Menu Planning and buh-bye Paleo

As I sit before my blank March calendar trying to plan the menu, I have a sinking feeling that I should be planning low-carb dinners.

I just know my doctor is going to tell me I have insulin resistance or something and that I should be taking metformin and eating 30 carbs per meal. LAME.

I won't have my full blood work done until April but I guess it won't hurt to get ahead on this way of eating. It's not going to be the end of the world. I think it's going to be very similar to how I was eating on the Paleo diet.

My thoughts on Paleo are this:

PROS.
It makes my digestive system feel happy

It forces me to eat a crap load of vegetables

I am at peace with most of my cravings after awhile

Now that I'll be working with a set lunch break, I think I could actually eat this way for lunch!

It could be the key to health and wellness for a lot of people

CONS.
I have to cook 2 dinners because my husband is not down with fish and veggies for dinner.

Consuming all that lean meat gets expensive.

Sometimes I am bored with the food.

Sometimes a girl just needs some home cooked food.

It takes a ton of planning to be successful.

Alright, so I haven't been following a "diet" or eating plan for a few weeks and honestly I feel like a load of shiz. I wake up with groggy headaches. I feel like eating all the time. I may or may not have eaten dove chocolates in bed once several times since Valentine's Day.

I'm such a human. Sometimes I get in the zone and I'm a super-human. I get in that zone where I am perfectly content to eat super healthy, be super consistent, and I feel so good about how I'm eating.

Then I crash and find myself eating a bowl of cereal for dinner, but rationalizing it because I'm eating it with almond milk and almond milk is way better for you than cow's milk. HAHAHAHA. I just laugh at myself sometimes! It's the food addict deep within me. I'm very good at rationalizing.

I said it earlier and I'll say it again, I'm probably going to be eating my feelings a until March 12 because this whole new job thing and finding teachers for my students and wrapping everything up has been STRESSFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just don't want it to get out of hand. Ya know?

I also just lose all motivation to eat healthy or eat a certain way because I get all geared up and excited and hopeful and motivated because THIS TIME it will be different and THIS time I'll find the magic bullet and I'll start losing weight. Then a month later I get on the scale and I'm up a few pounds. I cannot tell you how discouraging that is. It's like there is a force inside of me that is so strong and so powerful that I'm never going to win. I'm never going to lose weight. I'm never going to have a strong and lean body ever again.

I think I'm in the right direction with this doctor. I hope so badly she has some more answers for me! Even if it means 30 carbs per meal and metformin twice a day, I'm totally down.

I think I'm going to pull out all my diabetic and volumetrics cookbooks and continue meal planning around my bountiful baskets. You really can't go wrong eating that way. There really isn't harm in eating small amounts of grains, beans, and rice in my opinion and I think I'm going to allow myself to free myself from this paleo diet.

I keep thinking that it will solve my problems but so far it hasn't so I think it's time to put little Paleo diet to rest for awhile (I mean, I already did like a month ago, who am I trying to kid?) But mentally and emotionally I'm allowing myself freedom from the paleo diet for now. Don't go back and read my posts about how I think it's amazing...I'll be so embarrassed!!!