Belberry

Welcome I'm a newcomer myself, but everyone here is super friendly and helpful! good luck on your journey.

My daughter is 9, and she knows that junk food is an occasional treat. I think the best way is get them involved in preparing their own meals. I bought a pushbike recently, so the two of us will ride to the local shops, she will pick out some sausages or a chop or something from the butcher, and then next door we will go to the fruit and veg store and she will pick the veggies she is going to eat with it. She loves a jacket potato, and broccoli and some fresh carrots. This way we get healthy food and some exercise at the same time, plus she is learning to cook

I like them but I have to pick the bones out, they gross me out

Nom Nom! I had the best day yesterday, I was feeling so energetic (thanks to my new way of eating) that I cleaned out my pantry. Into the bin went the flour, rice, breadcrumbs, icing sugar, packet mixes, sauces and boxes of breakfast cereal. I spent the afternoon making two huge meatloafs full of mince and herbs and garlic and shredded veggies. I had a delicious dinner of grilled salmon and zucchini fritter like things, shredded zucchini bound with an egg, a bit of salt and pepper and than popped into the frypan with a dob of butter. If I have to choose between cupcakes and bacon, pass the bacon please!

I'm noticing this too. I'm only into the end of my first week, but I've gone from sugar and carb cravings to feeling happy and full when I eat (not that oh god I ate too much and feel bloated and need to sleep it off) and then not really thinking about food at all, which previously, was unheard of for me.

I love that this place has such a supportive environment, it's epic win!

hah you're the 2nd person to ask about my shirt It's from www.thinkgeek.com I love their stuff. My boyfriend got me a domokun beanie from there too a few weeks ago [ATTACH=CONFIG]4325[/ATTACH]

I had to giggle at your term "lactarded" you should trademark that

bacon and banana together...omg that is so much win. I may have to put the on hold the roast chicken I was planning to cook tonight and just have that for dinner!

one of my favourite meals my mum would make was lamb's fry with bacon.. the gravy that it is in is not paleo since it's made with flour, but it was basically fried onion, garlic and bacon, and then cook the strips of lambs liver in that. You could probably thicken it up with a tin of tomatoes or something along those lines? I may have to experiment with this myself

I'm not a huge coffee drinker, and like I said, I am still trying to get over years of being told that butter is evil, buy weight watchers low fat margarine spread! I'll definitely give this a try for science though

welcome I'm new too. I am keeping Greek Yoghurt as my only dairy source, I figured I'd use it to make easy dressings/topping with herbs and spices for a bit of grilled steak or chicken.

can someone please explain to a complete newbie (who is still trying to get out of the mentality that butter=evil) what buttered coffee is?

I bought a tub of pure organic 100% greek yoghurt. I was never a big dairy drinker before this(would upset my tummy), so giving up milk etc is not hard at all. Wow, that greek yoghurt is nothing like that awful chalky diet fruit flavoured crap yoghurt that I have been forcing myself to choke down for all these years. It tastes incredible!!!

After all these years of buying into all the low fat/heart healthy crap, going into the supermarket for the first time and buying organic butter, full fat coconut milk, bacon that wasn't short-cut rindless and 97% fat free felt like I was being naughty and doing something wrong. Especially skipping whole sections of the shelves while I looked for almond meal, and others around me were stocking up on biscuits, pasta and bread. Reading the ingredient lists on some of the 'low fat' options for milk/coconut milk etc freaked me right out, with all the added ingredients and sugar. I'm sitting here having an amazing lunch of freshly grilled salmon (with the tasty tasy skin), mushrooms and tomato on a bed of mixed greens with just a dash of cider vinegar and it's amazing. I skipped breakfast because I honestly didn't feel hungry and just had some green tea, and I didn't feel guilty about that either, after years of hearing how breakfast is the most important meal etc etc eat a bowl of weeties. I feel like I've been lied to my entire life.

I'm into week one of going fully Paleo and loving it to bits. I think I would probably be an adventurer, as I need to focus on losing weight and getting healthy, and I like to try a bit of everything. I bought a pushbike recently and I love to ride it, even though I can barely sit down the next day hahaha. My first goal is going to be going for a walk to the local playground and seeing if I can manage a pull up on the monkey bars. I'm not sure how much weight I need to lose, I am focusing on getting to the top end of the healthy bmi range, which means around 24 kilos. I'm more concerned with being strong and looking buff like Spezzy than looking scrawny and skinny and cramming into size 0 jeans. As I get a little braver I might post up some pics of my journey. Just wondering about the stats everyone has in their sigs, how do I get that stuff happening?

thanks for the welcome. Feeling so positive and inspired from reading people's stories!

erg DOOR, lol I just realised I mis-spelled the thead topic, how embarrasing.

You can see from her ill fitting clothes, the belt bursting at the seams, the way she is struggling with the weight of her backpack, that nature is going to eat her alive. She sits down in the corner, exhausted and looks around at her, overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of the other adventurers. Ok enought RP Hi there! My name is Bec, I'm 37 and I've struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember, back into early childhood. At my heaviest after a pregnancy from hell with my son, I was 129kgs (284pounds for my non metric friends), to basically for the last 20 years hovering around the 110(260) mark. Through a massive effort of calorie counting, trying every shake/powder/fad/plan there is to try, over the past 18 months I've managed to lose 24kgs(52pounds) and I have to fight every day to keep that off. So currently sitting on about 94(207) with a still rather unhealthy bmi of 34, which I guess is way better than the 42.5 BMI I started with. I started doing some research after being so disappointed with sticking to low fat, weight watcher style foods and points etc and just not getting any results, and still continually craving chocolate etc. I am quite sure that I have some kind of binge eating disorder, I obsess over food and stress about it all the time. I am certain that if I were able to make myself throw up, I would be text book bulimic. Being the highly nerdy individual I am, I hated myself that I could be so educated, understand what I was supposed to be doing, and somehow my body was letting me down, my mind was letting me down, and I was weak for giving in to cravings and binging on chocolate and carbs to make myself feel better. After stumbling across nerdfitness, I had one of those huge lightbulb moments. I've made the decision to jump in with both feet and go full throttle, and if it comes out of a box or a packet, I won't eat it. That way there will be no snacking and binging, as I have told myself it is poison. Its been 3 days so far, and already I can tell that my moods, my complexion, my clarity of mind have improved drastically. Also the chocolate cravings have gone. Weight wise I've already dropped 2 kgs. I will not fail on this path, its not a diet, its a lifestyle change, and now that I've thrown the switch in my mind, nothing can stop me. I don't have to stress about this not working, because the proof is here. If I follow this philosophy, it will work. I'm keen to start on selecting a class and getting heavily involved in the forums! I plan on lifting heavy things and doing random short sprints and being as fit and strong and fab as I can be. thanks for reading my ramble Bel