5/31/2011: Day 10

I'm thinking that maybe by keeping a blog and recording all of this, it will help me stay on track.  I like to blog.  It's cathartic.  So is this weight-loss, happy body image, healthy lifestyle track I'm on.  Seems logical to mix the two, no?  So here we go...

Day 10.  I'm down roughly 5lbs.  This actually surprised me, to the point that I had to get one of H's (the hubs) dumbells to put on the scale to check for accuracy.  I wasn't expecting to see results so soon, mainly because no other "diet" I've been on has shown me results this fast.  (Note: Paleo is not a diet, it's a healthy eating lifestyle.  It's a mindset.  It's a lot of eating like a caveman.  But it's meant to be a lifetime turnaround in the way you think about food.  Hence "diet" being in quotes.)  I know it's a lot of the clean eating--lean meat, veggies, and very few carbs only in the form of fruit--but I also know that my new found drive to workout is a big help. 

Muscles = Fat Eaters.  More muscle, less fat.  I like this idea a lot.  I need to measure myself against my starting measurements, although I'm sure there won't be a huge change there yet.  I have a long way to go on the muscles (think "wimpy, wimpy, wimpy" from the Hefty commercials) but I'm finding weight routines that work for me, especially thanks to the H and his love of lifting.  Soon I will be big and strong like bull ("Hefty, Hefty, Hefty!")

So day 10.  The terrifying "come to Jesus" moment is constantly in the back of my mind.  The thought of losing something so amazing in my life has terrified me into this whole thing, but now that I'm getting into a routine of it, it's actually becoming enjoyable.  Shhh!  Don't tell H--I don't want him to get his "I Told You So" look on his face just yet.  ;)  But I refuse to give up.  I have willpower.  I have incredible willpower.  And now I have an even more important (the MOST important) reason to put my willpower behind my health and body.

I'm now a Paleo People.

xoxo M