Paleo, 'Cause Neo's a dork

I believe I promised a post about the changes that Stuart and I are making to our diets.  It's hardly revolutionary and if you google, you'll find everyone and their variations. What we are starting out with isn't even the Paleo Diet, per se - we're going low, low carb - so no carrots and things which are Paleo approved. 

So basically, no refined sugar, no grains, limited fruit from the low carb end, no root veggies, limited cheese... but all the meat, eggs and leaves we can eat!  Stuart was totally behind this change, dedicated carnivore that he is. And neither are we going to extreme levels - we still have some yoghurt, some quinoa, etc. We decided right from the start that game night was going to be ok to cheat, rather than enforcing our diet on everyone, denying ourselves yummies that were right there, or just not going any more.

I decided to try it in the vein of experimentation, after my dad settled on it for weight loss after his second heart attack. Just getting the cola out of my diet would have been a huge improvement! But I am noticing positive changes... even with the cheating, I've lost about 10lbs in the last month. My lifetime acne is clearing up (and my skin lets me know within about 12 hours, when I've cheated.) I don't get the afternoon doldrums any more (I still get bored and I'm still sleep deprived, but that's different.  LOL)

I'm not sure if it's because we are cheating a little bit, but the miraculous "I don't even want them anymore!" moment has not arrived.  I still crave carbs, I dream about French bread and the longer we go, the more my daydreaming drifts from "good" carbs to chocolate and potato chips. Although I do have to admit that the chocolate bar that Stuart and I broke down and shared was insanely sweet and I only finished it out of a sense of obligation.  The idea of carbs is still very appealing. And I freely admit that it's my mind that is addicted, not my body.

In order to ease the transition, I have been surfing the interwebs, looking for recipes that mimic carbs or are just more interesting than steak and salad every day.  I enjoy cooking and eating, so that kind of diet would just depress me in the long term.  But maybe I need to stick to something like that for a couple of weeks to put a kibosh on the cravings? Or maybe my massage therapist is right and I'm just going to be a lifetime carb lover.  What a depressing thought.  However, the dim light of getting down to something like my pre-adolescent-ballooning weight is helping me hang on!

(Note: not my weight as a pre-adolescent, but my weight before hormones and depression kicked my eating habits into the gutter.)