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Paleo/primal/’eating clean’ and pole
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My go to fast meals:
Minced/ground lamb/beef/pork or steamed white fish mashed with fork, egg yolk, handful fresh or dried herbs, shape into patties or balls, fry in butter, serve with microwaved sweet potato which I then cut into wedges and toss in the fry pan once I’ve taken the cooked patties out, with steamed broccoli or green beans or bag spinach ( or Birdseye microwave steam veg bags if desperate for time). Takes 12 mins from scratch.Sliced or ribboned courgettes/zucchini (use potato peeler) tossed in hot butter served with stir fried frozen shrimp and tin salmon/tuna/crab plus lemon juice and raw almonds.
Pastry-less mini quiche: mix eggs and dollop cream, add chopped left over veg, ham, bacon etc, plop into greased muffin tray and bake til set. Also nice cold.
Left over rotisserie chicken, shredded. Chop onion, fry in coconut oil with Tom yum or curry spices, add chicken, any veg eg: mushrooms, chopped broccoli, sugar snap peas, peppers, stir fry, pour in tin full fat coconut milk, cook ten min, serve with bag of spinach.
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Thanks so much for tips, ideas, reading info, it’s making me hungry reading it all! I’ve signed up to my fitness pal and taken a before pic of my gut lol. I am determined to get rid of my baby weight, it’s just gota go! I am determined to put goodness in my body and also my little ones, plus I do think it might make it a bit easier to haul my ass up that pole!
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Interesting thread! I’ve been trying paleo sor of on and off for the past few months, but being a student, like someone else mentioned, doesn’t work well with trying to eat paleo! haha! But I do what I can. Even though I’ve only been eating paleo ‘so so’ I’ve noticed that I don’t get stomach pains as often, and I don’t get hungry immediately after eating! I kid you not, there were many times when I’d eat a sammich filled with things such as chicken and salad stuff, I would get full while eating it, but a few minutes after finishing the sammich I was hungry again!!! I couldn’t understand why…but the paleo diet has curbed that feeling way back!
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I’m a clean eating vegan 🙂 typical breakfast for me is a fruit smoothie with coconut milk, a huge salad for lunch, coconut milk greek yogurt or fruit for a snack and my dinners vary widely. I love experimenting and converting recipes to vegan versions. I’ve upped my protein intake so lately I’ve been having stir fry or salad with tofu or seitan. I also eat about 75% raw.
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My sister recently went raw vegan and I’m slowly following in her steps as our bodies DO NOT agree with dairy or meat (bloated, tired, gas hehe) A lot of people don’t realize that their body is trying to tell them something. Food is fuel, you should not feel groggy after you eat! Clean eating takes a lot of prepping and time. This are some cool natural energy things I drink before pole got a boost.
-Maca powder
-Spurillina powder (with orange juice)
-Yerba Mates (my favorite!)Some of my favorite foods:
-cubed oven cooked butternut squash
-Humus! Love hummus!
-Green smoothies (bananas, pineapple or apple juice can almost make anything taste good hehe)
-homemade nut milkEating cleaner then in the past has made a huge difference in my energy levels, my concentration, motivation, mental health and definition/weight and recovery 🙂
Worth looking into! Little steps first 🙂
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If any of you folks in the states are feeling dessert indulgent (and money indulgent cuz the stuff is expensive) http://www.paleotreats.com is delish without breaking paleo. (Is that appropriate verbage? Like breaking kosher?) I’m not on the paleo diet or anything but man…this stuff is pretty yum.
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Would like more from BeBeBelly about the raw vegan! I have been trying without success to go raw.
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When I started to eat clean, the first step was to stop eating everything having a commercial (advertised on TV). I cut all the refined sugar and refined salt. I try to eat whole foods as often as possible. I cut out cow milk and meat. Feeling much better.
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Better late than never… 🙂
My boyfriend has been paleo since before we met, crediting it with eliminating the bipolar episodes he used to suffer and enabling him (in conjunction with carb back-loading, ironically) to take full control of his weight. I’ve always been slim and felt fit, but was nonetheless interested by the health benefits described in the literature I was made to read! I have since become 99.9% gluten free and have to report that my physical and mental energy levels have risen enormously – no more struggling to string a sentence together at the end of a 5 hour teaching shift!
I still eat white rice, rice noodles, rice cakes and sweet potato, usually after training, since carbs of this nature are good for muscle retention and recovery. I also refuse to be without cake, so cook one per week, usually with gluten free/almond flour and, of late, dextrose as a sweetener if required (glucose – more useful to the muscles than the fructose of cane sugars), and have a bread maker in which I make gluten free bread which I store in the freezer as a treat – never as the bulk of a meal. Plus cream, yogurt and cheese! We recently invested in a Vitamix machine, which I HIGHLY recommend for ease of creating lovely things to your particular specifications (including 30-second ice-cream, with cream of choice, dairy or otherwise, or semi-raw, piping hot soup in 6 mins… it’s magic!), whatever your diet.
I thought it might be worth outlining some key principles of paleo here, since it may be confused with other the diets mentioned above. *Disclaimer*: I’m no expert, just an enthusiast!
1. Grain AND legume(beans, lentils, chickpea…)-free, with a particular emphasis on being gluten and whole grain free. This is because whilst grain husks technically do contain most of what is potentially nutritious about the grain, they also contain antinutrients and toxins.
2. No hydrogenated or otherwise processed oils and no E-numbers, artificial sweeteners or vague additives – generally speaking, avoid all processed foods.
3. Use coconut (for higher temperature) or olive oil for cooking and dressing food – especially avoid rapeseed and sunflower oil, which contain excess omega 6, counter-acting the omega 3 sorely lacking in the modern diet.
4. If consuming dairy, chose fattier products where possible, which are lower in sugars and in lactose, to which many are unknowingly intolerant, and higher in that which most effectively fuels and satiates us over extended periods of time – fat.
5. Freely [within reason:)] consume: vegetables, eggs, nuts, seeds, meats (preferably from well-kept, grass-fed animals who haven’t been pumped with antibiotics! We order in bulk direct from a paleo-friendly local farm for amazing prices) and fish (wild-caught ones from further down the food chain, like mackerel, are best, to avoid chemical contamination)
6. try to eat some fermented products like natural yogurt, kombucha, kimchi, etc., which are beneficial to the gut, replicating some of the natural effects of our less sanitary food-consuming past.I’m sure there are many points I’ve missed!!
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I don’t think you missed anything Bugsy – that was the perfect description! 😉
I love eating paleo. BUT many people look at me like I am stupid, and say I could not be without bread.” Bollocks! Of course you can be without bread. I CAN! It is only a question of, what do you WANT. Nobody needs bread, nobody needs pasta made from grains (I love my homemade zucchini noodles, they are so quickly made and really easy – fun for kids, too!!), nobody needs cake …
No. Wait a minute. I DO need cake! 😀 This is by far my favourite recipe for glutenfree, lactose free, 100% paleo cake , and I’ve made it 5 times or more in the last year http://paleoliscious.blogspot.co.at/2011/08/sacher-torte-paleo-way-is-best-way.html -
I eat a primal diet 80-90% of the time. I’m leaner than I have ever been and not so hungry all the time. I was a carb queen before and couldn’t imagine life without bread, but i’ve been eating this way now for over a year and still love it.
I have a lot less gas than before but I do have to watch the yogurt and whey protein.
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