found Sarah Fragoso’s
Everyday Paleo website
blog. I printed every
recipe off of it that I
could and basically, I
cooked for two weeks
straight – morning
through night. It was kind
of insane! We started
this diet and within four
months, I think, I had
lost the 10 to 15 pounds
that I wanted to lose.
I had been severely
anemic. I had actually
almost died the year
before in the hospital
after a hemorrhage post
miscarriage. Well, basically,
I did die and then I was
revived. So I had not
recovered the blood loss
in that year. Within four
months of going paleo, I
went in for a full physical
and actually, for the first
time in my life, I was
not anemic. For me at
that point, it no longer
mattered about the weight
loss part. It was about “oh
my gosh, I’m not anemic!
How is that possible?”
I had been skinny and
anemic with allergies
my whole life. I would
have upper respiratory