2013 DIET aka Do I Eat This?!

Every year I take the time to set my New Year Resolution Plan.  It of course includes health, travel, and fitness goals so why should this year be any different?  Since I have spent 10 of the 12 months of 2012 carrying my first child, you can imagine body image is a must work on for 2013!  I didn’t gain a BOATLOAD of weight – we are having our formal wedding ceremony on New Years Eve after all – BUT I would be lying if I said I didn’t gain any and it will be easy to lose.  PLEASE share with me your opinions and comments on what I can do to help drop my sexy ‘baby weight’.

Here is my plan so far.  I have been researching the Paleo Diet and think it may be the way to go for us…forever.  My favorite site that I have found for information on Paleo is at Nerd Fitness and the Original Site of course offers you all the books and tools to make it successful…if you require a manual.  So my quick rendition is it is called the caveman diet because you can eat any and everything that a caveman could eat!  No limits, no weighing food, no counting calories, just eat natural whole foods.  I am making it sound really easy, that is for my sake.  What I think I love about this diet is that I can mold it a little to meet my own needs…at least I plan to…meaning I am making Saturday my one cheat day every week for this diet.  Because there are a lot of things I LOVE that I cannot have the rest of the time…like cereal, ice cream, soda pop, cookies, pasta, coffee (the way I like it anyway) etc.  Now that said I am leaving some wiggle room.  Like milk/dairy products, I will not give up milk, or cheese entirely.  Sorry paleo, if I were a cave woman I think I might have drug around a goat or pet cow for dairy!  🙂  But that isn’t going to totally crush my diet…I don’t think.  As this journey begins I will let you know my modifications, share my dinners, and my cocktails…yes I definitely would have fermented grapes and potatoes to make wines and liquors!!  I also do not plan on giving up the potatoes.  I love potatoes and they were definitely growing in the ground when we were wandering cave people.  Whats also great is this diet is okay for pregnant/breastfeeding women.

I am hoping to lose my baby weight and maintain a healthy body.  Ideally I want to look hot in time for summer!  After all, I do have a pool to float in and don’t have the pregnancy excuse for looking like a beached whale out there anymore!!  🙂  Pre-pregnancy I was NEVER a ‘skinny girl’.  I was most commonly described as fit, thick, dense, or as my husband lovingly says I am a voluptuous woman and he likes me that way.  I have more of a Coco, Kendra, Kourtney Kardashian physique.  I have to work at it to not end up chubby and it takes a LOT of work most the time.  I of course will be sharing with you my workouts and routines as I start them and quit them and work for the MILF body I have in mind!

Now I am not turning the leaf today or tomorrow or in December.  My goal is to be converted and beginning this journey by Sunday January 6, 2013.  What I do want to get before I make the switch is your comments and opinions of this plan!  If you are on Paleo, please share your experience, give me some tips!  If you are interested in Paleo, lets start this together!!  I would love to hear from you and swap stories as I go through this!  Share your recipes, especially sweets, I think that is going to be my toughest battle, I HEART Desserts and Treats!!