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Paleo/primal/’eating clean’ and pole
Shoogstandley and I were on another thread and chatting a bit about how eating primal/paleo and poling made us feel so thought I’d start a thread for anyone who wants to chat about this way of life – cooking and eating, sharing recipes, training tips, pre or post workout energy boosters, strength and play ideas, that sort of thing.
I eat this way 80% of the time, I do eat whole milk dairy and sushi and the odd bread roll plus wine so I’m not hardcore. I use intermittent fasting and fasting strength training sometimes with good effects. I dropped 35lb and several dress sizes in a year – but the main benefit is the energy and joy I feel in my body.
Anyway nice to hear from anyone else who enjoys this sort of thing 🙂
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I totally agree, the energy for me is huge. Metal clarity as well. Seeing my husband literally drop pounds with no physical activity (since then it seems his pole dancer wife sparked his physical activity a bit) but he sits all day tattooing, and just cutting out all the starches and excessive sugar, he dropped 40 lbs the first year. We splurge as well, and when we do we don’t do any negative talk or thought, just enjoy and move on:) paleo actually led to to find out a whole world of info on GMOs and the organic side of food, As well as what is happening with the disease we face and how a lot of it can be caused by diet. I know everything is fine in moderation:) and then there are some things that are just plain wrong with the food biz. food can be a touchy subject. This is just my experience:)
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Hi guys! I asked a while ago about clean eating, and you told me about those websites, tropical pole. I really want to get more into clean eating but find it difficult being vegetarian, and have absolutely no will power for those moments when I’m starving! I really feel ready to make the switch for good but I’m the type of person who needs to be told what to eat as I find it difficult to be creative with food, especially when I’m hungry! I’m kind of not sure where to start, I just know I’m over carrying this extra weight and need to rejuvenate!
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I’m a pescitarian… And I too find it hard to eat clean. I really wish I could because it does make me feel so much better… But sometimes we’ll go to grab a bite to eat and the only thing for me on the menu is pasta or friend fish. I try and avoid places like that…. But sometimes I’m just hungry!!!!!
I did just talk with a friend today about juicing more (I love juicing and blending) and trying to cut out the crappy foods…
Thanks for sharing your success. Now I feel extra motivated.
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Fried fish** silly phone 🙂
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My boyfriend and I started eating paleo in January. We switched to this way if eating for health reasons (my brother is in med school and started focusing on functional medicine and learned about all the health benefits of cutting out refined sugars and processed grains which had helped my autoimmune dieease) we subscribed to emeals which gives us weekly meal plans and I really recommend it.
Besides the health benefits, my boyfriend has lost 30 lbs since January and I get compliments at my pole studio on my fat lost/muscle growth even though I haven’t really list a substantial amount of weight.
Robb wolf does a great job in his books of explaining paleo in simple terms…its much more than a crossfit fad.
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Wow great to hear about other people’s experiences/ interest. I don’t talk about it much normally because I think diet bores are tiresome and some of the evangelical paleo/cross fit zealotry can be off putting. I find it a very easy and simple way to eat now but at first I logged my food on my fitness pal (free tracker that tells you how many g of carbs, fat, protein etc) to get an idea and did a lot of reading. For me getting over the idea that breakfast had to be cereal based and eaten before doing anything else was a game changer: when I exercised early then had brunch ( something like scrambled eggs and spinach, or yogurt with nuts and seeds and berries) I started ripping through visceral abdominal fat and getting lean.
I would then eat a huge salad with chopped avocado and protein like tinned tuna or cold chicken or feta at lunch and be full and energised til dinner – more protein like salmon or meat or shrimp – and loads of colourful veg, with home made pesto, or coconut milk and oil and curry spices, or garlic butter. I carried a bag of raw and salted nuts and dried apricots about if I needed to snack but was rarely hungry.
Such a change from when I had muesli or toast for breakfast, and a salad wrap/ fruit/ sugary yog for lunch, fruit snack then pasta or rice with a pathetically small, fat free bit of protein and veg for dinner. It was a ‘healthy low fat diet’ according to received wisdom but I was exhausted, grumpy, lethargic and had huge pregnant looking distended tum, with crap hair.
Some people feel great on low fat/lots of grain but it didn’t agree with me at all!
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I’ve never heard of paleo before. But am interested in learning how to make cleaner choices. I am a heavy set, emotional eater and make a lot of bad decisions when it comes to food, this is generally a lack of knowledge I think.
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I was very careful what I ate for the last thirty years. Not exactly paleo because I did eat some whole grain foods & others but close to it. Just tried to eat healthy, never following any specific diet.
Unfortunately a few years ago was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease (not caused by diet) which has gotten worse the last couple of years as not responding well to medicines. My diet for almost the past year was cottage cheese, plain yogurt, soft-boiled eggs, bottles of boost/ensure, protein shakes, ripe bananas. That was it. Just a few weeks ago was allowed to add back other foods although have found some I still cannot tolerate. Somewhat funny that the GI doctors recommend avoiding a lot of “healthy foods” and stay with processed foods because of my Crohn’s. Have to switch to a new med and hoping it works with no side-effects. Had to stop the last med as the effects caused other problems which also kept me off the pole or any exercise.
What I have learned (including Nutrition training after my Person Trainer cert) over the years is its not really important to follow a specific diet. Its what is healthy & works for Yourself. What is a good, healthy, easy-to-follow diet for one person will not work for another. Some people need more protein and some need much less. Fats & carbs are IMPORTANT to a diet, not to be avoided totally. The amounts again are different for each. Whole grains are good, just not for Crohn’s.
What often happens with the different branded diets comes down to one thing: watching what you eat. Its usually not the diet itself but that people are looking at the foods and amounts they eat while avoiding foods they should not eat. This does not apply to the McDonald’s Super Size meal diet 🙂
Of course, for weight loss, it should be diet as well as exercise. Look at all the diet infomercials and the fine print is: AND EXERCISE.Now that I can try other foods, have had pizza three times, chicken hot dogs twice so eating to enjoy and not what’s healthy. A hamburger (one of my three favorites) caused issues but enjoying what food I can for now. Healthy eating has a different meaning for each of us. This weekend gonna get another cheese pizza!
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Interesting thread. I am trying to eat healthier but I find it hard sometimes. Paleo seems interesting.
As a student I don’t have lots of money so I want my food to be healthy and ‘cheap’, which is hard to find over here because eating unhealthy actually is cheaper than eating healthy sometimes.. -
Thanks Tropicalpole for opening this thread. This is exactly what I need. I’m not one for reading , would much rather chat to people on here. So I started this morning with a cup of black coffee, 1 hour of pole training and now I’m cooking a 2 x egg spinach omelette in olive oil. Determined to drink lots of water. Any help and tips would be really appreciated. 🙂
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I can totally recommend one book to you: “Eat The Yolks” by Liz Wolfe. I found it to be a funny and easy to understand, although English is not my first language. It has a lot of information about food – how it affects your body, why you need this or that for good hormone-levels, etc. I’ve been eating paleo/primal with the addition of rice and potatoes every now and then for about 2 years now. I can’t eat gluten anyway, I always try to buy organic stuff and I’ve never been a fan of soy products, so I’ve actually eaten something close to paleo for about 6 years. No change in weight though 😉
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PS: There are so many paleo blogs out there with yummy recipes, you should try google. My favourites are Against All Grains, The Ancestral Chef and Nom Nom Paleo, to name only three.
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Hi Ali
Sounds yum! I know you said you’d prefer not to read just hang out here but it can be quite hard to take control and change your way of eating and work out exactly what’s right for you without having a handle on it – I found
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/low_carb_diets and my fitness pal invaluable in the first few months. I worked out that I lost weight on under 60g carbs a day, then stayed losing 1lb week whilst building muscle at 100-150g a day but I stress it is different for everyone.I also need a lot of fat and protein as I’m 5’7 and training 5 days a week. You aren’t me so my exact diet might not work the same!
But the paleo/primal/ basics are easy to understand; so having a look at any of the sites mentioned – marks daily apple, rob Wolfe site, nom nom paleo, ancestral chef etc will help not just with recipes! No grain sugar or processed, eat food that would be recognisable to someone who lived 500 years ago, lots of water, lots of play, lift heavy things (like your own weight on a pole!), lots of colourful veg, easy on sugary fruit, protein with every meal, embrace fat – fat makes you full and is necessary for health. So use lots of butter (kerrygold is great), olive oil and coconut oil, eat the crispy chicken skin, the golden fat on the chop – and don’t eat the breadsticks!
A good book is Escape the Diet Trap by Dr John Briffa. Good luck and enjoy your day!
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http://paleoporn.net/5-paleo-breakfast-recipes/
For me breakfast had been and still is the hardest to be creative. Thought this was a great site with helpful info -
Just got the Nom Nom Paleo book from my library this weekend. I have had the e-meals Paleo subscription for a few months and I started off doing well with that but found that they didn’t have much variety in the meals and everything started to seem the same. I am not a good cook and don’t like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen so any tips for faster meals as a full time working and mom of 2 would be great!
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