I don't eat paleo at all but I probably eat way closer to paleo than the average American. Bread and carbs like rice are something I eat maybe 4-5x a week and I drink soymilk (mostly in my coffee, I am lactarded and don't enjoy my coffee black), but since changing my eating habits, it is interesting to go grocery shopping. The snack aisles are just pure carbs. Cereals, health bars, sweet snacks, salty snacks, all that shit that is better described as an indulgence than part of your diet...it's all junk. By eating food to meet specific macro and micro nutrient needs, I have definitely trained myself to look at food differently. It is an interesting feeling.
So I just got a juicer mainly because 1) I missed how when I was in London, all the juices I would get would have a thicker consistency and be the result of a juicer and have better ingredients like mango, ginger, etc... (almost like a thinner smoothie than the refined juices we get in the US) and 2) cause I wanted an alternative vehicle to get my vegetables, especially greens, besides eating bags of spinach each night and kale, which I don't really love to begin with. So my question, anyone have any good recipes for kick ass juices or reference sites they go to for that sort of thing?
I know you asked for juice, not smoothies, but these are pretty fucking awesome. As for eating spinach and kale, have you tried just cooking them in bacon grease? They taste pretty damn good that way, I've been slacking lately but I usually have them in the morning with breakfast.
I did a stirfry sort of thing with kale, carrots, onion, and cubed steak. I cooked it all in coconut oil. It took about 10-15 minutes to cook the kale down...I added it after cooking the carrots and onions until the onions were a little transparent. 1: cubed steak is always in the discount freezer at the commissary, and 2: THAT SHIT WAS DELICIOUS. It will be making a reapperance very soon.
This was my breakfast this morning. Rump steak with a side of stir fry that had two eggs, half an avocado, half a capsicum, mushrooms, an onion, some spinach and a couple of spices. That's a variation on most mornings, it normally has bacon instead of a steak.
As someone whose constitution would follow no diet of any kind- It appears Paleo would increase your overall cholesterol and decrease fiber intake, proven heart disease factors. As the #1 preventable cause of death, how do you justify the diet? I would think a raw diet would be much healthier and more effective at weight loss.
Read It Starts With Food. Regarding bloodwork - got mine back today. Stellar. All levels are excellent.
I assume he was just trolling because no one is dumb enough to come into this thread with something as weak sauce as using the lipid hypothesis as a guideline, right? right? I know you're a carbohydrate lover, but why do you have to hate on the lower carbohydrate crowd, us (former) fatties get plenty of soluble fiber in vegetables. ZOMG! you mean to tell me if I take in nothing but coffee and multivitamins I won't absorb as much nutrients as if I got it from food? Mind = Blown. But seriously, grains have very low nutritional value besides insoluble (worthless) fiber and some riboflavin and thiamine. I don't know how they got such a good reputation in the first place.
"Weak sauce"? I'm sorry, I don't speak wigger. Frank seems to have all the answers in the form of sarcastic bullshit. A more read individual would backup their claims.
I haven't delved into the science of it all, but here's what I know: When I started working out this January I needed to increase my protein intake since I'm stregth training. Since one of my goals is to also lose weight I had to cut something out in order to make room for the additional protein, so I cut down on my bread intake. My replacement protein sources have been primarily red meat, poultry, and eggs. I was concerned about my cholesterol level for the reasons you mentioned, but when I had my bloodwork done in August my total cholesterol had gone down while my HDL had gone up. So even though I'm certainly not on a paleo diet changing my diet in a more paleo-ish direction hasn't had any adverse effect on my health.
I'm very new to this game, so bear with me: how much is too much water intake? Also, what are the problems associated with too much water? I usually drink between 4-6 liters of water per day. One liter when I wake up, while I drink coffee, another around lunch, one randomly in the afternoon while I work out and one when I eat dinner. This is good for Indonesia, when I sweat a bucket every time I step outside. For Korea in the fall, it's fucking pointless, because I sweat/piss out this water at a ridiculous rate. My walking around weight is around 100 kg. Is there a rule of thumb for water intake that can help me figure out a "good" amount to take in?
Go by the replacement rule. If your urine is a good, light yellow, you are hydrated. Since you aren't sweating as much as before, you are "over-replacing" so maybe scale back to 2 cups at each of those times (except maybe when you workout and are sweating). The 8x8 rule is bogus and how much fluid you need depends on your activity level, size, and temperature.
Singular and anecdotal, but I just had a physical on Monday and while my total cholesterol was up they told me to keep up the good work, because it was almost all HDL and thus my ratio was even better than two years ago.
Unless you know you're about to expend a lot of energy/sweat doing something (working out or whatever), then drink a bunch beforehand so you don't do the old "start working out, get thirsty 3 seconds later." Other than that just pay attention to when you're thirsty and drink.
In ketosis you don't count your carbs that are fibre (hence the term "net carbs" being thrown around) so if you eat 50g of carbs and its all fibre you'll still stay in ketosis. Hurray psyllium husks and raspberries
On a paleo style diet, do you still need to be concerned about calories? I've been eating 85% paleo these last 10 days or so and I've definitely gained some flab. Is eating 4 strips of bacon, 4-5 eggs for breakfast, Chicken Caesar Salad for lunch and a steak/salmon with some greens for dinner with some nuts/trail mix/beef jerky for a snack too much? I'm 6'2", 215-ish with about 18% body fat and am fairly active. CF 3x a week and usually a weights day thrown in there. I had a VERY heavy grains & meat diet with next to no veggies if it matters for some reason.
It's going to depend on what your primary goals are, but even then it's really hard to over-eat on meats and vegetables. Without knowing the portion sizes, what specific types of dressing you may have used on your salad, the cut and portion size of your steak, etc. I would still estimate your daily caloric intake is somewhere between 2500-3000 calories which for someone your size is right around a maintenance level. Again, these are simply estimates based on the limited info above. The issue may come from the 15% that you're not eating. Depending on what else you're consuming can severly raise that caloric intake fast, even with "small" items. Doing that, on top of eating a maintenance level of paleo food can quickly shift your intake levels to a mass gain level.