Day 2

So yesterday's dinner didn't go too bad.  I really liked the apple chicken recipe, but the roasted green beans with thyme were not that good.  I've concluded that I did not really like them because they were bitter.  I needs to make them more sweet tasting.  I also tried the simple dressing recipe and did not really like that either.  All I could taste when I was eating it was the olive oil (which is the majority of the ingredient in the dressing) so I will have to experiment around with it.  Apparently I am sweet kind of person so I will need to either find recipes that are sweeter or learn to make things sweeter.  I do believe that is why I liked the apple chicken recipe I used cinnamon instead of allspice and that made it really yummy!

Now lets talk about hunger.  One of the things that I hate the most if feeling hungry especially 10 minutes after I've eaten a meal.  When I finished dinner last night I felt content but in about an hour I was hungry again.  Today when I eat breakfast I was full after eating.  However, it's only been an hour and a half and I'm hungry.  Maybe it will just take a little while for my body to adjust to the types of foods that I am feeding it.  I'll keep you posted on that I continue over then 29 days.

Also just so I have this written(typed) down somewhere I want to discuss my weight.  I've always had issues with my weight especially after being put on large doses of Prednisone for long periods of times.  If you've never been on Prednisone consider yourself very lucky.  While Prednisone can do a steller job on battling a flare its side effects often leave the individual scared, hungry, and having gained weight.  On Monday I had a check up with my new GI doctor and for those seasoned doctor goers you know that means a visit to the ever daunting scale.  Well on Monday my weight was 164, and today I had another medical test where once again my weight was taken- 159.  So one of two things is either happening.  1.) I've lost some weight already or 2.) The scales were off.  Guess I'll have to wait and see if the scale continues to me nice to me.

Disappoint fact of the day:
I learned that not all types of peas are allowed on the Paleo diet!  :( I love peas!  So I'm already going to be making a modification to this program and allow myself to eat peas!  I am, however, going to try and figure out a way to season them without using butter. I'm going to try a little, little bit of sea salt and lemon juice.

Modification (I thought it would be good for me to start putting a subtitle of things that I have modified to the program each day so it I can make it work for me.  This way when I look back I can have a record of what I did or didn't do.   Soooo..

Modification           

-going to keep peas in my diet-try to use something besides butter to season it
- Maple-Walnut Chicken Recipe- I'm going to leave out the walnuts.  ** remember whole or chopped nuts and me(my gut) do not get along.

How I'm feeling: (another handy subtitle for me)
-not going to lie I'm exhausted as I write this, it's probably because I went for a walk and it's hot outside.  However, I would have still felt like this on my old diet.  So no change on that ground yet, but it's still early in the program so I'll give it that benefit of the doubt.
- Also my intestine have been making noises all afternoon.  Not hungry noises just like they are stirred up or something.  So in the past this type of noise usually lead to many unpleasant trips to the bathroom.  However, again Paleo here some benefit of the doubt my intestines usually do this whenever I start a new way of eating or exercise regimen!  I'll keep you posted on further developments in this area.

Like: (Yep you guessed it another cute, organizational subtitle )
What I like so far is the idea that I could be already losing weight.  I also like not feeling guilty after I'm done eating.


-Until we chat again, make your essential guiding purpose to become the best-version-or-yourself!

Ciao

Day 1

My Gut My Life

Day 1

Hello, please forgive my ignorance on how to properly begin.  Perhaps the best place to start is at the beginning, oh don't worry I'm not talking about starting completely back at the point of my birth. While at some point I may go to that point today is not that day.  So I'll start with my gut.  Many images or definitions of what guts refers to may be swarming around in your brain, anywhere from stomach to intestines.  For the purpose of this blog, gut will refer to mainly my Large Intestine.  However, just to warn you some other aspects of my digestive system will be mentioned and given their due credit at times as well.  About 13 years ago I was diagnosed with an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), for those savvy gut people you know that there are a couple different types out there.  For me my winner is known as Ulcerative Colitis, well actually I have been told that I have something that is in between UC and Crohn's.  

Well since being first diagnosed I have under gone many trying years.  With multiple medications, hospital stays and medicals test out to wazoo.  However, this post is not about all of that.  The reasoning for my post is that I'm trying something new.  A couple years ago I heard about a diet that was suppose to help people in my circumstances. It is known as the Paleo diet.  I was very skeptical when I did my first search about this new diet.  It's founding principles is to have you eating things that humans living in the Paleo ear would have been likely to eat.  In other words cutting out the high processed foods.  Meaning eating lots of veggies, fruit and yes meat. Not sounding bad so far.  However, my skepticism came in my disbelief that this diet was suppose to help me someone with UC actually feel better.  I mean anyone suffering from UC knows that upon diagnosis you are told to avoid high fibrous foods which this diet seemed to have a lot of.  Even recommending Nuts and seeds in it a big no no for my current diet.  So I quickly tossed the Paleo diet idea out as just a crazy and yet another unrealistic diet for me to do.  Fast forward two years and again the Paleo diet has re-entered my world.  So this time I brought it up to my GI doctor.  The result of that talk was a discussion about how everyone needs to find what will work for them, and that's not just for people with IBD.  She assured me that I could give the Paleo diet a try but just pay attention to my body to modify it how I needed to.  

So I've determind that I am going to give it a 1 month trail and see how I feel as I go.  If the claims are right I should start to feel better then I already do (I feel pretty good right not I've been flare up free for 7 years now), have more energy, and lose some weight in the process.  So let the trial begin.

What I've done today.  Today I decided to start the process by buying some products that the diet recommends.  Such as Almond butter and Coconut Oil.  I tried the Almond butter on some celery and it actually wasn't that bad.  Still not peanut butter but good in its own way.  So for 30 days I am going to try and use Almond butter in place of peanut butter.  I also plan on making Paleo Salad dressing and a Paleo dinner.  We will see how that goes.