Well, I usually am just a lurker on boards but I feel compelled
to do this. I started this journey in early march, a month after
a friend and I decided to do our local sprint triathlon. At the
time I had gained some winter weight; weight that should never
have come back on, but I see now why it did. My husband and I
have used low carb diets to lose weight several times in our
married lives with some success. But, we always come back to
eating junk (bread, junk food, pasta etc.) because we either
don't have the $ in our budget for "good food" or we believe we
deserve it and down we go. So, this Jan/Feb we both had our
annual physicals. I was up to 165 pounds and not happy about it.
My numbers were fine, except that my HDL was only 30. My
husband's triglycerides were pretty high, enough that he has to
go back in 6 months for a recheck.  So, recalled a local doctor
promoting Paleo on facebook and about a month into my triathlon
training I determined this was how we needed to eat. So, I just
started fixing good d