Roasted Leg of Lamb with Herbs and Garlic and Baked Chocolate Custard, sound good? Well that is what I am eating tonight courtesy of my paleo cookbook. A year ago next Tuesday I gave up stuffing my face with burgers, crisps, fizzy pop and general junk food and changed my life to the healthy eating habits of our forefathers.
Swapping Fast-Food for Slow-Food
I will be the first to admit that at first I was not happy about swapping fast food for slow food. I am a city exec with a son, so not much time for cooking. But what I realized after being on the paleo diet for a month was that the food I was eating previously made me so lifeless that all I could do after work was sit in front of the television and struggle to entertain my son with a few books and toys. Spending an extra 25-30 minutes a day preparing my paleo diet foods actually gave me the energy resources needed to exercise more and pay proper attention to my child even after a long day at work.
Convenient Cooking With a Wealth of Variety
The paleo cookbook is convenient and provides step by step instructions with easy navigation and quality pictures. It is helping educate me on how I should be raising my child, and made me realize that the reason I was addicted to bad food before was because I was always rewarded with sweets and junk as a child, so effectively I was eating for comfort as a substitute for love. Now I am running after work, playing with my son more and we are enjoying new paleo recipes together every week. I never envisioned that health could taste good and be more gratifying than a McDonald’s or can of Coke, but life is one big learning curve and for my son’s sake I am glad I learned this lesson.