Joyful Body 🌷 8: My paleo meals (part 1)

Joyful Body 🌷 8: My Paleo meals (part 1)

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Today, I'm sharing some of my ordinary Paleo diet meals.

Link to Paleo diet books

The reason that I lean towards Paleo/basic foods, is that it's important to eat to make sure my intestines are well cared for long term health and anti-aging purposes. 

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Eating basic meals also saves cooking time, I work from home while watching 2 kids, so being time efficient while being nutrition conscious are the keys. (My kids/husband have regular meals, only I fast.)

My eating window of the 16/8 is between 11am (start) and 7pm (end). I usually have 2 meals, 1st at 11 am, and last one around 6pm to complete by 7pm, and snacks in between. 

I'll introduce my meals in this post, and the snacks in the next.

Links to books on fasting

Steamed fish & veggies ver 1

(an example of 1 of the 2 meals each day)

I often do frozen tilapia because the only work is to take it out and steam it, least work with enough nutrition!

Link to frozen tilapia

Link to frozen salmon

Steamed fish & veggies ver 2, + sesame seeds

(an example of 1 of the 2 meals each day)

Link to sesame seeds

Sliced beef & Veggies, steamed 

(An example of 1 of the 2 meals eaten in a day)

Link to sliced beef

You'll see that the meals are composed of 1 protein + veggies, or I'd combine 2 types of proteins if the portion is small, + veggies, and occasionally add black or white sesame seeds for additional nutrition.

When I eat these foods, I know I'm doing my body a favor but keeping everything simple, so my digestive systems don't feel too much toll when doing their works. When we eat more heavily flavored things, it can actually put more stress on our organs when they try to process those foods. However it doesn't mean I'm being a monk and not enjoy sweet/savory foods, I do kind of "cheat" by having a slice of pizza when my husband orders it occasionally or have a large piece of cake when it's someone's birthday. 

I kind of adopt the 80/20 rule here too, as in eating my basic meals 80% (or more) of the time, which is enough to support my goal of staying agile for as long as possible, and 20% (or less) of the time, I can still enjoy guilty pleasure food, otherwise I can easily bounce back and start stress eating. 

In addition to my daily meals, I also drink seaweed miso soup on a routine basis, as I've also learned that seaweed and fermented foods are good for gut health, and this is both in 1!

Link to a variety of miso soups.

They don't look bad at all right? In fact, when you know you're eating your way to a healthier tomorrow, these choices really make you happy.

Again, these are the meals, and I do have snacks in between, which I'll show you in the next article.

Stay tuned for more! 

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