The real paleo diet

[OakLeaf]

Yeah, that's how I feel about eating raw, too.

Raw foodies can be so preachy that it's hard to even find a cookbook that has more recipes than preaching. (Which is seriously part of the reason I don't do anything more than salads and smoothies at home ... while I do most of my cooked recipes from the internet, that's because I already have a foundation of techniques and ingredient properties. When I'm learning something entirely new I really prefer a paper cookbook.)

But I feel SO much better after a raw meal that I don't care about the theory.

But oh, that's "anecdotal," unscientific, and what my body is telling me couldn't possibly be true. I'd better listen to advertising from Monsanto, IBP and ADM about what food is good for me.



The other question is, "coming from what?" Now, I don't follow the "what do you eat" threads at all, so I may be completely wrong, but it seems to me that athletes of necessity, especially as we get past our impressionable youth, learn to turn down the volume of the advertising and listen more closely to our bodies - doing so is the only way we keep going over the long term. And yet, here are two of us in this thread who've made huge changes to our meat consumption to wind up in a similar place ... Shootingstar "really cut down my meat to 3-4 times per month (almost vegetarian)" ... while I massively INcreased my meat consumption to 3-4 times per month (more during a marathon buildup, and I consider it the farthest thing in the world from vegetarian).

[Crankin]

I get the same reaction to what I eat from my "regular" friends, no matter that it's no specific diet. Everyone is always watching my plate. At work, it's a lot of "You make your lunches? Oh, no wonder you're so healthy," and blah, blah, blah.
And they wonder why I don't give any reaction when my really good friend and her husband, who are both grossly overweight tell me they are going on the "fat flush" diet. Her husband lost about 30 pounds on this 2 years ago, and was making great progress when he just stopped. My friend believes that eating only grapes all day makes her lose weight.
Oy.

[shootingstar]

Shootingstar "really cut down my meat to 3-4 times per month (almost vegetarian)" ... while I massively INcreased my meat consumption to 3-4 times per month (more during a marathon buildup, and I consider it the farthest thing in the world from vegetarian).

I used to eat some meat for 80% suppers or lunches daily. That's how I grew up. So I consider it alot less meat. I don't miss it alot. Eating alot of meat in 1 sitting, especially beef seems to require effort for my stomach to digest.

[Eden]

My friend believes that eating only grapes all day makes her lose weight.
Oy.

It probably does..... at about 60-65 calories a cup, you'd be hard pressed to eat enough of them to meet the calorie needs of a typical adult... (if you require 2,000 per day that would be 33 cups...) That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good or healthy way to lose weight. A friend of mine was telling me about some supplement (not as a believer)- take it and eat 700 calories a day and you'll lose weight!! Well duh.... eat only 700 calories a day and anyone would lose weight....

I think that what ever diet you choose to follow, if you find that there are skeptics, I'd say that LPH and Owlie have it pegged, it's because there will always be a very vocal zealot(s) who uses scare tactics and/or pseudoscience to try to convert *everyone* with the idea that theirs is the one and only way to eat healthily/morally etc.

[Veronica]

Everyone needs to drink the way I do - bottle of champagne every weekend, sometimes two - and only good champagne. And you can't have any more beer!

Veronica

I am joking of course.