Paleo while working

How has your week been?

I returned to work on Wed and was met with a heavy work load, teaching high school teens about trauma and coping with having to get up at 0530! Ugh that is seriously a horrible time of the day.  I am pleased to announce however that I survived the alarm clock, work and eating paleo whilst at work.  If there is a place that my new 'diet' would fail it would be work.  I had to be incredibly organised and everything was frozen in portions at the start of the week for me to pull out the night before. 

I have noticed that I am much less bloated, water retention in my hands and arms is slowly easing.  I am however still very tired and still getting the odd patches of hives.  It is still very early days into my paleo experiment though so I am not worried. 

I am thrilled to have found a yummy and filling paleo 'bread'.  You can see the recipe here.  It is gluten, grain, dairy and yeast free. I have been having a slice of this with hard boiled eggs in the morning.  It is incredibly filling.  Nothing worse than feeling starved. 

Tonight is my first test of a social situation and being the only paleo person there.  Luckily it is at my place so I am very much in control of what is available.  I always put crisps, dips etc out for everyone when they arrive.  I am still going to do this, I am not so horrible that I will inflict my new way of eating on everyone else.  I have some prawns and prosciutto for me to nibble on and I am also a fan of asparagus and prosciutto.  Then we are having roast chicken, roast veggies, sweet potato for me and normal roast spuds for everyone else.  For dessert I am going to make an apple and strawberry crumble which is completely paleo.  Fingers crossed it is yummy. 

I don't feel too deprived and I always feel satisfied after a meal.  Let's hope that lasts and I continue to notice changes to how I look and feel.