a month of paleo
 

I wanted to mention that I've made it through a month of modified* paleo eating, and I'm amazed to report it has been easy. I don't feel the urge to eat off plan and feel that I could do this indefinitely. (Oops, actually, one day I craved coffee, which is odd, as I don't really like coffee...but the craving went away quickly and it has been my only craving.)

I've mused about why I could never stick with paleo for longer than a couple weeks before but that it's easy now...and one answer is that, for me, I had to be LC for awhile first. After two years of LCing, paleo seemed like not too drastic of a switch. This reminds me that some changes, for some people, have to happen very slowly. It's good to respect that and give ourselves the time we need to make sweeping lifestyle changes. The thought of initially switching from a sugar-laden, flour-laden typical N.A./Australian diet to one with only meat, eggs, veggies, fruit, and nuts...wow! That's just too drastic a switch for some of us to even get our minds around.

I say this in hopes the concept may help someone else. It's okay if we aren't "perfect" at dietary or exercise change at first. If we make some successful changes, later, we can make some others.

* modified paleo, a la razzle: some non-paleo condiments (like soy sauce or using butter to cook my eggs) are okay

I agree. I too would like to eventually embark on the way my ancestors ate (after they became human--to stop the 'eat like a chimp' arguement I've seen) I think it would be 'way too hard to go from eating as a 'modern' human to an 'early' human without going the low carb route first. I found a source of bison and cattle that are forage raised. The cattle breed this ranch uses is Piedmontese and I've read they are the closest relative to the ancient aurochs our ancestors ate. I wonder whatever happened to bison on the European continent? According to what I've read bison are pure North American in origin (as are horses) yet horses disappeared from North America and were plentiful in Europe and bison disappeared from Europe, but were plentiful in North America. Curious...