Paleoooooooo

Although it hasn't been scientifically proven yet that diet plays a key role in treating most auto-immune diseases, I would say 99.9% of any site I visited or group I joined of people (mostly women) suffering from Hashimoto's Disease said that diet it the key to feeling symptom free. And it was specifically the Paleo Diet they said worked the best.

Last year, one of my best friends asked me to do the Paleo diet with her for 30 days. I looked into it said "No way, Jose!" To me it sounded terrible! No bread, no pasta, no rice, or any kind of sugar, NO THANK YOU!!! I would say that God has a sense of humor but thought would be an understatement in this situation. Today was day one on the Paleo diet for me! If left untreated, Hashimoto's can lead to heart disease, type 1 diabetes, memory damage, and many other awful things. Untreated in the traditional medicine world is not taking your thyroid medication, but that is not the end all cure! My immune system is backwards and attacks my body, mainly my thyroid, which I now no longer have so that means it will start to attack other good functioning parts of my body! I don't want that to happen and if means taking things into my own hands and radically changing my diet to do so, then so be it!

I have a lot of grocery shopping I still need to do, so I tried to use up what I already had in the house for today. It was nothing fancy but everything I ate was delicious! I did start to feel terrible around 1:00 in the afternoon. I had a horrible headache and zero energy. I ended up taking an hour nap and had some white tea when I woke up for some caffeine and that really helped. And now I sit here at 9:50 pm and I feel fantastic! I wish I felt this way earlier today but my body has to get used to this new fuel I am filling it with.

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with fresh strawberries and blueberries
Snack: Sliced Fuji apple with almond butter
Lunch: Mixed greens with chicken and dressing (olive oil, fresh lemon juice, salt, pepper)
Dinner: Chicken, carrots, and roasted cabbage which I got the recipe here and it was amazing!!!
Dessert: Paleo Banana Bread Smoothie (not pictured) another amazingly delicious recipe found here! I could drink this smoothie everyday! I'm a sweets lover so this hit the spot!

I'd say for this being my first day I didn't do too shabby of a job! Day one down, the rest of my life to go!