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SleepingUgly wrote: I would like to eat healthier. I don't have much weight to lose, but I used to be able to eat much of what I wanted (NOT gallons of ice cream or chocolate or anything, but candy a few times a week, pretzels and low fat popcorn every night), and I weighed less than I do now. I know there aren't many people I will get sympathy from that I can no longer eat what I want, but after a lifetime of not having to be as careful as other people about what I eat, it's hard to suddenly accept this. I think could better accept it if I could shift my attitudes from deprived of what I used to be able to eat to I'm developing healthier eating habits. Not sure what to change to, though. Some say carbs at night are OK, some say no carbs at night. There's only so many times I can eat an egg white omelet at night or a can of tuna. And I'm still not sure that's the best approach to losing a few pounds. Dr. Roizen & Oz's book is pretty good, but I'm already at their ideal "waist" size (they prefer that approach than pounds). Any recommendations, including book recommendations, for someone like me?

BlackSpinner wrote: If you go low carb you don't have to go low fat too. You get the whole egg and all the meats and tasty stuff and you feel fuller longer.

SleepingUgly wrote:

BlackSpinner wrote: If you go low carb you don't have to go low fat too. You get the whole egg and all the meats and tasty stuff and you feel fuller longer.

I admit I've read next to nothing on the subject, but I thought that a low carb diet results in quick weight loss due to water loss, but that in the long run most people on low carb diets regain weight. Is this completely off base?

JeffH wrote:Here's an example of what primal eating / living can do for you.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-unco ... more-19240

And here is my example. I'm the third story down.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/3-more-s ... more-17686

JeffH

SleepingUgly wrote:Are the primal blueprint and the paleo diet similar perspectives?

JeffH wrote:http://www.marksdailyapple.com/3-more-s ... more-17686

JeffH

gvz wrote: They also ate ants.
Hmm. I will ask my local butcher to see if he can procure any of the above bolded items, so that I too can get on the Paleo diet.

gvz wrote:I was curious so I looked up "paleo man" on a few Internet encyclopedias to see if there was anything about their diet that might be helpful for a newbie to learn about.

gvz wrote:I was curious so I looked up "paleo man" on a few Internet encyclopedias to see if there was anything about their diet that might be helpful for a newbie to learn about.

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Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern human beings. Cro-Magnons lived from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic period of the Pleistocene epoch. For all intents and purposes, the Cro-Magnons were anatomically modern, differing from their modern-day descendants in Europe only by their slightly more robust physiology and larger brain capacity

Like Neanderthals, the Cro-Magnon were primarily big-game hunters, killing mammoth, cave bears, horses and reindeer. They would have been nomadic or semi-nomadic, following the annual migration of their prey.

Cro-Magnon man ate a variety of seeds, berries, roots, and nuts. They ate fish as well. They stored food for the winter. They altered their diet according to seasonal and other challenges to survive. They got all the soft fruit they wanted during the wet season. They also ate ants. They could not manufacture vitamin C. They used stones as tools to open skulls and bones for brain and marrowfat. They would eat leopard's prey that was left in the trees. Insects and bird eggs were available. O blood group was the most common and ancient, therefore, they should have avoided dairy and wheat products. They started drinking milk around 4000 B.C.

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Hmm. I will ask my local butcher to see if he can procure any of the above bolded items, so that I too can get on the Paleo diet.