Good Eats: Baby Steps to Paleo!

People tell me they can't go Paleo all at once. They say they'd fail. They need smaller steps. OK, baby steps.

Step 1: Ditch gluten first! It is glue in your belly! GLU-ten. Glue is not appetizing. Yuck!

Eat rice products as an alternative for a while: rice breads, pastas, pizza crust. Go a month or so.

Step 2: Trim rice intake to once a week. Go another month. You will feel better by now. You will be convinced your health, gut and joints feel better. So the next step is easy then because you are motivated by feeling better!

Step 3: Give yourself a month challenge - 30 days! Drop all grains (including those rice products) and legumes. While your at it ditch all the allergens: eggs, shellfish, nightshades, diary.

Don't you just want to know if/what foods are making you feel bad? It's just a month in your life. It's 30 days.

Just 30 days out of the 15,000-30,000 (God willing) days in your life. You can live without an Egg McMuffin sandwich (bread, egg, cheese, mystery meat) or equivalent naughtiness for 30days, right? If you don't feel better (and I bet you you will) you still have tens of thousands of days to eat pizza or other glutenous objecst (it's hard to call them food really).

OR you'll feel better, and you won't want to!

Step 4: If you're still not convinced at 30 days, go eat something! Pizza, cheese croissant, burger, cake, whatever your heart desires and then email me how you feel in 1-3 hours! And again, send note the next day! Tell me how your belly, joints and body feels.

Or just trust me and stop at step 3 and enjoy good joint, gut and general health!

Med Alert: dropping

Making a big drop in prednisone today/weekend. Down to 0 mg on alternating days. So 30mg zero 30mg. Went to work today but planning to lay low, eat vitamin C, yellow & oramge veggies & fish!

Go adrenal glands GO! Kick start my heart!!!!

It's 4pm and I feel ok ----so far!

Med Alert: dropping again!

My neurologist called today and we decided to reduce my alternating day of prednisone to zero! (so: 30mg, 0mg, 30mg).

It's a big drop but my vision is normal 100% of the time. I barely need the Mestinon except 3or4 times a day, which is a big difference from taking every 3-4hours like clockwork. Feelin' pretty good! Back to work, playing rock shows, able to chase my child at the park. A bit amped from the steroids but pretty good all in all. So I'm dropping tomorrow.

Current Daily Meds:
6am-30mg Mestinon
8am-30mg Prednisone & 60mg Mestinon
12pm-60mg Mestinon
10pm-60mg Mestinon
*more Mestinon if I have a BOTTOM show

Good Eats: aloe vera

In need of something to refresh, cool, detox, reduce inflammation....and more. ALOE!!

http://sacredsourcenutrition.com/top-12-benefits-of-aloe-vera/

**Note: aloe should only be taken in short 1-2week routines, then stop and break for a month or so before taking again.