3 weeks of Paleo

The third week of Paleo.....uneventful really.

I might have suffered some mental burn out feelings on "meat and vegetables" but it passed and we made some bomb-diggity taco salads last night that set things right.

I've been spending most of my time now looking at another branch of this lifestyle called Primal instead of Paleo. There are some things I don't like about it mainly there is what I consider too large of a liberty given to certain foods and behaviors like the 80/20 rule that gives you leeway for 20% of the time to go astray and eat that cheesecake. I don't argue with the concept but I do the ratios. If you are fit maybe 80/20 will work for you but if you are fat maybe 95/5 would be better or 90/10 if you just fell apart at the idea of avoiding some of those less healthy choices.

I'm pretty much on the 99/1 rule right now and for my initial 30 day challenge my resolve is set and I don't see anything changing that. After the first 30 days I may consider moving towards some of the Primal methods and modifying the areas I think are too generous or I do not agree with such as use of artificial sweeteners. As a kid I used to read that label on the back of the initial sweeteners they came out with saying it caused cancer in rats and I've never wanted to eat any of those substances. I just kicked a nasty sugar habit so I'll be trying to severely limit my sugar intake for the foreseeable future.

Anyhow the resources in the Primal community are far greater than strict paleo as best I can tell. That is a good thing and I've ordered the book Primal Blueprint to get more details.

The over view is here:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/

Otherwise 3 weeks into this Paleo experiment and all I can say is it's going very good and I'm pleased with the results and changed in our eating habits and how they seem to be effecting out health.

Good Stuff!