I sure do love this boy!

Dear Husband

Dear Husband

Today you leave me and I am heart broken. You will be leaving for your first hunt ever! you have been waiting for this since you were 4 years old and promised your dad 100 bucks if he would take you with him. You will have so much fun! 

Please get a great big elk, just like this one. that way we can have lots of meat for the winter.

You have waited 20 years to get out there and use all your manly skills, not to mention your new bow that we bought this summer. You look very greek god-esk with your stong muscles pulling back on your bow.

I cant wait until you get home so I can see your ruggedly handsome face and mug up on you after our long weeks seperation. Please dont forget you have a loving wife at home, waiting for your safe return. be sure to stay away from scary bears that want to eat you, like this one.

I will love you and miss you always!

Come home to me

Love,

Your Wife

A new leaf

So I have been really really bad at blogging. I don’t think its my calling. But I am making a new promise. I will blog once a week. Hopefully it will turn into more when I realize how amazing blogging is, but for now once is a week is as good as it gets.

Jer and I have started a new way of eating, and it has been a huge change in our lives.

About a month ago Ben and Katie (bro and sis in-law) came to dinner and told us they were starting Paleo.

Paleo? I had heard of it before, someone at work told me they were eating like the cavemen did and its going to change their lives. Yeah right…

in my opinion any fad diet is a waste of time. I gave her crap that she was starting this and went on about my merry way.

When Ben and Katie were talking about it though it really peaked my interest, the biggest thing being ben said he had been doing it 2 weeks and had lost 8 lbs. 8 LBS!!! that is huge!

I decided I needed to learn more about this Paleo thing.

The next week was spent on the internet and reading through books studying paleo. It seemed pretty simple, only eat things the cavemen/gather/hunter would eat. That cut out dairy, grains of any kind (wheat, oats, flour, barely, rice), processed foods, sugar, and soy.

Anybody that knows me knows that I am a carb-o-holic. Pastries, pasta, bread, sandwiches, pizza, breadsticks, rolls. The works. I could live off it! I LOVE bread.  All of the sudden this paleo thing didn’t sound so good anymore. But something had to change.

Since Jer and I got married 2 years ago I have gained 30 lbs. something that is a very sore subject. I started a new job in January with the U and had to start dressing business casual. To my utter shame, none of my cute size 4-6 dress pants fit me. NOT EVEN CLOSE! This causing me to go to Saver’s and buy a few pair of 3 dollar slacks in a size that I NEVER wanted to admit I wore.

I was determined! If Ben can lose 8 lbs in 2 weeks, I can do it. I will cut out carbs, I will give up my precious ice cream. This is the real deal! I am going to get skinny.

This started 4 weeks ago.

The first day was awesome, you are so excited its not hard. The rest of that first week sucked. I was hungry all the time, I wanted my candy, and ice cream and bread. Eating veggies instead of a milk shake is totally not satisfying. But after the 1^st week I learned some pretty awesome things.

1.       I am an emotional eater. I eat when I am stressed; I eat when I am bored. I was doing a whole lot of eating when I wasn’t hungry.  I learned to eat when my body was hungry, and not eat when its not. Novel idea right?

2.       I learned the difference between being satistied and being full. Jer and I both agreed that there is a HUGE difference in the way you feel “full” on veggies and fruit vs. bread and junk. You feel so heavy and you belly feels so bulgy after a big pasta meal. Where as we can eat a HUGE meal of fruit and veggies and any meat we want and not get the bulgy feel. Its pretty awesome when you think about it.

3.       I learned that I really can lose weight! I have struggled for YEARS with my weight. I have done diet pills… BAD IDEA! And I lost 30 lbs, but as soon as I stopped all the weight came crashing back on.  Now I haven’t lost a ton of weight, not even 10 lbs yet, but I am actually doing it! I am losing weight the healthy way! A couple lbs a week is something that is healthy and you can keep off. It’s a miracle. My body is shrinking.

4.       I learned that I don’t need junk. If I want something sweet fruit is totally sufficient. Not saying I don’t cheat at times, and eat the processed garbage, but I never feel happy after. Its amazing to look at a cupcake and think “that is totally not worth eating”. Liberating!

So if anyone wants a new way to feel AWESOME! Not only about your body but also about what you are putting into your body, let me know. I can give you all my resources I have. Paleo is hard work at first but it kinda just becomes 2^nd nature. I don’t think Jer and I will ever go back to eating normal again. We will give ourselves our days and times when we don’t eat perfect but for the most part we are a Paleo family now.