Paleo Pinay

As I was driving my kids to speech therapy, a name popped into my head: Paleo Pinay. Suddenly I wondered if that domain name was taken and what could happen if I bought it? Something I really wanted to investigate. How about Paleo-ish Pinay? Why the Ish? Because what if someone called me out on not being strictly paleo?

Later in the day I was listening to a podcast from @livinglovingpaleo (real name: Kristen Boehmer) and her story on how she battled Crohn's Disease and a life of autoimmune sickness by ultimately changing her diet, and I was INSPIRED. I had heard her story before, but in the wee hours of Dec. 1st I decided that I would give myself three months to change my diet. I've already dabbled in a wheat-free/grain-free lifestyle and have started following paleo loosely (still do dairy and sugar), but today, I am going to flip the switch and go paleo for three months. What have I got to lose? Nothing except weight and a host of inflammation in my pinky finger, and possibly in my L5-S1. What have I got to gain? My HEALTH.

So here I go, putting it out into the universe, not hiding behind a litany of excuses. I will tell myself that I don't need to eat X, I know what it tastes like already.

This means giving up the Dunkin' Donuts iced coffees, too.

What does suck is how I'm going to drink other kinds of iced coffee. I've seen the cold brew coffee on IG stories, and maybe some coconut creamer. I'll look into those. But, no more sugar in my coffee.

Yikes.

Shut up. Just do it.

I can do it.

[note: going to blog here on FitMich until I can set up the Paleo Pinay blog. I'm kind of excited about that, honestly. Woohoo!)