Yesterday evening when I went to the lobby to use the Internet and to check my email I received an offer from Lift an application to help you make small changes on your journey to health with the Paleo eating plan and I decided to join. I have been dabbling in Paleo for a year now, by reading cookbooks, blogs, and even the success’ that my friends have been getting from eating the Paleo way.

The premise of eating Paleo is eating proteins, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and healthy fats and eliminating grains, dairy, and legumes. I know I eat too much cheese and I also know that my body does not do well with grains either. So why has it been so hard for me to stick to an eating plan and follow through? It has to do with my own negative self talk that I have in my head. I am an emotional eater and there are certain people who are still in my life that brings out the monster in my head and one of them is my caregiver. I hope to elevate that situation in the next month with getting a new caregiver to help me out. I have been overly criticized my entire life, never been good enough, told I wasn’t worthy of anything and as my birth mother would often say “you ain’t worth tits on a boar hog”.  Going through the battle for my life in the last 5 years has taught me is that once I put my mind to a task I am unstoppable and I also have some amazing support systems in my toolkit too.

I joined the Quantified challenge on Lift and it is a four week challenge. I will be writing up weekly improvement posts about what I am eating, how it is helping my illness and body heal, and possibly even some recipes that I have found or have tried out. A few weeks ago when I went to Seattle with my sister for my Rheumatologist appointment we stopped at Costco and I bought their huge container of coconut oil. I love it, because I can use it instead of butter on most things. It is so good. The best part is that another email came into my box that is promoting a Paleo Summit from Paleohacks.com and I signed up. It is free and looks like it is jam packed with some amazing guests and a few chefs to show you how to cook this way. I am looking forward to this. Nutrition is important to me and also facing my own fears about reaching my full potential with my health is what 2014 is all about. I hope you will be able to join the Lift or even the Paleo summit. Check it out…