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[Kt.Rd.]

Hello!

My Name is Katie
From Vermont

Age: 20

How Primal are you: I have been eating eggs in the morning, Some kind of meat for lunch, and a veggies and meat for dinner..


• Grains- I call them carbs! I stopped eating them on Monday the first start of Primal!

• Dairy- I only eat cheese; its unpasterized cheese. I don't like drinking milk, or having yogurt so not having it anymore doesn't change anything for me!

• Refined foods- I haven't added any salt or "Bad food"

• Legumes-soy,beans,peas

• Modernly palatable- I can't eat any kind of nut because I am allergic so I try and find something else that can give me that protein that a nut would give me.

Do you consume dairy: Kinda; I eat cheese(Unpasterized), I don't eat anyt butter, margarine. I use extra olive oil for pretty much anything.

Do you drink coffee or tea: I do not drink any coffee, tea, juice, milk, soda. The one thing I drink is Water.

Motivator for switching to Primal: My sister bought me the book, she has also been on Primal for a couple months. She got me started, I read the book and that Monday morning I started doing Primal!

Favorite exercise: Using the bike, doing the planks, squats, and pushups(which I haven't done since 8th grade). I love these!

Favorite Primal food: Seasoned Bunless Burger on some lettuce with grilled vegtables.

Best part about being Primal: Its only my 4th day, so best part is I am already full of energy; I wake up in the morning fully rested and ready to start the day, before I never wanted to get out to bed, not even to go to work!

Worst part about being Primal: I haven't found the worst part of being Primal, it just bugs me I am trying to get my overweight parents to get on board and do it with me so we can all have more energy and be more healthier.. Thats the worst part of the whole thing.

[loueylewis76]

Your location: Kansas City, Missouri

Age (If you want): 36

How Primal are you: I am just 5 days in and I would say I am probably 90% Primal.

Do you consume dairy: Some, like hard cheeses and heavy cream.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Morning coffee, but I managed to cut out all sugar and Truvia usage.

Motivator for switching to Primal: Lose weight and being healthier in general.

Favorite exercise: Walking and some cycling.

Favorite Primal food: Steaks

Best part about being Primal: Enjoying foods that I otherwise thought of as not so healthy.

Worst part about being Primal: My boys. They are pretty picky. Getting them to switch over will be a challenge.

[farrago]

Hi

This seems like a good idea. Quick answers

Location: Cambridge, England, UK
Age: Late thirties
How Primal: Varies, but try to avoid starches, especially wheat, which I am allergic to.
Dairy? Yes, cheese anyway, probably too much cheese
Coffee or Tea: Both. Black coffee and blue or green tea. Dislike most black tea.
Motivation: Losing weight, better health, mitigate osteoarthritis; have had success before with low-carb
Favorite Exercise: Sprints, kayaking, skiing
Favorite Primal Food: Leg of lamb
Best part: Overall feeling of well-being
Worst part: Can be awkward given Oxbridge dining and drinking culture. We make play time look like work!

[JL22]

Your location: Middlesbrough, England, UK

Age (If you want): 19

How Primal are you: Not very, primal newbie here, looking to adopt the lifestyle more and more.

Do you consume dairy: Trying to cut down, but I love milk and butter.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes

Motivator for switching to Primal: Weight loss, general fitness, better health, to get rid of bloated feeling.

Favorite exercise: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, any form of grappling, playing sports

Favorite Primal food: Beef stew

Best part about being Primal: Freedom from a lifestyle of constant bread eating and insulin spikes.

Worst part about being Primal: The lack of constant bread eating! Bread and butter is my downfall!

[Pincuid]

Hi! Finally got the courage to stop being a forum lurker and actually say something

Your location: Birmingham, UK

Age (If you want): 24

How Primal are you: 70% (although in the past couple of weeks it's been more like 40% *shame*)

Do you consume dairy: Yes (Full Fat Greek Yogurt, Cheese and Butter)

Do you drink coffee or tea: Less than once a week

Motivator for switching to Primal: It seemed the only lifestyle (I won't call it a diet) that finally made sense. I refused to accept that in order to lose weight you need to eat 1100 calories and feel generally miserable, and after you do manage to lose the weight, you just put it back on again.

Favorite exercise: Cycling and hiking

Favorite Primal food: Omelettes, with mushrooms, peppers, herbs...anything really. They're just the most amazing breakfast you can have. Well...maybe not THE most amazing but hey...they do the trick for me

Best part about being Primal: enhanced sense of smell (weird right?) and the fact that you can eat the foods like bacon and eggs without all the added guilt

Worst part about being Primal: The lack of pizza and beer hehe

[VickiLynn]

The Questions:


Your location:Ohio

Age (If you want):46

How Primal are you:I would say that I am frustratingly at about 75% there, but very motivated and working hard to make a complete change soon.

Do you consume dairy:Yes; I eat full-fat Greek yogurt- about three 8 oz. servings a week. I have about one ounce of full-fat cheddar once or twice a week, and then I really like a serving of Bluebonnet whey protein isolate powder mixed with unsweetened coconut milk once or twice a week.

Do you drink coffee or tea:Coffee, black, sweetened with either stevia, cane sugar, or maple sugar (no more than one tablespoon of the sugar per day)

Motivator for switching to Primal: Desire to improve my diet and health.To kick a strong sugar addiction. To lose excess body fat and improve muscle strength. All of these thing have happened In the last month of trying to switch to "primal mode!" I have lost five pounds and alleviated the pain and symptoms I have had with osteoarthritis, autoimmune thyroid disease, and fibromyalgia. Another words, a noticeable amount of daily pain symptoms just went away after about a week.

Favorite exercise: Zumba Fitness, walking, Tabata, and strength training.

Favorite Primal food: Avocado

Best part about being Primal:That fats actually DO fuel my body and that I don't have to nearly kill myself with cardio to feel fit, confident, and healthy.

Worst part about being Primal: Right now, I'm still in the honeymoon phase, haha. There isn't a worst part for me yet!

[Sissypants]

Your location: Austin, TX

Age (If you want): 36

How Primal are you: 95-100%

Do you consume dairy: Yes, but not daily. Greek yogurt, Kerrygold butter and aged cheddar cheese.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes to both.

Motivator for switching to Primal: I was morbidly obese (just obese now) and miserable. I live near a very hipster downtown area and am tired of being stared at. I couldn't eat out at a restaurant without getting dirty looks so I stopped going out. I can't wait to be thin enough to go to a restaurant and ENJOY it without worrying about people judging my food choices based on my current weight.

Favorite exercise: Night walking. Walking at night.

Favorite Primal food: All beef and butter, anything cow related.

Best part about being Primal: Feeling good and losing weight without much effort; I love that I can eat things that taste good (like steak and butter and FAT!).

Worst part about being Primal: None yet, but I hope I don't lose weight and become a fatty hater (or judger) like I've noticed some people do... We all have our own battles to fight and have to start somewhere.

[Aethernaught]

Your location: Berkeley, California

Age (If you want): 40's

How Primal are you: beginning, should I say zero?

Do you consume dairy: cheese yes, milk no

Do you drink coffee or tea: tea and sometimes espresso shots at work

Motivator for switching to Primal: weight, health, energy

Favorite exercise: right now riding my bike, roller skating

Favorite Primal food: first place goes to grilled veg and after that chicken (I eat all the time) and beef steak (which right now I almost never get.) I think committing to grass-fed, pastured and free-range meats is going to be an enormous benefit, I can't wait to taste the difference.

Best part about being Primal: I'm not there yet, I hope I feel like the old me, as I remember, a healthy animal. Lately I've just been feeling like an Old Me. Boo.

Worst part about being Primal: I already know that treating food as an emotional crutch is my problem, so I don't look forward to the fight to keep my frikken chin up when I want to collapse and eat some comfort.

[AlexArchevore]

Your location: London, England

Age (If you want): 22

How Primal are you: fairly primal, have processed carbohydrates maybe once a week.

Do you consume dairy: milk from time to time

Do you drink coffee or tea: both, litres of the former.

Motivator for switching to Primal: shedding fat.

Favorite exercise: going for mahoooooosive walks

Favorite Primal food: roasted chicken on a bed of salad, sometimes the whole chicken!!!

Best part about being Primal: I love meat, I'm a massive meat eater, and the idea that the main proponent of this diet is meat.. well that's just mega win for me :-)

Worst part about being Primal: I've still got a lot of "bro-science" engrained in me, eat loads of carbs postworkout to refuel the muscles & stoke the metabolic fire. It's a load of crud, but I still do have the odd bowl of porridge oats from time to time.

[cramsey13]

Your location: Austin, TX

Age (If you want): 36

How Primal are you: 95-100%

Do you consume dairy: Yes, but not daily. Greek yogurt, Kerrygold butter and aged cheddar cheese.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes to both.

Motivator for switching to Primal: I was morbidly obese (just obese now) and miserable. I live near a very hipster downtown area and am tired of being stared at. I couldn't eat out at a restaurant without getting dirty looks so I stopped going out. I can't wait to be thin enough to go to a restaurant and ENJOY it without worrying about people judging my food choices based on my current weight.

Favorite exercise: Night walking. Walking at night.

Favorite Primal food: All beef and butter, anything cow related.

Best part about being Primal: Feeling good and losing weight without much effort; I love that I can eat things that taste good (like steak and butter and FAT!).

Worst part about being Primal: None yet, but I hope I don't lose weight and become a fatty hater (or judger) like I've noticed some people do... We all have our own battles to fight and have to start somewhere.

So proud of you! I totally know how you feel! Let's keep in touch and keep each other motivated!