Gone Primal

I've gone primal...with the horrific exception of the July 4th weekend...but I won't talk about that debacle. What I will say is that I feel very good, and I've shaved almost five pounds of fat in a couple of weeks effortlessly...even with the unspoken debacle stuck in the middle of it.

I've been trying to eat like this:

Eat lots of animals, insects and plants.


This is the basic description of everything our ancestors ate to get the protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phenols, fiber, water and other nutrients necessary to sustain life. But it was a huge list of individual foods – some anthropologists say it may have been 200 or 300 food choices at a time depending upon the geographic area. The net result was a dietary “breakdown” of fat, protein and carbohydrate that was far different from what Conventional Wisdom considers optimum today. This diet provided all the necessary fuel and building blocks that, along with specific exercise, prompted their genes to create strong muscles, enabled them to expend lots of energy each day moving about, to maintain healthy immune systems, to evolve larger brains and to raise healthy children. They ate sporadically, too. When food was plentiful, they ate more than they needed (and stored the excess as fat). When times were scarce, they survived on fat stores. This random or “non-linear” eating pattern kept their bodies in a constant state of preparedness. Source-Marks Daily Apple. Check it out!

My workouts are essentially the same, although I have added walking/low level aerobic activity, which is the solid base of the primal blueprint. In fact, I took a day off and hiked up a mountain by myself the other day. Just me and a bottle of water. I need more hill work. I liked it a lot, and it was good to be alone by myself for a while.