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Posted: 11 June 2012 06:08 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Is there anybody eating Paleo style? Can you share your experience please? And are your whole family eating Paleo style foods too or just you? I am highly intrigued and want to find out more but not sure where to start!

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Posted: 11 June 2012 07:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I used to quite by accident, just had a very low grain diet and can honestly say I was much healthier for it - and didn’t put on weight so easily. Sorry no “proper” pointers on how to do it but I think it makes a lot of sense.

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Posted: 11 June 2012 08:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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I do, but not the rest of my family - really.  To some extent they do but not as full as I do.  I started not eating any grains at all after being advised to be gluten free, and since all grains have inflammatory lectins etc I decided to cut them all out.  I do use buckwheat (which is a seed anyway).  I eat meats, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, veggies and fruit.  Some paleo types eat dairy, some don’t - most don’t since agriculture is modern human ‘invention’ and paleo’s strive to eat pre-agricultural era.  This is based, I think, on the premise that the human body takes about 70-100 thousand years to show even slight adaptation to something (say a slight increase in sugar or grain in the diet) and we have only been living and eating as an agricultural based society for about 4000 yrs, max.  There is a lot of interesting theory and research on this.  I would suggest the interesting book Primal Body Primal Mind as a starting point by Nora Ged….?  Um, I forget her last name!  Bare in mind since the book was written the author now is dairy free, so perhaps later editions will include more on this.  It is not a ‘paleo’ book, as such,  it is someone who has researched nutrition and uses the evolution of human physiology (plus modern testing etc to measure results and the scouring of every bit of nutritional research) to find the ‘primal’ diet of humans.  It closely resembles the paleo style of eating. 

I was weighing in at 10 and a half stone after my dd was born and after a year eating this way I weighed 8 and a half.  I am pregnant now again and have strongly wanted sme dairy and rice so I have been eating them.  I am flexible and never did it anyway for the weight, I was wanting to decrease some inflammatory symptoms I was having and I did, plus including various supplements (like vit d - ) it worked too.  It was interesting to see the weight loss as a side effect.  It was suggested to me at the time that I ought to take methotrexate (a chemo drug) for two years.  I totally declined.  I changed my diet instead and have been in the best health of my whole adult life, with no further illness.  My consultant thinks it is coincidence though, as he does not believe diet effects health smile  Despite my blood work showing differently smile

If I eat junk, like crisps or chocolate, of even just jam, sometimes dairy - I feel very foggy headed and tired for a couple of days, and often get headaches.

Will be interested to hear other comments.

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Posted: 11 June 2012 10:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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I do and so does my LO - you can read our story here:

http://www.thepaleomom.com/2012/04/real-people-real-paleo-kimmy-and-jamies.html
If it wouldn’t have been for paleo my life would still be hell - I have never felt better!!

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Posted: 12 June 2012 12:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Really good to read Kimmy smile

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Posted: 13 June 2012 08:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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We have been experimenting with it! Earlier this month we did a fortnight eating paleo and the change was pretty amazing. I slept better, didn’t need as much sleep, didn’t feel fuzzy headed in the morning, had tons of energy and no PMT! I also lost 5lb without trying.

Anyway, next month (because we’re away camping for the last 10 days of this month!) we are going to do the Whole30 challenge. Which gives us lots of time to plan food! I am staying gluten free (at least at home!) for now as I feel rotten when I eat it.

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Posted: 13 June 2012 10:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Yeah gluten is the killer for me too.  And to think I ate it all my lie until recently.  The immunologist I was having advice from won’t see anyone until they have been gluten free for three months, the effects of gluten are so massive and widespread through the body sometimes what someone feels is an inflammatory condition vanishes when they eliminate gluten.  Also gluten messes up anything underlying so it’s hard to see what is gluten inflammation and what may be something else.  It’s an interesting subject.  It is also not a hard thing to stick to when there are Sooooooo many alternatives around smile

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Posted: 13 June 2012 10:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Can I pick your brains please? I’m trying to be very organised and plan ahead…

Portion sizes! I can’t find much information on how much people actually eat, can you give me some examples? Or does anyone have a good link?

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Posted: 13 June 2012 10:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Thanks. I am taking the changes slowly…..I am going grain free first and then seeing where that takes me. Any other book recomendations before I head to Amazon?

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Posted: 02 July 2012 09:36 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Just stumbled across this thread and glad I did. I have dabbled on and off with Paleo for a couple of years and felt miles better each time. It all fell by the wayside as things at home got stressy last year but now things have settled I’m looking to get into it again as my boyfriend is very interested in it too. I’m also interested in Paleo for kids although mine are such picky eaters I think it will prove quite a challenge.

If someone could recommend a good book to start with that would be great. Last time I relied on bits n bats I read on the web but I’d like to get the man a book so he can read up on it.

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