Welcome to my new blog!

I decided to start a new blog about eating Primal. Our family is getting more into eating Primal and I found myself always blogging about eating Primal on my other blog so I decided to make a new blog devoted to just eating Primal.  My "plans" for this blog are to still keep it updated about my pregnancy and postpartum weight loss journey.  I LOVE reading blogs about eating Primal and one thing that I found that I liked the most, especially when I first started eating Primal, was looking at blogs for what people ate everyday and new recipes to try.  So I plan on updating the blog daily on what we eat each day. This will also help me too because I seem to stay on track more when I have to log everything I am eating.  I am also going to have a recipe section with different recipes we try.  I love to cook by the way, so be ready for lots of recipes!  I am also trying to get my two boys Primal. Well, soon to be three boys:)  I know how hard it is when kids are use to eating processed foods, breaded frozen chicken nuggets, pasta, peanut butter and jelly and awful food like that!  So hopefully along our journey I will have some good tips to pass on to help the transition and some good 'kid friendly' recipes.  Here is my first blog about "My Primal Pregnancy" from my other blog.  You can read all the other posts at Our journey through Homeschooling and Life.

The start of my Primal Pregnancy

Yup....I am pregnant again!! This will be baby number 3. Can't believe I will have 3 kids! I just found out last week that I am expecting. I am actually exactly 5 weeks today.  I decided to do this pregnancy a little different. My first pregnancy I gained about 65 lbs. Second pregnancy gained 50 lbs. So I have a tendency of gaining a lot of weight with my pregnancies.  I look at pregnancies as a time to eat what I want when I want! And I never exercised with either of the pregnancies. I did manage to lose all the weight within 10 months of having each baby.
Last month I started the 30 day Primal Challenge that Mark Sisson had.  I have been reading his blog for a few years now. Of course I agree with everything he says about being primal and all the benefits but I could never commit to eating primal.  I did the 30 day Primal Challenge he had in September of this year. I lost 10 lbs in 30 days. I felt great! I had energy. I was never hungry. I slacked a lot the first few weeks in October. Therefore now I do not feel the greatest. I can tell a HUGE difference when I am not eating Primal. Then I found out I was pregnant. I was so excited! The first thing I thought was this time I am doing it the right way.  No eating crap all the time like I did with the previous two pregnancies.  I am hoping this helps with my morning sickness as well. We will see. I had some morning sickness with the first and really bad morning sickness with the second.  I think I threw up everyday for the first three months.  And they were both boys. But they say every pregnancy is different.
So, I have known I was pregnant for a week now. Have I been eating primal?? Some. Not as good as I would like. Tomorrow is when I am starting for good and I plan on blogging about my experience with my Primal Pregnancy. I plan on exercising during this pregnancy too. I bought a Kettlebell today and I used that.  Really great workout. I can tell I am not going to be able to move tomorrow.
So, with this Primal Pregnancy Blog I plan on updating on how I feel everyday (energy level, sickness, and overall how I feel) track my weight gain, what exercise I did if any for the day, and a little bit about what I ate each day. Now remember, I am pregnant. I will tell you right now I will have some bad food. I am just hoping to keep it to a minimum.  And I also plan on blogging after the baby is born to update on his/her health and everything.
My first baby weighed 9 lbs 10 oz and my second was 7 lbs 3 oz.  The first one had jaundice and had to be sent home with a billy blanket and my second was in the NICU for 7 days due to underdeveloped lungs. And both were c-section babies. The first one I was in labor over 17 hours and pushed for over an hour before the doctor said the baby was not coming out this way. The second was a planned c-section just because the first was a c-section.  So we will see how the third one turns out with me eating more healthy and exercising while pregnant.
Here goes another journey in our life!!