Paleo lifestyle

monica208

im just researching this lifestyle of eating and was curious if anyone else here follows Paleo? I would love advice and tips. Recipes even.

Thanks

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jojojo909090

If you have a look here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/54-primal-paleo-support-group

...you will find entire support groups for paleo and primal on MFP

Acg67

im just researching this lifestyle of eating and was curious if anyone else here follows Paleo? I would love advice and tips. Recipes even.

Thanks

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Advice would be unless you have a medical reason to limit certain foods/ food groups, it may be easier to have a less restrictive diet as adherence has been shown to deteriorate as restrictiveness increases.

But on the plus side, if you were to do the Paleo diet you are on your way to becoming Elite™

lawandfitness

I have done a whole 30 challenge and really enjoyed it. Paleo is not for everyone, and some people don't agree with it. I really liked how I fealt eating paleo. I had a lot of energy and it has helped curb my apetite for certain things I used to have daily (soda, white bread, pasta, etc.) Being that it is restrictive, not everyone I know has had success eating like this. All I can say is try it out, see if it works well with your lifestyle! GL!

EricCowperthwaite

As noted, there are Paleo and Low Carb support groups here on MFP. Also highly recommend Mark's Daily Apple, which is a subset of Paleo known as Primal .... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

jojojo909090

Also highly recommend Mark's Daily Apple, which is a subset of Paleo known as Primal .... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

I second this, excellent material and guidance.

Acg67

Also highly recommend Mark's Daily Apple, which is a subset of Paleo known as Primal .... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

I second this, excellent material and guidance.

I'm curious if you consider intellectual dishonesty to outright lying excellent?

monica208

Thanks for the replies

auddii

But on the plus side, if you were to do the Paleo diet you are on your way to becoming Elite™

Ok, this is hilarious.

OP, I thought about paleo, but I refuse to give up black beans, chick peas, and peanut butter. I have cut a lot of carbs out of my diet because I'm reactive hypoglycemic, and it just works better for me. If it works for you great, if not whatever. It's a calorie deficit that leads to weight loss. What you want to eat to get to your daily calorie goal is up to you.

EricCowperthwaite

I'm curious if you consider intellectual dishonesty to outright lying excellent?

evidence for your claims?

caribougal

Also highly recommend Mark's Daily Apple, which is a subset of Paleo known as Primal .... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

I second this, excellent material and guidance.

I'm curious if you consider intellectual dishonesty to outright lying excellent?

Point to examples, please. Otherwise people only see you snark with your nose in the air. Since you troll to discredit every Paleo/Primal post on here, you ought to at least give evidence for your disdain.

Micahroni84

OP like anything, its best to not be too extreme when doing anything. I do 80/20 and sometimes 90/10 Paleo/primal. I find that when the majority of my food intake is whole foods, not only am i more satisfied but i feel less sluggish. Dont give up your favorite foods completely. Just eat them once every few days or once a week and concentrate on clean eating the rest of the time.

Shadowknight137

Also highly recommend Mark's Daily Apple, which is a subset of Paleo known as Primal .... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

I second this, excellent material and guidance.

I'm curious if you consider intellectual dishonesty to outright lying excellent?

Point to examples, please. Otherwise people only see you snark with your nose in the air. Since you troll to discredit every Paleo/Primal post on here, you ought to at least give evidence for your disdain.

I would assume he is referring to the "Carbohydrate Curve", and similarly related posts by Mark.

Acg67

Also highly recommend Mark's Daily Apple, which is a subset of Paleo known as Primal .... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

I second this, excellent material and guidance.

I'm curious if you consider intellectual dishonesty to outright lying excellent?

Point to examples, please. Otherwise people only see you snark with your nose in the air. Since you troll to discredit every Paleo/Primal post on here, you ought to at least give evidence for your disdain.

The entire Cho curve for weight loss, saying sugar and processed foods are poison, yet selling both on his site. I'll get you the page # of his idiocy and outright lying about insulin in his book and so on and so on

caribougal

To OP... there are TONS of recipes for Paleo. Google anything + Paleo and you'll get great hits.

My favorites:
www.nomnompaleo.com
www.paleomg.com
www.civilizedcavemancooking.com (but he makes toooo many treats for me)
www.theclothesmakethegirl.com
www.health-bent.com
www.thefoodie.com (an aggregation site)

Enjoy.

thecapaccino

ooh. Thanks for those sites! The more the merrier!

EricCowperthwaite

I really like the Practical Paleo cookbook ... although it is really much more than a simple cookbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Paleo-Customized-Whole-Foods-Lifestyle/dp/1936608758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360620230&sr=8-1&keywords=practical+paleo

monica208

Thanks again for all the sites. Really appreciate it

skiersteve12345

it might be ok short term but cutting out so many foods would drive many people insane, thats whats so great about counting calories, you get great results and you can enjoy the foods you want

sallyaj

The above mentioned resources are all really good. I'm doing low-carb high-fat -- but I often look to Paleo recipes for inspiration, especially from Primal Blueprint.

I started with Atkins because that is what has worked for me in the past. But after reading Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt's LCHF for Beginners, I'm following his plan, eating more fat than I ever have in my life -- and still losing weight.

EricCowperthwaite

it might be ok short term but cutting out so many foods would drive many people insane, thats whats so great about counting calories, you get great results and you can enjoy the foods you want

skiersteve, I get what you are saying here. HOWEVER, for many people it is not possible to succeed by counting calories. If you are insulin resistant, for example, and you fill your body with carbs then you are ensuring sugar highs followed by rapid hunger crashes. And the cravings are virtually impossible to beat. This comes from a guy who quit nicotine cold turkey one day and NEVER touched nicotine, whether cigarette or patches or gum or anything, ever again. The addiction and cravings involved in carb/sugar highs/lows were something I could only beat by getting totally rid of it.

For folks who are not type II diabetics, obese, insulin resistant, etc. to insist that the best way to do this is to count calories is to not understand what is happening for those people in their bodies. In fact, if you are insulin resistant, which most obese people are to some degree, you probably should not eat processed sugars and grains, whether whole or refined.

Further, there is strong evidence that humans, in fact, should eat diets consist of meat, fats, green leafy vegetables, roots, nuts and fruit as the occasional treat. And that humans should not eat diets that contain refined sugars, grains and vegetable oils. So, I would argue that this should be a lifelong way of eating, not just doing LCHF temporarily to lose weight.