Going Primal - My 90 Day Journey to Health

Me neither... now I do and it was effortless - kinda feel like I cheated
40ish never felt so good

 

Just wait till you hit 60ish....

 

My aim is to halt or slow the aging process. Getting rid if the Frankenwheat (in the market since 1985) should help. The strain we eat isn't your grandfathers wheat...

 

I was raised on Potato Bread, as My mother was allergic to Bleached Flour.... That is what my pallet likes even now...

 

Mark Sisson, author of the Primal Blueprint, just turned 60:

 

The Primal Blueprint

 

My inbox has gotten lots of questions about my program over the past few days. I'm here to help with the finer details but you really need to buy the book to get some foundational knowledge. The Primal Blueprint will help you understand what's going on and give you the background on why...

It also helps to have these cookbooks: The Primal Blueprint Cookbook & Primal Blueprint Quick and Easy Meals

I plan to start a food journal thread (with pics) and I'll be referencing page numbers from these books. If you buy 3, Sisson gives you 25% off.

 

My wife was an aerobics class regular (4-5 times a week) for the last 25 years. She stopped doing prolonged 'chronic' cardio and started the new program 3 months ago and has seen enormous gains (and losses) in all the right places. She hasn't been to her Zumba class since working with Primal Fitness.

I was resistant too. Whenever I saw someone toss the hamburger bun aside at a restaurant, I thought 'it's just bread - eat it'. Now I understand.

Primal is a fork of Cordain's Paleo (with higher fat, nuts and dairy). I think Paleo is the unofficial diet of Crossfit.

 

I hope this continues to work out for you! I don't know if there's as much science to it as it may appear, but cutting carbs is a good way to go. As one of my rules (and I have many, most are pretty good, some not so good) I tend not to take advice from anybody residing in California, so I hope Mark isn't from that communist country. I have added Hawaii to the list recently, too. However, if the author of this "Primal" routine falls in line with my own thinking, he might be an exception if he does live with the zombie clones of Cali.

I generally eat anything I want, as long as it's natural or raw. I will not eat GMO foods, and definitely stay clear of anything with high fructose corn syrup. The only bread I eat is all natural potato bread with no gluten and no HFC. I eat lots of meats, lots of veggies and choose more berries over fruits, but not a lot of fruits. I tend to eat only once or twice a day with light snacking all around. I eat a very good amount of nuts, dark chocolate and natural beef jerky (no additives or preservatives) for snacking. Most of the time I rarely get hungry. I have always been this way (outside the military), and I am not too active. I am pushing 40, still look and feel like I am 20.

This is all just common sense to me.

 

Malibu to be precise... but I think that's because he wants to be able to let his body produce 12,000 to 15,000 IU of Vitamin D 99% of the year

The problem with Common Sense is that it is often not Good Sense. When Good, it's not very Common.
Common Sense is like Conventional Wisdom - quite often misinformed, out of date and flawed. 'They' released the restrictions on Salt years ago but the herd continues to try to limit salt intake. They retracted earlier (and unfounded) claims that saturated fat (animal or coconut oil) were responsible for clogged arteries and heart disease but the general population still refers to a pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon as a 'heart attack on a plate'. Major studies have been published about the dangers and ill effects of the modern strain of GMO franken-wheat that accounts for 99.9% of today's food grade wheat yet people still continue to think whole grains are 'heart healthy'. People are concerned about cholesterol intake when cholesterol is the bodies repair substance. If it's present in high levels its an indication that your body is attempting to repair arteries (never veins) from oxidation caused by carbs, insulin and wheat inflammation. Blaming cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming the firefighters for the fire. Heck, most of the population thinks TSA checkpoints are for terrorists

Dr. William Davis, MD wrote an excellent book called Wheat Belly. He blames wheat for nearly all modern disease in man based on the GMO lab created nature of this high yield, dwarf strain. He is a cardiologist who reverses his patients heart disease by removing wheat (and most all grains) from their diet. He calls the addition of wheat to foods like chewing gum, canned nuts, licorice, etc akin to the tobacco industry elevating nicotine levels to cause addiction. Modern foods that have wheat added make you hungrier, hungry people buy more of the product.

 

Well, he may still be a yuppie, but a healthy yuppie.

Yes, I should have typed, "perfect sense to me" instead of "common sense", which implies that it is commonly held by the average clone.

lol, awesome. That's quotable.

Cool, I might check that out! And, I didn't know that about canned nuts, chewing gum or licorice (none of which I use).

Also, I just remembered, I eat pasta once per week. *gasp*! I guess I'm not perfect after all