Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
How to go primal (without really trying) - join me?
-
02-01-2012 11:39AM#1
Comments
-
-
-
Day 1 almost over and I'm proud to say I've notched up 7 veg + 4 fruit
Lunch was a very veggie omelette
and I did things like adding frozen berries to my protein shake.
Definitely keep the brain working on how to get those totals high. Bought lots of veg in Aldi today so looking forward to tomorrow.0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
Gummy Panda wrote: »I ate sweet potato for the first time today with tuna, instead of my usual white potato. Does that count?
I think it's an improvement, I think the whole potato/sweet potato thing is a bone of contention in the paleo/primal plan. Maybe someone more knowledgable can help....
@frag - you don't have to eat what I do! Just add more veg & fruit, and a good variety of it. Try some new things 0 -
As far as I can see the only thing that the sweet potato is supposed to have going for it over the regular one is that it is supposed to have a lower glycemic index. But since the whole GI thing is a pile of horse manure, I really don't see the difference in having a regular vs sweet potato. They both offer different nutrients to your well balanced diet.Gummy Panda wrote: »I ate sweet potato for the first time today with tuna, instead of my usual white potato. Does that count?
Also if you are really talking about eating an ancestrally appropriate diet (which is what a paleo/primal diet is, afterall) then you will be hard pressed as an Irish person to find a more appropriate food to eat than the spud IMO.:)0 -
-
Advertisement
-
-
Dotcomdolly wrote: »Day 2 completed , once again 7+3
Well done! How are you feeling so far? I'd love to join you but I'm honestly scared of what all that fibre would do to my IBS!:o0 -
The Paleo/Primal 'thing' is based around eating foods that our ancient ancestors ate though, not our more recent ancestors, people we can put names to in many cases.Red Cortina wrote: »Also if you are really talking about eating an ancestrally appropriate diet (which is what a paleo/primal diet is, afterall) then you will be hard pressed as an Irish person to find a more appropriate food to eat than the spud IMO.:)
The reasoning being that 4-5 million years of evolution has left us very well able to utilise 'basic' 'natural' Paleo/Primal type foodstuffs, whereas we've had (relatively) very little time to adapt to 'modern' foodstuffs: grains, refined sugars, etc.; foods that were developed during the recent 10,000 years since to dawn of recognisable 'agriculture'.
Potatoes have only been in Europe since about 400 years ago, which is a period that barely registers on the total time humans have been on the planet, and were domesticated in Peru only 7-10,000 years ago.
I've pretty much eliminated potatoes from my diet at this stage, and don't miss them a bit.
Parsnip (roasted!!!) and cauliflower make excellent substitutes for bulk and mouth-feel, and they taste great too.0 -
-
Yup, I am well aware of the premise of Cordain's Paleo diet, ie that we have only changed by something like 0.05% in the last 10,000. However it is generally accepted that humans have evolved in the last 10,000 and continue to evolve and adapt. One such adaptation being that we can digest lactose into adulthood (am pretty certain that I read somewhere that this adaptation involved the continued ability to break down lactose ie lactase persistence?)The Paleo/Primal 'thing' is based around eating foods that our ancient ancestors ate though, not our more recent ancestors, people we can put names to in many cases.
I agree that we are probably not adapted to 'modern' foodstuffs which have been engineered to be hyperpalatable and contain things such as excess fructose, gluten and seed oils. However I'm with El_D in that I fail to see how the poor potato has been bunched in with these thingsThe reasoning being that 4-5 million years of evolution has left us very well able to utilise 'basic' 'natural' Paleo/Primal type foodstuffs, whereas we've had (relatively) very little time to adapt to 'modern' foodstuffs: grains, refined sugars, etc.; foods that were developed during the recent 10,000 years since to dawn of recognisable 'agriculture'.
0 -
Well I always tell my kids that potatoes don't count as a vegetable, in my mind they are a starch liek pasta , rice etc, and I have as little as possible. I would see sweet potato in the same light..
for me this is about Add more fresh fruits and veggies to your diet and tryingt o follow the article week by week. I'm not too bothered about labels or whether I'll be eating "paleo" or "primal" by the end of it. I just want to develop an even healthier diet.
@El_Dangeroso , thanks I'm feeling great, very virtuous for sure and it's certainly helped shift the Xmas pounds - I've lost 1.6 lbs in the last 2 days:D
eta breakfast - spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, ham & egg
0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Dotcomdolly wrote: »Well we know where reliance on the spud got us!
Day 2 completed , once again 7+3
Day 3 , 8 + 4( I'm counting avocado as a fruit)0 -
-
-
-
-
Due to lack of forward planning
breakfast today was the same as lunch yesterday
Feeling grumpy & finding it a bit tiresome today tbh. Need to think of what I can have next week when the kids are back in school rather than the veggie fry....(mind you I timed it start to finish, 7 minutes, maybe I can fit it in)will check out some paleo sites but a lot of their breakfasts are based on meat.0 -
Dotcomdolly wrote: »Due to lack of forward planning breakfast today was the same as lunch yesterday
Feeling grumpy & finding it a bit tiresome today tbh. Need to think of what I can have next week when the kids are back in school rather than the veggie fry....(mind you I timed it start to finish, 7 minutes, maybe I can fit it in)will check out some paleo sites but a lot of their breakfasts are based on meat.
Egg muffins are always handy and you can make them the night before and pack them full of veg.
Or if your getting egged out, ratatouille actually makes a pretty delicious breakfast. Or vegetarian lasagne made of aubergine instead of pasta. Or moussaka.. lots of variation on that theme!0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
Dotcomdolly wrote: »Lol that was MY thread. Yeah they weren't all that, going to try the breakfast loaf recipe from foodee.com
Thanks for ideas el d too
Haha! Well I used to love them
What's the recipe for the breakfast loaf?0
Advertisement