Paleo

As many of you know, Wes and I have started the Paleo diet. Now, I had never heard about this "diet", or "lifestyle" as many people call it, until I began Crossfit this summer. Most everyone there lives by this diet to some extent. What is Paleo may you ask? Well, I don't know all of the science behind it, but basically it refers to the Paleolithic Era and eating like the cavemen ate. The diet consists mainly of meat, fish, fruits, veggies, and nuts (anything you could find on the land, like the Hunter-Gatherers!). So, anything that is yummy, is pretty much out, and if you can't pronounce the ingredients, it's probably out too. Now there are different levels of strictness, but we are trying to abide by the most strict form which excludes dairy products.

I have been wanting to lose the rest of my "baby weight" and thought I needed something drastic to make this happen. Wes was so sweet to support me in this and go along with all the craziness. To name just a few of my favorite things that I have recently given up, they include: cheese, Diet Coke, chips, Crave cupcakes, bread, pasta, all dessert, and pretty much anything I would eat when at a restaurant. We are allowing ourselves one cheat meal a week, which is almost impossible to avoid if you want any sort of a social life. Oh, and did I mention, we are just trying this for 30 days? Haha. We have just completed Day 11. It doesn't sound like a long time, but I have already lost some weight, generally feel a lot healthier, and can tell I have more energy when I work out. I did go through a 72 hour period in the beginning where I had a constant headache, probably from sugar withdrawals. I think I have detoxed now though and I'm not always hungry all the time like I thought I would be. We are thinking we will see how this month goes and then adjust our diet accordingly, depending on the results and our mental state.

We went to Pappasitos tonight, which was complete torture, but we felt a sense of accomplishment when we left having had resisted all the yummy goodness that Mexican food entails. We even took a pic just to capture everything that we weren't putting in our body. It's crazy to think we do this once a week and we would consume all of that!!

I even went to Whole Foods this week and bought weird stuff like Coconut Water and Almond Meal; I felt very out of place. Anyways, I am sure I sound crazy right now, but it has been kind of fun just really paying attention to everything you put in your body. I'll update again later with our progress!!

Fall Fun!!

This past weekend, Wes went out of town for his friend Matt's bachelor party, so Ryan and I went and hung out with my parents. It was a fun, relaxing weekend, and on Sunday, we took some fall pics of Ryan. I had ordered a cute hat and onesie applique from Etsy, so I wanted to do a photoshoot. He was a trooper.

 He was much more interested in the flowers than the camera! We finally took them out and gave him some pumpkins to play with :)

He also has been very interested in trying to crawl lately. He scoots around on his legs and props himself up on his knees, but hasn't figured out how to use his arms yet! He absolutely refuses to sit up, I am not sure what we are going to do about that. Everytime we sit him down, he immediately tries to stand up! I hope this ends soon because his car seat is getting reallllly heavy when I have to cart him around places.

In other news, he is now obsessed with sweet potatoes, he can't get enough. We started squash yesterday and at the end of the week will try carrots! The boy loves to eat, maybe that is why now he is moving into his 12 month clothes :)

And the winner is....

....nothing as of yet! Last weekend we started Ryan on solid foods. After seeming extremely bored with rice cereal and oatmeal, we thought he would be so excited to eat grown up food. Well, that has not been the case. We our following our pediatrician's orders by going through all of the veggies first, so what could be better than avocados!??! It's actually a food most people like to eat raw, well not our lil guy.

I am planning on making as much of his food as possible, so I ordered this handy little steamer, defroster, blender, called the Babycook, to make this whole process a little shorter and more efficient. Here are my recent masterpieces - Sweet Potatoes and Zucchini.

Well, last week he had zucchini, and was just okay with it; that was of course with a teaspoon of oatmeal added to it. So, tonight we thought surely he would be interested in sweet potatoes because they are smooth and yummy. It was a BUST. I have never seen such a drama queen - all the gagging and horrible faces, it's hard not to laugh at him!

Here we are before:

....and after...

On top of that, I made enough zucchini and sweet potatoes for a week, so Ryan may just be learning to like them! Besides that, he is insisting on holding his bottle while eating {that is, once he's drank enough to where it is light enough for him to hold}. We also started him on a sippy cup, but he is much more interested in drinking out of our plastic cups!

We had such a nice, relaxing weekend, other than watching the Aggies lose on Saturday. I got some shots of my two boys all decked out in their Aggie gear.

wants to be just like his daddy!

Ryan was very into the game!

Wes and I were able to go out and celebrate our anniversary Saturday night. We went to La Griglia and ate way too much, then went to meet Jill and Turner at Cedar Creek. Sunday we got up and went to try a place in the heights for breakfast called the Big Mamou. It's cajun and had delicious beignets and had a neat atmosphere, we'll definitely be back! We spent the rest of the day working in the yard and enjoying the nice fall weather!

Here is Ryan, overseeing our progress on the yard this weekend.