Starting January...We are doing the Paleo way of eating

Nothing beats being healthy!

We have been discussing about the Paleo diet for a bit now. More so since hubby has been diagnosed with IBS (thanks Army). I already do the non-gmo thing for health reasons. That might be another post all together.

With the paleo diet/lifestyle the main thing is eating healthy. Meaning if you can't pronounce it why are you going to eat it? Adding more vegetables and fruits to our diet and eating more lean meat, which we do anyways.

I'm also looking at going gluten free for many of reasons and cutting back on sugars that make no sense. Seriously have you ever stopped and read the labels? Case in point. We love sweet baby ray's bbq sauce. But there is so much sugar that it's unreal.

OK so the first ingredient is HFCS (sugar), Next is brown sugar (2), Pineapple juice (3), Molasses (4), More Corn Syrup (5), Sugar (6), and lastly Tamarind (7). WTF are they hiding with so much sugar? Why do you need that much sugar in your product?????

This is what I am talking about....tooo much sugar and salt and things I can't pronounce. I'm not a chemist I'm a consumer and that is about to change. I am going to tweak all the recipes that we love and make them more paleo with some tweaks to that too.

The great thing is that you can make this lifestyle fit you, not the other way around. I'm sorry not giving up my coffee. Sorry not giving up my bread but I know that I can make gluten free bread and still be happy. Yes I can make cookies and pies but make them where we don't feel as guilty and with ingredients that I and my husband can pronounce.

Great thing is Paleo is back to basics with food. There are no GMO's in what we consume. It's not all about calories, sugar and salt; more about a healthy balance between them and making sure that what we eat is the right thing to eat. With so many cases of IBS, Hormonal issues, Auto-Immuno issues and more what makes you think why it's happening? It's the things we eat and how much we eat VS how much we move.

Let's face it we have all gotten lazy as we get older and the expansion of technology as great as is it, it's not helping us move. We drive everywhere, no longer do we walk, run, ride bikes and just enjoy being outside. No we are inside behind computers, tablets, smartphones and video games. This is what we do now. 

I can honestly say not anymore in my house. we starting a food rejuvenation movement! If I can make it from scratch using healthy fats, ingredients that I can say/pronounce then look out world! No more sluggish mindless eating (not that we have been doing that) it's done and we are not looking back!