Getting Started With A Paleo Diet.
Changing your eating habits can sound such a simple thing to do but done right with the correct information and guidance it can change ones life. The Food scares around today as been the wake up call for a lot of people who are now looking for more natuaral foods - well you can not get any more natural than the some of the mouth watering ideas in The Paleo Recipe Book. How do you get to eating a Paleo Style Diet?The followings is an extract from the blog post by Hanna from Honey& Huckelberries
I’ve always tried to eat well. Whole foods, lots of veggies, dark chocolate (because it’s healthy then, right?), all that good stuff. So when my best friend told me that she had started to eat paleo, and then explained what that entailed, I have to admit I thought it was a bit crazy.
The Paleo diet cuts out processed foods, sugar, all grains, legumes, and usually dairy. I was very excited that she was trying to feed her family less take-out, but not eating whole wheat? Brown rice? Cheese!? Even if it was helping her lose weight, I couldn’t see how it could be healthy to cut out entire food groups and replace them with bacon.
It didn’t help that I was pregnant with my second little girl at the time, and horribly sick. Bread was one of the only things I could keep down, no one was taking away my bread.
Then Sunny was born, my sweet wonderful baby girl. She ended up with terrible eczema and I went on an elimination diet that was ironically very close to the paleo diet. Her skin cleared up and I lost five pounds in a month.
It turned out that her issue was with dairy so I added wheat back in, only to find that it made me feel really weird. My lovely, homemade, whole grain bread made my stomach hurt if I ate it for breakfast and gave me heartburn whenever I had some. This had always been the case, but I hadn’t noticed until I cut it out completely. I was pretty annoyed.
I didn’t want to believe it, but clearly the wheat was not my friend. I did some serious reading and came to the conclusion that our family was going paleo. I convinced my husband, tossed the toddler’s crackers and started our journey towards healthier eating.
It is, however, a journey. We aren’t super strict as we don’t have any real health issues, so we still eat white rice and dairy (full fat, organic, and raw if we can find it). I don’t focus as much on the restrictions as I do on feeding my family the most nutritionally dense foods that I can.
Even by sticking to it about 85% of the time (because I still love pizza!), my kids are eating better and I am slowly losing the baby weight. I have more energy and I get hungry less.
7 Easy Steps towards a Paleo Diet
So, if going paleo sounds interesting to you, but the idea of a Whole 30 (go Tsh!) is a bit overwhelming, here’s some little steps you can take to improve your diet.With lots of Paleo Diet Recipe Books out there to choose from.
You can just choose one and try it for a week or a month and then start another one. Every little step you take helps you (and your family) eat healthier than you were before!
- Switch your fats. Try cooking with butter, coconut oil, bacon grease (for real!) or grass fed lard.
- Choose one meal a day to eat paleo, then another.
- Stop buying (or making) bread and force yourself to figure out other things to eat.
- Switch to rice pasta (while not strictly paleo, rice pasta is a much better choice than wheat)
- When you get a sweet tooth, try out some paleo treats, likealmond butter cookies.
- Replace your starch at dinner with another vegetable side.
- Look through your favourite recipes and see if any of them are already paleo, or easy to adapt
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- Source: Simplebites.net
What Is The Paleo Diet
The Paleo Diet is no longer a Fad - Its more of a growing food movement as more and more people start to seek more natural foods. To learn more and get over 300 recipe ideas for Paleo foods CLICK HERE
