Why the Paleo journey?

My health journey is an ever evolving journey, as it should be with everyone. Everyone should be doing their own research, but I fear they are too busy eating at McDonald's and watching too much TV.

My daughter is now almost 14 and I weigh almost as much as I did when I gave birth to her. I have tried various thing to get the weight off, joined Gold's Gym (hated it), took lots of walks (probably walked to slow), ate the treats that people would bring in at work (seconds anyone?), so most people would say - "You don't have any willpower, girlfriend". I would tend to agree with you. I then decided to track all my eating. That was bullshit! How can anyone be forced to weigh, measure, and keep track of all this stuff and still be sane? I exercised at home 5 days a week, I figured if I started in February I would be great by May. Wrong, still only lost about 5#. Something was not working. I have stopped drinking cow's milk (except for the occasional glass), stopped eating bread (but not homemade pizza crust- yummmm)and tried to stick to dark chocolate. The exercise lasted about 1 1/2 months and then I stopped.

My husband, who is a fanatic internet reader, told me about the Paleo diet. Eating good meats (we already made the switch to grass fed/pasture animals and eggs), and good fats like cream, butter, avocados, nuts and seeds. I did some research and found many blogs and podcasts about Paleo and read/listened to them. My favorite that was right up my alley was "The Latest in Paleo" He talked about health stuff and gave his opinion and said "check this out on your own and let me know what you think" I was hooked. I then went to Savers (like Goodwill) and found "The Paleo Solution" by Robb Wolf and reading that (thanks Savers for the 2.99 book). This book had not only the "how to do Paleo" but also a lot of science that is right now over my head, but I will go back and reread it.

So here we are to now, it has been 3 weeks of working on getting the meals right and only walking as my exercise. However I would really like to get a chin up bar and a kayak. The first 2 weeks felt incredible, I had no cravings for sugary stuff or grains, but this last week has been a lot of cheats and not in a good way. I can feel the cravings starting.

If you are still here, thanks. It sure feels good to get this all down on paper.