…so to speak.
As a food blog, this place is something of a disappointment 🙂 Our food lately has been really, really simple. Meat and salad, meat and veggies – fish sometimes, just for a change. No recipes required.
It is possible to be a Primal ‘foodie’ , and I have been making herb butters, oils and vinegars etc. but really, simple is so good – also, I don’t know if this happens in your house, but – I spend time making something a bit complicated and extra special… and 20 minutes after we dish up, I’m back at the sink cleaning up! Does anyone else eat too fast? … or is that just us?
I’m doing no baking at all these days – gluten-free or otherwise. Poor Rick has resorted to buying muffins at the supermarket :-). Though as a complete confession – he always bought muffins, as I was always deeply useless at making them :-). Cakes and scones and puddings? – great, but muffins? Nope!
I’m still sugar-free… and alcohol-free too. I had hoped I would beat the hot flushes by doing this, but na – not yet anyway, though I’m still hopeful! I think it would help if it wasn’t so humid here now. My hair is curling wildly – which would be ok if it wasn’t so short… the curls make me look as though I haven’t bothered to use a comb – and I HAVE!
Rick is back at work next week (so the fried breakfasts will stop [thank God!]). Next week I plan starting Dr Jack Kruse’s Leptin RX…
jackkruse.com/my-leptin-prescription/ if you’re interested.
Note to Self: SELF! It is high time you figured out how to do the linky thing in your posts…. sigh!
Janet – I hear you about the hot flashes! I did that too…no sugar, no wine etc. for one year, and I still got hot flashes from hell! So now we have some wine, occasionally sugar and I just learned to accept those dang hot flashes! Will they ever go away? I used to think so, but after 13 years, I am not so sure. At least the good news is they do help in winter when its cold! 🙂
They’re a great reason to keep drinking the wine aren’t they? LOL
Exactly so, Janet. Paleo simplifies things – meat and veges, fish and veges, fruit occasionally, eggs. I haven’t baked in years, or bought flour (except for a quickly abandoned experiment with coconut flour.) This is why my blog which started out as a foodie/weightloss blog is now just a … blog.
I love that chart, by the way.
I like your blog a lot 🙂
PS Janet, be sure to keep us posted on the Leptin reset. I am toying with that idea myself but don’t know how I could cope with the breakfast within 30 minutes of waking rule. I’d love to know how you get on.
That’s the thing that’s daunting me too Judith… it’s a HUGE breakfast…LOL I figured it might be easier to do in summer, because Rick gets off to work at 5:30 (winter or summer) but it is easier for me to be awake at this time in summer… Anyway, a lot of people seem to be getting really good results from doing the reset – and I’ve got nothing to lose… other than 50lbs 🙂
Interesting. Planning on spending some quality time at that website. I am convinced I have no leptin…
But does this mean I would have to give up Tootsie Pops? Do you have those in NZ?
LOL! I had to google Tootsie Pop… I’m pretty sure we have something similar here, but I’ve never had one, and I can’t think of the name 🙂
And, I’m pretty sure I too have no Leptin – I’m hoping to change all that 🙂
Summer = simple. That’s somethign to revel in, not apologise for.
Wash, chop, cook, serve, eat, wash, chop… I know that routine. Hate resenting putting good food on the table – that’s when we go out. For salad. Because I can’t eat anything else in a restaurant.
I haven’t seen the leptin reset, but Tim Ferriss also advises 30g protein within 30 minutes of getting up. Presumably he’s also got ways to do that quickly and painlessly, because he’s all about quick and painless. I just made the scotch eggs from Well Fed – 100-125g ground pork per hard boiled egg, mixed with italian seasoning and wrapped around said egg then baked. Easy peasy, and breakfast is ready in the time it takes to open the fridge and boil the kettle.
Did you know that Japanese women do not report hot flashes? urious.
Re links: try selecting the URL of your link, then selecting text you want to “be blue” and right clicking. You should get a menu with “hyperlink” on it. Click that, and you should get a field to paste your URL into. That’s how Word and Blogger work, not sure about wordpress though.
That Scotch Egg sounds like a brilliant idea! Thanks Lauren. I Googled Tim Ferriss – interesting stuff:-) XO
Haven’t read the comments, but flaxseed oil and evening primrose oil are the top 2 supplements to take for peri-menopause and menopausal symptoms. I took flaxseed for years, but take evening primrose and a high dose of omega-3 now (the omega3 for my mental health, but hey, if it has other benefits….)
I’m still waiting for the eggs to die (DIE, you miserable things, DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!) but have been taking these supplements for years anyway. Figure they can’t hurt. 🙂
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I think I am the fastest and most piggish eater that there is. Haitch sits there daintily putting the right amount of food on his fork while I am trying to get as much food on my fork as I can while I am chewing on the previously huge forkful that I have shovelled in. He sometimes looks disgustedly at me.
I say it is because mothers are taught to eat quickly as we have so much to do that we don’t have time to eat daintily, not like men who have nothing to do but sit and have dinner put in front of them and then sit until it is time to “help”clean up by wiping a few dishes.
I am probably not right but I don’t care. I still enjoy my food, even though he says I don’t have time to enjoy 🙂
LOL! We could have a race! 🙂 XO
Great chart! I have a friend whos choosen paleo, and admit to being mad about other people going out of their way to create nice meals for them when visiting, but me- gluten and lactose free, is too hard!!! Not much difference people!!!
No difference at all! In fact, it was that I didn’t like any of the gluten-free stuff I was offered that led me to the Primal way 🙂