Back with Final Thoughts from the 30 Day Paleo Plan with Amy

Well Amy, it’s been fun! Thanks for being a sport and taking this ride with me! And congrats on your 2 pounds! Here are my final thoughts (for now). I also lost 2 pounds but then gained back a half leaving me with a net loss of 1.5 pounds for the month. That was discouraging. But that was also with little exercise other than dog walking and less than optimal health for the month and mega (job) stress. I’ll take the loss…I just hoped for more.

I spent a lot of time in my head on Saturday wondering about good food and bad food and the realities of continuing long term with so few carbs. It’s hard for me to demonize fruits and veggies and potatoes. Oh, I love potatoes.

I came away from that talk with myself with an appreciation for what I have learned in the past 7 or 8 months of blog/book-reading & podcast listening. I no longer look at soy as a health food. I know why Crisco is bad for you and butter is good. I know that food closer to how God made it is best for us, and that processed foods should not be our norm.

I’d like to continue to lose weight in November, though I know it will be a small and slow loss, as per my usual. I’d like to maintain my loss in December so that I don’t end up losing ground before resolution-making time. I’d like to eat real food keeping an eye on the carbohydrate intake, but not being dogmatic about it. If I eat something sweet and delicious, I would like it to be something that my great-grandmother would have baked in her kitchen, or picked from her orchard (if she had an orchard!). I would like to continue to spend the extra money to ensure that my meat & poultry are grass-fed/free range or at least hormone and antibiotic free. I’m going to try to eat 3 meals per day and cut back on the snacks, and really, really work on my sleep.

Thanks again to all of our readers (do we have readers??) for following along and as a final thought, I’d like to encourage others to try this – you never know what you might learn about yourself along the way!