Sunday, March 21, 2010

Eat Lots of Plants and Animals!

I am been waiting to write this entry all day but now that I sit down I don't feel creative at all.  That is not going to stop me though!  First off, the original plan was to start this paleo adventure whole heartedly on April 1.  However, as you've learned by now, I am an all or nothing kind of gal!  So, I spent the entire day SHOPPING!  I went to Costco, Trader Joes and Whole Foods and am equipped to go primal!  I shopped for hours, lugged my findings home and opened the fridge to find I really didn't have any room to put all of my wonderful food.  What better opportunity to cleanse the house of processed foods!  Below is a picture of the food I got rid of (mostly donated to friends, some got thrown away):
There isn't as much here as there would have been a few weeks ago.  I would have had to add in crackers, protein bars, oatmeal etc. However, one thing I noticed looking at this pile of food was all the bring colors and words in the packaging.  Everything is so commerical and convinces you on the package why its good for you.  This is a key thing to note with the next two pictures which show all the good food I bought:

Notice the lack of branding, colors and words convincing you why the products are good for you.  These foods are natural and healthy and don't need fancy branding and marketing to convince you.  We all know they are good for us!
In my pictures of good foods you'll find coconut milk, almond butter, VEGGIES, fruit, chicken, eggs, more veggies, more fruit.  Yes it was an expensive trip, but I am honestly so excited to dig in to everything this week.  I also bought some dark chocolate (70%) which goes great with the wonderful strawberries I bought!  What you won't see, fancy packaging, processed foods or grains.  Everything is organic as part of eating primal is removing toxins from our food. 
I almost forgot, I received my book yesterday and have been digging in.  My next post will hopefully walk through the process of determining how much protein, fats and carbs I should be eating in order to lose weight and look fabulous!  Which brings me to the before pictures, I am having Matt take my before pictures on Wednesday (his first night off) and I will post them as soon as I replace our mini USb cable which Remi kindly recycled for us.  As I mentioned before, I usually pose just right so as to hide my fat and insecurities from everyone.  I am putting myself out there and although not as scary as my cousin Ricky's solo for PGMC, which he totally rocked, still scary for me!

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