The Paleo Diet
I am trying a new diet. I usually use the off season to try new things and I think this life change can help me be faster even as I get older.
This diet is aimed to avoid the health risks of modern food production, and emphasizes the benefits of meeting the nutritional needs evolution has built into our physiology. The Paleo Diet is based on scientific research into the ways that nutrition and disease are connected. By studying hunter-gatherer cultures, one can gain insight into how our dietary needs evolved, and how to stay healthy amid today's bewildering nutritional choices that are often contrary to our nutritional design.
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I did the paleo diet. I lost
I have had this book for a
I have had this book for a couple years and bought my dad the "Normal Version" and got a sick pack at 55 with only work as a workout. The biggest things I have taken from it are taking raw Cod Liver Oil all the time and really using the acid/base stuff that runs against the grain of capitalized "nutrition". Anyway it does not say too much about legumes in this book so you need to read the other book for 5 minutes bc they kinda mess it up in this one.
The best thing about it is that it suggests over 12 serv of fruit and veggies a day which is what the actual scientific literature says you should be getting. I wish my name was not attached to this but myself and others I know on this experieince gas problems for a long time bc it takes so long to even just make the switch to this diet.
For about 4 months I kept a daily total trying to get 8 a day and it gets pretty hard. May try it again as a resolution.
Thanks for the great post.
Thanks for the great post. It is helpful in my evaluation of the diet. I believe all Legumes are out including peanuts. I just read last night how damaging peanuts are.
I don't measure things and just try to follow the guidelines so i am not sure about serving sizes and if I am keeping up. I do have my own opinions about meal sizes and frequency that will never change.
I think I'll use the information in the book to make up my own diet but for now I will try to follow the guidelines and then test my performance.
Any one else have any info or experiences? Hey, Adam, why did you quit the diet?
I have never "quit" the diet
I have never "quit" the diet as I do think about it a lot. The main THREE reasons are I started a job at Starbucks and I don't like vanilla or even regular soymilk (only the unsweetened kind) and we get free lattes. The scheduale also made it hard to snack regularly when I was at my old location and starting work at 5 somedays and ending at midnight others doesn't help. Then I got sympathy pregnancy as my wife is due Dec 12 and had some really bad morning sickness so we had all sorts of stuff around and then she wasn't eating it and we started eating out a lot. We qualify for WIC so we get TONS of milk, cheese, and cereal and peanut butter bc the lobbyists are the ones who created the damn program. Too much food and money to not really take advantage of currently.
The other book and pretty much all other literature out there goes into the fact that things like dark kidney beans, lentils, and black beans are good for you but the overly domesticated things like soybeans and peanuts are not the best.
I also think many people have trouble with the performance thing but the book really stresses using things like the Heed you use bc it will work even better if done right bc your body is not accustomed to the quick digestion of the sugars and it can really get you going right. I had to up my intake significantly when I was doing the peak of the diet but only to the point of the recommended intake of the sports stuff. (I used to never need the full 4 scoops per hour or whatever they said but then I did).
I also used to use the 95% rule before and that is kinda nice. Eat one meal a week of whatever you want without binging and it really won't make much difference. Usually beer and ice cream for most of us. That part if the diet can help keep you focused as well. Let us nkow how it goes and I will also start to move back towards it one thing at a time.
I am currently on page 59 so
I am currently on page 59 so that is good news that I will be reading more on black beans and stuff. I am real glad because I have a cup board full of them.
I like your feedback specially the insight on performance. I am planning on training using the fuels that I have perfected over the years. That also goes for pre effort and post effort nutrition. In races I am curious if things will change since I am not changing anything in the performance diet.
I still feel that I will take the good from this learning and add it to what works for me to make a bill style paleo diet. I do think I will stick to the meat, veg, fruit, nut and no dairy and gluetin plan.
Did you experience any constipation? I think I eat too many nuts!
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No constipation and the nut
No constipation and the nut section later in the book pretty much only allows for walnuts and then macadamia nuts for the same reason as the peanut butter that you read about earlier. I have tried to like walnuts but they do not hold a candle to macs. I used those when I felt like I was having trouble with calories and it worked pretty well. Olive oil for cals is also good too.
Another note that is not involved directly in the book is that fruits and veggies have TONS of water in them which helps athletes in digestion and overall health so I make a point to consume water WITH meals esp when going non paleo. This may also help any constipation concerns.
Fun Fact: Two time Ironman Champion Norman Stadler does this diet (he doesn't call it Paleo bc it mainly is just lean mean fruits and veggies) for the 6 weeks leading up to Ironman and then eats tons of white bread with jam and a snickers on race day. Kinda interesting. He says the diet is hard to follow and likes to use it as a mental and physical "finisher" to his training. I think he uses a modified version the rest of the year most likely.
Oh yea, that is how I peak as
Oh yea, that is how I peak as well. I eat lots of protein and then hammer the carbs before an effort. I think this is what I will do as well. Use it to develop my own plan. Until I figure it all out I am going hard core Paleo just to see if I can benefit first.
I am having trouble with hunger. The more meat and veggies I eat the hungrier I get. This is odd because this kind of food is supposed to stiffen hunger. It is weird. I wonder if my body is craving the ever evil sugar even though I am not a big sugar consumer.
So freaking hungry all the time.