But here is my success story on the food front:

Since the day this challenge started, I have craved my go-to food of choice pizza. Two days before it started I ordered my last indulgence, it was amazing. I’ve been searching these last weeks to fill that void of deliciousness and havent’ really found anything, till yesterday in my google time I discovered this:
http://www.cathletics.com/recipes/index.php?action=recipe&recipeID=9

Due to some good news on the family front for me, I decided to go all the way. I stuck with the crust recipe, it was quite wierd to spread a sticky paste like “dough” around on a pan, leaving me quite skeptical of how it would turn out. I had purchased the “not best choice” meats from the deli for this occation, salami with hot peppers, and salsa salami. I bought olives (not my favorite) artichoke hearts, mushrooms, red & green pepper, some leftover chicken and sundried tomato and the classic pizza sauce. I piled everything on and it was very thick. Then I dusted the whole thing generously with Italiano. I worried that the crust wouldn’t get a chance to bake, but I through it in the oven as described and poof, it was the best tasting pizza ever! Seriously, it was really, really good. I had a friend over for dinner and she said you didn’t even notice there was no cheese becuase it was so flavourful! It was a lot of work, mostly just preparing all the toppings, but it was worth every minute. I believe I have found my datenight Friday night special food. I did take a photo, I will try to upload to my facebook later tonight. I supposed it didn’t relaly look like a pizza as it was piled a mile high, more like a stirfry, but it tasted like pizza, for real.

The moral of my story, is that if anyone else was feeling the pain of missing out on thier number one food, keep searching, there is a paleo version out there, you just have to find it!!

I do need snacks, I do not last till the next meal if I don’t have a snack in between. It’s not my mind, it’s my stomach telling me, “ya better feed me NOW!!”

How much of our need to snack is psychological? Do we feel a need to munch as a kind of oral fixation akin to smoking (said as an ex-smoker here)?

I guess for me a large part of it is goal based. Why do we do this? Is it to lose fat? Gain more lean muscle mass? I think different goals would require a touch of a different approach. Right now I am focusing on gaining strength and muscle mass while not gaining fat, and a Paleo-ish approach, but including dairy and nuts, has worked very well so far. I think that when I want to lose more fat (which I still need to do), cutting out the nuts and a large portion of the dairy will go far to assist with that goal. It all depends on what you are looking for I guess.