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Awesome progress, Heather! Lovely to "meet" you! Please feel free to friend me. Happy to support you and swap ideas!0
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Hi! My name is Mindi. I have a wonderful husband, Freddy, and 5 wonderful kids Nikki is 14, Jae is 12, Kaylee is 7, Peyton is 3, and Loren is 18 months and breastfeeding. I have always been into a natural approach in life and when my brother told me about the paleo/ primal lifestyle it really clicked for me and my family. I have only been doing it for less than a week, so I am really new and have a lot to learn. Nice to meet everyone and how do I find out when a challenge starts?0
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Hi Mindi! Welcome aboard! :happy:0
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Hello, I'm Jenny. Starting my 30 day challenge tomorrow, and plan to focus more on the food with the goal to at least be active once a day. Along with the obvious fat loss goal I want to get stronger. My dream is pull-ups and heavy lifts. I also love my kettlebells and want to learn how to utilize them more.0
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Kim here, I started Paleo on January 30th, 155 days later & 37 lbs lighter and I've never felt better. Just reached my first major goal with 75 more to go. I'll be 55 in a month and looking forward to 50 more years. I have two grandsons ages 8 & 9 that I want to be able to spend more time & energy with. :bigsmile:0
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Hi everyone!
I'm a mother of 4 children. I started MFP Jan 2011 and Primal on March 2011. It was difficult at first since the first time I went about it, taking one grain food group per week starting with sugars. I found that didn't work for me as I still had craving. I ended up binging on everything.Then I went cold turkey following everything I read on Mark's blog. And that seemed to work best. Within a month, not only was my clothes looser but my back seemed to be in less pain, my sugar cravings were gone and my stamina was through the roof!
By June 2011, I lost 63lbs!!! My hair shined, my skin glowed! And I was even off the meds for my PCOS!
Uhhh, then in July I found out I was pregnant. And that I had not only a cyst growing but also a huge fibroid. I was put on bed rest. And against my better judgement my doctor urged me to eat grains again. I went to go stay with my ILs who cared for me, thank God. Anyway, long story short the whole pregnancy I wasn't able to work out. And I wasnt eating how I should have.
I gave birth to 5.5 baby girl and an almost 7lbs fibroid. My baby is now 4months now. I'm breastfeeding full time and we are home! So I thought it is about time to get back on the staddle. I weighed myself 3days surprisingly I only gained 22lbs back I would have thought I gained it all back! But everything is all flabby for sure!
So I'm here ... back ... looking for support, encouragement, and my health back!
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I am really a baby then to this group... 27 years old, started a Paleo lifestyle in July, got derailed for the last few weeks, but lloking forward to starting my 30day Monday! I have been trying to stay true to the principles, but been making lots of excuses for myself! So, a group of people who know what I'm going through can't hurt right??
After losing close to 100 pounds since 2010, I decided to run in my first Marathon on June2, 2012. I completed it in six hours, but feel like I didn't really dedicate myself to succeeding, so I literally have 7 weeks until my next 26.2 on October 21, and while mentally I know I can do it.... my body needs the clean efficient fueling that Paleo brings!!0 -
Hi there,
I am 41, raised 5 children and "started over" the 6th is a high energy 2 yr old boy. Started this eating plan back in October, however my roommate "helps" me by bringing me home Pringles. I refuse to let him be my excuse agian.....so here I go, today is my first day.
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I'm Kelly, recently turned 28 and NEED to do this! I have struggled with weight all my life it seems, although I was a 5lb premie (go figure LOL). I have tried everything over the years with most success coming from Atkins. Lost 50lbs and gained it back four years later after too much cheating and falling off the wagon completely. I recently watched hungry for Change and it sparked something in me. I really truely feel that I can do this now. Paleo just makes sense. I have Rhuetoid Arthritis, lupus, depression, allergies and asthma and I have to start doing something before I can't. Medications aren't the answer anymore. Life change is. Bring it on 2013!!!!0
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Hi I'm Misty
I'm 33 years old, live in the midwest, and started learning about the Primal/Paleo lifestyle a couple of months ago. I'm really excited to get started. I was a large kid that became a unheathly thin teen, and now I'm again a over weight adult.
My goal is
1. To be able to be taken off of the high blood pressure meds that I'm on now
2. To not have to wear compression hoses anymore
3. Looking good naked
4. Being healthy
5. Knowing that if need be I can get away from danger/ protect myself
I'm know that i can do this even if i back slide a little. Lokking forward to the new me0 -
So good to "meet" everyone! Welcome! Feel free to friend me if you like... We got this!!! :happy:0
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Hi everyone!
My name is Charity, 38yrs old (soon to be 39) and I live in Kitchener, Ontario.
A little about me...engaged to the love of my life, have 4 dogs and a cat (and 1 foster dog), work in Investments but really, my passion is rescuing and training dogs...fills my heart with warmth. I tried a Primal lifestyle change for a few months with great success, but lost some momentum when there were some deaths of those close to me in the last half of 2012. I have decided that to not live my best life while I have it would be a tremendous insult to them and a huge waste for me, so here I am, taking the bull by the horns again.
Looking forward to getting to know you! Friend requests welcome as accoutability and support for each other can make all the difference in the world.
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Hi there, I am so glad to have found this group on MFP. I am eating the Paleo way, have only been at it a week but quite motivated and encouraged to keep doing it. So far I am following it quite strictly and all is going well. I am not going to track my calories and food unless at some point I need to see better where my calories are derived from ( protein / carb / fat ) and or if I am sensing I may be eating too much and not able to continue to loose weight.
I am not normally a heavy meat eater so this is a bit of a challenge for me to bring up my meat eating to aprox 35 / 40 % of my total calories per day for protein especially when not getting significant protein from other sources.
My motivations are as follows, I have some weight I want to loose and keep off, I want to eat healthier and cleaner, I want to eat gluten free, I want to see if eating Paleo will result in better immune system functioning. Overall I want to see how it will improve my health.0 -
Hi there, I am so glad to have found this group on MFP. I am eating the Paleo way, have only been at it a week but quite motivated and encouraged to keep doing it. So far I am following it quite strictly and all is going well. I am not going to track my calories and food unless at some point I need to see better where my calories are derived from ( protein / carb / fat ) and or if I am sensing I may be eating too much and not able to continue to loose weight.
I am not normally a heavy meat eater so this is a bit of a challenge for me to bring up my meat eating to aprox 35 / 40 % of my total calories per day for protein especially when not getting significant protein from other sources.
My motivations are as follows, I have some weight I want to loose and keep off, I want to eat healthier and cleaner, I want to eat gluten free, I want to see if eating Paleo will result in better immune system functioning. Overall I want to see how it will improve my health.0 -
Hi I'm redoing my Whole 30...I did this about 2 or 3 months ago and felt great, I've been doing a paleo/primal but without grains for a while, but am back on the whole 30 again...I' hoping to make it a whole 60 but looking at the first 30 days FIRST lol..0
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