I am going to start the habit of accountability here on the blog. Sometimes (like today) this will take up a whole blog post but, because I don’t want it to get too tedious, sometimes I will just add an ‘update’ paragraph or two at the end of other posts.
Tag: UK
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How to lose 100lbs – Accountability
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Roast Chicken Dinner
I want to follow the last post with a meal recipe that clearly demonstrates the Paleo diet. If you are from the UK, then you should definitely recognise this meal: A traditional roast chicken Sunday lunch.
This is my mum’s roast chicken, I don’t always use this method but I love the way it creates a cosy, warming meal for the winter months.
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My Paleo Diet – Introduction
Before I discovered the Whole30, I had already dismissed Paleo as being total and utter nonsense.
My first impression of Paleo had been of a diet where you could eat lots of indulgent cakes and bakes, all day, as long as they were made out of super expensive* ‘Paleo’ ingredients, and (Abracadabra!) you would lose a lot of weight.
Well (you may be relieved to hear) that interpretation of Paleo didn’t make an awful lot of sense to me.
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How to lose 100lbs – part 2
When I first had the idea to start this blog I expected to write a lot about my weight-loss process. I thought that I would tell you the week by week story, so that you could follow along as it happened.
Apparently when you write a weight loss diary you need to tell your readers about all the successes and all the failures, however losing weight this way has been incredibly straightforward and uneventful for me. It hasn’t been anything like the roller coaster experience I have come to expect of a calorie counting diet. My family have simply changed our diet to one that is based on Paleo principles. That is all, it doesn’t even feel like dieting, yet the weight loss has happened anyway. All 70lbs of it so far!
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How to lose 100lbs
My Story – the beginning
Like many weight loss stories, mine is a story of many ‘ups’ and several ‘downs’. I struggled with my weight as a teenager, got it under control when at university… slipped a little… sorted myself out again, and then succeeded in getting down to a UK size 10/12 by the time I was married. Amazingly I returned to that size after the birth of my first child. However, two children later I measured as a UK size 18 and I haven’t measured less than a 18 since then – and that was 20 years ago.
The last 10 years have been a real struggle. Once the children got beyond the age where I was literally running around after them, I gradually began to put on weight. I wasn’t particularly overeating and I was still fit and reasonably active, but I started getting heavier anyway.
Then, about three years ago, I fell really badly down some stone steps and hurt my hip and back. It became very painful to move and since then I have only been able to walk for a short distance at a time.
Now I was moving even less. Before I knew it, if I wanted to get back to that size 10/12 weight, I would need to lose 100lbs.