Paleo Day 5 – I can see the light…

December 16, 2011 in Life, Paleo 30 Day with 2 Comments

… at the end of the tunnel. However I will say that even after the last post I felt there were some moments where I felt like I was seeing that bright light that precedes death in the Hollywood movies – HA.

I am quickly learning how to improvise at restaurants and stick to my diet and what places are more “Paleo Friendly” than others. I also resisted my biggest temptation – free bread. Last night for dinner a friend of mine and I stopped at O Charley’s. I was able to get steak, salmon and some veggies (Thanks Adam for the recommendation of no fruit after 4PM!) The waiter literally brought 6 or more rolls to our table for two people. I looked at the rolls for a long time and told myself that I was stronger than that and to just continue to drink my tea and just continue to talk to my friend. The food was terrible – which shocked me for O Charley’s but at least I ate most of my dinner.

My sleep is getting better but I was awoken this morning with a slight fever and that sickly feeling. I did some more research to figure out why I am struggling with this change so much and to figure out how much longer this was going to last. I ended up stumbling across a lot of great articles around “Gluten/Wheat Withdraw”. Essentially your body experiences the same withdraw as someone who is going through withdraw for drugs and about 30% of people experience it. I guess I’m one of those lucky ones in the 30%. As I’m sure you can assume – no one would say exactly how long the symptoms. So I went back to bed and continued to hope and pray that it would be over soon.

Fast forward about three hours and I woke up right as my alarm went off and I truly feel 100% better. I have energy, appetite and don’t feel like it’s 1000 degrees in the house. I also noticed that I’m sleeping better than I ever have before. My body still aches just a bit but I feel like this might be a turning point today.

As you can imagine, I haven’t made it to the gym yet. With being as sick as I have been the past few days I was lucky to walk between the car and my office let alone attempt running on a machine (I could just see me face-planting on a treadmill and go flying off.) So if this upward trend continues with how I feel I will introduce the gym starting next week.

Well, I’m off to enjoy my day off. Hope everyone has a great weekend and I’ll be checking in soon!

Later,
John

  • http://twistedchristian.ca/dadblog twistedxtian

    John, you are an inspiration. My will power sucks, especially when it comes to staying away from food I love (ie. carbs!)

    How are you finding the food for the Paleo diet? I don’t know much about it.

    • http://www.johnmassie.com John C. Massie

      Thanks Christopher! I finally understand what people say when they say that one day it just clicks and it’s not a matter of will power but the fact that you’ve made a decision to change your life and you’re going to stick to it. I also found sharing this has helped so much because I have more people supporting me/behind me than I thought I would.

      I’ve studied Paleo since early summer before attempting it. Here is a great starter list: http://altmed.creighton.edu/Paleodiet/Foodlist.html. I will say that I’m following a more “Paleo 2.0″ approach that allows some diary and potatoes. I use both in moderation and reserve both for before 4pm eating.

      If you want more info or want to chat about it – let me know! You know how to reach me!