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Raw milk cheese here too, but rarely (<1/week). I do eat quark a lot though right now, make it myself from organic milk (not raw, unfortunately). I am hoping that casein will help with muscular growth. Eventually.

I did antiinflammatory protocol within W30 for a couple of weeks without eggs and nightshades. At first it was very hard, but then easier. It did help to calm down systemic inflammation that was wrecking me for a couple of months after a very stressful time (I went through eye infections, UTI, wrists and knees joint pains…

I cycle. I do 25 g net carbs Mon-Fri, with protein >100 g.

I try to prioritize my obsessions. 1. Daily food plan to fit calories and macros. 2. Following workout routine (strength training) 3. Well being exercise (LI cardio, stretch) 4. Keeping the daily summary daily of nutrition and exercise (logging exercise is a complete waste of time imo) 5. Reading and meditating on Mindful…

Hi, I do not enter my exercise in the counters, because it's completely pointless. The estimates of calories burned are totally inaccurate, both because they depend on your weight and on you being adapted to the exercise, and because like you said, how do you log sprints? I have my routines, and I know that at that…

Hang in there. And, remember that you are doing the thing that is conceptually the most important to the primal/paleo: you survive and adapt to your circumstances. Hang in there and fight on & strength to your family!

I am okay doing Whole 30, but I get better results with less restrictive set of rules, and less arbitrary 'Oh, no! Don't touch that!'. The amount of stress W30 poses imo is not worth the marginal benefit that the avoidance of absolutely everything that could possibly hurt someone might potentially bring. In fact, I think…

I continued to feel lethargic when hungry even after I was VLC for 4 weeks. I think it is just how hunger manifests itself now for me. I will take fatigue over horrors of sugar hunger any day. It is far less mentally and physically challenging.

Oh, we are sure trick-a-treating! We are also setting 3 finger foods that are in Halloween style but healthy, to keep our strength up through the night and have a prolonged supper. Once we have the loot, we will sort through it, throw away the crap candy, and keep the better one for my kiddo's nightly treat. We keep most…

It varies for me, but I am able to squeeze in days which would have killed me on the CW, less or around 1000 calories. I am also pretty happy on 1300-1400 calories, and I was mental during low fat/high carb on that. I have never had experience of not meeting my caloric goal though. The quality of hunger changed as well, it…

Your body retains water by a number of different reasons. Swelling of the musucle when you workouts, salt, inner methabolic workings. There is no guarantee that if you drink an ocean that the water will flush through you. That's why you have the whole water 'releasing' substances, like green tea, dandelion tea,…

The first statement is incorrect. There are two well-known exceptions to the 'can't gain in deficit' rule: -an overweight person -a beginner who did not exhaust linear gains (also genetic wonders of all kinds, and an over-weight beginner) For the second rule, there is a point at which your cardio starts working against…

Double cream (and butter for that matter) is healthy. But if you are into low fat theory of weight loss, just sub double cream for canned condensed low fat milk. Or you can use coconut milk (the kind that doesn't have guar gum). If you load soup with veggies, and only cover the m with your broth, you really don't even need…

Bring a salad along, nobody could say no to a side salad with pizza.

You can also hack it for a while with a simple combination of rice (1 cooked cup, about 1/3 cup uncooked), beans and eggs/egg whites. Cooke the entire caloric limit worth, divide into 3 or 4 servings, and stick to it. Have celery & cucs (not carrots) for snacking when things are horrid. But, yea, those are hacks, not…

Any fresh non-root vegetables are what you are looking for with non-fat greek yogurt of good quality or skim ricotta. You also could use egg whites, tuna, non-fat ham, and extra lean turkey (ground or breast). Or you can stop eating in 100 cals increments, do not limit fat, and still meet your 1200 cals. I do 5 days a week…

I came to the same conclusion on my own through self experimenting. In my case, I seem to be sensitive to fructose, so my appetite is strongly increased when I eat fruit or root vegetables with >5-6 g. But I am strongly sensitive to sugars, so in my case, I do overeat on fruit, and I am for sure not the type to eat half an…

Normally I dehydrate veggies or jerky instead of baking. Dehydrator is my husband's favorite kitchen appliance! I bake for my family or for events. When I am doing huge carb-loads I bake once a week with the mix of rice flour, potato starch and tapioca starch. I bake pop-overs, syrnics or galushki, etc. I also bake grated…

One thing is that Paleo/Primal is a steady diet calling for steady macros & calories input daily. However, when you don't have much weight to lose, or you have been dieting for a long time, keeping calories low, one thing to try is to stagger calories, with a feast day thrown in once a week to shake up the body. And the…

No, on Primal, your carbs are limited (and calories if you are trying to lose weight), but your fats are supposed to be high (60-70%) and from the good source. Your crackers are a problem because it is fake baking and because the fats are PUFA.... You are probably better of just baking that cheese till it crisp. Or getting…

I snack on any veggie I am chopping, even onions (and carrots, beets, sweet potatoes and onions are the biggest problem since they are high in carbs and I can't afford it), and I have no problem snacking on raw meat or fish. Raw liver is to die for. Often, I have meat from the broth that I need to process (strip off the…

I snack when I cook, so I build in that snack in the food plan. Normally, it is something that can be a big pile of something for little claories, like shredded cabbage with coarse salt. Sometimes if I need protein, I will shred ham into tiny pieces. Or 2 cups of non-caloric jello if I have to bake & my plan allows for…

The Ancient Greek whose name I don't remember spent a long time sitting on a scale. His experiment showed that weight fluctuates all the time, and not just when he ate or pooped. Metabolism and water balance are the two big variables. If you weight your food that goes in, it is not gonna be be your body weight before…

Because you bounced back after the first weight loss, it is going be more difficult this time around. Your body knows the routine, so it is prepared, and ready to defend the fat. So, instead of doing the same, do something different. Macros is one thing to play with to see if you can minimize the caloric intake while still…

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Anything you like eating for lunch or supper is good for breakfast. Broth and soup is a big thing in Asia, and to be honest a cup of hot and sour soup in the morning in the winter... mmgh! Various hot cereals like millet cooked with fruit or pumpkin, buckwheat with milk or mushrooms, or rice or quinoa cooked with raisins…

Scooze, Paleo/primal is a hard lifestyle to get into sometimes. One thing i did I converted in stages. Initially, after my problems with CW, I did something from Dr. Hydeman's books, Supermetabolism (his latest book is Blood Sugar Solution). It is basically a very good version of whole foods, with the elimination of only…

Squats and deadlifts.

I would sell my SOUL for being able to feel full on 700 cals a day! Whenever I try to do the 'even' calories, I inevitably roll towards 1500 cals if I exclude fruit and tubers (and I get pretty hungry) and to ~ 1800 cals if I allow fruit and tubers. When i calorie cycle I can manage to pull off 4 days in a row at a…

I get up at 3:45-4 am, so I try to drop into bed between 8 and 9 pm to get at least 7 hrs of sleep. Our life is structured around me getting up that early to prep lunches and get the first bus and not get stuck in traffic on the way home to go to the gym & pick the kid on time. If I shift, things fall apart due to the…