Paleo diet could make you gain weight, new scientific research shows

[sydneydee 647]

My wife and I have been paleo for 9 months and it has made a big difference. I have lost 10 kgs and feel like I have a lot more energy. 

The downside of paleo is that it takes a lot of prep time. Cutting sugar out of your diet means you need to prepare most meals from scatch. 

We start the day with a green smoothie. Usually have a salad & protein for lunch and we have a lot of slow cooked meals with roast veggies for dinner.  

The usual stables are still good in a paleo version ie spag bowl with zucchini noddles. Lasagna using eggplant & mushrooms with cauliflower cheese.

 

[junk 342]

All diets get rubbished soon or later. I bet you someone is trying to get a Phd out of disproving the Paleo diet. Drinking too much water a zero calorie substance has been known to kill people,why not rubbish water.I don't drink the stuff only RED WINE especially the O.P brand ( other people's). If the Dees are crap let's blame the Paleo diet. 

[beelzebub 22,225]

The thing about these style of eating is it requires the ability to cook, not just assemble !! My wife's not fussed as I do %99 of the cooking lol.

I'm genuinely impressed by those that understand what they eat

[Biffen 12,323]

Man cannot live on bread and moan.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,394]

On 2/19/2016 at 8:37 AM, sydneydee said:

My wife and I have been paleo for 9 months and it has made a big difference. I have lost 10 kgs and feel like I have a lot more energy. 

The downside of paleo is that it takes a lot of prep time. Cutting sugar out of your diet means you need to prepare most meals from scatch. 

We start the day with a green smoothie. Usually have a salad & protein for lunch and we have a lot of slow cooked meals with roast veggies for dinner.  

The usual stables are still good in a paleo version ie spag bowl with zucchini noddles. Lasagna using eggplant & mushrooms with cauliflower cheese.

 

I really hope you mean "staples" and that you haven't been eating horse meat as part of your diet.

[McQueen 17,862]

15 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I really hope you mean "staples" and that you haven't been eating horse meat as part of your diet.

Horse steak is actually rather nice.

[darkhorse72 1,724]

47 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Horse steak is actually rather nice.

 

Yes the French breed a particular type of horse for this item, same with their snails and frogs.  

[daisycutter 28,485]

1 hour ago, McQueen said:

Horse steak is actually rather nice.

my favourite is yearling thoroughbred

[DemonFrog 1,347]

46 minutes ago, Darkhorse72 said:

 

Yes the French breed a particular type of horse for this item, same with their snails and frogs.  

They are very sick people!

[pineapple dee 2,892]

4 hours ago, McQueen said:

Horse steak is actually rather nice.

I have eaten horse meat in Bavaria. It tasted like a deep deep red corned beef to me. Quite nice.

[Its Time for Another 4,052]

On 19 February 2016 at 2:21 PM, daisycutter said:

very interesting it's time. can you give us an idea of what you eat (and what you avoid)?

The first step was switching from cereal for breakfast to a protein shake consisting ofmeitherna banana or some berries such as strawberries and blueberries with some protein powder, coconut water maybe a raw egg and a super foods powder supplement. Delicious and I don't get as hungry mid morning as I used to with cereal. 

Lunch I either have a salad with some tinned tuna or some type of grilled meat or fish. I have to say cutting carbs out at lunch made the biggest difference. I always suffered a mid afternoon energy lag where I'd almost feel like I needed a sleep. That's gone. 

Dinner I eat plenty of chicken, red meat at least once a week, usually grilled I the barbie.  I used to not eat much red meat. In keeping with PaleomI avoid potatoes, legumes, peas and beans. 

I was never a big bread eater so it wasn't a big deal to cut it out. I love rice so it was a bit more challenging to cut it out. 

My theory is if I make it too hard it won't be sustainable for me. So I'm not strict about it. I have some dairy like milk. I still have the occasional beer and wine. 

The theory of these diets is that sugar is the problem. If you cut it out and the foods that turn into it after digestion out of your diet all the good things follow. Certainly seems to be working for me. 

The other really interesting theory to it is that if you don't have sugar in your body it turns to fat as a source of energy. We have 10 times more energy reserves from fat than sugar. So much better for endurance for exercise. Also has the benefit that your body eats your fat reserves much more than before while at the same time reducing the fat created by sugar. 

All I can say is that last summer I smashed most of my PB's on the bike and I'm now in my mid 50's. Some of those times have sat around for more than 10 years. I'm not a competition rider,or anything I just ride for fitness but we go pretty hard for us and I was stocked at the difference. 

If you are really interested there is a book written by Rob Wolf called The Paleo Solution. It explains the science behind it in great detail. It's been around a lot longer than people think. 

Edited February 21, 2016 by It's Time

[Chook 14,463]

Turns out that study is so much rat's you-know-what:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/dangerous-paleo-diet-study-is-ragged-with-holes/

[Biffen 12,323]

I've lost 11 kgs by reducing bread, pasta , spuds and rice.

no effort at all. 

I wish someone told me earlier that carbs become fat before they are burned by the metabolism.

Don't eat white food.

 

 

 

[daisycutter 28,485]

3 minutes ago, Biffen said:

I've lost 11 kgs by reducing bread, pasta , spuds and rice.

no effort at all. 

I wish someone told me earlier that carbs become fat before they are burned by the metabolism.

Don't eat white food.

 

no need to be racist about it, biffo

[McQueen 17,862]

41 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

no need to be racist about it, biffo

Stick to fried chicken, dc.

[daisycutter 28,485]

28 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Stick to fried chicken, dc.

only if they are free range, mac 

[Biffen 12,323]

13 hours ago, McQueen said:

Stick to fried chicken, dc.

 

13 hours ago, McQueen said:

Stick to fried chicken, dc.

No corn grits though Steve. Okra and collard greens are fine.