Paleo people...what's a typical day look like for you?

-being able to eat Paleo Mexican food is a game changer :)

We used basically that same recipe to make the pie doughs for venison empanadas (Jamaican meat pies). With further experimentation, the substitution possibilities are probably endless. You can cut those into pieces and fry them for tortilla chips and have chips and salsa or guacamole. You could sweeten them up a bit with some honey and pour some Mexican chocolate on them with fruit for a mole dessert etc.
 
If you guys like to wrap up your food there are Paleo Wraps, which are based on simple coconut mush dried into a square. I found some locally in ANC and tried them for fajitas. Not bad, but they appear to bleed through when something hot is dumped in them. They don't. Its just their coconut oil warming up and liquifying a little. Folks have been making dehydrated coconut wraps for a long time as it is much like fruit leather.
 
Ray,

Thanks for the links. I will check those out.

Ray said:
The AIP aspect of paleo should have shown some kind of result. Removing the lectins that cause the RA inflamation should have produced some kind of noticable result. On MDA he looks into the effects of the Omega fat ratios (O3 to O6) and they should be 1:1 but most folks have too much O6. Here is the info.

According to one article MDA linked to, the reaction in the gut to the lectins will cause enzymes to head out into the body and cause RA. The level of reaction depends on the genetics of the individual. Karl, you may have a genetic aspect of your body or gut that makes you more suspectible to RA. With all the studies they are doing on gut bacteria these days you may have some very interesting things going on in there. Recently a women had a fecal transplant to try to resolve a bowel issue and gained over 30 pounds in just a few months with no change in her diet or lifestyle.

I recommend you look at this link to the Paleo Approach and see if you can find any helpful information.

As for your weight loss issue, I wish I had that. I gain fat looking at a cookie. One of the things I mentioned before on here is that folks need to look at paleo as having two fronts. Body fat and blood glucose control then proper nutrition. For folks that have a high metabolic rate and no body fat issue you will need to increase your protein and fat consumption. If you are not wanting to go pure ketogenic, then adding in safe carb sources into your diet would be fine. The across the board recommendation of 50 grams of carbs a day for fat loss is generalised and may be not enough for some bodies and too much for others that have a heavy load each day like a construction worker.

the author of Practical Paleo has a good break down on carbs for paleo. And a good break down on fats.
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kyle1112 said:
I'm definitely all about this one man! If I could get my wife to let me attempt to cook my first lengua tacos in the house I'd be all over cooking some, you ever eat it?
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Yeah, me and my neighbor pool our Whitetail tongues over the course of a season and have a Tacos de Lengua party. You really need at least 6 or 7 of them to be worth the trouble of cooking them. Elk would be more like 2-3. The tastiest tongue I've ever had was buffalo. If you've read Rinella's book "American Buffalo", he goes into great detail about how sought after bison tongues were. There are documented cases of Natives doing buffalo drives where they'd run ~15,000 buffalo off a cliff just to cut the tongues out.

BTW, The cookbook "Mexico" (referenced in that blog post) is amazing.
 
Today marks day 7 of eating clean. For the most part, I feel fantastic. My pants have loosened, my stomach is not bloated, and I've have really been enjoying some good, clean food. I've even noticed that my face is way less greasy, and my facial color looks much healthier. However, I've noticed over the last few days that my energy levels are a bit low. Today I struggled to get through my usual push up routine and could not do as many pull ups or dips as usual. I'm guessing it is because of a pretty low carb intake compared to what my body is used to and the fact that I'm definitely burning more calories than I'm consuming. Will my energy levels increase as my body adjusts?

I'm going to purchase a couple books that I feel will help me learn to fuel my body correctly. Performance Paleo, and The Paleo Athelete. I'm open to suggestions on foods I should eat before and after a workout.

Thank you for any help,

Drew
 
Drew, you will see an energy issue over a period that could last several months. It can take a full year for some folks to turn on their ketogenic (fat burning) process. For most folks it takes 30 to 45 days before they get back to some kind of normal energy level. For me the first three weeks were the worst, and then a two month transition into feeling more and more energetic. I found though that I did not have "sprint" level energy for more than a few minutes, but I could grind all day at a moderate rate. I walked a couple of young folks into the ground one day bear hunting along a remote beach. How I felt at the start and at the end of the day were about the same energy wise, I knew I had worked out for several hours however my tank was not empty. The other two were spent. It opened my eyes as to the possibilities of the path I had started down a few months earilier.

One of the coolest things was that the lactic acid burn was missing. The other two had that later in the night and the next day, but I was fresh as a daisy. I knew I had walked about 12 miles or more the prior day, but so what?

If you are not going for fat loss and keeping to 50 grams of carbs a day or less then any kind of sweet potato post workout would be good. A few dates and some nuts, maybe. Check out that link up above to a Pratical Paleo page for a list of carbs.
 
Steeliedrew said:
Today marks day 7 of eating clean. For the most part, I feel fantastic. My pants have loosened, my stomach is not bloated, and I've have really been enjoying some good, clean food. I've even noticed that my face is way less greasy, and my facial color looks much healthier. However, I've noticed over the last few days that my energy levels are a bit low. Today I struggled to get through my usual push up routine and could not do as many pull ups or dips as usual. I'm guessing it is because of a pretty low carb intake compared to what my body is used to and the fact that I'm definitely burning more calories than I'm consuming. Will my energy levels increase as my body adjusts?

I'm going to purchase a couple books that I feel will help me learn to fuel my body correctly. Performance Paleo, and The Paleo Athelete. I'm open to suggestions on foods I should eat before and after a workout.

Thank you for any help,

Drew
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You're going to get a wide range of advice here and, for the reasons you mentioned, you can begin to see why there is often some "rule" bending often involved for athletes on the Paleo diet.

IMHO, I think you would be better off in the long run sticking it out for 30 days and fully and reliably converting your body into a state of Ketosis. The results you have seen thus far is why the paleo works so effectively for sedentary and moderately active people, though energy and recovery limitations can be problematic for the highly athletic. After that initial period of learning how your body operates eating clean and relying on fat for energy, you can begin to experiment with varying degrees of carb intakes centered around pre and post workout nutrition.

Basically, look at the first 30 days as a "whole 30" approach. Once you have completed that, you should be very sensitive and acutely aware of any carb intake as well as inflammations associated with certain foods. Adjust carb intakes as needed. Maybe you only need 50g of carb a day, maybe you need 100g. I can get by with consistent enough energy levels only relying on vegetables and tiny bit of fruit for carbs, but I have trouble increasing strength with that level of intake. 75g-100g of daily carbs (sweet potatoes and fruit) not only boosts my energy levels for workouts, I also see more consistent strength gains. For the last couple of weeks, I have made it a point to eat 1 big bowl of steel cut oats a week as that extra 100g of carbs seems to go a long ways. Its not paleo, but seems like my body needs it and I don't want to burn myself out on sweet potatoes. I have a friend who eats a bowl of rice before bed 2-3 nights a week to accomplish the same ends. I don't feel like I need that much presently. -don't be afraid to experiment, but make sure you understand how it feels to operate in a state of ketosis first.
 
Thanks for the input guys. One thing I noticed today was how I felt after I ate an apple. Before hand I was feeling quite tired and slow. A couple bites into the apple and I felt much better. Same thing happened when I ate some almonds a little while later. I will stock up on sweet potatoes and try and work some into my meals. Tonight is grass fed beef burgers with lettuce buns.
 
Whole9life eating after work out

A great link for you guys that are paleo but struggling after a workout to refuel. This info is also handy for backcountry to help out meal or eating planning. Which I know I stuggled with in 2013 when sheep hunting and paleo eating.
 
That's a great article. Thank you for posting that. I was bummed out when I read how much crap was in the Muscle Pharm protien powder I use.
 
Interesting article. Thanks for posting that. Those of you living a Paleo lifestyle, are you using a Whey protein suplement at all? If so, which brand and why? I really enjoyed drinking my muscle pharm shakes immediately following a work out but figured I may try and replace it with food and see how I recover. Those shakes have been my cheat the past couple weeks and I feel guilty about it. Haha
 
Garden of life makes a great raw fit protein that's pretty good. The hard part is finding non dairy based non chemical loaded protein powder. Pea protein is pretty good too, most of the ones I've seen are in the "vegan" section of the supplement stores, I'm pretty sure the veggies use them to supplement not eat tastey tastey meat. There is a long trip to super supplements in your near future lol
 
haha. I did come across an egg white vanilla protein powder last night at whole foods but it was $40 for just a couple pounds! It was really clean stuff though. One hard boiled egg has around 17 grams of protein alone but I can't see myself choking down a couple hard boiled eggs every work out.
 
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