Forums and Primal/Paleo

hpsnickers1

Okay. I'm done with the forums for now. I've been out there again. But I can't seem to help myself. Most of the time I don't even go back after I post just because I don't want to see it.

It's interesting though that the number of members in this groups grows daily!! Seems to me like it's getting a little more popular.
I LOVE IT!!

KBGirts

The regular forums drive me nuts!!! :explode:

Zeromilediet

There's an irrational visceral dislike for paleo out there ... as if the premise was based on eating kittens for breakfast. I don't post in the forums anymore and even among friends, explaining is mostly confined to 'this is what is working for me'. The results speak for themselves ... honestly, and with no false modesty, I look and feel great.

questionablemethods

I've stayed far far away from any threads with "paleo" in the subject line. While I don't quite believe that it is the perfect diet for everyone, I just can't handle to read people who really have no idea what it is all about talk nonsense.

MikeFlyMike

that is hilarious. I find I step into the regular forums and end up getting my blood pressure up regardless of the topic. And the paleo primal threads are exactly like we are eating kittens (although that would be paleo technically I think)

_Amy_Budd

I know!! But I can't help myself. Living Primal has saved my life - I believe that with every fiber in my ever-shrinking-and-tightening body and with every neuron in my so-much-happier-and-way-less-stressed-out brain - and if I can get someone on those regular forums who has been thinking about it to give it a shot, and maybe help them find this wonderful lifestyle, too...

One night recently, I was hanging out with my awesome, sweet, 11-year old son, and talking about how happy we are that I've gotten healthy, and I showed him some before-and-current photos, that I had posted. And he commented that it was interesting that I was willing to share those before photos, because I guess that even he was aware of how I had always avoided, hid and destroyed most images of myself at that size. And I said that all the things that were happening to his Grandpa (my father) as a result of type 2 diabetes - his amputated leg, kidney failure and resulting dialysis and need for a transplant, failing eyesight, etc. - that the way that I had been living before had me headed in a direction where all those things could happen to m... And he cut me off there, and said, "Don't even say it, Mommy. I would be devastated. I would be *devastated*." And he had tears in his eyes, and I had tears in mine, and I said, "And that's why I posted the photos, and that's why I will talk about this to anyone who will listen. Because if there's even one person out there who has someone who they love more than anything, who would be devastated... And if anything I say or write or do helps someone else to take steps to change their health and keep their most-special-people from being devastated... Then it's worth it."

And that's how I feel about posting on the regular forums, even though it gets me crazy and often makes me want to punch people.

Plus, the haters can kiss my well-toned, luscious *kitten*.

Amy

Anathama

Well said Amy... Well Said!

Cheers!

hpsnickers1

Okay, I just got tears in my eyes!!

I feel the same way. I see so many frustrated and unhappy stressed people on MFP. There are people that are doing everything they think is right and just getting disappointed (and injured). I've seen a few just give up. If one of those people happen to come across one of my posts and decides to just try it and see what happens - hopefully researching and learning along the way - I feel like I've done something good.

I was never obese. I was about 140lbs for less than a year of my life. Might have been that in my teens, though. Most of my adulthood I was around 120-125. I think the insulin resistance really started kicking in around my 38th year. That's when the weight really started to climb. 20lb in less than a year. But I was always unhealthy in some way. Sinus issues, digestive issues, bad sleep, skin problems, teeth and gum problems. I starved myself back down to around 120 and ended up with "Fibromyalgia". I now believe this wasn't Fibromyalgia but Reactive Hypoglycemia. The symptoms match exactly. Jeff O'Connell, author of' Sugar Nation: The Hidden Truth Behind...,' has it and how I figured this out. Although I don't believe his theory of eating small meals throughout the day to maintain blood sugar levels.

So Primal wasn't about weight loss for me. The extra 10lbs I lost was just a bonus and a bit of that was just water. I've had gut issues since I was little kid. This the first time in my life that I don't hurt or feel uncomfortable in some way on a daily basis. I'VE GOT HAIR GROWING BACK! I was getting a receding hairline just like my dad has - it was just these two almost bare spots above my temples - a more pronounced widow's peak. I just recently noticed that it's filling in. Even with the issues I'm still battling I'm still getting surprises.

I guess this is why I want to shout it out so bad. When something changes your entire well-being you want everyone to be able to feel like this.

I really wish I could get my brother to listen to me. He needs it the most and I'm going to watch him head down the same road as my dad, knowing that he can at least manage his diabetes and won't.

KMAMinx13

I stay strictly to the weight loss success arena on this forum. I give praise and encouragement to those who have had success in their weight-loss journey. I track my own food intake and avoid all the other forum areas so that I can ignore the rabid paleo attackers.

Listen, the information is out there - about everything. If people don't want to pull their heads out of the sand and educate themselves, they will continue to suffer from the effects of poor eating. It is their loss

njdoll

I starved myself back down to around 120 and ended up with "Fibromyalgia". I now believe this wasn't Fibromyalgia but Reactive Hypoglycemia. The symptoms match exactly. Jeff O'Connell, author of' Sugar Nation: The Hidden Truth Behind...,' has it and how I figured this out. Although I don't believe his theory of eating small meals throughout the day to maintain blood sugar levels.

I really wish I could get my brother to listen to me. He needs it the most and I'm going to watch him head down the same road as my dad, knowing that he can at least manage his diabetes and won't.

This is my sister. Who is on medications for her fibromyalgia and medications on top of that to treat the side effects of her medicine. It's terrible. Not to mention she has gained a lot of weight from these meds. What a vicious cycle. I really would love for her to try to treat her issues through some lifestyle changes and see if she can get herself off the meds.

Like you, we have a family history of diabetes and I worry about her getting metabolic syndrome.

coronalime

Paleo has gotten HUGE in my area. Mostly bc of Cross Fit. There was 1 gym in my city a few yrs back...Now there is one on every corner. Most gyms are having cross fit classes. So as people jump on that they find Paleo.