Paleo day 5

After breakfast of some chicken breast and 2 eggs, off to work.

Snack. Some nuts

Lunch. Chicken , egg, carrots, ham and olives.

Afternoon snack. Satsuma 

Got home at 6:40 and starving as well as a headache.

Drank plenty of water so must be low blood sugar. Ate some granola and yes the headache started to go.

Dinner. Cauliflower rice with curry chicken.

Very tasty!

And so easy to make with my new friend the food processor

Been reading about paleo and the pros & cons a lot.

Most people start this diet because thry eant to lose weight, I don't.

I am naturally lean and struggle to put weight on. I eat generally quite healthy and mostly avoid pre packed foods and sugar.

I run quite a bit and go to the gym.

Saying that I was curious about this Paleo diet. 

Eating more organic with plenty of protein, less diary and sugars would be good for most people.

However  some nutritionist say that the paleo diet is not diverse enough, lacks in calcium and too much fat out of meat leads to blocked arteries & high cholesterol.

The problem with any diet is that people have so many opinions. With paleo almost all reviews I have read focus on weight loss.

There is few people who have wrote about their personal experiences interns of energy levels, feeling less or more bloated, any allergies etc etc.

The biggest negative I have found with the Paleo diet is cost.

Honestly, i have so far spend a lot more aweek on all this fish & meat.

If you think about it you substitute your potential sandwich lunch for another cooked meal.

A 1kg bag of pasta cost 80pence which gives the base for 6 meals. Compared to £1 for a cauliflower for instance which gives 2 bases for meals (cauliflower rice).

Seriously, I was adding my weekly Paleo shopping in an electronic basket of my supermarket and the result was staggering, I doubled the cost!

We are talking at over £220 for a weekly shop (this is for a family of 5 where I am the only one that is going paleo).

This unfortunately is unsustainable as this would mean £1000 a month on food.

So i am doing my best to keep Paleo on a budget but that might be the stumbling block..