Whoop!

It rained again last night, for a total of about a half hour.

There are little tufts of green stuff growing in the yard, now.  It's no longer completely brown.

And the blanket flower and black eyed Susans are blooming again.

In other news, I've been reading about the paleolithic diet lately.  It's intriguing.

Over the two weeks since the dance show, I have eliminated all beans and legumes, including my beloved peanuts and natural peanut butter.
I have reduced grain foods of any kind drastically, except for the past few days.
I have reduced dairy consumption to almost nothing, again, except for the past few days.
(I ate very little dairy to begin with, though, due to being allergic to the proteins in dairy foods.)

Some readers of this blog may recall my lamentations about working out, eating right, and not losing one ounce of weight or one inch of girth over the course of many weeks after our vacation to Chicago this spring.

I  gained 7 pounds on that vacation, making me 10 pounds over my ideal weight.  Not much, but enough to cause me to take action....and my actions did NOTHING.  (my body heard about it when I turned 50 in April)

In those two weeks mentioned above, I lost 3 pounds.

While still working out the same...just eating a little differently.

This makes me think that maybe those paleo diet folks are on to something.

And it's not about weight loss.  It's about reducing inflammation and bad digestion, by returning to a focus on foods similar to what our pre-agricultural ancestors would have eaten.... meat, veggies, fruit, and nuts.

Mostly what I have noticed with the loss of the 3 pounds is that my intestines work better, and I am not bloated around the middle.

I think I was going through a bit of a detox, too, though, because I was having daily headaches for the first week.  Some of them were really bad.

I haven't decided yet if I will adhere to this diet style 100%, but I have learned a lot from reading about the science behind it, and it has my interest.

Oh, and Dave has joined me over these two weeks in eating a little differently.  He continued to snack on cheese, and had to eat out one day for breakfast and lunch due to work.  His weight dropped 2 pounds, but then it came back. 

Always being one who wants to eat and BE healthy, this has been very interesting.