No Grain...No Pain!!!

Anyone on here have open diaries? or good tips for menus? What do you eat for breakfast other than eggs? And dinner? I end up going to hot dogs (no nitrites/nitrates added) and ground beef a lot. I am very picky. But I am willing to try new items, I just don't know where to start or how to make things my family would eat with me. It is really pretty pathetic. I also getting leary of the costs with going low-carb, how are others getting around that?

Thanks,

Katy

I think mine is open, if not friend me. I do have eggs for breakfast, I haven't given up dairy so I have yogurt too. There are some good recipes here:
http://everydaypaleo.com/category/food/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/recipes/
http://www.paleoplan.com/recipes/
and this one seems like the recipes are meat and vegetables so I include it but it doesn't claim to be paleo and addresses the cost:
http://www.brokeandhealthy.com/
I think it is rather expensive too. I am eating a lot of chicken this week-I picked up a rotisserie chicken on Sunday and had that for two dinners and a lunch. I can put the chicken with pears and pecans over a salad and that is pretty tasty. You can also bake the chicken breasts with coconut or nut coating, I like that and it also makes a good carry for lunch over a salad kind of thing.
I got ground beef but I don't know what to do with it...

This is so interesting. I was just reading another thread called "sugar = poison" which has a link to a pretty interesting video and the whole thread got me thinking about all the benefits of this way of eating. Part of what I wrote and want to share are the benefits of low carb eating and I wonder others in the group would like to share what are the main benefits they have found in this way of eating?

Here are mine: To lose weight I tried dropping carbs to the Atkins "Induction" level which is 20g per day or less. Well, thanks to MFP and logging my foods I see that is about impossible (for me). On any given day from fruits and veggies I am consuming between 50 - 100g of sugar/carbohydrates.

Even though it's higher than the Atkins level and I don't think I've been in ketosis, the benefits I have gotten from this drop are out of this world and NOT what I expected. I expected weight loss and I got that - 14 lbs so far. What I didn't expect and got: more muscle definition, total disappearance of lifelong acne, level, stable, happy mood, increased energy, less joint pain, increased endurance in workouts (this took awhile as the first month I was fatigued), shinier hair, softer skin, less PMS and monthly issues and total disappearance of persistent candida/yeast issues. I have been on this way of eating for 3 months and these are the results I have seen. And I am not drastic - I usually eat one serving of fruit a day and often eat a TLC granola bar, not to mention I don't limit veggies at all.

What are your benefits? :-)

I love the new me from starting this new lifestyle! I actually started because I read all the weightloss benefits of going low carb. As I looked more into the primal lifestyle, I knew this was for me and my family. I started with just myself and after reading more and more, my hubby totally agreed with me. I think I started the first week of March and in less than a month, I started noticing even more amazing benefits! I was diagnosed with MS two years ago, and have not had one symptom since March. I think Kim picked the topic name perfectly! I am pain free!! I was on the primary MS med-Rebif, with prednisone, and my doc had just wrote a script for two more things right before I started MFP. Plus I was taking 18-20 ibuprofen/day. I can happily say I am completely med free. And I don't follow 100%. I still have to buy meat and fruit from Wal-mart, but have been grain free since March. Once I start working (aug-sept), we will be buying organic fruits and veggies and the good meats. I think of ourselves as primalists in training. But I have also noticed the hair/skin difference, more energy, better mood. And a 100% improvement during my TOM. It went from 6-8 days, extremely heavy, fatigue, and cramps to pain free, no water retention, more energy, 2 days and extremely light flow. I can also tell you that my children are so much healthier since switching. I have a 5 year old with Sensory Processing Disorder so we have our hands full sometimes. He is a completely different child since March. He had a sleep over at his grandparents last Saturday and had cookies, brownies, chicken nuggets, chips, mac and cheese, and who knows what else. He was uncontrollable Sunday. But after a full day of eating our way, he was back to what I was seeing lately.

I first watched the big fat fiasco video on the net, then watched FAtHead on Netflix and was hooked! It has become so easy for us to follow. I was also led to FoodMatters on Netflix last week. Although I would never become vegetarian, my eyes were opened to why our food should be organic and the message that proper nutrition can heal the body, instead of a pill for every ill. They told of healing with giving the body what it needs through food and vitamins-cancers, autoimmune, and even mental illnesses. I can not wait to be able to afford to buy the better food for my family once I start working (tight grocery budget right now). I know the benefits of going primal will only get better!!!

Once you know how bad sugar and grain-based carbs are, you can't unknow that.

I agree. That is what made me realize how important it was for me to stick with it. I guess if it was just me, following this, it might be easier to cave sometimes. But I am starting to do this for my whole family. Once I read how bad this stuff was, what it is doing to our bodies, I find it really hard to eat them. A few weeks ago, we were out all day and into the evening, so I wanted to whip up something fast for the hubby and kids. I made hamburgers and shells and cheese. It actually disgusted me to make the shells and cheese. I hated the thought of feeding that to my kids and to think, that is something 3 months ago, we ate several times a week, ugh!

Could somebody teach me the abbreviations such as PCOS and those other paleo things - something like MW....?
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I just logged my food! for the 2nd day in a row! how is everyone else doing?

I did Wednesday's journal this morning and just finished todays.

I meant 6 days! Be strong!