Low Carb Mag July 2015 | Page 65

salad with some meat. Back then though it was like following every recipe. Just keep it simple! That’s what I would tell myself. Put food in your mouth. You don’t have to be a gourmet chef. If you are a gourmet chef, then that’s awesome. Another thing that I would like to stress is I share custody of my three older daughters with my ex-husband and his wife and I made their lives hell for a couple of years over food. They just have different beliefs about than I do and so what I want to say to other parents who are maybe new into the paleo lifestyle or not even new but still struggling with other people in their lives who don’t understand it and maybe they’re dealing with children and they’ve got a partner who doesn’t, let go of the control. Let it go. It is just stress in your life that you don’t need and it won’t get you anywhere. When I finally learned that lesson and I let go, I have an amazing co-parenting relationship with their other parents now. My children were not benefiting from our food fighting. Even though they didn’t technically know about it, they knew about it. All things are communicated, they