That's All She Wrote?

The Paleo Challenge has come to a close and I feel great. In under six weeks my body fat percentage decreased by 3.1% - which is freaking awesome. I think the biggest thing I learned is that Paleo can be part of a BALANCED lifestyle and you don't need to be in a Paleo prison to succeed (or at least that is the case for my body). As dutifully chronicled here, I wasn't always the perfect Paleo person and certainly had red wine once if not twice (on rare occasion) a week. There may have been some other failures as well (champagne, pizza, BREAD!). However, my eating habits overall changed for the better including cutting out glutens and dairy - both of which I credit for my fat loss. I have done the Paleo/Primal thing in the past but maintained a pretty steady diet of cheese and dairy and didn't see near the gains I saw this time around. Live and learn!

So the biggest question is will I keep this up? I think so. It has become routine now and frankly, I don’t really think about the things I no longer eat/drink (other than pizza). That said, I also won’t let myself get to a place where when I do cheat I will go crazy. That is probably the biggest lesson of all.

If any of you following this blog are on the fence about challenging yourself this way I encourage you to go for it. Even if you aren’t perfect, I guarantee you will make improvements – and isn’t that what life is all about?

PS - for anyone interested, we are going to keep up this blog - mostly as a place to share recipes, resources, websites, progress reports etc. I loved seeing what everyone out there was doing and want to keep it going! I even loved Suburb's fact checking! Keepin it real Suburbs!