Food Behavior Tip # 3

Lose the 'All or Nothing' Attitude

If I asked you to change all of your bad habits at once, you would curse me out and quit trying within a week.  We want to make a lifestyle out of this and support long term health, so baby steps.

You cannot undo everything you have been used to for years, you start with one thing at a time.  One attainable goal. 

Planning your cheats, removing gluten from your diet,  or monitoring your portions,  all would be great places to start.  One goal at time, and as you reach one, you start to introduce something new.  

Congratulate yourself for meeting goals (not with food!), and move forward from the ones you don't meet.  If you slip, move forward and start again.  Dwelling on failures will lead to continued 'cheats.' 

Make a nutritional goal you want to meet this week, and then plan the next one.  See what you can change, one little bit at a time.  Don't wait until Monday, or next month, or after the party you plan to go to.  

Start now.  If you don't you will wish you did a week ago, a month ago or a year ago.  


Paleo BBQ Pulled Pork

• 4lbs of Pork Shoulder

For the Pork Rub

• 1 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Cumin
• 1/2 tsp Chili powder
• 1 tsp Paprika
• 1 tsp Garlic powder

BBQ Sauce

• 1 Yellow Onion: small to med size
• 1 Tbsp Minced Garlic (extra if you'd like)
• 1 7oz jar of tomato paste (I use Bionature)
• EVOO about 3 tbspn
• 2 Tbsp Coconut Aminos (optional)
• 1/2 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
• 1/3 cup Water
• 2 Tbsp Apple Spread (apple butter same thing)
• 1 Tbsp Spicy Mustard
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp Arizona Dreaming (penzey spices) OR if you don’t have this spice you can use the spices from the pork rub
• 1 tsp Cayenne
• Black Pepper, and Hot Sauce to taste
• Tbspn of Honey is optional: I make it without, but it wouldn't hurt :)

Directions:

Mix together Pork Rub and put on Pork Shoulder

Set the Crockpot on low and put Pork Shoulder in with a 1/3 cup of water at the bottom.

Let cook for about 8- 10 hours

Make the BBQ Sauce!

Chop up the onion and put in a pan on medium with garlic and EVOO.

When the onions start to yellow and cook down, add in the tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, water, mustard, apple spread, coconut aminos, and mix.

Then add spices and mix again.

Let simmer for about 15 minutes.

*I will put the pork in overnight and make the sauce that night and put it in the fridge till the morning.

When the Pork is done, take it out of the crock pot, empty the liquid in the crock pot, leave it on low.

Pull the pork apart with a fork! Then put it back in the crock pot and add the BBQ sauce.  Mix and let warm up for about 15 - 30 minutes in the crock pot.

Enjoy!  Save some for later, it makes quite a few servings!