I've had diarrhea for the past 3 days. I am not one to look at my poo. I just think its disgusting. But I did yesterday b/c I worried if something was wrong with me, I was thinking "paleo" might not help me. When I looked like dark green marshmallow with chunks of stuff in it. I googled it, for suggestions. Turns out, it may not be as bad I thought. After some reading, I discovered that it was green b/c of all the green roughage I'd been eating. And it was marshmallowy because of all the fat my body was excreting. So, I think my body is just adjusting to new diet. I thought the scale would have reveal something, a weight loss or gain, but nothing. It's only been four days.
Here is what I noticed on yesterday: Normally after a large meal, I'm ready to sleep. But after yesterdays, large meal, I had energy. I wanted to do something. WEIRD!
For lunch today: tuna w/slices of cucumber & honey dew melon. For my tuna salad: I mashed half an avacado with lime juice, dill and pepper. I chopped in some onion and boiled egg. When I finally tasted it, it was bland, so I put in a few grains of sea salt. I had never eaten tuna salad without crackers or bread. I saw the cucumber sitting on my counter. I sliced it up and used it as crackers. It actually was a pretty refreshing meal.
Things I'm struggling with: not adding salt to food and desperately missing chocolate
I'd not thought about just mashing up avocado in tuna. Nice idea. It beats making mayo from scratch when you're lazy. And using cucumber for chips was brilliant! The salt thing is normal. They tell people that if they just can't live without it to use VERY LITTLE amounts of sea salt. This is typically particularly for people who won't eat their veggies though, which doesn't seem to be a problem for you at all.
ReplyDeleteThe chocolate cravings should subside by the end of week 2 as long as you keep your sugar intake low. My apologies for twittering about candy yesterday. I'll try to be more sensitive for the next couple of weeks. That was just mean of me.
Be sure to keep eating fat. After about two weeks your bathroom visits should calm down as well. The adjustment process is weird for your whole digestive track. My digestion is immensely better now than it's ever been in my life, so I'm thankful for that. Also glad to hear that you had energy after eating yesterday. Isn't that weird?
There's an interesting thing about weight loss as well. Don't just focus on the numbers on the scale. Pay attention to how your clothes fit and your body composition as a whole. My mother-in-law has been eating Paleo for about 4 months and has only lost 10 pounds, however, her body shape is completely different. People comment on how much better she looks all the time. She fits into clothes she didn't fit into before. It has something to do with your body actually being able to produce muscle without extra exercise simply because it can feed off of the fat on your body or something like that. I'll do some more research and let you know later. In the meantime, keep up the great work!
@Jessica please don't worry about the candy comment. It wasn't mean! And I promise I wasn't upset. And I have to pay attention to the scale, I go back to the doctor for check up on the 8th and I'm bit concerned about what my numbers will read.
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