Paleo diet update...

[kalibex]

...lasted a mere

3

days before again consuming grain products!!! Go, me!!!

OTOH, I was so hungry during Sunday afternoon into the evening that by the time that I laspsed, I'd had a low-grade headache for some time...the amount of vegetable matter it takes to keep my blood sugar level is apparently prodigious compared to the relatively modest amount of bready starch (blue corn chips) with which I broke my grain-fast and banished my headache...

and after I went out and bought all that arrowroot, too...

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise paleofood did not include grain products. Do potatoes not do the trick, carb-wise?

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Paleodiets don't contain grain, beans, or dairy.

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Heck, a paleo-diet doesn't even include plant products that must be cooked before they can be safely eaten.

Hence no potatoes. Or legumes. Or plant oils that could not have been processed/accessed before the advent of agriculture.

You get meat (including insects theoretically), eggs, fish, and whatever plant products (fruits, nuts, tubers etc.)would have been foraged and eaten raw (though they can of course be cooked nowadays).

In these modern times, 'paleo'-baked goods are made mostly from nut 'flours', with nut or coconut 'milk' standing in for the diary...

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

*cough* I"m a celiac and even I don't think I'd try that diet.. I dont' get most grains NOW. trust me.. my diet is interesting enough as it is... =)

arrowroot? ooer. was there a sale? I'm low on arrowroot.

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Not unless you consider $9 a lb a sale....

[xenakat13.livejournal.com]

Aaarrgghh...the dreaded "withdrawal hangover." I suffered it when I temporarily stopped drinking coffee (while I was expecting my daughter), and when the doctor took salt away from me last year (I'm hypertensive).

All I wanted was what I wasn't supposed to have.

What I ended up doing with the salt, was that instead of going "cold turkey," I gradually made changes that eliminated the salt. First, quit munching on chips and other salty snacks. Then, I put no extra salt on my meals. I would sprinkle on black pepper, oregano, dried grated lemon peel or one of those commercially-available salt-free spice mixes.

Once I got used to that, I started cutting back in other ways.

Now I can't get the prepared tuna or chicken at the salad bar because I can taste the salt in it...and there's too much of it for me.


I know this is going the long way around it, but I what I am trying to ask is if you had considered phasing in the paleo diet in a similar manner, to get used to the changes? That way you wouldn't have such strong cravings or headaches..