Day 59: Still Going!

I don’t dispute that nutrition has a major role to play in weight loss it’s just that the more and more I think about it, it seems that it might be the lynchpin in the whole equation.  Without bogging down too much let me just go back a little to a time where my doctor told me that paleo may be the way to go for me. 

Scene: Me… Shirt off… Doctor with a stethoscope…

Doctor: You know you hear of people living to very old age (my Doctor is of foreign decent)

Me: Yes, I know. (I also know I have high blood pressure and perhaps high cholesterol)

Doctor: It is all about their diet.  The foods they choose.  It will help you (he takes a deep breath and thumps his chest) live longer.

Me: Okay,  what should I do?

Let’s be honest, who doesn’t what to live longer?  Now a certified Doctor of Medicine is telling you that they have the potential key to everlasting health and beauty (maybe not beauty and to be honest he never told me I would live longer).  But anyway, who doesn’t want that?

My Doctor told me to get a book he ever gave me a copy of the pages where I could order it on Amazon. Thus my paleo diet is born.

I have realized that since I have been paleo that milk, in particular, bothers me.   If I eat anything with milk, cheese, yogurt it upsets my stomach.  I felt that way for a while now which makes me sad since I love cheese and crackers.  Bread, as well, makes me feel awful.  I spent all those years that I thought my upset stomach was from eating too much and now I believe it was actually the food I was eating that was making me sick. 

I am mentioning this because I am still thinking about nutrition and how I can get more calories from good food.  I am becoming convinced that part of my lack of weight loss is from not eating enough. Some of the problems not eating enough calories causes are:

·         Slowing thyroid production

·         Lowering testosterone levels

·         Decreasing leptin levels

·         Decreasing muscle mass

·         Decreasing energy

Today when I came home from work I just didn’t feel like jogging.  It was one of those days where I had to fight with myself to change clothes and lace up my shoes.  My body kept saying, “I’m tired” and I kept telling it that it was because it’s fat.  Maybe I should feed it more?

In the end, I banged out 35 minutes at a moderate jog.  My legs felt well compared to everything else. 

Daily Recap:

Matt: 35 minute jog in the PM

Kelly: TBD.