re: Anyone Still Doing a Paleo-esque Diet These Days?

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I'm on Day 19 of a liquid juice diet. Green juice, red juice and orange juice. I've had soup with chicken 3 times and protein powder daily. All good so far. Blood work pending, should get results in next 48 hours.

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and why are you doing this?

I have always ate mostly protiens and fresh vegetables. No sugar, and low carbs. The paleo diet has too many rules, and some don't make sense. I basically eat as a human should.

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while youre avoiding that dreaded insulin spike, may want to cut out protein shakes, as well - since they also spike insulin. idiot.

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Ummm...insulin spikes are actually good when it comes to muscle growth, insulin being a highly anabolic protein and all. You are supposed to eat in such a way that you spike your insulin levels at the proper times. Idiot indeed.

How is it working out for you? At what point did you start feeling better. Day 1 sucks and I'm sure more to follow. I just started one to reboot after many years of garbage food and booze. Looking to go around 7-10 days and then just transition to healthier choices.

I've been on the slow carb for a couple months. Similar to paleo but only 6 days/week with a cheat day. No fruit, starchy carbs, and limited dairy. Mostly beans veggies and protein. Dropped a quick 10 lbs and have never been leaner. Highly recommend.

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Red meat? It could help kill you. Lots of evidence.

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Nope.

for health, a strict paleo diet like whole 30 is perfect. I am talking strictly for health.

anybody that argues otherwise is trolling or is dense.

But most people can not stick to this style of diet for very long. That is the problem.

For weight loss, your body does not know the difference between the sugar in berries and the sugar in chocolate. But weight loss and low bf% does not equal health.

perfect example of the above is myself. I am currently at 11% BF per dexascan, I have terrible cholesterol. Most of that is genetics, but when I do the whole30 diet strictly, guess what it improves tremendously.

like i said strictly from a health stand point strict paleo i.e. whole30 is the perfect diet.

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What do you mean by that? What is your tri/HDL ratio?

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DOn't know at this moment but my HDL is usually pretty low. When I do whole30, I add in lots of fish oil, take in tons of grass fed to balance my omega3 vs omega 6.

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Whole 30 doesn't allow dairy. I don't agree with that at all. Butter, cream and full fat cheese should be a part of any healthy diet. Also, the prohibition against things like cauliflower crust pizza are silly. Having said all that, if the average American just did Whole 30, that would solve like 80% of our problems.

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It only doesnt allow dairy for the first 30 days. and it does allow brown butter and ghee.

As far as the cauliflower crust pizza, the whole point of the diet is to break your addiction to things like that and to get back to simple. You can have cauliflower but some people on paleo take the whole almond flour to a whole new level.

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I've now put probably 3 dozen people on LCHF and basically all of them are having no problems keeping on it. There's nothing really to "stick" to - they are too satiated by the butter-topped steaks they're eating

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and you can eat that on whole30 just have to use clarified butter (ghee or brown butter).

and yea plenty stick to the LCHF, but even on keto calories matter. If you eat a big steak with lots of butter, your daily cals are gone. Normal person is not going to only eat a steak some butter and a tad bit of cheese, sorry.

I am a low carb advocate but if you think the average american who is a slob will stick to lcHF long term, well....sorry you are wrong. Wish they would though.

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Sure. And with my metabolism I'd look like an AIDS patient and wouldn't be able to bench my body weight.

That wouldn't be very healthy.

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Eat a potato.