Feel free to discuss. I'd really be glad to hear any input from Clockwork, or anyone else that already follows this "diet" (hate that word, sounds so temporary). If anyone does have experience with this, I'd be glad to hear any recommendations you might have for us, and/or recipe recommendations you might have.
I started doing the paleo diet Thursday April 28th. Since then I have lost ~9-10lbs, and it has stayed off so far. Typically, before this diet, my weight would fluctuate anywhere from 2-4lbs a DAY, probably due to poor bowel function.
Now it's only ~1lb a day. I feel much better. I have more energy, I physically feel "thinner", which is probably just the fact that I no longer feel bloated.
So far, I'm probably kind of sucking at the actual food I'm preparing. Right now it's pretty rudimentary. I don't know, I just don't want to put a whole lot of time and effort into making some elaborate recipe. I'm mainly doing breakfast of eggs and bacon with some vegetables. For one of the other daily meals I'll sometimes do a salad with high quality tuna. Another choice is stir-fry vegetables with either beef, chicken, or seafood. I try to spread this out over ~4 meals, with (3) 1tbsp fulls of coconut oil between meals. That's about all I've done so far. Here's the food list:
-Green beans, asparagus, broccoli, red/yellow peppers, mushrooms, cauliflower, squash, zucchini
-Apples, oranges, the occasional banana
-Beef/steak, pork/bacon, lamb, chicken, shrimp, halibut, salmon, a few other types of seafood, eggs
-Coconut oil - ~3tbsp a day, good source of fat, I use 100% cold-pressed extra virgin coconut oil so it's pretty much as pure as it gets.
-Almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts, cashews
-Tamari - It's a 100% gluten free soy sauce, good to add a little flavor to stir fry vegetables and meat
-100% pure sea salt - been using some these first few days, think I'm going to either limit it or stop using it since I'm focused on weight loss
For all the meat, right now I'm only buying all naturally raised with no hormones or antibiotics.
For all the fruit and veggies I try to only buy 100% organic, no GMO or other altered stuff.
For the fruit, I'm limiting myself to 1 piece of fruit per day if that, as my focus is losing weight.
For the vegetables, I am generally avoiding ALL starchy vegetables such as potatoes.
For the nuts, since my goal is losing weight, I'm following the guidelines of limiting the amount I have to 1-2oz a day. I measure that as a very small handful, I'm guessing 10-15 or so.
The main point of this paleo nutritional plan is avoiding ALL grain-based foods, no bread, no crackers, no oatmeal, no rice of any kind. Also, it's avoiding ALL gluten. Gluten can be found in just about everything nowadays, so you have to be careful and really look hard to ensure it's 100% gluten free. I'm not going to go into the science behind the supposed benefits of this diet, I'm just explaining to the best of my knowledge the basics of it.
I started doing the paleo diet Thursday April 28th. Since then I have lost ~9-10lbs, and it has stayed off so far. Typically, before this diet, my weight would fluctuate anywhere from 2-4lbs a DAY, probably due to poor bowel function.
Now it's only ~1lb a day. I feel much better. I have more energy, I physically feel "thinner", which is probably just the fact that I no longer feel bloated.So far, I'm probably kind of sucking at the actual food I'm preparing. Right now it's pretty rudimentary. I don't know, I just don't want to put a whole lot of time and effort into making some elaborate recipe. I'm mainly doing breakfast of eggs and bacon with some vegetables. For one of the other daily meals I'll sometimes do a salad with high quality tuna. Another choice is stir-fry vegetables with either beef, chicken, or seafood. I try to spread this out over ~4 meals, with (3) 1tbsp fulls of coconut oil between meals. That's about all I've done so far. Here's the food list:
-Green beans, asparagus, broccoli, red/yellow peppers, mushrooms, cauliflower, squash, zucchini
-Apples, oranges, the occasional banana
-Beef/steak, pork/bacon, lamb, chicken, shrimp, halibut, salmon, a few other types of seafood, eggs
-Coconut oil - ~3tbsp a day, good source of fat, I use 100% cold-pressed extra virgin coconut oil so it's pretty much as pure as it gets.
-Almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts, cashews
-Tamari - It's a 100% gluten free soy sauce, good to add a little flavor to stir fry vegetables and meat
-100% pure sea salt - been using some these first few days, think I'm going to either limit it or stop using it since I'm focused on weight loss
For all the meat, right now I'm only buying all naturally raised with no hormones or antibiotics.
For all the fruit and veggies I try to only buy 100% organic, no GMO or other altered stuff.
For the fruit, I'm limiting myself to 1 piece of fruit per day if that, as my focus is losing weight.
For the vegetables, I am generally avoiding ALL starchy vegetables such as potatoes.
For the nuts, since my goal is losing weight, I'm following the guidelines of limiting the amount I have to 1-2oz a day. I measure that as a very small handful, I'm guessing 10-15 or so.
The main point of this paleo nutritional plan is avoiding ALL grain-based foods, no bread, no crackers, no oatmeal, no rice of any kind. Also, it's avoiding ALL gluten. Gluten can be found in just about everything nowadays, so you have to be careful and really look hard to ensure it's 100% gluten free. I'm not going to go into the science behind the supposed benefits of this diet, I'm just explaining to the best of my knowledge the basics of it.
The FDA and AHA are lying to Americans about their health. It's like cancer... no one is ever going to cure cancer, the money is in the medicine. Not in the cure. People make a lot of money by keeping Americans unhealthy.
