So since my husband and I decided to start this journey, we’ve gotten a lot of questions. Everything from “How can you give up bread?” to “Is there anything you CAN eat?”
After losing 14 pounds in the first month, I can say definitively that you can eat a lot of things and still lose weight.
In my opinion, the Paleo diet is basically this: if God didn’t make it, don’t eat it. So no twinkies, no packaged noodles, no candy bars. But you can eat plenty of veggies, lean meat and fish, nuts, healthy fats, and fresh fruit.
You also, at least at first, need to stay away from dairy products, all grains including wheat, rice, barley AND corn, and legumes. More about this in a moment.
The diet was really popularized by Loren Cordain, a professor of Health Sciences at Colorado State University and published in his book, The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat.
I have found his book to be a little on the dry side – cough, cough – very dry – and got a lot more from Robb Wolf’s book: The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
I find the Robb Wolf book to be very informative, entertaining even – and a good source of the science behind the diet. They both do a much better job than I can do to explain why grain is the worst possible thing in the world for you to eat, but it comes down to this: humans haven’t been eating grain long enough for us to be able to properly digest/breakdown gluten. Gluten won’t make most of us instantly sick, instead it’s like a slow, painful dance. It disrupts our intestines and may contribute to Leaky Gut syndrome. Grains raise our blood sugar levels and force our pancreas to work harder to lower it. It’s just not a good thing.
Dairy is taxing to the gut and may increase inflammation. Legumes, while rich in iron and other nutrients, are also inflammatory to the gut and should be avoided, at least at first.
Yes, it takes some planning and it can be expensive. More about that soon…
This page is also posted on my new Paleo Weight Loss website.
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