sierrafit asked: Thanks for answering my post. One of my close friends is doing it about 75% of the time and she doesn't seem to know exactly what it is about. What does your daily intake look like? Mostly meat? I'm just curious as to what the basic tenets are of the diet, effects you noticed, & struggles to stick with it. Any help would be great! Thank you!
It’s really about jumping in and being dedicated to the first 30 days. After that it gets a lot easier, your body gets used to the differences in your intake and goes along for the ride. As for my personal intake I am pretty strict on the diet and would say that I’m often above 90% if you make allowances for not buying grass fed beef.
Daily intake about 1600-1800 cal
Breakfast: couple eggs, veggies, and a meat of some sort, fish/bacon/ham/lean beef, water and black coffee. Some days I swap out elements in favor on my go to smoothie 6-7 strawberries, 1 cup almond milk, 1 banana, 6-7 ice cubes
Lunch: generally leftovers from a dinner, if at work I usually bring in a steamable veggie bag to go with whatever my leftovers are, I’ll eat an entire package of the veggie mostly is asparagus or broccoli and water, sometimes an unsweetened tea
Dinner: This is where I make whatever. Meats include salman, mahi mahi, and pollock, various cuts of beef, pork chops, chicken, and thanks to a gift from some friends I’ve lately been able to include venison in this meal. I usually have two cups of veggies at least, broccoli, asparagus, carrots have a heavy rotation. Also I’ve brought in brussel sprouts, and leafy greens too. For a long time this meal was meat, onions, peppers, and mushrooms but lately I’ve been playing with this a lot.
I also have some things that I’ve found to work for me that help with my workout schedule and recovery sometimes. I will often eat about a bar of Lindt 90% dark chocolate a week. Working in a food environment around sweets all day I need a little break with it. Plus it’s almost no sugar at all. I also eat sweet potatoes a bit. I’ll have on every couple days, I like to roast them with seasoning and eat them as “paleo fries” otherwise I’m pretty low carb on the diet but that may be changing soon as I’m getting ready to step up my workout schedule to compete in the crossfit open.
Struggles - only occasionally do I go somewhere and crave something but usually it’s not worth the price I know my body will make me pay for bombarding it with that much junk in one sitting. I went 6 months with no ice cream, and still have only had paleo friendly coconut milk based ice cream because of my birthday in this time. I have had 4 pieces of real pizza and both times I had two pieces my body was not a happy camper afterwards and that’s it. The biggest pain has been going out with friends to eat, sorting through the menu and finding things that work for me. I’ve found a few places that I can go and just always go there with them.
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