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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Decadent Dot on August 14, 2015, 05:41:30 am
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I am a recent convert to Paleo. It is more to do with healthy living than losing weight. I have however lost significant weight but more importantly am feeling really healthy. I have found that the TMX is so good for Paleo and I have converted many recipes. I am surprised that there is not much said about it so am I the only Paleo convert?
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I haven't changed over but maybe put a couple of your conversions on here, and we can give them a try? There must be heaps of people following this diet.
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I've been Paleo for 6 months, Dot. I love the food & I'm feeling very healthy. I have only lost 5kg in that time though because my body hates to shed weight!!!
I need to lose another 20 -25kg, but I'm happy if I can lose anything . I haven't converted any TMX recipes because I'm not very good at that. I follow a lot of Pete Evans Paleo recipes. I'd love to see some of your conversions :)
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With gluten free me, lactose intolerant DH and additive free Mr 7, we are close to Paleo most of the time. I'd love to share recipes :) Maybe we can get a Paleo subsection in the recipe swap
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I had a Paleo bread at Nikki and Nerissa's class a couple of weeks ago. The flavour of it was amazing.
DD go ahead and post your conversions as I'm sure others would appreciate them. If we have enough interest we can ask MM for a Paleo section.
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DD you are not alone. I don't post much but I visit this forum often and always check here first when I'm looking for a recipe. I went paleo just under a year ago to try and stall arthritis symptoms, and also to that end I eliminated nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, capsicum, goji berries and chillies). And I feel GOOD, so there's no way I am going back. I dropped about 5 kilograms and a dress size. I've recently taken up martial arts and train a few times a week so I feel fit, strong and lean. I've just turned 60 and I consult a dietician regularly to make sure I'm on track.
I've found Sarah Wong's blog 'Clever Cook' really very helpful. She's known for her magic bean chocolate cake (which works wonderfully well with a can of butter beans for those times I need to make a cake) and 'I can't believe it's not dairy New York Cheesecake'. (She does have something of a sweet tooth!) Her recipes are mostly paleo and she uses a thermomix. I am particularly fond of her fig bread recipe which I stack full of fruit including figs, citrus peel, apricot pieces and chopped naked ginger (wonderful), and I use chia instead of linseeds. She has a swag of grain free bread recipes which I'm slowly working my way through but keep coming back to the fig loaf.
Interestingly, tonight here in Oz there are two male television journalists going to air to talk about their health issues and about going paleo.
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Congratulations JenJan.
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My son has been trying paleo and is happy with it so I made him a couple of cakes when he came home from work this time. Will try and remember what I did and post them. One was orange and carrot and the other banana; both turned out very nice. I don't think I could give up some of the things required on this diet though.
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Hi All,
I am so pleased that there are a few of us on Paleo. It is not widely used or known here in England unlike the US who are seemingly swamped by it. I have lost 28lb so far and am now sewing reduction alterations to clothes. Yesterday My DD and I pickniced paleo at a stately home (Belton House) and I actually managed to go upstairs in the house. (Usually, I am left to view the gardens on my scooter.) I am actually beating the pain associated with spinal stenosis and arthritis.
I will send in a few paleo recipes. There are of course many of the Thermomix ones that are there already. I made mayonnaise to go with our picnic and the only alteration was to use a light olive oil instead of oils that are treated. My daughter made some soft biscuits which surprisingly have only 3 ingredients. 1 egg, 1/3 cup honey and 1 cup of peanut butter (actually peanuts are not paleo so she should have used almond butter). Just thrown in the TMX, mixed and spooned onto a baking tray. Add in chocolate chips if you fancy. Oven 180 for say 15 mins when they are browning at the edgeds. They harden a bit as they cool but they are a more spongy texture and nice for those naughty moments.
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Nice to hear from you Dot, glad things are improving for you. What a great weight loss!
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You are sounding so happy and healthy on the paleo diet that I am almost tempted to give it a try, but I don't think it would work for DH and I. Congratulations on your improvement in health and weight loss and wonderful to hear your voice on here again.
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Great news that the diet is working for you Dot. :)
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DD that is really wonderful news. I have spinal stenosis and had an op last November.
Your weight loss is so wonderful, congratulations. The weight loss would do wonders for lots of things I would imagine.
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Well done Dot! Increased mobility, pain reduction and weight loss all speak volumes!
You inspired me to try making nut butter, which I had never tried so I've now got a jar in the fridge. Happy with that and feeling like trying a sweet treat, I went further and made a batch of biscuits - yum! Thanks for the recipe - so simple! I do love my Timmy!
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Hi All ,
One of the main comments I hear from would be Paleo converts is that they can't live without bread. To that end I have put a recipe in special diet section to make some bread in just 41/2 minutes. Just enough time to cook an egg alongside to put on top of a slice. You don't have to be a cave dweller to introduce a few new recipes and a good point is that there is no calorie counting.
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=16674.msg398171#msg398171
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I just have to share my good news, I went to see my doctor yesterday because I was experiencing faint/dizzy spells. He has promptly taken me off high blood pressure medication because the Paleo diet has reduced it to normal. I am working on other health issues now.
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BRILLIANT NEWS!!!!!!! Well done, DD
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It just keeps getting better for you Dot, well done.
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Congratulations DD, what fab news. It' always a bonus to correct something without having to take mess if possible, well done!
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Wow what terrific news Dot.Well done :)
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DD thank you for sharing That is truly wonderful news.
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Well done DD, I wish I could find the discipline. I go well for a week or two and then fall off the wagon.
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Great news that you don't have to take blood pressure medication DD.
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Thanks everyone for your good wishes. I am still firmly Paleo and the weight is still slowly coming off. My doctor is planning to test me for my Diabetes at Christmas. He says that if he finds me normal he will be convinced about Paleo as then it would prove itself in addition to the now normal blood pressure. I am working on it because those Metformin tablets they give us for Diabetes are so big to swallow. It would be a great Christmas present. :P
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A year has gone by since I posted about the Paleo diet and it's good effect on my high blood pressure. I was so pleased to be taken off the medication. I lost 3 stone which I was very happy about and then my doctor told me that my Diabetic medication could be stopped too. Over this past 10 months, I have slowly and badly cheated and come back to normal Thermomix diet and lo and behold my blood pressure came back just a little and the doctor still sends me for diabetic checkups without medication and I have put 10lb back on. Well I am declaring that Paleo worked for me before and I am back on it again. I hope to be back on track by 2017! I wish Thermomix would bring out their own book on Paleo with chip but I have quite a collection of Paleo recipes.
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Congratulations on finding a diet that suits you Dot.I'm sure you will be back on track soon.
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DD it's obvious that the Paleo diet worked for you. Good luck with going back on it.