Have you seen the new slim Alec Baldwin? He has embarked upon a sugar free diet, and he looks phenomenal. If Alec Baldwin can do it you can, too! In an interview done earlier this month he reveals how he did it, and he also exposes the dangers of eating sugar Hear him speak about healthy eating in this interview with Dr. Robert Lustig. Transcript here.
5 things that happened when I stopped following the Primal lifestyle. Aka …. If you fall off the Primal Wagon, you’ll feel like a zombie.
Going primal made so many great changes in my life. You can read about them in my post 5 things that happened to me as a result of starting a Primal lifestyle. I should have called the post 5 Great things…because every one of the changes was a positive one.
You might wonder how I would ever let myself slip off. And you’d be justified in wondering this. I am perplexed myself. Essentially, it boiled down to laziness and procrastination. I had been very consistent with my efforts for the first 6 weeks and then with a trip away (all you can eat and drink is hard to completely resist,) and some unexpected life hiccups it just became less of a priority.
These are the things that happened when I fell off. They didn’t happen all at once, but they all built up simultaneously over time.
1. I gained weight. It didn’t happen all at once, it creeped up. I was off track for about 5 weeks and I managed to gain 5 pounds. This was after losing between 9 and 10 pounds in the first 2 months I was on Primal. Gaining weight you just lost is like losing money on the stock market. Now my jeans are snug at the waist again. No fun at all.
2. I was more tired. It became harder to get up in the morning when the alarm went off. And I wasn’t sleeping as well.
3. I was less regular. I’m not going to elaborate on this one, since I think most of my readers are not 7 year old boys who enjoy discussions about toilet issues.
4. I became cranky. Tiredness, weight gain and irregularity can do that to a girl.
5. I was less motivated. Less motivated to dance, to run, to bound up the stairs. I had less resolve to jump start my way back into the Primal way of eating. I was succumbing to the SAD (Standard American Diet.) I felt a bit like a zombie, just not the flesh eating kind.
(6. I stopped blogging.) Likely a result of #5 combined with super-busy life events.
Anyway, you’ll be happy to learn that I’ve the spark I needed to get back on track and I am starting to feel the goodness from it already.
