The Weakness In Me... CRAVINGS!

Just so those of you reading this that are trying to be Paleo don't think that I'm perfect and get annoyed with me I feel I need to share that I do have non-Paleo moments. I love focusing on the positives about living this way but right now I'm talking about the negatives, CRAVINGS! Let me just say, lately I've been craving pizza. Now, I have been gluten-free for over a year so cravings like that are easier to manage. (I have had pizza once in the last year!) Anyway, being Paleo is a whole other story. For example if I'm being totally honest, I just grabbed a handful of my moms potato chips and inhaled them... Not proud of that but it happened. So maybe if I write out all the foods I miss it will be therapeutic? Anyway I feel ya'lls pain so here it goes:

Foods Anna Misses the Most:
Cheese
Cheesy Pizza
Cheese Quesadilla's
Macaroni and Cheese
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (yes there is a pattern here)
Sour Cream
BBQ Potato Chips
Strawberry Milk
Donuts
Peanut Butter Cookies
French Fries
Sour Patch Kids
Mint Truffles
Oreos
Costco Chocolate Muffins
Corn on the Cob
Chicken Nuggets
RANCH DRESSING!!!
Soft Served Ice Cream
Movie Theater Extra Buttery Popcorn
Baja Mt. Dew
Taco Soft Tacos
Apple Pie
Olive Garden Breadsticks
Great Harvest Rolls
Cinnamon Rolls

I think everyone's cravings are so unique, what are your cravings? These are what I think about when I have a weak moment, I try very hard not to indulge and am successful for the most part but every once in a while... I think it's best to just avoid your weaknesses, like alcoholics shouldn't hang out at a bar and all that... Remember these foods damage your body! Stay strong! It's worth it!
 


The Benefits I've noticed the most in my life:
Balanced Energy
Anti-Inflammation
Improved Sleep

What has Paleo changed for you?

Leftover omelet: spaghetti

Every morning one of the first things I do when I wake is make myself an omelet. I use one whole egg and 3-4 egg whites. Mmmmm protein! Because it's morning and I don't want to put a lot of work into it I normally just stuff the thing with leftovers so here's this mornings creation:

Spaghetti Meat Omelet

A Saturday In The Life Of...

OK so Friday was a rough day. I found out I have arthritis... at 19! AND I've had the wrong inhaler for the last 4 YEARS so when I was hiking and wheezing and thinking my inhaler didn't work because I had let myself go and was fat as hell it was all because my inhaler prescription was switched for whatever reason and I never had this explained. So with all this my emotions were on high and I ended up crying in the backseat of my dads truck while my parents were bike shopping...

SO after giving myself a day to process and move on I was determined to start Saturday morning a new. I woke up promptly at 5:50am which was way annoying because my alarm was set for 7:50am it is Saturday after all. But I guess it's a good thing because it's just another sign of how much energy living Paleo has given me! Woot! Goodbye to the days of sleeping 10-12hours when I was a sick mess with no idea what was wrong with me. So I woke made myself a spicy tomato omelet and hit up a local farmers market.

I got me some of these:

Then planted these!:

TOMATOES!

I was way excited to grow my own tomatoes and save money! Then I realized the plants were $15 each and they will yield 5-6 tomatoes... That's $3 a tomato, not to mention the soil and the pots and the cages... So this turned into a somewhat expensive hobby but it will be fun to watch them grow and whatnot a guess.. JK I'm still excited about them and proud of myself for planting and growing something.

Think my Saturday was done after this? naw that just catches us up to noon.

I planted some flowers for my mom cuz I was on a roll planting things, and then I looked at my car and decided to tackle the deep cleaning I've been wanting to do to it for a while now.

OK I kinda HAD to clean my car because a tomato plant tipped over in the back but boy did it need it and I would have gotten around to it eventually I'm sure.

When I say I deep cleaned my car, I mean I took a toothpick and cleaned the gunk out of every crack and I vacuumed in every crevice. I washed the outside scrubbing the front twice because there are bug guts from my road trips which after round two of scrubbing I determined some bugs just do not come off the front of your car (it adds character?) and was finally done. As you can imagine this took a couple hours so I brought out the stereo and pumped some music while I was working (get over it neighbors).

Finally I watched Eat Pray Love while chopping giant zucchini (spelled that right without spell check!) and made zucchini spaghetti.

And that has been my Saturday in a nut shell. Man it was a long day, did you make it through my rambles? I guess the point of the story is to show how eating this way has given me energy to do things I could never do all in one day before... endless possibilities and all that. But if you got that the moral of the story is I had a break down and cried in the back of a truck yesterday I guess that works to!

Any-who I hope to upload some of the recipes I like soon so stay tuned!