21 Day Paleo Cleanse beginning tomorrow, who's interested?

I would love too, but I don't have a source for affordable/good meats/fats. Avocados are $1.50-$3 each here and I cannot afford grain-fed anything, much less find a source for it. We eat deer meat when my DH gets one, but it doesn't last very long. I have several 6ft+ tall people to buy for when I get groceries (they won't go paleo), which doesn't leave me with much $ for the healthy stuff that I need to get. All of the chicken at the store says it has 10% broth/salt/etc added to it. I can kinda afford that, but I don't know it it's good enough. I've already eliminated grains/breads because it makes me feel like crap for days when I eat it. I'm also really sensitive to anything with sugar so I already stay away from that. I've been eating hotdogs, eggs, dill pickles, apples, potatoes, tilapia (when I can find it), kale, spinach, etc.

You don't have to have "perfect paleo" food to follow the idea behind the lifestyle. Just eat the best quality of food that you can reasonable afford, and don't worry about being perfect

Did anyone else notice that there is a kitten bench pressing in here?



That's all I got, as I had to quit reading once a potato was referred to as a "bad carb." Poor potato.

Did anyone else notice that there is a kitten bench pressing in here?



That's all I got, as I had to quit reading once a potato was referred to as a "bad carb." Poor potato.

For some reason that potato reminds me of a blobfish... off to search for the kitten

found it

Did anyone else notice that there is a kitten bench pressing in here?



That's all I got, as I had to quit reading once a potato was referred to as a "bad carb." Poor potato.

Potatoes always get the shaft!

I'm in!

lol bad carbs
lol 2 pieces of fruit
will you be making your own fire too?

:laugh:

Can't make own fire... Cavemen didn't use matches or lighters so they must be bad for you.

Rub carrot sticks together. Problem solved.

@OP -- This would be very difficult for me, given the things that are staples of my diet now -- and having had a very restrictive diet for a very long time for health reasons, I really enjoy having the freedom to eat what I want. So I won't be joining you, but I sincerely wish you luck. :drinker:

Paleo, YUM Tried doing Paleo to break my long plateau but my weight did not budge but I did like how I felt on it

Here is a website with some great recipes http://paleomg.com/

Cooking this Paleo shrimp recipe tonight, I attached the link below if anyone is interested!

http://www.worthypause.com/2013/01/7-minute-paleo-garlic-cajun-shrimp-with.html

how did palaeolithic people refine plant oils to make stuff like olive oil in that recipe?

I'm pretty sure that even the most simple mechanical extraction methods were not done until the neolithic, at least. maybe not until later than that.

why do paleo people hate on wheat because it wasn't farmed until the neolithic, but then allow oils? Additionally, palaeolithic people ate grains, they just didn't farm them. Early neolithic people didn't just suddenly hit upon the idea to cultivate foods that *no-one had ever eaten before* - wild grains are abundant at certain times of year and hunter-gatherers ate them. Cultivating was just a way of trying to get a more steady food supply, as hunting and gathering can be a bit hit and miss. And banana's allowed on paleo, even though the history of cultivation of the banana is pretty much the same as the history of cultivation of wheat, i.e. they've been cultivated since the neolithic era, and due to selective breeding, the form today looks a lot different from the wild form... yet one's allowed on paleo (and frequently used as a substitute for wheat, e.g. banana pancakes) but the other isn't.

there's a compete lack of logic and science behind the paleo diet. It's not necessary to cut out a whole bunch of food to be healthy. If you're allergic to something then of course you shouldn't eat it, but you don't need a paleo diet guru to tell you that. By all means eat the diet if you really love it, but if you're talking about stuff like how difficult it is to give up these foods.... then really you need to ask yourself exactly what the benefits of giving them up are. There is a lot of scaremongering and demonising of foods, and the implication because some people are allergic to wheat and some people are lactose intolerant, that no-one should eat these foods. If you can digest wheat and lactose fine and those things don't make you ill, then there's no health benefits to cutting them out, in fact if you cut out too many foods there's a health risk, i.e. the risk of inadequate nutrition. If they don't make you ill, and the only reason you're giving them up is because some paleo book has convinced you they're bad, then think again. If you're descended from dairy farming/herding populations (e.g. Europeans; Masai and other dairy herding tribes in Africa and Asia) then there's a more than 80% chance you can digest lactose just fine and there's no health benefit for you in giving up dairy. If you are lactose intolerant (whatever your ethnic origin) then do you really need someone writing a book to tell you that you should give up dairy? If you're not allergic to wheat, then why give it up? Ditto all the other foods, including legumes and potatoes. Palaeolithic people ate legumes and root vegetables.