Time to start employing the skepticism......

[Epic_Otter]

So first love this site! First one of its nature to make sense!,

 

About me, Video game playing, robot building, rocket designing,outside the box, Loki-esk Inventor and Super Nerd. Love to solve problems and challenge the world to think. Also love a good challenge!

 

As for fitness well....I've been really not so good the last few years.I thought my weight gain was the culmination of a couple bad breaks(literally), age and university life. I immediately jumped on the healthy diet band wagon and kept gaining weight, then I jumped on and off again a few more times.

 

when I was 28 they removed my gallbladder because of the alien pain living in my chest and stomach I was experiencing and put me on a diet of acid reducers and proton pump inhibitors and demanded the healthy diet which only seemed to make things worse.

 

I have been struggling with fatigue,hair loss, loss of girl functions and other crap.  I am moving into the final couple of years on my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with Computer Science Minor, all while looking forward to my graduate degree and I have been struggling with focus despite a desperate cardio routine and eating "healthy".  

 

A couple of weeks ago I had another bad attack of the weird stomach business I have been dealing with for years and decided it was time to start looking at the discarded options when going healthy. I landed on the Paleo diet. I went all the way with only one or two minor things that skirt the rules of the diet. I was skeptical about the amount of fat and meat involved but I figured it wouldn't be very sporting to dismiss it off hand.

 

I have been eating it for two weeks now. All I can say is "Holy Cheese Snacks!" I have stopped taking the proton pump inhibitors and all antacids. I only want to eat twice a day( not starving myself, just not Hungry) and while I haven't dropped enough weight to write home about things are definitely changing shape. I decided to join this forum because the hamster wheel isn't working for me. I am so sick of the gym day after day and I am looking to learn some different ways to do what I have been doing fruitlessly in the gym for ages now. I am super lucky to be attending a university that has lots of open space and trails surrounding it not to mention the whole Pacific Northwest to play in!. Looking forward to this journey for the first time in a long time!

[TheMormonRebel]

Welcome little Otter! Hope that you can find your way about and build the nuclear-powered weapons of your dreams!!

[Elastigirl]

That is fantastic that Paleo is working so well for you! Glad to hear of your successes. People ask me how I gave up gluten so easily, and I tell them it is because I feel so much better. When you feel crummy, and then feel so much better, it is pretty easy to stay Paleo.