Reader Questions and Results

Let’s plow through another group. First up is some results from Deborah. I stumbled across your site probably on a blogroll from someone else (Mark Sisson maybe), and have been enjoying your writing immensely. I’m trying very hard to stick to a Paleo diet (or the Eades plan or Atkins … anyway, a way of eating based on principles of all three), and I find that it really helps to read all the bloggers. I just turned 56, and have had the same 25-30 pounds on my frame for so long I surely can’t call it “baby weight” anymore. The babies are 21 and 19, for pete’s sake. My husband, who is most marvelous in every other way, isn’t particularly supportive of this way of eating, though at least he doesn’t try to sabotage it (he’s been told by the doc to skip the chicken skin, lay off the butter, all the usual doctorly advice). Anyway. Deciding to take control of my own diet, I’ve finally lost a few pounds (I need to get from 185 or so down to at least 160, which on a large-boned woman who does weight training is, I think, reasonable), by eating protein and…