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Post by EJ on Apr 11, 2014 19:55:09 GMT -5
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Karin
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Post by Karin on Apr 12, 2014 10:53:53 GMT -5
For me, a step by step plan would be easiest to follow. I know you can't just make a general plan to fit everybody, but for me, the changes I had to make were so many and it was overwhelming. I have autism too, so changing is hard to do and I just love strict rules and steps. Over the past months I've transitioned more and more, but the amount of changes and not being sure where to start has made me very insecure and stressed at times.
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Post by TamarE on Apr 12, 2014 13:31:06 GMT -5
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Post by EJ on Apr 13, 2014 10:19:00 GMT -5
For me, a step by step plan would be easiest to follow. I totally agree, Karin. Tamar posted some great resources that fit that idea. I think most people who come across Paleo know to start with a 30-day challenge of sorts, whether through one of those resources or through Robb Wolf's The Paleo Solution (how I got started) or the Whole30 (both of which tell you exactly what you can and cannot eat). The recommendations in the article above were just meant to prepare you for the change For anyone just getting started, you can always Google "Paleo challenge" to find a more structured way to start.
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Post by elleneliza on Apr 13, 2014 10:29:08 GMT -5
I made a mental list of all my favorite foods that are also paleo-friendly, and I made efforts to find recipes that incorporated those foods. I transitioned from a near-vegan diet, so I was adding new foods (meat and eggs) as I cut out others, which made it fun. I knew I planned to transition to AIP eventually, but I added in eggs anyways to help me get through the initial transition to paleo.
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Post by greystorms on Apr 13, 2014 20:53:19 GMT -5
We started with a real food diet - sticking to as many natural and non-processed foods as possible, which included me making naan at home quite often instead of buying store breads or anything. After a bit of that, my wife convinced me to give primal a try, and we've never looked back.
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Post by sarahinparis on Apr 14, 2014 5:24:56 GMT -5
When I was contemplating starting AIP (from years of Primal) what helped me were 2 things
1) I categorized everything that I needed to do to get to AIP into "very hard" "hard" "moderate" and "easy" - once I saw that there weren't all that many "very hard" things (for me, personally, given my tastes & where I was already) I was able to start
2) I figured out the biggest stumbling blocks would be breakfast and what to make for dinners. So I identified a plan of what to have for dinners (a specific recipe of beef/cabbage that I like and that freezes well) and bought 2 cookbooks that work for AIP plus found several good-looking recipes online.
I've recently transitioned to Wahls Paleo Plus, which is similar to AIP but has more structure and rules. I used the same construct of "very hard" to "easy" - since I was already AIP the things in "very hard" were very hard to me, and I've decided to only focus on ONE of them my first month (no snacking) because there are lots of "hard" items too (seaweed, intermittent fasting). So in future months I hope to tackle some of the other "very hard" items (organ meat) but I'm not trying to do everything perfectly right away - this structure helped me to see that both of these challenging diets were do-able, even if in the case of WPP I'm not doing it perfectly.
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Post by alicia99 on Apr 17, 2014 1:35:03 GMT -5
Thanks for the quick start link. I had no idea.....
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Post by mapoptart on Jun 13, 2014 21:31:21 GMT -5
When I was contemplating starting AIP (from years of Primal) what helped me were 2 things 1) I categorized everything that I needed to do to get to AIP into "very hard" "hard" "moderate" and "easy" - once I saw that there weren't all that many "very hard" things (for me, personally, given my tastes & where I was already) I was able to start 2) I figured out the biggest stumbling blocks would be breakfast and what to make for dinners. So I identified a plan of what to have for dinners (a specific recipe of beef/cabbage that I like and that freezes well) and bought 2 cookbooks that work for AIP plus found several good-looking recipes online. I've recently transitioned to Wahls Paleo Plus, which is similar to AIP but has more structure and rules. I used the same construct of "very hard" to "easy" - since I was already AIP the things in "very hard" were very hard to me, and I've decided to only focus on ONE of them my first month (no snacking) because there are lots of "hard" items too (seaweed, intermittent fasting). So in future months I hope to tackle some of the other "very hard" items (organ meat) but I'm not trying to do everything perfectly right away - this structure helped me to see that both of these challenging diets were do-able, even if in the case of WPP I'm not doing it perfectly.
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