lose weight fast on bike?

[Kathi]

After reading the Practical Paleo and PamNY link to the NYT article on how companies hook people on junk food, and that includes processed foods you use to cook with, I'll not look at the food I eat so casually again. I haven't totally gotten away from wheat, can't figure how to carry packable lunches for the ski slopes without it and we're not buying grass fed beef, etc. I have discovered coconut oil, butter and almond oil and flour. I love coconut butter on sweet potatoes.

If you search around on the web you can find lots of easy recipes. Here's where I started http://balancedbites.com/start-here I found out that cabbage (which we tend to only eat with corned beef in March) is in season now and I found 2 really tasty, simple recipes for it. I don't follow the menu plans in the book but pick and choose what meets my needs. I've never counted calories and I'm sure my size is due to heredity, as well as my past eating habits. Lately food just doesn't taste the same, not satisifying, so I've been eating more salty, sugary junk. I like the idea of eating what my grandmother recognized as food. When I was a kid convenience foods were just coming on the scene. I remember my mother and grandmother cooking with lard but then my mother started using Crisco in all her cooking. We went on to use all the other processed oil. Now all that stuff is becaming "bad" foods. We had sweet foods and desserts on Sunday but it wasn't as sweet as food is now. I love butter but for years have only eaten margarine and "processed" good for you stuff. I dislike margarine so much that I rarely use it anymore. My SO buys turkey bacon but that doesn't taste like real bacon because it's not. It's too sweet. Can't wait to get rid of it and have real bacon again. We grew all of our fruits and vegetables and my mother froze the extras for winter. I still can't get used to California strawberries and our neighbors think we're crazy because we eat the apples off our trees. They're not perfect, shiny and round like the ones in the store but they taste so good.

Sorry about the rant but I felt the need to share all this.