Hi Kathy,

I used a 12 step program to manage my sugar addiction.
 This was the only way I have been able to stop eating
it.  The program I chose involves complete abstinence
from sugar.  Another thing that has helped me some is
Emotional Freedom Technique at www.emofree.com.  For
me, it was very important to completely remove sugar
including all hidden sugars and starchy additives from
processed foods (I only eat homemade salad dressings
now).  Some very good information on food addiction is
located at www.kaysheppard.com. I highly recommend it.

This information is not paleo, but it has helped give
me the ability to follow the paleo diet.

Larine 

--- Kathy Schwinghammer
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> Hi, Paleo-list folks -
> 
> I'm returning to the list after a few years absence.
> 
> My story: Back in around 2003, I started eating
> paleo after reading 
> "Neanderthin" and lost about 70 pounds.  I went from
> being a flabby, sick, 
> plus-size 30-something woman to being very lean,
> very fit, and healthy in 
> about a year.  I found it hard to eat paleo
> (difficult to find paleo 
> products in stores, time-consuming to prepare paleo
> meals, and eating at 
> restaurants and social functions meant abstaining
> from almost everything) 
> but on the other hand, I never felt so healthy or so
> in control of my life, 
> either, as I did when I was eating paleo.  Not only
> did I lose the excess 
> weight/flab I'd been carrying around for most of my
> life, but I was finally 
> free of the aches and sinus allergies that had
> plagued me for years.  (And 
> as sort of an added unexpected bonus, after I went
> paleo I would tan instead 
> of burning in the sun.)  Unfortunately, I started
> "cheating" on the paleo 
> diet and gained back about 20 pounds over 2 years. 
> And now, after 1 year of 
> marriage to my low-fat, high-carb "Standard American
> Diet" husband (who, I 
> should point out, is wonderful in all respects
> except for some of his food 
> choices), I'm downright fat again and pretty sad
> myself (and, not 
> coincidentally, badly sunburnt).
> 
> Also, I'm pregnant with my first child and living
> near Santa Barbara, 
> California, now.  Anyone have any advice to share on
> any of these many 
> topics?
> 
> Eating paleo while pregnant/nursing?
> Eating paleo when your significant other's food
> choices include a lot of 
> bread/pasta/dairy?
> Paleo-friendly doctors or businesses in the Santa
> Barbara area?
> 
> My plan is to try to gradually transition back to
> eating paleo -- sort of 
> the reverse of what I've done over the past few
> years.  (Switch from dairy 
> milk to almond milk in my coffee, cut back on breads
> and pasta while 
> increasing the vegetables and fruit).  I favor a
> gradual approach because I 
> don't want to upset the household and most of all, I
> don't want to make any 
> drastic changes while pregnant.
> 
> I am especially concerned that I just won't have the
> willpower to avoid 
> chips, chocolate, bread/crackers, ice cream, etc if
> it is right here in my 
> own home, accessible to me.  When I was successfully
> paleo years ago, I just 
> didn't have any of it around, and I'd physically
> avoid it at parties; if I 
> went to a restaurant that brought out chips and
> salsa as an appetizer, I'd 
> move them out of my reach, because even an
> absent-minded bite of a corn chip 
> would start cravings.  Back then, I found that if I
> had any in my home I 
> would tend to binge on it, so I just didn't have any
> non-paleo food around 
> -- but that isn't an option for me now.
> 
> Looking forward to being part of the paleo listserv
> community again.  Thanks 
> in advance for any advice or encouragement.
> 
> - Kathy
> 
> 


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