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That's awesome'Maelstrom said:
I eat the same way (depending on hunger levels/calorie needs, whole milk is great for supplementation for heavy weight lifting). Biggest issue for us is simply avoiding flour (gives my wife "wheat belly" for a few days usually) and finding appropriate foods on menus when we eat out.
Sounds fine to me. If you stick to it, the pounds really do come off.
No. The first pounds go the quickest. You will slow down. I lost 10 lbs in the first week, but took 6 months to lose ~40.
Interesting - were you exercising too?
After the first two months. Bodyweight exercises, and hiking. Not tremendously strenuous.
Just started reading. Great recommendation. Love how he explains the science.I am starting this diet when I get back from vacation. Alot of info to take in. I figured this book would be huge on taking in a lot of protein, but the majority of the calories will be coming from fat. Looks like I need to eat a lot of butter and coconut oil. It just seems odd that eating butter will make me healthier. I am looking to get healthier, losing weight is great, but I want to be healthy. Ingesting gobs of butter just doesn't seem right.
The more I read and think about it, you can eat butter and coconut oil but not in gobs. The diet is mostly impractical for most people living in the comfort of climate control. The primal man, most likely, was either sleeping or looking for food, contantly fighting the elements and other threats. Humans today do not need the type of sustenance that hummans 2 million years ago scrounged for.Just eliminate sugar, bread and cereals. You can cheat when you want with whatever you want. Excercise, sleep well and fast occasionally.'Balco said:
I am not all in with paleo but elininating wheat is must for everyone.
Nightshades are plants in a family that includes tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers, etc. Technically, I think they're "unpaleo" because they're New World plants from the Americas, and the Americas weren't settled by humans until after (or at the very end of) the paleolithic era. So paleolithic humans generally didn't eat them.But by that standard, almost no modern foods are paleo. Modern beef cattle did not exist during the paleolithic era, or modern chicken, or modern pork, or modern bananas or strawberries, etc.So the real question is whether nightshades contain substances that humans are not completely adapted to. As with dairy, legumes, etc., the answer varies from individual to individual.Plants in the nightshade family contain certain alkaloids that some people are sensitive to. Some people's arthritis or autoimmune diseases, for example, can be aggravated by consuming fruits from nightshades. (Note that potatoes, however, are not fruits. The fruit from the potato plant is rather toxic to humans, but the potato part of the plant, the tuber, does not contain the toxic alkaloids in question.) Other people, however, appear to consume nightshades with no problems.As always, people need to find out what works for them. If you have arthritis, for example, you may want to try avoiding tomatoes and peppers for 30 days and see if it gets better.I've never personally met anybody who told me they had a problem with nightshades, so as far as I know, it doesn't seem to be a major deal.
Personally, I am not that strict of a primal eater, but its the basis of my diet that I identify with most. However, there are some pretty good food blogs out there on the subject. My favorite is nonnonpaleo.com.For the folks trying to piece is all together in this thread, buy mark's book. Its a quick read and its not that long. Its not just an eating-plan, its more of a life-plan. It encompasses nutrition, exercise, and other lifestyle factors.To me, its about eating foods that are easy on the body and substancial in what they provide the body. Its about exercising in a way that is sustainable for decades and beyond. Its about living a life that doesn't focus on the rat-race, the stressors, the headaches, and it helps to focus on letting those things go to allow a healthy hormonal balance. This is just my take and what I focus on. To each his own.One major caveat: I can't sustain my exercise regiment on the key primal foods, I have to include more quick carbs. I am the "chronic cardio" guy and I still enjoy a marathon every spring, and tri-training all year. I'm getting into other stuff, but nothing beats a runners high.
Almonds or any type of nuts are a choice to replace cereal. Boiled eggs or a bowl of fruit and cheese are my prefered breakfast options, if I eat that meal. Salads for lunch can get boring. See if you have any place with a salad bar to freshen things up. I like to go to Jason's Deli a lot just for that purpose. A quick protein shake is another easy/cheap option.
How long do hard-boiled eggs last? Is it possible to hard-boil a bunch on, say, Sunday night and use them M-F during the week? I have to confess that I'm ignorant on this one.What kind of cheese do you normally eat? I have to admit that I really don't eat much dairy either, though I could always modify my diet to eat a little more.We have a salad bar in our building's cafeteria, but I've never actually eaten in the cafeteria. That's a good suggestion for a way to mix it up every now and then. I'm just worried that dumping the sandwiches for salads may be "unsustainable" for me, like you mentioned. Thanks for the tips.
I think it would last if you don't peel the shell. I mostly just get them from a deli near work during the morning though. I don't think cheese is particularly thought of in a good light for Paleo/primal but I usually take feta or other goat cheeses.
I have psoriatic arthritis, which is how I found all of this stuff. While still following, it has done zilch, squat, nada, bupkis for my inflammation. If I stay on my meds, I feel absolutely terrific...but I do still need them.
This is exactly what I've been doing recently: I buy an 18-pack of eggs, boil them all and then dry them off & put them back in the carton and into the refrigerator, then I make devilled eggs (two eggs = four devilled halves) each day M-F. I think the hard boiled eggs will last well over a week, maybe two or more as long as you don't crack the shells until you are ready to eat them.'Steve Tasker said:
Any interesting deviled egg concoctions? I like to add a pinch of curry powder to the mix, sometimes. Also, candied jalapenos (think sweet relish, but with jalapenos).
That's interesting. I have arthritis and I've noticed that cutting out the grains/flour has significantly reduced inflammation. I eat a ton of peppers and tomatoes. As always, people need to find out what works for them.
I think it's much easier to listen to your body the older you get. When you're young, nothing phases you.
You should really eat breakfast. You're cheating yourself, your metabolism and muscle growth. If I'm not hungry, I at least have coffee and mix it with some chocolate whey protein in the morning. It's a must to kick start that metabolism, little buddy
The Bulletproof exec touts some semi-fast where you only have coffee with cream and butter until 2pm, then eat until 8pm then quit. Good for a little more rapid weight loss if you are in it for that. Also, the caffeine gives you energy and the fat help teach your body to use that as fuel. I usually do this about 5-7 days a month/I do not add the butter to my coffee.You should really eat breakfast. You're cheating yourself, your metabolism and muscle growth. If I'm not hungry, I at least have coffee and mix it with some chocolate whey protein in the morning. It's a must to kick start that metabolism, little buddy
This resonates with me. Every once in a blue moon I crave breakfast, but for the most part it feels like something I have to force down. Unless there is a social angle to breakfast, it's not something I typically eat.Coffee(s) for me with heavy cream and turbinado - about 150 calories total. And should I feel hungry, I grab a handful of nuts and dried fruit (two handfuls if I have salted cashews in the pantry).
Ever try Xylitol? Its expensive (the organic stuff from USA made from Birch), but if you only use a few teaspoons here and there, its not that bad.
No, but honestly I've got no issue with taking in moderate amounts of sugar. Besides coffee, my only other blatant sugar intake is fruit juice laced with powdered supplements before and after weightlifting.
I would love to know how you pulled this off with a child. I have a 5 year old that is also <5% in height and weight. Wife and I are also short average (5'2" her 5'9" me). I have taken myself off grains for about a year and have noticed significant improvement in many aspects. She does not seem interested in trying this and thus I have never really pursued pushing this diet on him.Anyway, I'm interested in what you do for meals and snacks for her. Our son is a cereal junkie. What do you do for meals for her? Any websites that were helpful (kid oriented)?
well, our kids are mostly fruit-oriented for snacks anyhow. it's been that way since they started snacking. Sure, there have been goldfish and Cheerios, but their preferred snacks are strawberries, blueberries, apples, grapes, etc. As far as breakfast, it was just a gradual transition from mostly cereal w/ occasional eggs to mostly eggs w/ occasional cereal.I'm sure there are web-pages out there, we've never really looked. Getting the kids onto a paleo diet was really a secondary thing for us...one day, we just decided that if this is good for us, it should be good for the kids too and it's better to get them establishing healthy diets now. Again though - they've always been pretty healthy eaters anyhow, so the transition hasn't been all that horrible.Having a spouse on board is key. I don't think it would be possible if my wife wasn't 100% gung-ho about this.
almond flour is one for sure that we order...there's some other stuff that my wife gets, but I'm not really sure what. unprocessed honey and agave nectar, I think, are on the list.I'm looking at ordering a thing or two from Amazon, and I'd like to shoehorn in a few food items. My first interest is Amazon Prime items.What primal foods do you all order from Amazon? So far, all I've got in my cart is cashews.
May want to re-think the agave nectar, its not as "good" as most originally thought. Sorry I dont have any links handy. FWIW I stick with local, raw honey. Really wish my wife was on board, but she doesn't think grains are harmful.almond flour is one for sure that we order...there's some other stuff that my wife gets, but I'm not really sure what. unprocessed honey and agave nectar, I think, are on the list.I'm looking at ordering a thing or two from Amazon, and I'd like to shoehorn in a few food items. My first interest is Amazon Prime items.What primal foods do you all order from Amazon? So far, all I've got in my cart is cashews.
You can probably find Kerrygold butter at your normal grocery store.
Yes, Whole Foods should have a number of brands of grass fed butter. The one near me has Organic Valley Pasture Butter, which is very good, and there's also a brand from Iceland that I love. Both are in green packages. Anything from France will be grass fed. And Kerry Gold (pretty widely available) is from a coop that I think is mostly grass fed.Clarified butter is generally sold in jars, often called ghee, and the brand I'm familiar with (carried at Whole Foods) is grass fed as well.
Most stores have ghee, which is clarified butter. Ask at your local chain for ghee. Or you could make it. Melt butter, strain through cheese cloth. Will keep 3 months out of fridge and I think a year in the fridge.
rather than the cheese cloth, heat the butter in a saucepan and boil for a few minutes, then sit for 10 minutes. All the solids will clump and fall to the bottom, then you can just pour off the clarified part.
What do you think is better for paleo? Ghee or Grass Fed butter?
Ghee is a subset of butter. The butter to make ghee can be, and often is, grassfed.I have heard/read nothing about the solids/water in butter being harmful or non-paleo.Removing them makes a product that stores longer and has a higher smoke point. I know of no nutritive differences.
Cool. Thanks.
Me too.
