The Paleo diet is simple and easy to follow...since I usually eat only one meal a day.

Drink plenty of water, snack on unsalted nuts and seeds, eat the occasional fresh fruit, then eat till full at night. It looks rather simple.

The crux of the diet is to get back to the way people used to eat. if you can't kill it, catch it or grow it, don't eat it. Anything processed is out. That means no breads, pasta, etc.

Our ancestors used to eat a little during the day and hunt for the big meal for the evening meal, where they would eat heartily.

What it does is shrinks your stomach back to fist size and force your body to survive off of the fat stored in your body.

Beer and liquor are easy to cut out, as I don't drink them much...just the occasional beer, maybe once every two weeks or so.

Sugar intake would be limited to fresh fruits.

I didn't pack these pounds on by eating...the medications changed the way I metabolized the foods, causing the weight gain. It's a very common side effect of the medications I was on, but no longer take.

In the last week, I lost 10 pounds...just by getting the chemicals out of my body. Most of that was water weight. Since getting rid of the meds, I've pissed most of that weight out...and the exercise I've gotten by running up and down the step to the bathroom is rebuilding my legs. All I'm wanting to do is jump start my body and shed it off quicker.

Since those first 10 pounds have left me, I can feel the skin on my lower back jiggle, my ankles are defined again, and I can see veins on my feet. My wife told me that the loss was very noticeable to her, which is why I want to lose more of it.

She's wanting to start this diet with me as well, since she's gained weight staying home caring for me.

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