I think I might have had some kind of reaction to the small amount of cheese and greek yogurt I had yesterday. I can't help but think, ugh, really?! Just when I was starting to get the tiniest inkling of getting bored with this diet, here we go, food sensitivities are popping up. Well, I say "popping up", but it's probably been there all this time and I just didn't know it.
I guess this just goes to show, on the Paleo diet it's a process finding all these foods that you've been eating for years but may have been impacting your symptoms without you realizing it.
At this point, when things are getting a tad boring, when I am noticing strange reactions from foods I didn't notice before, some of you might ask "Why do the Paleo diet?". Well, I think a lot of people who try it (including me) just get curious and they want to see if they can feel better. It's not NORMAL to catch a cold every month or have a persistent cough that never goes away. It's not NORMAL to have allergies or fatigue or any of these other common ailments. If you read enough about food, eventually you start to see how what you eat is related to almost everything. The irony is that eating healthy shows you EVERY reaction, good and bad, and it's not just one big muddled blur of feeling mediocre anymore. In other words, you'll feel great most of the time (unlike your peers who are crashing every afternoon), but eat a food that most people eat like chips or soda or cake, and your tummy will punish you for it.
I guess making the decision to eat healthier is kind of like selling your soul to the devil, haha. He can make you rich and happy, but you'll owe him for the rest of your life, and he won't let you forget it either!
I guess I'm just starting to have a real genuine debate with myself. I want to find a happy balance between militantly avoiding certain foods, and having more energy to enjoy my life. We'll see what happens when the 30 days are up and how I stand on that issue.
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