Wow, your house is coming out GORGEOUS!! I think you have our shingles, except ours are very dark grey, and it is very similar in style to a lot of the pictures I used for inspiration for our house. I really like the natural color of the top piece with the beautiful natural stone which has some similar tones in it. I wonder if a very soft olive green door would go with the top piece, the siding, and the stone? We have a clear coat douglas fir front door under an awning, and love the natural wood element. It's very inviting and warms up the colors around it. We don't have the finished stucco coat on the house yet, but it's going to be Benjamin Moore cheyenne green, with dark green eaves done in Benjamin Morre sharkskin - I mention that because your front door might look good in a cheyenne type color if you keep the natural wood top piece, or maybe even a darker green if not. Do you ever use the website houzz for inspiration? I love that site!
I love the 10th step you mentioned. I had a lot of self esteem issues that drove me to eat my feelings, so have been practicing Buddhist self compassion for about a year, and the social anxiety I had is much, much better. I think it would be wonderful to take a daily accounting of how I did emotionally, both the good and the bad. I think I'll try it!
I was reading on a fitbit email they sent that if you stay in fat burning mode while exercising instead of going all out, it burns more fat, but less calories for some reason, so maybe biking days can be fat burning days for a while until we get really good at biking big hills and such!
I love the paleo diet. We were on a modified version because my daughter has gluten sensitivity, but I baked too much gluten free stuff, and didn't lose any weight on it, so never tried it as a weight loss plan. Now I am doing low carb and can use almost all my paleo recipes again, minus the baking which was just too many calories! Congratualtions on the weight loss already!!
