I am not being vain here, being vain would be saying "hey look at me naked!" and that wouldn't be a good idea seeming how my husband hits like a mac truck (just ask Chris). What I am saying is this Paleo diet is really working for me. When I pass the mirror on the way to the shower I'm not making a mad dash so I only get a glimpse. I'm actually stopping to admire!
I've always been on the leaner side - when I was a kid I grew up with my mom always saying don't eat that, it'll make you fat. Now her nutrition guidance was very misleading as our standard diet was a can of coke and a snickers. But when you only consume 370 calories a day it doesn't matter they are only coming from sugar. But I was a small kid, then I started running and exercising by 11. I lifted weights seriously at 15. I then did figure competitions. And I even did the I almost divorced my spouse diet - which sheds an amazing 22#s!!
But as I crossed 30 (I am now 32) my usual body fat of 16% crept up to 17 and then 18 and then 19 and I think I was even at 20% for a few months. It had nothing to do with crossing 30 and everything to do with my lax diet. I drank way too much beer (and I blame it all on Aimee) and I let myself have french fries and chocolate once a day and even sodas. I would just say I'll work out harder when I hit the gym.
And I was working out hard. Super hard. Way harder than I work out now! And I still couldn't shed that body fat. I had moved from a bikini to surf shorts. My explanation was I was too old and a mom to wear a bikini. Truth was I just didn't like how my gut or hamstrings looked anymore.
But this summer I'm rockin' a bikini again. And I'm going to get some outrageous loud color too - cause even if I don't say hey look at me I'm naked....you bet your ass I'll be saying hey look at me in this bikini - I look HAWT and I know it!
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