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We’re back with episode #016 of The Paleo Women Podcast. Be sure to check back every Tuesday for a new episode, and head over to iTunes or Stitcher to subscribe!
This week, Stefani and Noelle discuss managing life when you live with non-Paleo family members, problematic periods, and The Bulletproof Diet.
Show notes can be found on Paleo for Women at paleoforwomen.com/episode16, or on Coconuts & Kettlebells at coconutsandkettlebells.com/episode16.
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Topics:
[9:09] Non-Paleo Family Members
[20:24] Problematic Periods
[32:06] The Bulletproof Diet
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Martina says
When I listened to the first question, I thought I must’ve emailed you and forgotten about it. Like this girl, I also have a boyfriend who was being totally resistant to eating primal or paleo when I started 18 months ago. He’s also a very, very, very picky eater and disgusted with a lot of stuff everyone else eats, similar to how the girl describs her husband. He won’t try new things and doesn’t “believe in all this nutrient density crap” I keep talking about. He’s all about calories-in=calories-out. He does eat lots of veggies though but no fruit except water melon. He almost throws up when I eat strawberries or pineapple (“the most disgusting fruit of all time”). He has been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s around the time I went primal and I was (and still am) really worried about his health and have asked him to try to at least go gluten free multiple times but stopped bugging him because it always ended with us fighting.
So we each started cooking separate meals. After a while, he started to try some of what I cooked. And liked it. And he thinks it’s because of the bone broth I use. So he started using the frozen blocks of bone broth I keep in the freezer. Then he started to use butter for cooking instead of canola oil. Then he started eating some meat I bought at the local butcher. Next, he eliminated coke zero, pepsi light and the like, which was really hard because that’s pretty much all he drank. Next, he went off sugar, again on his own without telling me in advance. I’m hoping he’ll be ready to go off gluten eventually, but I won’t say anything about it anymore. He knows about the research conserning gluten and autoimmunity and if he wants to know more, he knows I’ll be happy to help.
I’d never have thought this possible a year ago. What I’m trying to say here is, please, don’t give up hope!!! My advice for seemingly hopeless cases is to just let them be and not nag them – as hard as this may be, especially if they’re unhealthy and you’re worried about them. I’ve come to terms with the fact that he’ll never put his health first, the way I did and do. But as Noelle said, it’s ME who did a 180 out of the blue and he had to just live with the fact that there are different foods around the house, that he has to cook his own meals now and that there’s various foods fermenting in every corner of the kitchen. It’s hard for him too, so just give it time and I’m sure he’ll eventually follow along, even if it’s just baby steps. Maybe he won’t eat liver but maybe, he’ll give up sugar or bread – which is something most people I know would be completely unwilling to even try for just a week.
I hope this helps you see the future in a brighter light. If my stubborn picky eater changed, I’m very confident that yours will as well, eventually. 🙂