Partytime Paleo Protocal

94.4 kilos and counting

I have started reading more widely about "going Paleo."  Some of the nutritionist push-back is starchily negative.  I agree that eliminating whole groups of foods from one's diet is extraordinary. I agree that  for some folks, eating this way for a long period of time might cause  health problems. I also agree that the Paleolithic man's diet and this modern version are distant cousins at best. But I am convinced that for me, turning the food pyramid upside down is working for me full stop.

 I am overweight, diabetic,suffer serotonin deficiency, and am addicted to certain carbs, I also have a slow thyroid.  After the last miserable decade where NOTHING I tried shifted weight, I can tell you the Paleo Protocol is nothing short of a blessing and miracle to me. For the first time in a decade, last week, a doctor looked at me with approval and encouragement.  And did not poo-pooh my efforts.  I doubt a nutritionist would have been so supportive.

I have to say that my personal Paleo is not as rigid and "clean" as some folks do.  I do not source fancy high end bio  meat, per se.  I buy what's on sale. We buy Irish beefsteak cuts  because  good tasting, good textured beef is hard to find here.  I am not interested in spending twice as much on meat all the time. It takes a little doing but I watch the weekly ads. So no, we don't eat beefsteak very often. And I don't feel like I consume extravagant amounts of protein in one sitting.  I stop eating when full.  The leftovers are for breakfast.

We eat lean, which means the oils I use are coconut, or olive. I have stopped using vegetable oils and the fluid cooking fats that are so popular now.  Yes, I still use butter in very small amounts.  I am thinking about making ghee (which is butter with the milk solids cooked out.) but I never ate that much butter. An acceptable sub for mayonnaise is a hard boiled egg whizzed with avocado. This is what elevates Paleo from my Atkins experience.  I found Atkins to be so greasy and fatty.  All that cheese and cream.  I love cheese and cream and find it interesting that I miss it so little after 30 days of not having it.

This weekend was the annual holiday gift giving for the Dutch.  We have Sinterklaas here. The evening is replete with bread and processed meat,  carbonated sugar waters and juice.  Then there's the traditional candy and peppernoten.  I brought grilled mixed veg with avocado and chicken.  I did moan over passing up randpa's sausage rolls, but I did snitch a bite. I brought a recipe I was auditioning: Pumpkin mini pies. I used part coconut flour instead of all almond flour because I didn't feel like making a special trip for more almond flour. Bah. Coconut flour needs wayway more fluid. It's like sawdust.  I am still learning new tricks.

On Sunday we went to church, and then revamped the house to put up the tree. I got plenty of movement....

This morning I weighed 94.4 kilos. When I hit 90 we buy a new bicycle.  Paleo works for me.