Hi guys! Well I had another good Paleo weekend. I tried liverwurst for the first time (it's yummy!), and I had such an insanely fat-heavy breakfast on Saturday that I was able to go shopping in Denver for 8 hours without eating or feeling hungry. I basically stuffed myself with eggs, meat, and even loaded up my coffee with coconut milk and even a healthy dollup of coconut oil (don't gag--it's actually pretty tasteless, although you kind of have to ignore the oil floaties, haha). I did this because I learned a new Paleo trick in the last week -- if your meal is 60%-70% fat, you can go hours without eating. I couldn't believe I was able to go without eating for 8 hours afterwards! I would never have been able to do that a few months ago, I would have been whining for food at the 3 hour point. So I really got to see the powers of SATURATED FAT as an energy source. You can run a lot longer on that shiznit than you can carbs!
Anyway, I'm up writing this post because I really can't sleep. But there's also something on my mind. I was just thinking about things, and quite honestly, I wonder if people are going to think I'm weird if I stick with this diet. I mean really. I'm excited about the health benefits I'm noticing, but I don't have a geniune life threatening disease to mention during social occasions as an excuse to eat what I want. I'm not diabetic, I don't have celiac disease, etc. All I am is somebody who noticed how AMAZING I feel when I eat this way!
I feel kind of bad for whoever takes me on. My poor boyfriend. Suddenly I realized I'm going to be "that girl", the one who talks about organic food and crap like that, and would prefer to eat only certain things even if she doesn't always say so. My God, what if I end up being the girl who takes 2 minutes ordering her food because she wants to know if her steak was grass fed and what oil it will be cooked in. I'm not that picky yet, but I can just imagine scaring off tons of people that way. On top of that, I probably will get to the point where I can't eat cake or ice cream without getting sick. On one hand I feel like I'll just end up looking like a freak. On the other hand I guess I'm willing to be weird if that's what it comes down to, because no one ever accused me of being normal anyway.
Anyway, that was what was on my mind today. That and the gigantic pot roast I'm going to eat tomorrow. I started it marinating in a red wine / garlic / onion mixture in the fridge and I'm going to stick it in the crock pot tomorrow. No idea how it'll turn out, but I'm excited!
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