I've realised how less frequently I hit up Minimins since going primal, I pretty much just get on with things! Which I think is a good way to be going forward really.
I seem to have lost my Christmas weight now and have been working on getting back into an exercise routine (although I need to start wearing my fitbit again, I slacked over the break). I have had a few bodyfat readings in the 33% range (instead of 34) but not quite enough to call myself in the 33 bracket yet - but it's an encouraging sign that they're appearing every so often now!
Sometimes it seems like primal/paleo is too good to be true; I have kicked the Christmas cravings and am more than happy with all the yummy paleo things I eat. I've stopped tracking food on MFP and so far it seems to be working OK for me. If my weight goes up for no reason, though, I'll probably track some days just to see where I am. I feel a lot more free in cooking and not sticking precisely to recipes as before I was obsessed with knowing the calorie count of my meals as closely as possible and thus never really improvised much.
Had a bit of a naughty treat today; tapioca pudding made with coconut milk. Tapioca pearls are made out of cassava starch, cassava is a root. So it's not grain-based and thus I don't feel TOO guilty.
This was after a really lovely moist slow cooker chicken roast (then grilled it on all sides to crisp up the skin) from nomnompaleo, a proper Sunday dinner really. That's what I mean about it seeming too good to be true!
One thing that has made a big difference to what I'm eating at the moment... Mr plum and I had been saving up for a Vitamix for awhile, I like green smoothies and a normal blender never seemed to get past the 'little bits of leaf suspended in water' stage. I always find that my health seems a bit better if I have a small green smoothie most mornings before breakfast. Anyway, we hadn't reached our savings target when my lovely mother gave us some gift vouchers that brought us up to the final total! So we whizzed off and bought one. And I'm truly amazed by it. There is no getting around the fact that they are seriously expensive but now that we have it we are using it once or even twice most days. I've read online that many people have 35 year old Vitamix blenders that are still going strong so I am looking at it as an investment.
I've been making green smoothies galore, and they are actually smoothies in texture! We've made a lot of veggie soups, paleo mayo (which I know you can do with a normal blender but I am usually impatient and put the oil in too quickly) and flavoured mayo, and tonight we made really creamy homemade almond butter that was so good I'm not sure I can go back to the stuff from the shop (we got a big bag of almonds from Costco). Previously I was afraid to make almond butter as our food processor is an attachment to a kitchen mixer and I was worried about burning the motor out by processing the almonds for 12-15 minutes. It was done in about a minute and a half in the Vitamix! So although it cost a very lot of money I am really glad we were able to buy it.
