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Offline millie

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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #30 on: March 12, 2012, 09:49:41 AM »
Liver disease-pure and simple.  Its a disease of nutritional deficiencies and gut fermentation really but a paleo diet put it back on track. 
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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2012, 12:55:58 PM »
I have always been overweight, the last few years morbidly obese.  I tried Weight Watchers (which I loved but hated constantly counting and obsessing over everything; I always wondered how can I eat so much ice cream, lose weight and still be healthy?), Atkins, South Beach, Cabbage Soup diet, Dr. Oz diet, vegan, vegetarian, any diet at all.  Some I lost weight on, some not so much.  But I was always starving.  I could eat a full meal and immediately feel hungry again.  I was worried about my blood sugar, allergies and health problems with getting older and being obese.  Plus, I wanted to look good! 

Last December I moved to Austin, TX to be with my husband.  The first day I was there we went shopping at Whole Paycheck Foods and I was in love with all the free magazines and brochures on better health.  In one of the more "out there" magazines was an article on the Paleo lifestyle.  I did some research online and decided it made sense and was definitely do-able for me, so I tried it for three months.  I lost one pants size and immediately felt better (still tired a lot, though). 

My husband and I went on vacation for a month and we went off paleo somewhat, but still tried to eat as closely to it as possible.  I'm proud to say that as of the day we got home I had lost another size.  By the end of the trip I was using my dress pants as pajamas because they were so big.  Now I crave tuna and avocado instead of cake and candy.  I love this lifestye!   :D     
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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2012, 09:05:37 PM »
+1 Sissy... Keep it up and NEVER LOOK BACK.   :) ;) :D ;D
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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #33 on: May 23, 2012, 11:15:44 PM »
I did not know that I was doing paleo diet until later on.

I just thought I had to go 100% raw to heal my liver of liver stone production.

I did what I stumbled upon:

1. raw vegan
2. raw fruitarian

which malnourished me.

So I found Wai Diet

Which was raw fruitarian + raw eggs + raw fish (I don't like olive oil) = and it was instantly amazing for me.

Later on I found out the guys at rawpaleodietforum.com said this was technically raw paleo diet.

Then only after a few more months did I learn that there was such a thing as (cooked) paleo diet like in cavemanforum.com
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Offline apurdy79

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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #34 on: September 16, 2012, 09:11:53 AM »
Alot of friends from my Crossfit have been following this diet for quite some time and we had a talk about it. I dont think this is a diet. I already feel its a way of life.
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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #35 on: September 23, 2012, 06:55:54 PM »
I have always been a health nut and when I decided to make my healthy practice a step further- meaning achieving far greater result than my physical aspect, I turned into studying and exploring Paleo along with my journey towards Yoga and Life coaching.

It has been great and I am pushing forward the knowledge and experiences I gained to others.
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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #36 on: November 02, 2012, 02:04:34 AM »
For me it has been culmination of my various trips down 'weight loss lane'.

I remember always being a chubby kid, everyone in my family has weight issues. When I was younger, maybe preteens/early teens I remember reading food lables and not knowing what anything meant. I came to the conclusion that I would pick things with lower numbers on the lable. Whatever the numbers meant I guess I figured that less of whatever I was taking in would result in weight loss. Looking back it was really just a 'calories in-calories out' model I just didn't know it. I had some success, lost a few pounds, they came back.

That was basically me for a very long time and then my mom decided she was going to do Atkins when I was in high school and I decided to do it too. I lost a lot of weight but I found it, mostly the first few weeks, to be very restrictive. I missed veggies, I missed variety, maybe I was doing it wrong, not putting in enough effort whatever it was I fell off and basically kept putting on weight until college.

Once I hit college I was able to cook for myself and I just started making meals that centered around protein, low carb veggies and fruit I was pretty much doing paleo and didn't know it. Then I remember reading something about it and just worked out the details from there.

Now it's gotten a bit rougher that I'm in rural Malawi, protein is expensive and hard to get and keep fresh (no electricity) so I eat a lot of eggs and tuna packets that my mom sends me. Not a very diverse diet as far as protein goes but I am looking forward to my first big steak when I get back to the States.
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Offline tinknal

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Re: What made you decide to try out Paleo Diet?
« Reply #37 on: February 21, 2013, 05:34:41 PM »
In a single word, "diabetes".    Its only been 5 days and my blood sugar is down 100 points.
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