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Anyone Tried the Paleo Diet?
- Thread starter KevInDaBassment
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I haven't been exactly on paleo, but I've started keto last year. Basically eliminating carbs and sugars, and sticking with a diet high in protein and fats. Hardest part is figuring out what kind of snacks works for you. I don't eat vegetables, so that was another struggle. I went from 214 to 160. And then I bought a house that needed lots of work at the beginning of the year. I was back and forth between the house and my apartment so cooking was a struggle. So I then decided to lay off the full blown ketosis, and just casually change my diet while I was between the house and apartment. I managed to gain about 10 pounds up to 170, but just my casually limiting the carbs and not eating full blown whatever I want, I've been able to keep my weight steady and not go above it.
I'm currently looking to get back into full blown ketosis to get down to about 155 and then look into switching to paleo or a lightened form of it. I still eat what I want, but I balance it out.
In case you weren't sure, your body first tries to burn carbs and sugars. When you eliminate these, your metabolism flips and starts to burn your stored fat for energy. So my diet consists of a LOT of bacon, eggs, steak, cheese, pork rinds, monster no sugar/carbs energy drinks, and a chocolate mousse recipe from caveman keto. When you're in ketosis, you can actually measure it. Cvs and other places have "Ketostix", these sticks you pee on to show how many ketones are in your urine. So you can actually tell if you're in fat-burning mode or not.
Not trying to derail, a lot of keto people end up doing some kind of form of paleo. And that's my goal as well. Oh and my weight loss was with minimal working out. It was about 90% diet.
I'm currently looking to get back into full blown ketosis to get down to about 155 and then look into switching to paleo or a lightened form of it. I still eat what I want, but I balance it out.
In case you weren't sure, your body first tries to burn carbs and sugars. When you eliminate these, your metabolism flips and starts to burn your stored fat for energy. So my diet consists of a LOT of bacon, eggs, steak, cheese, pork rinds, monster no sugar/carbs energy drinks, and a chocolate mousse recipe from caveman keto. When you're in ketosis, you can actually measure it. Cvs and other places have "Ketostix", these sticks you pee on to show how many ketones are in your urine. So you can actually tell if you're in fat-burning mode or not.
Not trying to derail, a lot of keto people end up doing some kind of form of paleo. And that's my goal as well. Oh and my weight loss was with minimal working out. It was about 90% diet.
Lol. I normally don't put that out there, but I like to physically see what people are suggesting in terms of weight loss. There's plenty of armchair quarterbacks on the subject
I'd agree if the goal is just another quickie weight loss for swimsuit season scheme, but apparently this is more than a diet and involves more than just food intake to be really effective. It has been around for quite a number of years and the diet aspect of it is only just now being exploited as the "next great thing" in weight loss. Like any lifestyle, it only works with a combination of diet and exercise.
It's all rooted in the contention that man's physical makeup is proof we are the ultimate persistence predator, built to chase prey for days if necessary, to wear them down to the point they are an easy kill. It stresses lots of exercise and eating mostly extra lean red meat and leafy greens. My sister and her friends who have embraced it are all disgustingly healthy. Like I said, my sis does 100 mile bike rides for fun and she says the paleo life is the real deal. She's none too thrilled about the exploitation of the diet as a stand alone miracle weight loss scam, and feels it's going to turn a lot of folks away from what she considers the most healthy way of life she's seen in her 20 plus years in medicine.
Fear not Darth - I don't handle it since meating you.
But seriously - it's a great idea. Our bodies are made to eat very unrefined products with no problem. I've eaten a very close to Paleo diet for decades. Pasta is rare, white rice never crosses our threshold unless it's in someone's gutThe wife and I buy a 1/2 gallon of milk and 3 weeks later throw half away. Buy good/strong tasting cheeses and eat less.
I screw up the benefits of Paleo by drinking beer.
I'd probably not go full-on paleo, just the exception of lactose-free milk from time to time and maybe white rice. Anything raw dairy would absolutely kill me since I'm lactose intolerant. Part of my reasoning for this diet would be to cut down on discomfort and bloating. Just from the past few weeks of watching what I eat, I can tell a huge difference in my intestinal health. Less frequent (albeit with more predictability), but much less "loose". If I ate full-blown ice cream without using lactaid, I would be on the toilet for hours in terrible pain. Now with all dairy gone and watching my grain intake, I don't even have the bloating very often anymore.
I look about like your before picture - darn it, I am going keto. My youngest kid moves out in a week, the wife is getting her rubenesque ass on board with me or she is cooking and eating alone!! I just ate 3 eggs, no butter, no toast. I feel like a killing machine already.
I'm thinking if a fad diet helps get someone motivated it's better than doing nothing.
Very true! In my case, the goal is intestinal health. I'm not saying I look like Hugh Jackman or Bruce Lee (in his prime) with my shirt off, but I wouldn't call myself "obese". 5'7", about 150lbs, and a 30-32" waist depending on if I'm having a good day or not lol. I'll likely be looking for weight gain when exercising, so the high-protein aspect of this diet should assist that beautifully.
My cousin went on the Palio diet and started up CrossFit about five months ago. He is down about forty pounds and says he feels the best he has in years.
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Did I hijack another thread??
You don't have that kind of influence around here, fella.
Atkins was an unhealthy version of this.
Brain needs a certain amount of carb to thrive.
Fruit can accomplish this.
Atkins did not allow fruit.
Brain needs a certain amount of carb to thrive.
Fruit can accomplish this.
Atkins did not allow fruit.
The mind set of people when it comes to nutrition is so f'd up. Looking at healthy diets as a "weight loss scheme" is nuts. My favorite bit is when they complain about an approach by claiming, "oh sure you lose weight when you eat clean (for example), but then you just put it right back on". Well no ****, Sherlock. That's because you went right back to eating pizza & cheeseburgers & fries & gravy every day.
Some mastodon sausage would go well with eggs, but eggs?? did we even have chickens back then?
Cutting out fruit is also crazy. Anyone who tells you you'll get fat eating apples doesn't know what the **** he's talking about.
Pterodactyl eggs. Didn't you ever watch the Flintstones?
