Primal Blueprint

Z34Driver

This is a long shot, but just curious if anyone else out there is living the Primal Blueprint lifestyle...

Jordo!

Huh?

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Z34Driver

Just a different way of eating / exercising really. After graduating from college and getting a kushy work from home job, I had put on a few pounds. Eating fast food 4x a day can definitely do it quickly. I'm 6' 4", and I feel like that's already kinda pushing it to fit comfortably in the Z. Anyway, not only was I lacking head room, the seat wasn't wide enough for my fat azz, to sit comfortably anyway. 6'4", about 265 lbs when I bought the car, I decided to try the Primal Blueprint, like a few friends of mine that are working in the ATL office of the company I work for.

Basically, you just cut out grains / legumes / carbs / highly processed foods... eat high quality cuts of meat and vegetables, fruits, nuts (Low carb / low sugar),...like the Cavemen did...sorta like the Paleo diet, only Primal allows you dairy and cheese. It doesn't sound that fun, but it's really not that hard. Anyway, I've been doing it for 26 days now, not getting anywhere near the recommended amount of exercise and it's still working great. Already from 2XL shirts to XL, and back in some shorts that I bought last year that didn't fit me a month ago.

A typical day for me would be to have a cup of coffee in the morning with cream and a little real sugar, with 3-4 pieces of bacon and 2-3 fried eggs for breakfast. I usually make a big spinach salad with free range chicken and cucumbers for lunch. Then for dinner grass fed beef or bison burgers on the grill. I'll top them with some cheese and a fried egg, some mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, just either use romaine lettuce or nothing for a bun...Or, Pizza, topped however, made with a Cauliflower base, that has been fed to little kids who don't even notice a difference...

I knew it was a long shot, but just curious if anyone else was / has been, at least in part, inspired by their Z to live a Healthier lifestyle.

Jordo!

If you mean a "paleolithic" diet, then yes. For years.

I've deviated some from it of late, but the logic behind it is sound.

The short version is, if agriculture (or, arguably, cooking or soaking) is needed to prepare the food and make it edible, then we haven't evolved to require it, as we have changed little physiologically since the advent of farming.

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Z34Driver

It is similar to the Paleolithic diet. My sister is a personal trainer in Vinings, GA and has been on the Paleolithic diet for a while now. She says the main difference between the two is that the Primal Blueprint allows dairy and some cheese in small amounts. I'll admit I haven't read up enough to know for sure that what she says is true, but I trust her enough.

Just out of curiosity, how do you feel when you eat outside of the regular Paleolithic diet, say something with high amounts of grains or sugar?

Jordo!

I don't deviate all that much from it, but on the rare occasion I have some kind of greasy or sugary food: Like crap.

Pasta and rice are necessary to feed lots of people, but there's virtually no nutritional value to them (and after all, most wheat flour is enriched with vitamins...).

Dairy and beans -- the enzymes that digest those things increase or decrease based on what you eat, but you always need animal protein, omega acids, vitamin C, etc.

It's really only things like sweet potatoes that don't quite fit the theory and subsequent diet well. Gotta cook them to eat, but lots of vitamin A and E, so not bad to include.

And... grains are good at helping one fend off certain kinds of microscopic organisms (well, mainly because they are non-nutrient...).

But, really, it's a no-brainer that anything that requires tons of processing to make edible is simply NOT something we evolved to eat naturally.

Although try and tell some people that bread is not food and they will look at you like you're an alien

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Z34Driver

Ha, I know what you mean about the bread thing. People are like, well what do you eat then...

I have been allowing myself one "cheat" meal every week so far, and every time, this meal has been the least enjoyable meal of all, mainly because of how I have felt afterwards. It's like a diet that changes into a lifestyle change on it's own

shadoquad

bread is delicious

Sibze

I'm eating a turkey sandwich as I read this

Sibze

Also, not going to lie. I came into this thread thinking it has something to do with Transfomers, am I alone?

SurfDog

I did it for 4 months and lost 36 lbs. then I stopped (well i stopped trying so hard) and gained like 20 back. I'm much better off for the experience.

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SurfDog

Also my energy and moods were way better. If I wasn't so addicted to bread I'd do it for the rest of my life. But. Yup. Bread is yummy... And totally chemically addictive. It's okay some HFC exhaust, and intakes have nicely offset my 20 lb weight gain and as long as I don't get out, my 370 makes me look super sexy !!! lol.

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Z34Driver

Haha, nice guys. I cheated today, just got back from the Mexican Restaurant actually. I could probably blame at least half of my weight gain on chips and salsa, and Coca-Cola...which I was severely addicted to. Although it was delicious, I'm paying for it right now! It seems like it would take some considerable effort to change back to eating how I was before, considering how I feel when I do cheat.

Z34Driver

When buying the car, the attention coming from the ladies is something I honestly never even considered, strangely enough. Pretty happy with my girlfriend, but after I got the first face from a girl when I was all like

frost

My coworker started doing it. She dropped buckets of weight

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