Paleo-days 2-3 ""Eating Out"

Hi Paleo Peeps.  I am writing you from the depths of detoxing hates!  The Detox stage for sugar takes anywhere from 17-30 days.  For me 17 days has been the magic number.  Things get easier.  Cravings stop.  Headaches disappear.  Energy abounds.  :)  I promise if you are considering this you have nothing to loose, but the unhealthy lifestyle that surrounds you on a daily basis!

My biggest struggle by far is food.  We have to eat to live.  (I sometimes live to eat.)  If you are like me and are an emotional eater, foods become a weapon we can punish ourselves with, disguised with promises of hope, reassurance and comfort.  Face it.  We eat when we are happy.  We eat when we are sad.  We eat when we are bored.  We eat to celebrate.  We cook and eat food when tragedy strikes.  There is no way to get around eating.  It is something we face 3-5 times a day, 7 days a week.  WHAT we choose to eat is the key.

I am a HUGE believer, (mind you this is my opinion),  that weight loss and Healthy living is composed of 4 things.  1)  Mental Strength-The choices we make and where our mind dwells.  2) What we eat.  (you cannot eat ice cream every night for dessert and expect to maintain a healthy life.) 3)  The amount of water you drink. (ONE of the very most important things, and often the most under-utilized.) 4)  The amount you move.  Heart beating movement that gets your heart rate up and takes you somewhere.

Of these 4 things, todays struggle was the choice of what I was going to eat while out and about.  Lunch time choices if not prepared for can be extremely difficult.  Today my husband took me to lunch at Moes'.  I was in a silent panic as I looked at the menu board.  (Paleo and eating out do not normally exist on the same plain!)  Not because there were not good choices to make, but the fact Mexican food is by far my very favorite food!  After repeating to myself over and over, (well silently chanting in my head), "You are worth Good decisions.  You do not want to derail everything you have done for the last 3 days.  You are worth a healthy life.  This you can control.  Make wise choices."  I took a deep breath and did ok.  I ordered a fish bowl double meat, NO BEANS OR RICE (ugh), lettuces, cucumbers, pico, black olives(YUM), guacamole (even more YUM), and jalapeños.  I chose to get NO chips, because I am not strong enough to resist, and I topped my heaping bowl with salsa verde.  Friends!!!! it was delicious!  I didn't miss the cheese, sour cream or other stuff.  MY entire meal was 280 calories.  AT MOES!  Good choices are out there.  If I can do it, you certainly can too!


Todays Steps =10,345
Devotion Done =  reading through "Breaking Free" By Beth Moore
Water = 45 ounces
Calories intake thus far (as of 5:15 pm) = 811

Pounds LOST - SIX!!!!!