Here are some basic Paleo resources to get you started. You may need to search around on these sites to find specific information, but these are all resources I trust, and follow myself.
- Dr. Loren Cordain's site (author of the Paleo Diet for Athletes - check out the FAQ and Nutritional Tools on the left)
- Robb Wolf's blog (start with the FAQ)
- Good Harvest Market's shopping list (a simple, detailed, by-the-book list of foods to eat and foods to avoid)
- Nightshades (for those of you choosing to opt out of this food group, remove all these listed foods from the above shopping list)
- A Paleo introduction (a nice, general summary of the Paleo lifestyle - not sure who put this out, but it provides a lot of information and links)
For the next 30 days, Byers Gets Diesel is hereby known as Byers Goes Paleo. No, the site address won't actually change. But for the next 30 days, all my posts on the blog will be nutrition related, and the rest of the posts will be devoted to you and your awesome adventure. You'll have a chance to check in as often as you like for the next 30 days to post your progress, ask questions and share results. Even if you're not officially joining us, you should still keep an eye on how things are going around here. Maybe you'll learn some stuff... but at the very least, you WILL be inspired.
Also, I know I am behind in my review of the PR Party Playlist! I'm not ignoring the songs... in fact, I've hit a BUNCH of new PRs thanks to your tracks. But I have so many songs to go through, and I've decided to test drive them all personally, so I'm not all the way through the shuffle yet. I'm going to take another month with these and report back at the end of this Paleo thing. So if you haven't yet downloaded your tracks... you still have time. Rock on.
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My biggest problem with that shopping list and the Paleo Diet book is the exclusion of fatty meats from the diet. Paleolithic man would have certainly gone for the fattest bits of the animal. I haven't read the Paleo Diet book, but from what I've read about it it sounds like Loren Cordain had the right idea but then mixed it with a bunch of the current dogma about saturated fat and fat in general being bad for you.
Michael,
I agree, to a degree. Do I think you should eat bacon as your only protein source? No. But I don't necessarily focus on "lean" meats at the exclusion of all others. Like with my vegetables and fruits, I try to make sure I have a good balance between red meat, chicken, fish... fattier meats and leaner meats.
Again, though, let's not lose sight of the big picture here. Eat meat. If you focus on that, you're in good shape for the next 30 days.
Melissa
Your link to goodharvestmarket.com says I should limit eggs to six a week? I've been eating three eggs a day! They're free-range Omega 3 eggs if that matters. I think I need to pick up a copy of the book...
Again... you have to use your own judgment with some of these recommendations. I eat at LEAST four eggs (sometimes with yolk, sometimes without depending on when I eat them) every single day. You'll read something different everywhere you look. Egg yolk is good. Egg yolk is bad. At some point, you just have to make up your own mind.
I'm here to provide the basic structure for you, but you're going to have to make some of these calls for yourself.
Melissa
You know I'm down for the Dino-Chow when I return to civilization. Right now, however, I'm on the chips-and-pina-colada diet. Surely there's some historical precedent for the validity of THIS happy-making diet ;-)
Power to meat and almonds next week... love to you!
Is ghee a legit Paleo fat source for cooking? Oh please say yes, because ever since I discovered it about two weeks ago, I've actually become a good cook.
Slo,
I had to Google "ghee". Um, technically I'm going to say no, because it's made from butter = dairy = not Paleo. But in this case, it appears as though the milk is strained out... so the Gluten-Free forum over at the Celiac site says it's okay. My summary is that it can't claim to be casein free, but it's pretty close. So, use your own judgment on this.
Melissa
Tomorrow is my Day 1. Cleaning the apartment out and hitting the grocery store hard tonight. Even going to take a few "before" pics.
I will be strong!
I will not whine (out loud)!
Oh Melissa,
I've never even met you in person and you are already one of my favorite people. I LOVE to tough love other people but have a hard time tough loving myself. I let myself get very lazy and can talk myself into/rationalize just about anything, nutritionally. So...yeah. I'm sick of dicking around. I'm in. Starting now. I won't even finish my frozen blueberries with heavy cream. Pouring it down the drain now.
Woohoo!
Meghan I'm in the same boat(diet wise and a bigup love for our fearless blogger)...I'm a trainer and I have a rep for no bullshit..but apparently no bs is latin for eat an entire box of cookies to reward a new PR....I"m starting tmor...scared, excited...I'm going to keep it a secret from co-workers and family as long as possible. Question! Are almond and cashew butter okay? I have a serious thing for healthy fats. Organic tomato sauce? Oban 15 year Single Malt Scotch?
Today is day 1 for me....like an idiot, I only check the blog on Mondays and Fridays so I won't be in lock step with the rest of you. Man...I have such a girl crush on Byers...dang..did I type that out?!?!? lol....yep.
re: lean...
I think it was Coradin's own research that tracked the BF % of wild game on a month by month basis only to find that even 'lean' animals like reindeer and elk peaked up to 25-35% bodyfat ~septemeber or october. They stayed there for the first few months of fall only to again lean out during the hard months of winter. Do the math and you find that whilst there may be fluctuations, the average year round lends itself to 25-40% of your calories coming from fat, maybe slightly more.
here's one link that covers some of these issues well:
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/saturated-fat/rapid-health-improvements-with-a-paleolithic-diet/
again, we are not trying to play 'survivor' so much as we are trying to mimic the nutritional content of evolutionarily natural diets.
like the header Byers! and long time, no hear.
Question about the Paleo 30 days challenge...What do you think of the 100% fruit juice such as Welchs Grape? Loaded with good stuff. Healthy heart stuff. No added sugar. However, 41 gm sugar per serving.
Does this fit in the allowed fruits?
JMichael,
*Technically*, 100% whole fruit juice is "Paleo"... but why would you? You can have only 5 oz. of that grape juice (with a whopping 2w7g of straight fructose)... or you can eat 35 REAL grapes, with fiber to mitigate the effects of that sugar. Not to mention that juice isn't filling or satisfying in any way - at least with grapes, you're actually EATING something.
Skip the juice and eat real food.
Thanks, Melissa.
35 grapes? Yikes!
I'll take your advice.
I start your Whole30 tomorrow! Will be very crabby. No sweetner and creamer in coffee!
JM
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