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nothing wrong with that. I don't believe in the whole CI/CO thing. Increase your energy expenditure (i.e. exercise) and your body will compensate by asking you to take in some energy (i.e. eat). So you are just doing what it wants you to do, before it asks you. Of course, I use diet to maintain my weight, not exercise. And…

Primal Blueprint and Mark's Daily Apple. I had lost 10lb in 6 months following the healthiest version of the standard american diet - and following the Dietary Guidelines to a "T" (those guidelines were also making me diabetic while I was losing weight - go figure). I hit 120lbs which was my goal - but you wouldn't know…

Measure progress and understand that the number doesn't tell you what is going on on the inside. And it doesn't really tell you what you're losing (fat, water or muscle). I'm maintaining and I weigh almost daily. - It keeps me in check. I don't put a whole lot into the numbers since they do change almost daily. I get up,…

Beautiful by whose standards? I am beautiful. Body and face. Inside and out.

Primal Blueprint and Mark's Daily Apple - it's a change you can stick to for life (make sure to read up on "carb flu"). Check out the Archives. Read about Mark. There a hundreds of success stories (new one posted each Friday - yes they are real people. Trying to lose, gain, or just get healthy. It's a whole lifestyle. Did…

Primal Blueprint and Mark's Daily Apple!!

You look absolutely amazing. But remember. Losing it is actually the easy part. Maintaining is the hard part. Best way to do it? Primal Blueprint and Mark's Daily Apple.

OMG! You mean my man isn't the only one to do this. How about: Peanut butter and breakfast sausage (Jimmy Dean Hot in the roll package) Peanut butter and Miracle Whip on Ritz Crackers I prefer my bacon with some chocolate - preferrably around 85% dark.

Calorie for calorie protein is more satiating than carbs or fat. Fat slows gastric emptying therefore keeping you full longer. Carbs spike your blood sugar which comes back down in 2-3 hours and you are "hungry" again. (refined - about 2 hours; complex - about 3 hours) N=1 but a bowl of oatmeal (not instant!) and an apple…

Women genetically store their fat in their hips, butt and thighs. Not the stomach - men store genetically on the stomach. That is visceral fat - not the same as genetically stored fat (subcutaneous fat). I follow Primal Blueprint roughly 80% of the time. Before I did this I followed the healthiest version of the SAD; low…

I'd say that the fact that our stomach acid breaks down meat so easily (cooking is like pre-digesting it and our tummy breaks it down even easier) says a lot. What makes it to our colon? Not meat, not fat. (well fat can but only if you are dealing with fat malabsorption - which is common following the SAD). Beans, grains,…

And then they add vitamins A and D to skim milk - but the body needs fat to absorb these vitamins (also E, and K and K2) so putting them in skim milk is pointless. But of course there's always the fat supplements they tell us to take. "Don't eat fat in food. It's bad for you. Here, take this pill with fake fat and other…

I once threw some salmon skin under the broiler - brushed with a little butter and salted/peppered. I swear it tasted like a McDonalds french fry. But I haven't had one in a few years so I could have been wrong.

THIS!

That's what exercise does. Increases your appetite. When you expend energy your body will want to compensate by wanting you to take in energy. I maintain with very little exercise. I DO NOT want to rely on exercise to maintain my weight and huge amounts of constant exercise - especially high intensity cardio - is not…

I agree. I think the term "starvation" gets taken too literally in the term "starvation mode". I can eat 1000 calories of real food (meat, poultry, eggs, greens, berries, veggies, full fat coconut milk and coconut products and full fat dairy products; real food doesn't contain ingredients; real food IS an ingredient.) and…

Did the low-calorie, low-fat, high-carb thing for 6 months. Lost 10lbs - still not sure from where. I guess kind of all over - it was hard to tell. Still had my boobs (36B-C). Started Primal Blueprint in May 2011. Dropped loads of fat (and water) off of me immediately - from all over my body. (total of 12lbs! - this was…

My man's ex brother-in-law used to "growl" as he chewed (this only happened at the dinner table). He was also noisy otherwise and we won't go into his bodily function issues. He seemed to enjoy passing gas when in the restaurant - AND would make a point to be loud and disgusting about it (took sister a little too long to…

Same here. I looked up disgusting ingredients and one of the items on the list was rennet to make cheese. Rennet is cow's stomach. Before factories came along to turn milk into cheese (using chemical processes and unnatural ways of making cheese) this is the way it was done. And human's have been using rennet to make…

I have almost every herb and spice now. I just got Mark Sisson's new book. It has sauces, dips, rubs, and dressings. The cajun rub I think has become my fave. I put it on my bacon and eggs now. You'll have to get it. There's recipes for mayo, ketchup, mustard, etc. All Primal/Paleo friendly. And there's another book I…

PRIMAL BLUEPRINT!!! (MARK'S DAILY APPLE) I lost 10lbs following a calorie restricted (not too restricted) heathiest version of the Standard American Diet. Very little added sugars, "healthy" whole grains, very low-fat. And you know what? It was making me diabetic. And it wasn't fixing any of my digestive issues (IBS,…

Sweet potato - with some pastured butter it is filling and highly nutritious. Even white potatoes have good nutrition to them. More the rice. Nothing clean about brown rice. White rice is a clean carb (or safe starch). But not brown due to the toxic outer shell. Nothing "clean" about grain carbs. Of course this is my…

I take mine with no sugar - natural or other - it ruins the coffee. I have gotten into the habit of putting either heavy cream or full fat coconut milk. But certain coffees I can't put anything in. Gourmet coffee wasn't made for condiments. If you are counting calories or think fat is actually fattening then just use a…

No, it's better. Does pasta really have taste? It has absolutely no flavor at all to me. All I taste is meat and sauce and herbs and spices. I LOVE my SS Spaghetti. Over broccoli is amazing, too. Or over sauteed colorful bell peppers and onions... Sometimes I even have NS Spaghetti. No spaghetti spaghetti. Just meat and…

If he is able to take in tablespoons of coconut oil it's pure energy. MCTs which the body is more likely to put towards energy rather than store. Or he could mix it in with some other liquid - it's solid at room temperature so he would have to blend it well. Or canned full-fat coconut milk. One can is 600-700 calories of…

The perfect health food! Once you try true pastured eggs you will never go back to store bought. They are amazing! Pastured eggs from chickens eating their natural diet (bugs, worms, and insects) have these dark orange yolks. The darker the yolk the more nutrition. Pastured eggs also have nice hard shells. The sign of a…

MORE MEAT FOR ME!!!! MORE BACON TOO!!!!! If you think that red meat causes cancer: http://rawfoodsos.com/the-china-study/ http://www.gnolls.org/1444/does-meat-rot-in-your-colon-no-what-does-beans-grains-and-vegetables/ (search this site to learn that saturated fat and cholesterol are very important) And, depending on the…

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Making a Paleo Kick-A** Key Lime Pie (Paleo Zone) with Paleo Honey graham cracker crust!! (Against All Grain) Can't wait to try it!! There will be a few tweaks from the original recipe (agave syrup? Almost pure free fructose - worse than HFCS - no way) and will be using coconut cream rather…

As usual, some of this I believe, some I don't. You can't apply the exact same health, diet and exercise concepts to all 7 billion people on this earth. You just can't. What works for one person will not work for the next. My weight gain wasn't based on how much I was eating but what I was eating. Nothing changed except I…

Our brains are made of mostly fat and cholesterol (about 20% of the weight of our brain is from cholesterol) From Ignore The Awkward: How The Cholesterol Myths are Kept Alive: ...That saturated fat is harmful to human health runs counter to common sense. Fat is composed of various types of fatty acids and fatty acids are…