- Fasting Blood Glucose: 103 mg/dl. Okay. Still working off the cookies from Sunday I guess
- Weight: 190 lbs.
- Exercise: Nothing. Got up too late. I feel bad for not doing it, too.
- Mood: 6.0 No exercise, work sucks.
- Breakfast: Oatmeal with soy milk and a fruit salad of Texas Rio Star pink grapefruit.
- Lunch: Two bean burritos (al fresco no less). A carb nightmare maybe, but it's cheap, tasty and really kind of low fat. All of which may now be bad for me.
- Dinner: Split pea, navy bean, lime bean sauce (made in the crockpot) over brown Spanish rice. The rice was easy to make. Cook the brown rice as usual in the pressure cooker and add a can of fire roasted salsa. Simple.
- Snacks: Busy day, no nibbles and just made dinner when I got home. As I said, sucky day.
Eat like a caveman, that may be the key to a long healthy life, even though they rarely had one. The Paleo diet is growing in popularity and the diet is pretty simple, really. If you can hunt it, fish it, pull it off of a tree or out of the ground, it's good. It is mostly protein and fat, little carbohydrates, no grains, no legumes and no dairy. Fat is not considered a problem, just don't get it from vegetable sources such as canola, corn or safflower oil and do get it from olive, fish and coconut oils. Is lard okay, I wonder? Vegetable oil sources have omega-6 oils and those lead to systemic inflammation.
If you are on the Mediterranean diet, omega-6 is okay. So are me vegetable oils, just not so much of it.
The argument for this diet is that this is what ate while evolving into humans. That sounds logical, I guess. Benefits to eating it supporters say is that it lowers insulin and ends diabetes and maybe prevent degenerative aging diseases as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's. Controlling insulin also controls inflammation.
Inflammation and the need to control it is popping up in more and more articles recently. Inflammation of what is never mentioned and the causes seem to be often contradictory. It's late and I am tired, so I will just acknowledge for now that inflammation of whatever by whatever is bad. Great. One more think to worry about.
This was taken from an article by Dr. Christopher K. Nagy and I did borrow a few of his lines. To get on the Paleo diet, he recommends several books: “The Paleo Solution” by Robb Wolf, “The Primal Blueprint” by Mark Sisson and “Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It” by Gary Taubes. I have read a lot about Gary Taubes' book and it has a lot of fans.
So does it work? It does have its supporters. If you think it sounds good and could work for you, try it.
No pizza? Ever?
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