Hola, nobody!
You know how I always say I’m going to start writing again – posting recipes, writing in general, and then I never do?
Hi, I’m back.
This time I’m here because of food. Again. But with a slightly different focus. Andrew has recently decided to give a new way of eating a try and I’m hopeful it’s something I can do with him – and can stick to and see results from.
For months now, Andrew has been suggesting we try a paleo diet. I took one look at it and said “NO SALT? OH HELL NO.” But the fact of the matter is, I need to do SOMETHING and he’s recently talked me into trying a diet way of eating called primal eating instead, which is a little less restrictive than the paleo plan.
The truth is, we already eat quite healthily. We were both raised on healthy, non-processed, non-packaged food but we’ve fallen into sloppier eating habits of late, as many do, and we need to correct that.
(I had a whole ranting ranty rant written in my head against the evils of processed food and how they’re SO! BAD! and why are so many people KILLING! THEMSELVES! with them? Then I realized that if I substituted “processed food” with “meat”, I automatically had to hate myself. I won’t go there, but I think it’s fair to say many processed foods are terribly unhealthy and it wouldn’t hurt anyone to eat less of them. I’ll stop now).
I weigh more than I should. Probably 30lbs more than I should, although if I lost 20 I’d probably be happy. My BMI tells me I’m Overweight and I don’t like that label, oh no, I do not. I know many people take issue with the BMI scale in general and I wholeheartedly agree that for people with large builds and heavily muscled athletes it is pretty unfair. However, c’mon – I am neither large boned nor heavily muscled so it’s pretty fair for me and I’d like to see my BMI back in the Normal range.
Andrew is convinced of the health benefits of primal eating, and being in the health and wellness industry, he does know a thing or two (or a million) about the way the body works. I’ve done some research too and believe that we’re already pretty close to this way of eating – with one caveat: at dinner only.
My downfalls are breakfast and lunch. I’m on the go all day. I don’t bring breakfast or lunch to the office, which of course leads to muffins (Bran or Egg Mc) for breakfast and Subway sandwiches or cafeteria pasta for lunch. This is going to change.
This weekend I prepared a big pot full of soup to take for lunch. It took me very little time to brown some lean ground beef and season it with chili spices (NOT the packaged stuff – have you SEEN the sodium in that? 1/6 of the package is 22% of your daily recommended sodium intake. 1/6!!) and throw it in the crockpot with a bunch of veggies. And it’s totally delicious – better than anything I’d pick up in the caf and I know what’s in it.
I also made some breakfast frittata thingies (in a muffin tray) that were insanely easy and are really tasty. I’ll try to post the recipe and pictures the next time I make them.
Today, the first day on the diet way of eating went incredibly well. I ate my egg muffin frittata thingy for breakfast and had the soup for lunch. I also had a couple of small snacks and I’m happy to say I’m not hungry at all right now – really. Our dinner will be chicken breasts and spinach, which isn’t really any different than it normally is, other than I’m trying a recipe with coconut, which kind of scares the crap out of my trained by Weight Watchers brain (fat! calories! eeee!)
ANYWAY. Wish us luck.
