After giving the standard Paleo
Diet a good go for the money, I've decided that a life without at least some
dairy and bread products was just not for me.
Last December, I embarked on a new
'natural' diet aka the Paleo Diet that consisted of the kinds
of foods that our long distant ancestors ate for a million or so
years! It consisted of fresh meats, fish and poultry, vegetables and
fruits. What was left out was practically everything else! No diary,
no breads or pasties and definitely nothing out of a can or box wit
the exception of frozen veggies. This life style did have one perk –
it made a trip to the grocery store a breeze. However, I quickly
found that eating fresh also translated into eating myself into the
poor house! My grocery bills had skyrocketed and with other rising
costs in my life (Obamacare), I quickly realized that I would have to
either abandon or quickly modify this approach to healthy eating.
To that end, I decided to make do with
a mixture of both approaches. That is, I would keep eating a lot of
fruits and vegetables (assuming they were on sale), while also not
shunning the occasional sandwich or glass of milk. Still on the
'severely limit' list were such items as processed meat and any of
the canned goods that are mostly packed in salt.
So far, this modified approach seems to
be working for me. As far as weight control, I learned long ago that
it doesn't matter what you eat just so long as you control the
amounts you eat! For instance, whenever I have stir fry or pasta (two
of my favorites), I make sure to weigh them down to the gram to make
sure they are fitting in with the overall number of calories that I
can consume for the day. In my particular case, that's about 1600, assuming I
also exercised on that day.
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