Nerd in Another City

Week 3 has begun and it’s all about Pocahontas.

Pocahontas is a great Princess to find fitspiration with and incidentally she is the Disney Princess I find myself relating to most. (No one is making a case for historical accuracy here. Favorite things often defy reason and logic!) Pocahontas is free-spirited, strong, fiercely independent and has her own way of looking at life that often contradicts her upbringing.

The older I get, the more I feel like Pocahontas sometimes. I don’t always fit in with “the way of things.” I’m over 30 and unmarried and sometimes I feel like life is waiting for me “Just Around the Riverbend.”

This week, particularly, I felt very connected to the fitness that I was doing and the foods that I was eating. This week’s meal plan is based on what Native Americans were eating in the early 16th century. Here’s a look at Pocahontas Week shopping list:

-lobster, oysters, shrimp

-corn

-berries (black, rasp, blue, straw)

-nuts and seeds (peanuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc)

-pumpkin

-wild game (I don’t like game meats, so I substituted pork and called it wild boar!)

-beans

-honey

-wild rice

-eggs

-greens

This shopping list offered a lot of variety and I felt so healthy this week because everything was very natural. This is a week to appreciate what the Earth can give us in the way of natural foods. Mother Earth provides everything we could ever need. And I had no desire or cravings for processed or refined foods. I started to feel much better in my own skin.

I still haven’t checked to see how much weight I’ve actually lost, as far as numbers on a scale go. But I started to find myself wondering about it less and less and actually focusing on how much healthier I was feeling. How much more I appreciated my muscles after working them. I took note of the way the different foods I was eating made me feel and discovered that dairy wasn’t sitting so well with me and quickly decided to cut it out altogether. Something amazing happens when you listen to your body…it starts communicating with you. That was new!