I am not melting but it seems my FAT is! Truly, I feel like the wicked witch of the west but in such a good way! And the cursed brat is my best girlfriend from high school, Christine, who pointed me in the direction of Paleo and has been such an incredible icon of support, love and encouragement for so many years.
Today I am 14 days into eating the Paleo way but this is only the 6th day of my 30 day challenge. Several people on the Robb Wolf Forum recommend throwing the scale away or at least hiding it during this challenge. Why the heck would I do that if I continue to see such positive results?! If my weight loss stalls, I vow to put the scale away until March 8th, the end of my 30 Day Challenge.
As of today I have lost 9.5 lbs!! And this calculated from the lowest I have weighed in 3 months! Not only that, but I tried on a few pairs of jeans yesterday that I haven't been able to wear for well over a year. Yes, I did appear to have squashed myself into a sausage casing but I can at least get them on and even zip and button them! If I continue on this path I will even be able to wear these jeans in public in another few weeks!
The only "cheating" I have done since I began this challenge was two nights when I had to take some cough medicine, which contains sugar, otherwise I was at risk of coughing up my lungs. I eat when I am hungry and have figured out the things I need to have in the frig and cupboard for those "if I don't get food into my belly NOW I will eat my own shoe leather" moments. Here are a few things I have tried to keep on hand to snack on between meals:
Avocados
Raw almonds
Cashews
Almond Butter
Fresh coconut (it is a work out just extracting the meat but worth the effort!)
Grilled Chicken
Canned tuna
These are my go to foods.
I am feeling great!! And lookin' better, if I do say so myself! My face is less puffy and I seem to have less of a spare tire around my waist.
I had been fairly sedentary over the past year. Depressed and unmotivated due to the impending death of my mom who was withering away from cancer at the young age of 69, I could barely drag myself out of bed or off the couch. I would cry for hours but pull myself together before my boyfriend got home from work so he would not know that I was falling apart at the seams. I put up a strong front with my friends but inside I felt like my heart was being wrenched out of my chest. This didn't lead to the most healthy lifestyle. Having bone surgery on my foot didn't help matters as I couldn't even walk further than 1/2 a mile without excruciating pain until the last couple of months.
I ordered a pedometer on Amazon and received it on the morning of my official 30 Day Challenge. My goal when I started the challenge was to walk at least 5 miles a week for my first month. The average person walks 2000 steps in a mile. Here is my daily step count since the start of my challenge:
Day 1 - 4375
Day 2 - 7613
Day 3 - 5029
Day 4 - 6939
Day 5 - 6390
This is a total of 25,941, which equals almost 13 miles and I still have 2 days to go! Oh yeah!!!
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