That's exactly what I thought when my husband had first suggested it! He came home from the Dr and said that he recommended this "Primal Blueprint" book and it was about cutting out carbs in your diet. WHAT!?!?!? I couldn't even think about eating food without some sort of carb whether that be the main course or a side of bread or whatever, I most certainly didn't think I was going to like this.
At first it was hard, the cravings and the being hungry ALL THE TIME! If you know me, you know that you don't want to be around me when I'm hungry! We replaced all the food that had carbs, no bread, no chips, no sugar, no white flour. We used instead coconut flour and almond flour, Stevia for sugar, Nuts and berries for the chips, and a fridge full of fresh veggies and fruits. Now we always had veggies and fruits for an option (not a fan of scurvy), but we had tons! Also trying to get the kids to eat them all the time in replace of their normal snacks was crazy hard. I remember bringing my mom boxes of snacks, granola bars, fruit packs, cereals, veggie chips all sort of stuff.
I thought I am not going to be able to bake anything, and I'm not going to be able to cook! Well about a week or two into it I realised that the cooking part wasn't much different then the way we always ate. We just didn't use the carb part. Fajitas but in a lettuce wrap same with burgers. we had lots of salads and different veggies. We always left the table stuffed and it wasn't because of breads or anything that would be bad for us. As far as baking I found some uh-mazing recipes. two are cupcake recipes ill post a link at the bottom.
Anyway I'm getting off topic. The point of the "Primal Diet" is to take carbs out of your life and replace them with meats, nuts, berries, anything that a caveman would eat. A caveman isn't going to have bread ya know. Also exercise, you never saw a "fat" caveman. once again think back to the caveman era, they ran...a lot! they did squats, they did push ups, they did planks. Using their own body weight as the weight. When you don't eat carbs your body has to make energy from something, so it burns the fat in your body and BAM energy and weight loss. Never do anything that will make you so out of breath you want to die. you should work out to get a good sweat and then let your heart rate come down.
when I was using "insanity" I couldn't believe the amount of "legs" we did, but after reading this book my sister had bought for me "You are your own gym" I realised why. When you work out your high muscle areas, you are going to be burning fat all over your body. That's why when I was running AND eating strictly primal I was loosing inches and weight.
http://www.tgipaleo.com/2012/02/12/red-velvet-cupcakes/
http://www.thewannabechef.net/2012/01/16/paleo-vanilla-cupcakes/ My favourite!!
You are your own gym : Mark Lauren
Primal Blueprint : Mark Sisson
http://primalblueprint.com/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
I do have the primal blueprint on a pdf so if you are interested in it let me see if I can send it to you. Just let me know
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