Showing posts with label eat real food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eat real food. Show all posts

02 January 2012

a S.A.D. story



The Standard American Diet....
Pre-weight loss/ non-binge:
McDonalds, cokes, donuts, candy, candy bars,
pizza, breadsticks, booze, etc.
Note the Omega 666!
About 66 grams! That's alot!
PUFA - Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids...
Where the Omega 3 and 6's come from.
The only true Essential Fatty Acids!

Now comes the Standard LoCarb diet.
The one like I did for the first 2 years.
And lost a tone of weight with!
6 strips of bacon, 6 eggs, blocks of cheddar cheese,
walnuts, peanut butter, avocado, mayo, grain-free,
ground beef, sour cream, heavy whipping cream, sweeteners. 
BUT - look at the pufa's.... 66!!
The ratio is better - yes...
But with these numbers, the ratio is kinda moot point.
10% total pufa average - on my previous low-carb diet.
There was a time - I would brag about this.
No more!

Now compare that to a LoCarb, low pufa diet!
The one I am trying here for 100 days, or 2 years...
which ever comes first! 
It takes at least 2 years for pufa's to leave your body!
so my original experiment of 100 days - might be a little short sighted!
Winking smile
My diet now would include salmon most days, 
ground beef some days, grass-fed when possible...
no veggie oils, some butter, again - grass-fed when possible,
some coconut oil, some tallow,
no heavy Omega 6's, low fructose,
low dairy, gluten-free, legume free,
occasional starch, minimal sweeteners....
As much like Paleo/Primal as I dare to call myself!


Eat as much Real Food as possible....no - wait....
Let me put that another way!
As much as possible - Eat Real Food!

15 December 2011

paleo blonde

Oo - look! 
My thoughts are evolving again!
From a deep Primordial Ooze...
To Chaos.... to (fill in the blank)

Some people don't trust the government to lead us 
down the right nutritional path.
Maybe the findings are a bit "outdated."
And scientifically "controversial."
Everyone is looking for the perfect (elusive) diet.
And not just looking to blame when the damn thing fails.
Some people are actually looking to heal.
Does one size really fit all?


This is Marni Nixon.... the sweetest voice in Hollywood....
The "Ghostess with the Mostess!" Miss Marni actually sang
the songs that were dubbed in later - West Side Story,
My Fair Lady, The King and I - to name a few.

Not to be confused with Richard Nixon.
Same name, right?
What's in a name, after all?
It just some words on a page.
IF it doesn't make sense in "real life."
The point of the story is this:
Get your facts right.


So what is it now?
The other day, I took out my trash...
Coffee grounds, egg shells, a cream container,
some sweet potato skins, a few salmon cans...
And my first thought was about my Mother (of all things)....
And how the contents of my trash can
looked so much like hers might have looked!
I guess I finally went back far enough
to a diet that Mom would approve of!
She cooked everything from scratch - never a box.
She didn't like chicken and thought of herself 
as a foodie!

SO - all this debate and carrying on....
I can barely abide it sometimes!
Especially from non-medical people.
I admit, I am biased. BUT, just to be fair - 
the medical experts are worse!

So yes. 
If Paleo People REALLY understood the importance of 
the Omega's - would they ever eat chicken again?
Or nuts? Or Mayo? No. They would not. Maybe just not alot.
Maybe not ever. Or maybe if they just like 
a good chicken, walnut, mayo salad - they would!
I put my food choices and Omega 6 up every day 
for all the world to see. My ratios are just about 1:1.
Sometimes 2:1.
If the data is to be trusted in the first place!
My diet is far from perfect - 
and I don't even call myself Paleo/Primal - for gosh sakes!
But I never claimed to "follow" Atkins....
The more I read - the more I love of him!

It seems so confusing sometimes - the only logical
choice is to stop listening completely!
But don't dispair! Just eat real food.
As much as we can.
Maybe start with that.