The Paleo Diet

eh ..not for me ..I like my grains, dairy, etc too much and I do not believe in restricting foods..

and if you can really figure out what the diet of "paleolithic man" was then more power to you and for it….

I find the 80/20 rule to be better..80% healthy, 20% whatever I want = ice cream, cookies, cake, etc...

Paleo diet is CRAP..the fact that crossfitters use it is CRAP. Contrary to popular belief your body's prefered source of energy are carbohydrates. Without them your muscles will appear flat due glycogen depletion and you will feel like crap. I cut from 221lbs to 164lb last year on a moderate carb diet, then bulked to 196lbs on a high carb diet and have never had any issues. I'm no different then anyone else. SELF CONTROL will get you to where you want to be. Hell I've been having fruity pebbles and poptarts while dieting and still burning fat. Why? Because I have self control and stay under my caloric intake....it's pretty simple

At the end of the day its:

Calories in vs Calories out

how dare you inject basic logic and self control into this debate!!

I know right!..I should just unnecessarily deprive my body of a macronutrient that, although non-essential, my body being human and all......prefers for energy. Carbs=Glucose, Glucose=full muscles and energy. But hey what do I know..shrug

People are so blinded by these gimmicks and don't realize the answer is right under there nose..a caloric deficit and SELF CONTROL...oh well, what can you do..

First off congrats on the weight loss dude.

Nobody that I know of eating Low carb / High Fat believes that you CANNOT lose weight eating a high carb diet, if you're eating a calorie deficit! Not sure why on these threads that point keeps coming up.

And as long as you are getting enough protein in your diet you will retain most of your lean mass (and therefore your lean mass percentage will increase as you lose body fat).

I personally advocate any diet that works for the person doing it - as long as it works for them and the sacrifice they are making they can comfortably live with (but maybe I'm a bit broader minded than some?).

If you are eating a medium to high carb diet, then yes your body will be relying on a steady income of carbs for fuel (no-one is disputing that). I would question why the body can only store a limited amount of glucose though and requires frequent topping up if we have evolved over a few million years to burn glucose as our main fuel.

If you are eating a low carb diet then your body becomes efficient at using stored body fat and dietary fat as fuel and utilises your glycogen stores for essential brain and organ function and to fuel the muscle in high activity expenditure (activity over approx. 75% effort).

Not sure how reducing your intake of carbs (I typically eat 100 - 130g) is depriving your body of a macronutrient? Paleo (and similar styles) choose to reduce or cut certain food types - due to their nutrient deficiency - compared to alternatives.

The reason people eating low carb / high fat (this style of diet has been around for over a century - so is probably beyond the fad stage) is to reduce their intake of simple processed carbs, grains, starches and trans fats because they like to reduce their risks of inflammation and oxidation that some of these food types can promote with in the body.

Also reducing or cutting things like grain reduce the un-fermentable and insoluble fiber they eat, and they therefore focus on eating carbs with a higher fermentable and soluble fiber content.

The paleo style diets IMHO offer some people (who are looking for it) a healthier way of consuming their macro and micro nutrients.

Just like with exercise - all exercise will burn calories, but they're not all as effective as each other.

So to say something is CRAP without proper understanding is a bit well - it's a bit.

I agree that the names Paleo and Primal are a bit lame. But at the end of the day there buzz words (there's plenty of things named incorrectly out there - you can't facepalm at them all).

It should be called the low carb, medium protein, high fat diet - but that's probably not as marketable.

This isn't ideal because it is the slides from a talk, but it is still very well referenced and makes a lot of great points about Paleo...

http://www.nsca.com/uploadedFiles/NSCA/Inactive_Content/Program_Books/PTC_2013_Program_Book/Aragon.pdf

It even touches on a couple issues that the poster above mentioned about inflammation and oxidation.

I am not anti paleo - I believe in honoring personal preference - so whatever diet works for you but you might want to check out the above PDF to get a more balanced look at the science behind paleo claims.

Hi

The link is coming up with page not found - do you have another link to it - or some key words I can punch into google.

Cheers,