make the meals stretch farther is a plus. This is a recipe that I came up with to use some leftover beef roast which I had cooked in the slow cooker a couple of days prior.
In addition, I created this recipe during the week of Mars' IBS attack, so I was trying desperately to feed him things that hopefully wouldn't upset the already inflamed instestines he'd been fighting with all week.
In addition, I created this recipe during the week of Mars' IBS attack, so I was trying desperately to feed him things that hopefully wouldn't upset the already inflamed instestines he'd been fighting with all week.
The sweet potatoes were also cooked whole in the crock pot, which, for some reason, I'd never thought of doing before, but I'm glad I had the light-bulb moment this day.
I have a Vitamix, so I use it as my food processor, and for this recipe I used it Vitamix to "grind" the already cooked roast, and it shredded it so beautifully! I was so happy with the way this came together, because I knew it would be easily digested by Mars' sensitive stomach.
Unfortunately, he felt ill after eating, just like he had all week, but he did love the food, so that tells me once his IBS is not inflamed, this recipe will be a keeper. This turned out tasting a lot like a roast beef meal all in one little compact easy-to-hold (if you're on the go) patty.
They will be pretty soft, so you can adjust any of the ingredients necessary, adding more almond meal, more meat, less cooked sweet potatoes as desired. The two main ingredients are already cooked, so you're just cooking them till basically heated through and browned enough on each side to be firm. Shown below, served with fresh spinach and avocado drizzled with primal homemade ranch dressing.
Paleo Sweet Potato and Roast Cakes1/2 lb. - 1 lb. cooked beef roast
2-3 cooked peeled sweet potatoes
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. ground cayenne pepper
1 egg
1/4 c. almond meal
Mix all ingredients thoroughly in a large mixing bowl. Form into 2-3" patties. Cook on a hot non-stick griddle with a little butter, about 3 minutes per side.
Quantity varies due to how much meat you use, or the size of the potatoes, but it made around 10 patties.
Sick of Being Sick
I like blogging because I enjoy writing. I've wanted to start blogging again for a while now (I've blogged in the past about food and gardening, and our pets but I've tried to stay away from anything too personal) but I just couldn't figure out what to write, that others may actually want to read.
Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unassuming situations, and other times, it hits you like a brick between the eyes. Brick between the eyes is the inspiration I've had over the past week, so here I am writing again.
Pallid to Paleo is the name of my blog. If you've never heard of "Paleo" or "Primal" nutrition as a lifestyle, I highly suggest before reading anything more on my blog, that you visit www.marksdailyapple.com or www.robbwolf.com and get the lowdown on the specifics of what these terms mean in the world of nutrition and health.
I've always loved cooking, and anything involved in homemaking. I learned from the best, I like to say, my Mom. Great cooking, and baking have been the center of life for me and my family. My mother always said "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach." Turns out she was right in many ways.
My first insight into actual nutrition, though, I guess I'd have to say was when I purchased my first Vitamix (www.vitamix.com) I absolutely love my Vitamix. It opened my eyes to health in a way I'd never really paid attention to before. I was probably in my early twenties, married to my first husband. We were very young and we were both pretty healthy, or so I thought. Now I know better, knowing that me being under-weight with a plethora of female reproductive issues and illnesses, and my husband having severe allergies of every kind - indoor, outdoor, food allergies which we didn't know he had at the time, was not actually the picture of health we thought we were. I remember back then saying "I want to be a nutritionist/dietician" but college didn't really fit with my dream of being a housewife so I never persued that line of study.
Around the same time, I began studying organic gardening and natural nutrition for dogs and cats, topics which both just seemed to "click" for me. They made total sense to me, and seeing the effect of feeding my dogs natural raw diets based on their ancestors' feeding habits, I knew I was doing the right things for them. This was all in or around 1996-1997.
Fast forward ten years. I'm into my thirties, now married for the second time. Still with the multiple female reproductive issues, taking one medication after another, doctor finding nothing really "wrong" with me, exploratory surgery after surgery to relieve me of scar tissue which the doctor said would return in five or so years anyway, looking for endometriosis which was never found, etc. Turns out he didn't know what to look for, but that's another story. I wasn't overweight, but now not underweight anymore. Eating a SAD (Standard American Diet) of mostly breads and sugars, cokes, candy, and still, somehow thinking I'm "healthy."
When I met my new husband (AKA - Mars), he was overweight, 6'3" and around 300 pounds, multiple respiratory issues, including severe asthma, severe allergies (the glands beneath his ears swell up to the size of golf balls and are hard as rock when he's having seasonal allergies), both of which he'd had all of his life, along with debilitating back pain and keep-me-up-at-night snoring. He would frequently get sinus infections and bronchitis probably at least twice a year. He also has attacks of what we think is probably a form of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, where sometimes for a week he will be off work due to severe stomach cramps, migraine headaches, constant diarrhea, nauseous stomach and bloating, and nauseating (for everyone else around) gas. We have both suffered from depression and anxiety for which at one time (separate times in life) we have both taken medication.
I often jokingly say that I haven't slept in six years (since we've been married) due to his snoring, but I know that's not the only reason why I don't sleep well anymore. I'm 5'0" and I was inching up the scale myself, I was a size 6 when we met up from a size 2-3 ten years prior. In 2007 I had an outpatient surgery that should have only kept me out of work for a day at the most, and I ended up being out for a week. Still finding nothing wrong with me, I carried on with life, thinking the pain I felt just meant I was insane. In 2009 I finally found a doctor who knew what she was doing, and within 20 minutes, had me correctly diagnosed with Adenomyosis. A week later, in August of 2009, I was in surgery having a partial hysterectomy removing my uterus and leaving the ovaries, at the ripe old age of 35, never having had children. I must say, for the most part I do not regret having the surgery. Since the very first day of my first period, the intense pain and abnormal cycles had me wishing I could have a hysterectomy for the next 20 years. So it was finally done. However, had I known then what I know now, I wonder if just changing my diet could have prevented all of it. But, we'll never really know.
Two weeks after the surgery, I started getting sick. I had a sinus infection, and for the next four months, progressed from allergies/sinuses to bronchitis and then my first bout with pneumonia, diagnosed in February of 2010. I attributed this to an already weakened immune system after the surgery. Since then, I don't think I've ever really been completely well. I had never had allergies before in my life, but since then, every three months, the allergies flare up, and I get another sinus infection which almost always leads at least to bronchitis, and usually pneumonia. I've had pneumonia now three times in the past three years. There may be folks out there who have it worse or get it more often, but to me this seems pretty excessive.
My husband and I "went primal" for the first time in 2011. I had read Mark Sisson's book, The Primal Blueprint and it just made sense to me, just like the primal nutrition for my animals made sense to me ten years before. So we "tried" it. Trying it was our first mistake. We weren't fully committed, so of course, we fully "fell off" after about maybe two months. Life and finances get in the way of progress sometimes. Actually they don't. We are the only things that actually get in the way of self improvement. We just use a lot of outside forces as what we think are good excuses. Either way, working two jobs and going to school was not helping me in my quest for wellness. The thing was, we weren't actually doing it for wellness, or else we may have fully committed to it at that time. We were mainly "going primal" to help us lose weight.
So we yo-yo'd for a few months. Then again in January of 2012, we decided not only be "primal" again, but to go fully "paleo" (there are a few differences). We did the "whole 30" program, starting January 1, 2012, and by February 14, Mars had lost upwards of 30 pounds and it was noticeable, and I had lost 10. But, being Valentines Day, guess what happened? You got it, we fell off the wagon again.
When our son (my step-son) came to live with us, at 15, almost 16 years old, in July 2012 he was severely malnurished, underweight, and on medication - antibiotics for cystic acne. Big shock, the kid is a walking sweet tooth. We have introduced him to the Paleo lifestyle through having him read "The Primal Blueprint." He also attempted it for a month or so, but decided it was just too hard to stay away from the sugar. Since moving in with us, he has gained about 10 pounds and is looking healthier, except for his skin. So at home, I've done what I can to make sure he's getting at least some of the right nutrition, but being that we haven't even been following the plan correctly, it hasn't helped much.
About two weeks ago, our son decided he'd finally had enough with the extremely severe acne on his face, chest and back, and that he wanted to finally make a change. He doesn't want to be this way the rest of his life, and he doesn't want to continue scarring his skin if he can actually do something to imrpove it. I told him we're going paleo again. He has, probably about 90% in the past two weeks cut out the extra sugar in his diet, and although his acne isn't gone, it is visibly getting better.
The last time I had pneumonia was in November 2012, and since, have continued on with two sinus infections, and bronchitis. I currently have a sinus infection now. Last week, Mars had another attack of IBS. He's been almost bed-ridden for a week.
These things are my brick-between-the-eyes inspiration. We are not trying Paleo. We are paleo, as of today. Something has to change in our lives, or we're all going to continue with this slow, painful death which cannot be called anything but suicide, if we continue on our current path, knowing how to combat all of these illnesses.
I have read so many testimonials and success stories over the past week, on both Robb Wolf's and Mark Sisson's websites - every ailment experienced in our house right now, can be found on someone's testimonial of how they used to be before going Paleo. I can't know this, and not put it into action in our lives. I am the one in our family who controls the food, the meals, the diet, and in turn, the overall health of my son and husband, and I would be a very irresponsible wife and mother, and disrespecting of myself if I don't take this seriously and make changes today.
So this is it. We really begin our journey with Mars weighing in at 300 currently suffering an IBS attack and sinus infection. I am now as heavy as I've ever been at 138, sinus infection, and anemic, and developing joint aches like arthritis. Our son is 5'9", 145 pounds, and pretty scrawny with still severe acne.
If you continue to follow us, you won't only see before and after, you will be with us through this journey. You will get to know week by week, if not day to day, the changes we're making and the effects they have on our physical well being, and our emotional health as well. I will be posting recipes throughout our journey, as well as food logs for each of us.
I hope you enjoy reading as you follow us on our journey to health, and if you're experiencing these symptoms or any other ones not mentioned above, consider going Paleo for thirty days and see what happens!
Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unassuming situations, and other times, it hits you like a brick between the eyes. Brick between the eyes is the inspiration I've had over the past week, so here I am writing again.
Pallid to Paleo is the name of my blog. If you've never heard of "Paleo" or "Primal" nutrition as a lifestyle, I highly suggest before reading anything more on my blog, that you visit www.marksdailyapple.com or www.robbwolf.com and get the lowdown on the specifics of what these terms mean in the world of nutrition and health.
I've always loved cooking, and anything involved in homemaking. I learned from the best, I like to say, my Mom. Great cooking, and baking have been the center of life for me and my family. My mother always said "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach." Turns out she was right in many ways.
My first insight into actual nutrition, though, I guess I'd have to say was when I purchased my first Vitamix (www.vitamix.com) I absolutely love my Vitamix. It opened my eyes to health in a way I'd never really paid attention to before. I was probably in my early twenties, married to my first husband. We were very young and we were both pretty healthy, or so I thought. Now I know better, knowing that me being under-weight with a plethora of female reproductive issues and illnesses, and my husband having severe allergies of every kind - indoor, outdoor, food allergies which we didn't know he had at the time, was not actually the picture of health we thought we were. I remember back then saying "I want to be a nutritionist/dietician" but college didn't really fit with my dream of being a housewife so I never persued that line of study.
Around the same time, I began studying organic gardening and natural nutrition for dogs and cats, topics which both just seemed to "click" for me. They made total sense to me, and seeing the effect of feeding my dogs natural raw diets based on their ancestors' feeding habits, I knew I was doing the right things for them. This was all in or around 1996-1997.
Fast forward ten years. I'm into my thirties, now married for the second time. Still with the multiple female reproductive issues, taking one medication after another, doctor finding nothing really "wrong" with me, exploratory surgery after surgery to relieve me of scar tissue which the doctor said would return in five or so years anyway, looking for endometriosis which was never found, etc. Turns out he didn't know what to look for, but that's another story. I wasn't overweight, but now not underweight anymore. Eating a SAD (Standard American Diet) of mostly breads and sugars, cokes, candy, and still, somehow thinking I'm "healthy."
When I met my new husband (AKA - Mars), he was overweight, 6'3" and around 300 pounds, multiple respiratory issues, including severe asthma, severe allergies (the glands beneath his ears swell up to the size of golf balls and are hard as rock when he's having seasonal allergies), both of which he'd had all of his life, along with debilitating back pain and keep-me-up-at-night snoring. He would frequently get sinus infections and bronchitis probably at least twice a year. He also has attacks of what we think is probably a form of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, where sometimes for a week he will be off work due to severe stomach cramps, migraine headaches, constant diarrhea, nauseous stomach and bloating, and nauseating (for everyone else around) gas. We have both suffered from depression and anxiety for which at one time (separate times in life) we have both taken medication.
I often jokingly say that I haven't slept in six years (since we've been married) due to his snoring, but I know that's not the only reason why I don't sleep well anymore. I'm 5'0" and I was inching up the scale myself, I was a size 6 when we met up from a size 2-3 ten years prior. In 2007 I had an outpatient surgery that should have only kept me out of work for a day at the most, and I ended up being out for a week. Still finding nothing wrong with me, I carried on with life, thinking the pain I felt just meant I was insane. In 2009 I finally found a doctor who knew what she was doing, and within 20 minutes, had me correctly diagnosed with Adenomyosis. A week later, in August of 2009, I was in surgery having a partial hysterectomy removing my uterus and leaving the ovaries, at the ripe old age of 35, never having had children. I must say, for the most part I do not regret having the surgery. Since the very first day of my first period, the intense pain and abnormal cycles had me wishing I could have a hysterectomy for the next 20 years. So it was finally done. However, had I known then what I know now, I wonder if just changing my diet could have prevented all of it. But, we'll never really know.
Two weeks after the surgery, I started getting sick. I had a sinus infection, and for the next four months, progressed from allergies/sinuses to bronchitis and then my first bout with pneumonia, diagnosed in February of 2010. I attributed this to an already weakened immune system after the surgery. Since then, I don't think I've ever really been completely well. I had never had allergies before in my life, but since then, every three months, the allergies flare up, and I get another sinus infection which almost always leads at least to bronchitis, and usually pneumonia. I've had pneumonia now three times in the past three years. There may be folks out there who have it worse or get it more often, but to me this seems pretty excessive.
My husband and I "went primal" for the first time in 2011. I had read Mark Sisson's book, The Primal Blueprint and it just made sense to me, just like the primal nutrition for my animals made sense to me ten years before. So we "tried" it. Trying it was our first mistake. We weren't fully committed, so of course, we fully "fell off" after about maybe two months. Life and finances get in the way of progress sometimes. Actually they don't. We are the only things that actually get in the way of self improvement. We just use a lot of outside forces as what we think are good excuses. Either way, working two jobs and going to school was not helping me in my quest for wellness. The thing was, we weren't actually doing it for wellness, or else we may have fully committed to it at that time. We were mainly "going primal" to help us lose weight.
So we yo-yo'd for a few months. Then again in January of 2012, we decided not only be "primal" again, but to go fully "paleo" (there are a few differences). We did the "whole 30" program, starting January 1, 2012, and by February 14, Mars had lost upwards of 30 pounds and it was noticeable, and I had lost 10. But, being Valentines Day, guess what happened? You got it, we fell off the wagon again.
When our son (my step-son) came to live with us, at 15, almost 16 years old, in July 2012 he was severely malnurished, underweight, and on medication - antibiotics for cystic acne. Big shock, the kid is a walking sweet tooth. We have introduced him to the Paleo lifestyle through having him read "The Primal Blueprint." He also attempted it for a month or so, but decided it was just too hard to stay away from the sugar. Since moving in with us, he has gained about 10 pounds and is looking healthier, except for his skin. So at home, I've done what I can to make sure he's getting at least some of the right nutrition, but being that we haven't even been following the plan correctly, it hasn't helped much.
About two weeks ago, our son decided he'd finally had enough with the extremely severe acne on his face, chest and back, and that he wanted to finally make a change. He doesn't want to be this way the rest of his life, and he doesn't want to continue scarring his skin if he can actually do something to imrpove it. I told him we're going paleo again. He has, probably about 90% in the past two weeks cut out the extra sugar in his diet, and although his acne isn't gone, it is visibly getting better.
The last time I had pneumonia was in November 2012, and since, have continued on with two sinus infections, and bronchitis. I currently have a sinus infection now. Last week, Mars had another attack of IBS. He's been almost bed-ridden for a week.
These things are my brick-between-the-eyes inspiration. We are not trying Paleo. We are paleo, as of today. Something has to change in our lives, or we're all going to continue with this slow, painful death which cannot be called anything but suicide, if we continue on our current path, knowing how to combat all of these illnesses.
I have read so many testimonials and success stories over the past week, on both Robb Wolf's and Mark Sisson's websites - every ailment experienced in our house right now, can be found on someone's testimonial of how they used to be before going Paleo. I can't know this, and not put it into action in our lives. I am the one in our family who controls the food, the meals, the diet, and in turn, the overall health of my son and husband, and I would be a very irresponsible wife and mother, and disrespecting of myself if I don't take this seriously and make changes today.
So this is it. We really begin our journey with Mars weighing in at 300 currently suffering an IBS attack and sinus infection. I am now as heavy as I've ever been at 138, sinus infection, and anemic, and developing joint aches like arthritis. Our son is 5'9", 145 pounds, and pretty scrawny with still severe acne.
If you continue to follow us, you won't only see before and after, you will be with us through this journey. You will get to know week by week, if not day to day, the changes we're making and the effects they have on our physical well being, and our emotional health as well. I will be posting recipes throughout our journey, as well as food logs for each of us.
I hope you enjoy reading as you follow us on our journey to health, and if you're experiencing these symptoms or any other ones not mentioned above, consider going Paleo for thirty days and see what happens!
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