After 5 days of Paleo, I think the title to my post is pretty accurate. I didn't think it'd be as easy as it is to not eat bread. I'm not say it is easy, but I used to say and think I'd literally die without bread. Well here I am, still standing Day 5. It feels pretty good honestly.
Here's a list of a few things I've noticed that I believe are due to going Paleo:
1. When I wake up in the morning, I don't really struggle to get out of bed because I'm so tired (this is concluding I've had my typical 7-8 hours of sleep)
2. When I go to bed, I pass out pretty quick. For someone who struggled with severe insomnia for 5 straight miserable years and still have repeat episodes of sleepless weeks, I never take for granted the ability to fall asleep instantly.
3. I don't stay asleep throughout the night. I'm used to this so it's not that big of a deal but pre-paleo I was sleeping pretty well through the night. I don't know if going Paleo is the cause, or it is my 'end of the semester stress levels'.
4.I stink. This is probably the worst effect of going Paleo. some of you may be thinking, "ew! gross, she's a girl, girl's don't stink!" Well, sorry, but we do. I have no scientific research to back up this claim I'm about to make, but it seems logical enough to be correct: The reason I stink is because my body is going through a detox process of ridding itself of all the nastiness I put inside my body for the past 23 years. It's breaking into 10 year old fat pockets that's home to significant amounts sugar and fat elements from my 13th birthday party strawberry and chocolate cake. So when I sweat, I'm sweating out that crap instead of just the recent crap I put in my body like normal. And can you imagine what 10 year old strawberry and chocolate cake smells like? ew. Or I'm sweating out all the meat and vegetables I've been eating and well both of those after being digested, probably don't smell too good either. So to combat the stink, I take precautionary steps to ensure I smell like vanilla cupcakes to everyone around me, all the time. :) (Bath & Body Works - Lemon Vanilla Body Kit)
5. I stay full longer. Now this one only came into realization today. I packed a HUGE lunch last night knowing I'd have to go through all 3 meals on the go since it was a 16 hour day for me to go from work to school. Normally I'm famished by 5pm and must eat before class. Not this time. I ate an almond fruit bar around 3pm and stayed full until about 7pm. That's pretty good for me. Of course having not eaten for 4 hours and listening to a discussion about service-learning, I was falling asleep. But it was cool to not rush home because my stomach was in knots and eating itself. Of course I still ate ridiculous amounts of food, all paleo no worries, but I didn't go into feeding frenzy like normal.
6. I'm getting serious muscle cramps. A lot. Painful. Very Painful. I can't blame it on dehydration because I always drink AT LEAST 64oz of water/day, and I haven't been to the gym since Thursday or done anything exercise-worthy to need more water. I try to drink a gallon of water a day, it's a fun challenge, and I feel like it keeps my kidneys in good shape, especially to counterbalance all the coffee I drink.
For now, that's all I can come up with. I'm sure I'll add more as this progresses. But it certainly seems like it's dragging on... ugh. it's only been 5 days?!! When I did the 21-day no purchasing food challenge it flew by! It went from day 3 to day 21 in no time!
For my closing remarks, I'd like to say I really really really hope that when this is over my body cannot stomach bread and cheese as well as it used to. I don't stomach moo milk very well, never really have, but it's been progressively worse over the year since switching to Almond Milk. I hope the second I eat a big fat cheesy nacho my body wants to purge it, one end or another but it wants it out. If that happens it'll certainly help keep me on the right paleo track. Otherwise once this is over and my body takes bread and cheese like it used to, I'll probably go back to the way things were. Eating slices of cold bread with butter straight from the fridge while watching tv, or eating a bag full of Ritz crackers while slaving away over homework.
I don't want that though. So maybe just the idea of not wanting to do those things when this is over, will help me limit or even full refrain from it.
Maybe.
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