100% Paleo for July - anyone with me?
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Hi everyone! I just joined the group, but I am joining your July "challenge" as I challenged myself to go Paleo in June. My husband and I were already eating Paleo dinners, and I told him I was done with bread and everything else NOT natural last week. I threw everything out on the last day of June, and started fresh on July 1st!
Bread is my enemy, but thus far, I think I am doing FABULOUS. I am not perfect, and not 100% Paleo. In fact, I'm probably more Primal because I've been eating Greek Yogurt (I read somewhere that it was okay?!) But other than that, so far, so good, I think.
Feel free to add me. I've only missed Tuesday's food diary, otherwise I have everything open for friends to see.
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Can everyone please add me? Need help. Late for the July challenge but want to do something that will help me succeed in my weight loss journey.
What's primal?
What are the foods I eat?
Whole 30? Is this a book? Please help me!0 -
Whole 30 Day 5: Kill ALL the Things. And yes, I'm there. I have even less patience for stupidity at work than I usually do. I probbaly should have taken today off.
My workouts this week have suffered as well. Not sure why, as I've been 99% strict primal since November.0 -
Can everyone please add me? Need help. Late for the July challenge but want to do something that will help me succeed in my weight loss journey.
What's primal?
What are the foods I eat?
Whole 30? Is this a book? Please help me!
Primal: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/welcome-to-marks-daily-apple/#axzz2YB8Nzedg
Whole30: http://whole9life.com/start/
It's very different from what you're currently eating--no processed foods (like the Quest bars) and more food--I see you eat less than 800 calories on most days. That's not healthy. Please check out the links above.0 -
Had a really rough couple of days and wanted to eat ALL THE THINGS, but I powered through and stayed paleo. WOO! So far so good!0
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I was doing good yesterday til last night when I took my kid to the fair grounds. I didn't heat a ton of food, but the little bit that I did eat wasn't Primal by any means
today I should do good. I'll be going to Chipolte for dinner (driving kid to dad's house, it's a long trip) but I'll skip the rice this time. Just the meat and the vegis (I don't eat the beans). I brought my own lunch though.0 -
Had a really rough couple of days and wanted to eat ALL THE THINGS, but I powered through and stayed paleo. WOO! So far so good!
Good job!
We were at a potluck yesterday with lots of yummy food... Ah, potato salad (and beautifully decorated with hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes)... However, I was still in enough pain to resist everything. Stuck to a plain hamburger (no bun), a GF bratwurst (just pork and spices), plain salad (no dressing) and -- here's my cheat -- a cup of watermelon chunks. I was really tempted by the homemade cheesecake dessert, too, but pain is such a great motivator.
Have been avoiding watermelon because I notice the next day after eating it my stiffness and pain is worse. I suspect it has something to do with the sugar in the fruit.
I do hope that paleo will help with the joint pain. I'm a little concerned after reading comments at thepaleodiet.com from a few people who began to suffer from tendon pain after switching over to paleo. That's similar to what I'm experiencing. The bone-on-bone arthritis pain has cleared up, but now I have tendon pain (hamstrings, knees, and elbows) and cramping in my calves. Calcium/magnesium seems to help the cramping a little. Am taking chondritin on a friend's advice in hopes of clearing up the tendon pain, but she said it could take six weeks to kick in.
Does anyone have experience with clearing this kind of thing up?0 -
If I don't eat a lot of potassium I get cramps, but I am not sure if that is the same thing you are feeling. I just add in a banana for breakfast for a few days and it goes away. Usually stays away for a while without added bananas. I just get low once in awhile I guess. I always try natural versions before pill versions even if the natural isn't perfectly, "paleo" or whatever. You do have to be careful with really strict diets that you are not missing something. You need to eat as much variety as possible within that diet. I think the problem is that some people get use to eating a small list of foods they feel safe with.
I ended up having a few questionable foods on the night of the 4th and part of a cheesecake brownie yesterday when taking my son to his dad's house (he gave it to me and I didn't want to toss it) but I did good today for the most part (depends on how you feel about a single serving of Martini Asti). Tomorrow will be another easy day, I'm staying home.0 -
I think I'm starting to detox! Which I don't think I've ever really done before. But, I've started to break out in these little dry patches I get on rare occasion, just a lot more than normal. Will be interesting to see how things progress with the diet. Probably good I am Primal and not Paleo, I don't need a serious detox right now!0
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Had some cheese yesterday (cheddar on an egg white omelet, and blue cheese crumbles on a salad - I did skip dressing though). Still, happy with my progress on this so far.0
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Day 8 of Whole30: Boundless Energy. We'll see, because I totally dragged all weekend. Smelled a cookie yesterday. Didn't eat it, just smelled it.0
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I'm way late but would love to start today! Any of yall feel free to add me...I love creeping diaries too haha0
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Still holding steady! How's everyone else doing?0
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I'm a bit late to the game, but I started my Whole30 challenge on the 1st, too, so I'm in! I've been managing on one cup of cold-brewed coffee a day, with some yerba mate tea in the afternoons, plenty of veggies, and some new and exotic fruits (horned melon anyone?)
Can't wait to see where we all end up at the end of this! Feel free to add me, everyone new friends are always welcome 0 -
I'm curious, what's the difference between 100% Paleo and the Whole 30? I've completed the Whole 30 and viewed it as 100% Paleo.0
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I'm curious, what's the difference between 100% Paleo and the Whole 30? I've completed the Whole 30 and viewed it as 100% Paleo.
Whole 30 is more limiting of paleo foods.0 -
I'm curious, what's the difference between 100% Paleo and the Whole 30? I've completed the Whole 30 and viewed it as 100% Paleo.
Whole 30 is more limiting of paleo foods.
Yes! This. I like paleo treats/baking every once in a while. They make me saner. 0 -
I am going to step out of the challenge for this month and catch back up in a couple of months when I have less going on. I'm starting to have some signs of too much stress and this is one area I can relax in a lot easier than others. I'm going to go back to my, "simi-primal" diet for now. Good luck with the challenge!0
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Day 12 of the Whole30. Even if I can't keep this up specifically, definitely still going to stay 100% paleo.0
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I'm starting the Whole30, so I'm in. Better late than never 0
