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[Earthy Mama]

Your location: Missouri

Age (If you want): 26

How Primal are you: Off and on 100%

Do you consume dairy: Yes

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes

Motivator for switching to Primal: Health and lose weight.

Favorite exercise: I do my own workouts, ballet stuff for bottom half, my own stuff for arms/stomach.

Favorite Primal food: Deer steak.

Best part about being Primal: The healthy, the energy.

Worst part about being Primal: Trying to feed a family of four off one income.

[SouthernBelleCPA]

Your location: Tennessee

Age (If you want): 45

How Primal are you: Just starting, don't know exactly how just yet, but learning

Do you consume dairy: Yes

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes

Motivator for switching to Primal: Colon Health (UC) and lose weight.

Favorite exercise: Strength training w/ my husband and some cardio.

Favorite Primal food: Steamed/Roated Veggies

Best part about being Primal: The health benefits.

Worst part about being Primal: Feeding 5 kids who love mac&cheese, french fries, bread, cookies, etc.

[chigaroogarem]

Your location: Denver, CO

Age (If you want): 38

How Primal are you: Working on it...

Do you consume dairy: Only butter and raw cheeses

Do you drink coffee or tea: Coffee

Motivator for switching to Primal: My daughter

Favorite Primal food: Grass-fed steak

[letoyafkkit]

The Questions:


Your location: Cali

Age (If you want):

How Primal are you: not sure eh..

Do you consume dairy: sometimes...I'm not supposed to though lol

Do you drink coffee or tea: tea

Motivator for switching to Primal: no

Favorite exercise: running

Favorite Primal food: all

Best part about being Primal: everything

Worst part about being Primal: can't think of one

[SAGrokette]

Hi Primal Friends

I've been reading your posts for two weeks now and finally I have signed up .. while eating a breakfast of lamb, avocado, fenugreek sprouts, salad and Central American coffee with coconut oil and xylitol. Since yesterday, this Grokette has been working her way through Mark's book.

My location: South Africa

Age :37

How Primal am I: My body has always pulled me towards Primal

Do I consume dairy: I would love to. My body has disagreements with it though. The only dairy I miss is yogurt and ... milk chocolate.

Do I drink coffee or tea: I am green tea girl. I love peppermint tea. I love the smell of coffee and have only started to drink coffee three years ago.

Motivator for switching to Primal: I want to be super healthy, lean, energetic, clear headed, happy and experience that childlike health and wander I had when I was a child.

Favorite exercise: walking

Favorite Primal food: Lamb - Throughout the years whenever I felt run down or flu-ish, some decent lamb has always sorted me out fast.

Best part about being Primal: I had already started before finding Mark's daily Apple, and within two weeks of extra fat in my diet, I look already younger and slightly more 'defined'. So younger, healthier, energized and finding my perfect blueprinted self.

Worst part about being Primal: I really wanted to be able to live of fruit, veg, nuts and seeds alone ... alas ... my body has other ideas ... It tends to break the pocket. Living in my country ... budget is tight! Quality food is worth it, but cost of living vs income is hectic.

[AranMC]

Your location:

Age (If you want): 59

How Primal are you: Just beginning, aiming for 100%

Do you consume dairy: No

Do you drink coffee or tea: Black Tea

Motivator for switching to Primal: Health, I have Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Cardiovascular Disease, Fatty Liver, Diabetes type 2, started on Insulin therapy recently. Need to lose weight urgently.

Favorite exercise: Hula Hoop

Favorite Primal food: Bacon, Beef

Best part about being Primal: Healthier body.

Worst part about being Primal: None yet.

[PGC]

Your location: Canberra

Age (If you want): 30ish

How Primal are you: 85-90%

Do you consume dairy: Yes (Full cream) but not as much as I used too

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes, sugar free esspresso's (30ml) on waking and with breaky. Another at work with some milk and some times a nice cold drip coffee over ice, the fine wiskey of coffees I also drink now and again various teas including Holy Basil.

Motivator for switching to Primal: to lose stubborn hip fat, and to lower chance of type 2 diabetes. Also the excercise was very easy to fit into my life. I had been struggling with fitting excercise into my life when my children and work entered my life, but Mark's primal fitness fits in nicely.

Favorite exercise: my favourites are heavy Deadlifting and very heavy pack walking up mountain trails.

Favorite Primal food: Pork Ribs stewed in homemade italian tomato sauce.

Best part about being Primal: How easy I have lost stubborn fat and felt better about myself

Worst part about being Primal: Not eating Pasta or Pizza, I am from an Italian background and lucky for my primal lifestyle I live 3hrs away from my parents. My mother says If you don't eat Pasta you will die by age 50. Surprisingly cravings for pasta and pizza get weaker the longer I abstain from it.

[341gerbig]

Your location: Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada

Age (If you want): 22

How Primal are you: Just starting, so not very

Do you consume dairy: Nope

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes

Motivator for switching to Primal: Im fat as hell

Favorite exercise: Squats

Favorite Primal food: Steak with grilled mushrooms

Best part about being Primal: Feels good

Worst part about being Primal: Hard to adjust to

[IMKarla]

I'm over 50 and I'm not dead yet. You might night want to tell your mom she's wrong though. :-)

[painless]

The Questions:


Your location: Dallas, TX

Age (If you want): 50

How Primal are you: quasi

Do you consume dairy: Almost never (Although I love buttermilk)

Do you drink coffee or tea: Copious amounts of coffee

Motivator for switching to Primal: weight and diabetes

Favorite exercise: beer lifting

Favorite Primal food: eggs

Best part about being Primal: feel great

Worst part about being Primal: that first 10 days or so


I have to get with it again. Gained 70 lbs in the past 7 years. Blood sugar stays in the 150s.
It was easier the first time. My SO was on board, and had no problems throwing out all of the illegal food in the house.

We both lost 75 lbs each, and her doctor was so astonished that he asked her how she did it. When she said low carb, moderate protein he gasped, sat her down, and scared her so much that she stopped on the way home to buy 2 gallons of ice cream.

I will not be able to get her on board this time, and having junk in the house makes it sooo much harder.
(never mind that on a "proper" diet we both have re-gained all the weight we lost, and then some, and all of our chronic conditions have returned)

I love the old gal to death, I don't want to split with her, but I don't wanna die either.

Wish me luck (The book is on my phone)