Trying to lose this baby, er, well, pizza?, ice cream? junk food?, weight. My husband and I have been on and off the Primal Diet. We read the book "The Primal Blueprint" by Mark Sisson- check out marksdailyapple.com. It's good stuff. Seems like it makes sense and I feel like when I do follow the principles, my body thanks me by getting rid of the extra me I have carrying around. And I feel tons better. It seems like I always blame my weight gain on hormones, or stress, or whatever, but really, those things will always be around and as long as I use those as excuses to eat junk- (mostly processed carbs and sugars), I will never get to where I want to be physically.
So Michael and I weighed ourselves this past Wednesday, after eating nasty burritos on Tuesday night, knowing we were ready for a change. It's so much easier doing it together. It's really hard to be "good" or healthy when the person next to you could care less and is scarfing down some delicious looking nast. Of course we want to be balanced, but we also need to lose some pounds, and change the way we eat- for good. Because if we don't, we'll just yo-yo constantly and always end up undoing all our hard work. And that's sad.
We did this initially in August, and by 2 and a half weeks in, I had lost 11 lbs. Woohoo! Then hormones, stress, and whatever, kicked in, and I pretty much gained it all back. Not all of it, but enough of it to be like- Dang it! Well I weighed myself yesterday and I had already lost 5 lbs! All water weight I'm sure, but it's super encouraging. About 15 more to go. Then comes the maintaining. Which seems to be the really tricky part for me. Anyone have any good advice about maintaing their weight loss? Will it always be such a conscientious effort? Oh to have a super high metabolism... or to be on speed :). Just kidding!!
Oh Kristen....The story of my life:) I LOVE eating Primal, the endless energy it gives you, how good you feel. So when I'm feasting on junk food I wonder how I got back to the place where I was craving that nasty stuff. The next morning I have my coffee, eggs & bacon and swear to never do that to my stomach again and next week, same thing. Today is a great example of what all this food does to me, I have a terrible headache after 3 days of just eating whatever is around at other peoples houses, church, thanksgiving dinner:( Yuck. I am now chugging Water to try and flush it all out. The thing I remember is that God gives us grace so we need to give ourselves some grace as well. We are not perfect so we shouldn't expect ourselves to be perfect. If we can focus on doing our best and then trying to do our best again when we fail, then we are doing pretty good. I know that you will continue trying because failure in this life is not an option. And be relieved that you are trying for 15 lbs, I still have about 40 lbs left to reach my goal:(
ReplyDeleteSam I definitely owe it to you for sharing that website and "The Primal Blueprint" with me- I don't know if I would have known about it if it wasn't for you! I do like how Mark encourages the 80% rule, but I'm not exactly sure how that translates into your daily life- you know? I feel like I'm either trying to be in ketosis and lose weight as fast as possible, or just eating whatever. It's hard for me to be balanced and incorporate much fruit into my diet, b/c I end up craving other sugar. Thanks so much for sharing how it's going for you! I said 15 lbs- to reach my first goal, probably another 10 after that. There's no way you need to lose 40 more lbs girl!! You would be a toothpick!!
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ReplyDeleteAlicia!! You should blog about all your running! I would love to read about your getting back into it and your journey- through marathons and everything!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that going "Primal" has impacted you in a positive way. You will continue finding more balance....I've been at this 2 1/2 years and I am nowhere near perfect, but I feel better than I did before. It definitely makes a difference when it is both of you doing it....like you said. When Jason is in a funk and just wants to eat bad stuff it is much harder for me:(
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