With the New Year right around the cor­ner I wanted to offer you some resources to help you in your Paleo jour­ney should you decided to walk the path. These are all things that I use mul­ti­ple times a day and refer to with­out hes­i­ta­tion. When rec­om­mend­ing a paid prod­uct, please note that I do use affil­i­ate or ama­zon links as deemed necessary.

Infor­ma­tional Websites

• The Whole 30 (this is the pro­gram that I used to start my paleo journey)
• Mark’s Daily Apple
• Robb Wolf (also has a pod­cast that I highly recommend)
• Paleo Par­ents
• The Paleo Diet
• Paleo Diet Lifestyle
• Free the Ani­mal (he’s a lit­tle explicit in his delivery)

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Din­ner is Served Pay no atten­tion to the non-Paleo cran­berry jelly; it’s my one indul­gence and it’s organic!

The aroma of bone broth fills the air and makes me want to make it out of every bone imag­ined. It’s so sim­ple. My daugh­ter, sis­ter, and niece are asleep and my hus­band is play­ing Call of Duty: MW3. I opted not to split-screen with him, choos­ing rather to surf the net com­pil­ing lists of things I want to make with our first batch of bone broth.

We are both rather happy. Sat­is­fied, but not over­whelmed by a turkey induced coma. We’ve spo­ken in great detail tonight about our new lifestyle. We have never regret­ted our deci­sion to change our lives and live a pri­mal exis­tence. And while we have not given up all of the com­forts of mod­ern day liv­ing, we have def­i­nitely taken steps in the right direction.

Admit­tedly, I was a lit­tle wor­ried about our Paleo Thanks­giv­ing menu. As carboholics-on-the-wagon, most of our com­fort foods relied heav­ily on breads, pas­tas, cakes, and pies. The mesh­ing of my Black Amer­i­can South­ern her­itage and his Ital­ian ances­try is not very Paleo-friendly, but we were both deter­mined to see this through.

I’m glad we did!

Our first Paleo Thanks­giv­ing was a suc­cess. We tried new ver­sions of old favorites and by the end of the meal we were both in a state of euphoria.

What was on the menu?

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Huevos Rancheros with Avo­cado and Home­made Salsa Verde

We were hes­i­tant to tell any­one in our real lives that we are now liv­ing Paleo because it’s easy to write this off as a fad diet. It’s easy to assume that this is a tem­po­rary fix to a long term prob­lem, but the fact is that it works. The sci­ence behind it works [check out Robb Wolf’s won­der­ful FAQ sec­tion on his site with enough links to research that will open your eyes] because it’s a sim­ple process of remov­ing harm­ful chem­i­cals and foods from our diets and eat­ing food the way Mother Nature intended it to be eaten. And it’s not just about food. It’s a lifestyle that extends beyond just eating.

So how do I know it works? It’s sim­ple: I feel bet­ter. And it’s only been TWO months. That’s the most impor­tant thing.

Roasted Veg­gies

Specif­i­cally how has life changed for us?

• We all enjoy a healthy, home­cooked break­fast of good pro­teins and veg­gies. Our pro­tein packed break­fasts pro­vide every­thing we need to make it through until lunch and we are sat­is­fied until then. Unless we are crazily active, we can forgo snacks. Meals of fill­ing and satisfying.
• No more sugar comas from the heavy carbs. We no longer rely on starches to fill us up and have turned that trust to pro­tein (some­thing that my diet was seri­ously lack­ing before).
• We have eaten food in ways we would never have done so before– over easy eggs, left-over beef stew for break­fast etc. I’ve become a fan of left overs. Lunch is usu­ally left­overs from the night before (if I don’t eat them for break­fast) paired with a lof of leafy greens and other veggies.
• Every­thing is fresh!
• We have eaten more lean meats, poul­try, and fish than ever before and we all feel great after eat­ing– no more “oh crap, I ate too much” feel­ing. We are full but don’t eat nearly as much as we used to.
• We feel ener­getic after eat­ing and are no longer exhausted from meals.
• We drink water and enjoy cof­fee with­out all the fixins
• The local pizza place is clos­ing. Just kid­ding, but I wor­ried that would hap­pen once we stopped order­ing from them. We don’t eat take out any more except for once or twice when things got away from me.
  

  Turkey Burg­ers with Let­tuce and tomato on a Por­to­bello Bun

• My daugh­ter ate 3 serv­ings of Brus­sel Sprouts the other day and chose fruit over Hal­loween Candy.
• We are all reg­u­lar now and my heart burn has disappeared.
• My daughter’s con­stant bloat­ing is gone and she has lost the extra weight.
• I have been off my asthma meds since the sec­ond week.
• We sleep. We sleep and we feel rested which makes us more pro­duc­tive and gives us clarity.
• We cook and plan meals as a fam­ily! More fam­ily time is a plus!
• We are more active as a fam­ily! Because we are well-rested and energized.

Have you gone Paleo? What have you experienced?

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