Day 7 - Paleo

Well it has been a week since I decided to start a new lifestyle, and I can say that things have gone amazingly well.  I stuck to my plan for the week and I can actually feel a big difference.  I have no idea how well I have done weight wise.  I am refusing to allow the scale any power over me so I am staying off.

I purely going by how I feel, how my sugar numbers are (which they have been excellent), and how my clothes fit and feel on my body.  I also look at my body to see if I see any changes in it.  I don't want something controlling me and I feel like if I make it about the weight loss it will ultimately come to control me.

In the past, I would weigh myself daily or weekly sometimes even multiple times in a day.  I was never successful with any of those attempts at losing weight and keeping it off.  Oh I lost weight, I just never managed to keep the weight off.  Why?  because it was never  lifestyle change.  It was only a means to lose weight.  Or more accurately it was lose weight until I stopped losing weight, for whatever the reason, and then give up on whatever diet I was doing and then go back to not only the bad eating habits I had before but worse.

It has always been a vicious circle.  Lose x number of pounds, some of the times the number was more significant than others only to get discouraged, start to give in to temptations, or just can the whole diet because I never actually started it.  The list is endless as this has been a rotating vicious circle for me for a long time.

So going into this, Day 1 it was a diet before I started this blog.  However, I have decided that this time around I wasn't going to allow history to repeat itself.  I may end up making a mistake along the way.  In fact I know I will, because I am far from perfect.  However, what I am going to work hard at is not making the same mistakes that have sidetracked my progress in the past.

After all the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.  That is exactly what I have been doing for the past 20 plus years.  So that is the reason I decided that if I needed or felt as though I needed to put a label on what I was doing it would be lifestyle change, it would be that I am making better choices.

If people ask me if I want a duck donuts, or other things that aren't part of my new lifestyle, I simply tell them thanks but no thanks I am trying to make some better choices.  That way it is my choice not to have something.  It isn't a diet telling me that I can't have these items.  It is me saying you know for my health, for my goals that option isn't the best option for me and I am going to chose something that is better.

Maybe it is just me, but when I am in control of what I do and the decision to have or not to have then I don't feel slighted or left out or  deprived.  I am not ready to rip someone's arm off to steal their donut or whatever it is that they are eating that I wasn't "allowed" by a diet to eat.

I may not turn down every temptation that comes my way but when the day comes that I don't turn down the temptation and if so, then that is me choosing to partake and not the temptation controlling me.  Also, when that day comes it will be for that moment in time.  It won't side track my whole lifestyle.  It will be that moment I ate x the next time I eat it will be Paleo.

Today's meals:
Breakfast:   All Natural Preservative free Additive free sausage, eggs and fruit salad (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and mandarin orange)

Lunch: Grilled Chicken on Mixed Greens, cucumber, tomato, boiled egg and real bacon fried crispy and crumbled.

Dinner: Beef Fillet cut in slightly larger than bite size chunks, stir fried (med-rare) with minced garlic, ginger and balsamic vinegar.  Sautéed veggies (zucchini, onion and broccoli) and my favorite salad.

Lets not forget my treat for the week!  This is in recognition of all the good I did this week.  All of my accomplishments.  After all if you don't take a moment to look around you, and see what you have accomplished why do it, right?  And for all of that, 1 square of a Hershey's special dark bar!