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20 Days into Paleo Challenge

This sort of feels like a picture overload dump but I've been busy the last 20 days.  I joined Civilized Caveman's 30 Days to a Better You Challenge.  It's just the motivation I needed to start this new journey. I've really struggled staying on Paleo.  Lots of outside factors impacted that.  But my bodies constant yearn to feel strong and healthy again never went away.  I'm grateful to my family and husband and great Integrative Medicine doctor who have been gently pushing me back to the right path.  I've spend that last 20 days trying intermittent fasting on for size and it's been really great.  

I think it feels much different than how I was used to coach others in regards to eating.  Where before I spent a lot of time planning 3 meals and 3 snacks I now eat 2 or 3 times a day and only sometimes snack.  I'm a morning workout girl so breakfast always came early to me.  It's been an adjustment waiting until 10 a.m or after to begin eating food.  Mr. and I both swear by our bullet proof coffee. We feel like it really does fill us up and curb some of the hunger pains.  

Before
After
Much of the beginning of this challenge felt the same.  The first thing I did the weekend prior was to clean out my pantry and refrigerator.  I then used the awesome emeals app to download recipes for the week and prepare my grocery list all on my phone!


Menu plan for the week courtesy of +eMeals — Real Food for Real Life 

This is posted on my refrigerator and when I get home from the store before groceries I take a look at our calendar and plan which meals work best for us against our schedule.  Then I'll put away groceries based on when we'll use the ingredients.  I almost always freeze meat until the night before I need to use it.  This is one of my habits that allows us to be successful at meal time.  Scheduling in advance leaves little room for error.

Below are some of the meals that I've had the past 3 weeks.  No links to recipes this time but I'm sure I'll get back to doing just that soon.  I just wanted to share that because of emeals paleo offerings we're able to eat variety of healthy vegetables and protein.  

When the stars align just right I make breakfast on Saturday morning.
The boys commented that the Red Pepper Sauce made this meal taste like pizza.
We had these turkey burgers before a home football game this past week..  
Cauli-mash made this like comfort food.
I love a good homemade chicken salad.
Eggs and bacon but I threw some leftover brussel sprouts on them to eat at work.

Yummy stir fry!
Saturday night steak night.  Kerrigold has a garlic and herb butter that we melted on top. Delicious!

Of course Mr. is on this similar journey with me as well.  He check in this morning with me to see how I was feeling.  I don't feel a ton different yet but noted that I can tell inflammation has gone way down.  I also have been sleeping better.  I just know that this lifestyle fits me the best.  I can say that the intermittent fasting has caused me to think less about food than I once did.  Overall, feeling like I have it back in control and with a plan helps me focus on me.   #Foodisadrug

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