Primal Progress: Seven pounds in three weeks!

Once again I’ve decided to post a weekly update on my Primal progress. I feel like I’m driving some of my friends and family crazy talking about how much better I (and Amy) feel since starting to eat following the Primal / Paleo way, so one reason for continuing to blog about it is just to fulfill that need to share.

Last year at this time I was in the middle of a calorie-counting diet. I had lost ten or twelve pounds; maybe fifteen of the twenty I ended up losing. The last few pounds came off VERY slowly. I think there was one pound that took almost a month! I just attributed it to normal plateaus that come with dieting and workouts.

Since reaching my twenty pound weight loss goal in late April last year I had gained just about seven pounds, most of that since Christmas. I ate a bunch of Valentine’s chocolate during the month of February. Man was I dreading starving myself again to get those most difficult pounds off again!

Enter The Primal Blueprint. I’m glad to announce that as of this morning I have lost the seven pounds. In three weeks! Most days I’ve actually felt like I’m OVER eating, but the fat keeps coming off. I’m sure it will plateau from time to time but this effort is not driven by a certain amount of weight loss. It’s still nice to see some results this soon.

Sidebar: I finished reading The Primal Blueprint this week. I’m interested in starting on the fitness program as well. There’s still a lot of content on Mark’s Daily Apple that I’m reading, but I may go ahead and get Robb Wolf’s The Paleo Solution book. I’ve heard good things about it as well. Due to spending my reading time this week in an actual book, I haven’t added any new feeds to my RSS reader, so nothing new to recommend there.

Tuesday I had a photo shoot in Tupelo, MS at the Comfort Inn. I expected to be finished with it by 1 p.m. or so and have a late lunch. Long story as to why things didn’t go as planned, but I didn’t get to leave there until 5 p.m. I guess I could have stopped and took a break for lunch, but the main point is that I didn’t have to! I had no hunger pains at all until about 2 p.m. and even then it wasn’t ‘insistent’. I didn’t eat until I left there between 5 and 5:15.

I lucked out. I stopped at Shoney’s and the first thing the waitress told me was that it was ‘steak night’. Oh yeah! Basically that meant buy the steak and get the salad bar buffet with it. I didn’t even have to turn down a baked potato or any other “poisonous” food. I haven’t eaten at Shoney’s in years probably, but I’ve eaten there twice in the last two weeks when I’ve needed to eat out. Most certainly not organic, but they have nice crumbled bacon and sunflower seed kernels on the salad bar. Makes for a nice hearty salad.

I’m counting the consistent appetite as a convenience. No time to eat or nothing Primal seems to be handy? No problem. Just skip it!

I told Amy yesterday that I felt like a fish who’s been trying to live out of water and eating Primal is like jumping back in. Want to feel better yourself? Come on in! The water is fine 🙂