Written by Well, I made it through one full week. If you didn’t get a chance to check out what this experiment is all about, check out my first post in this series. I think overall it went pretty well. I had a couple set backs, but for the most part I think I stuck to the plan. I have noted some positives and negatives thus far. Here they are:
The Good Stuff
- Increased energy during the day
- I feel much more alert and clear headed
- It looks like I’ve dropped a couple pounds
The Not-so-Good Stuff
- My body doesn’t seem to be fully adjusted yet, as I have to go the bathroom a lot, and it’s not what I’m used to “seeing”, if you know what I mean.
- I found myself eating the same things simply because they were easy, so there wasn’t much variety this week.
- I’m not sure if the couple pounds I dropped are legit or are just water weight.
So, I have three more weeks of this, and I am going to try to make sure I don’t have any slip ups… it’s not always easy if you’re somewhere with limited fare. For example, I went to an NFL game last night… not the best choices for the Paleo Diet. I will continue to log my progress every Monday, so stay tuned for more!
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I’m really interested to know how you are calculating your calories. Any differently than your normal diet? Do you use a range (with your BMR and exercise included)?
Thanks for the question! I created spreadsheet where I track total calories, fat grams, carbs, dietary fiber, and protein. I keep an index of foods I use most, but if I don’t have it then I use calorieking.com to get the information. The spreadsheet then totals everything out for me at the end of the day. I have calculations set up to tell me what % of each I have eaten as well. I am not calculating them any different than I normally would, its just that what is going into the spreadsheet is different. I generally do not include an exercise (i.e. subtract calories from the total), as I am not always good at getting my exercise done each day.
Since my example menu from the first post was vague in some categories, I had to use averages for things like “protein” at dinner. For that, I used the calories of a chicken breast since that is something I eat often. Hope that answers your question!