Paleo, Paleo, what art thou, Paleo?

That's what I've been wondering for almost a year since two friends of mine showed up at a party looking super healthy and svelte. I asked what they were doing, secretly praying they didn't say they'd gone vegan, and they started talking about this caveman diet.

I've just finished reading Rob Wolf's "The Paleo Solution" and I think I am ready to give it a go. My biggest pitfall in eating healthfully is that I go all day at work on just a cup of coffee. Keep in mind, "all day" means 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.so it's not terrible, but I digress. I get home from work tired and hungry with just enough energy to order a pizza or drag myself to the nearest McDonald's. Why? Because it is way easier than thinking of what to cook, going to the store for the ingredients, and cooking it!

Wolf's book has a 30 day meal plan with corresponding shopping lists and recipes. Literally idiot proof! So, I've decided to give it a try.

Starting tomorrow, I'll be going on a juice cleanse. This is very not Paleo so don't tell Rob. I have all the ingredients for juicing from when I was going to do it before, so I will use those up to cleanse. This will probably be about a 2-3 day cleanse, just enough to finish up my stash and jump start the lifestyle shift. After juicing for a few days, I'll have the munchies pretty bad so I'll eat Paleo. That food will be so good after no food for a while and 3 days is long enough to get over the junk food jitters so I am hoping that Paleo will be awesome.

I'm going to take before pictures and post progress photos as I go. I don't want to post a photo quite yet, but I think I'll take photos every 2 weeks. The idea is that I'll transition into the full Paleo diet by November 11th and have my 30 days complete by December 10th.

I can hear you now, "But RUUUUUTH! That'll ruin Thanksgiving!" Happily for me, it will just be my husband and I for Thanksgiving, and I'll be doing all the cooking so this won't be a problem. {Begin rant: Plus, I've never been a fan of the binge eating American's associate with the last Thursday of November. It seems like it's non-stop eating from the end of November to the beginning of January which leaves everyone fat, bloated, and miserable enough to make overly ambitious New Year's Resolutions at which they will fail miserably by Valentine's Day. End rant}

Hopefully by changing my eating habits in the last 2 weeks of my challenge with my husband, I will tone my way to victory and a hundred bucks!