Obligatory forum Introduce yourself thread page 455

[SheriHP]

Your location: Wichita, Kansas, USA

Age (If you want): just turned 57

How Primal are you: I'm just starting. I've the Primal Blueprint and I haunt the websites, including the paleo ones but just getting started for real now.

Do you consume dairy: Yes, I love cheese, greek yogurt and cream in my coffee.

Do you drink coffee or tea: See above. I drink coffee in the morning and sometimes iced tea during the day

Motivator for switching to Primal: My family has a history of diabetes and I don't want to go down that road. I just need to get healthy and stay that way. No more starvation diets for me. I had gastric bypass surgery in 2005 and lost a lot of muscle along with fat. I need to... recreate me.

Favorite exercise: Walking for now

Favorite Primal food: coconut.

Best part about being Primal: Feeling better.

Worst part about being Primal: Nothing yet.

[nsanechick]

Hello all!! I'm Amanda, and I'm just starting out with the primal lifestyle. Any pointers would be nice and I look forward to sharing my success story with you all someday!!


Your location: Raleigh, NC

Age (If you want): 25

How Primal are you: Beginner

Do you consume dairy: Yes, cheese, sour cream and yogurt

Do you drink coffee or tea: Green tea on occasion

Motivator for switching to Primal: My Dad found the book and has really seen great results. He bought me a copy and now I'm getting on board. I would love to improve my health and feel better!

Favorite exercise: Just walking/hiking for now

Favorite Primal food: Steak!

Best part about being Primal: You get to eat so much yummy food (unlike diets with bars and shakes only)

Worst part about being Primal: I do kind of miss pizza!! lol

[Pamela0284]

~Pamela
~Level 1 primal
~Been going at it for nearly 2 weeks. All this cooking and shopping is exhausting! (but interesting)
~Motivation for switching to primal - want to have more energy to work out and to dance. Want to improve my mood swings, my complexion, and various GERD related stomach problems
~Favorite exercise: dance
~Best part about being primal - feel good about my health, and I think my skin is starting to feel clearer already
~Worst part about being primal - having difficulty getting enough calories every day. Keep cheating by eating chocolates at work.

[sof-sof]

Your location: Kelowna, BC, CANADA
Age (If you want): 21 in a month

How Primal are you: 86% (Just an A grade in school)

Do you consume dairy: Yes, trying to limit myself but 'tis hard.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Mostly oolong tea, coffee once every few weeks

Motivator for switching to Primal: Problems with binge-eating carbohydrates, feeling like wheat products control me.

Favorite exercise: reverse sit-ups

Favorite Primal food: Steamed broccoli with butter.

Best part about being Primal: Waking up before my alarm clock with amazing energy levels and no grogginess.

Worst part about being Primal: Saying no to popcorn. Not having many people my age involved in the lifestyle.

[lessy]

Hello Everyone,
Just joined the Forum.

I am excited, and I am very green behind the ear with the whole paleo/BP way of life.

I did try it four days leading up to Thanskgiving, and I droped 4 lbs, just with me trying paleo type meals!!!

I have read everything I can get my hands on, and I am really fascinated by the the food chart being flipped upside down, and this entire new way of eating, living and thinking when it comes to clearn healthy eating.

I am from Greensboro, NC

I have two children

A Hubby and I Golden Retriever.

Look forward to all the great info I will learn here!!!

[SeaMonster]

Your location: Ypsilanti, MI

Age (If you want): 28

How Primal are you: 100% in sporadic multi-day stints, closer to 70% most of the time (gotta slay the sugar dragon)

Do you consume dairy: occasionally

Do you drink coffee or tea: both, getting into black coffee

Motivator for switching to Primal: I've always been heavier, but considered myself healthy...until the day I took an ambulance ride from my office for what turned out to be GERD/acid reflux. Googled for solutions and found Primal Blueprint. As soon as I quit grains I stopped having that problem (it returns when I make the decision to indulge). I've gotten more serious lately, and am finally maintaining ~10 lb. weight loss (& working for much more).

Favorite exercise: dancing, but I'm getting into crossfit

Favorite Primal food: coconut milk

Best part about being Primal: feeling really healthy and "right"

Worst part about being Primal: struggling with compliance

[nommh]

Your location:
Northern Germany

Age (If you want):
52

How Primal are you:
This is my second day. I still need to learn so much!

Do you consume dairy:
There will be a little organic goat gouda and full fat yogurt occasionally, perhaps even whipped cream with cinnamom as a treat, and very occasionally a little butter.

Do you drink coffee or tea:
Yes, black coffee. I wish I drank more tea

Motivator for switching to Primal:
Where to start? I know that my immune system has gaps, no big deals, a little eczema here a stuffed sinus there. I also know that low-level inflammation causes civilisation's diseases. Plus there are a few stubborn kilos I wish to loose. On the other hand I was wary of committing to an extreme (as compared to conventional wisdom) way of eating. Then I watched this and almost cried when he explained how an organism constantly flooded with glucose starves its cells while growing fatter and fatter.

Favorite exercise:
Dancing, Pilates, but I'll start weight training again as soon as my muscles have recovered from a couple of too enthusiastic plank excercises. I'll have to work on the low level aerobic stuff. Living in the city isn't the perfect inspiration for walks.

Favorite Primal food:
Almonds in any shape or form? North sea shrimps with scrambled eggs? This is the kind of question I could never answer properly. I love food and I have been eating 95% organic for years and years now.

Best part about being Primal:
I don't know yet. I hope for more energy now and an active and independent old age to come. But I know the best part of being primal as opposed to more rigid forms of paleo that might be out there: More flexibility. I really like the food pyramid and the advice to rather compromise your primal status than offend a host/hostess who has slaved over a special meal.

Worst part about being Primal:
Again, I don't know, but I suspect it will be the time factor. No ready meals to buy. Always having to plan ahead. I hope IF will help with this, but as of now I can just about manage 12 hours before breaking my fast.

[DaBoss88]

The Questions:


Your location: Miami, FL

Age (If you want): 24

How Primal are you: Well I try to stick to a fully raw diet, consisting of high quality animal foods. I was under the impression this was a paleo forum so I thought I'd subscribe.

Do you consume dairy: on occasion, raw dairy.

Do you drink coffee or tea:

Motivator for switching to Primal: Primal is an all animal foods diet right? With no plant foods? Or are you referring to Aajonous Vonderplanitz' all raw diet?

Favorite exercise: basketball

Favorite Primal food: Raw grass fed beef brains, or maybe raw wild caught king salmon

Best part about being Primal:

Worst part about being Primal:

I'm a member over at the raw paleo diet forum, but I get kind of bored since there's not to many posts there. So I decided to come here.

I'm a raw paleo dieter, not necessarily primal.

I aim to eat 100% raw foods. Mainly grass fed beef, lamb, buffalo organs and muscle meats. Wild-caught fatty fish. Fruits, veggies, and minimal nuts. I aim to eat everything raw, including the animal foods.

I've noticed some health improvements since beginning my raw journey.

A little background about myself.

I'm schizophrenic, and my healing journey began when I started researching natural remedies because pharma just didn't have the answers I was looking for.

I started by reading the book "Prescription for Nutritional Healing." It had some decent suggestions. So I added flax seed oil, fish oil, B complex, and a few other general health supps.

Still though, I didn't notice the results I wanted.

I eventually discovered megavitamin niacin therapy, as prescribed by Dr. Abram Hoffer. I read his book "Healing Schizophrenia: Complementary Vitamin & Drug Treatments."

Immediately after reading I started taking 1,000 mg niacin, plus 50 mg b complex, and 1,000 mg vitamin c with each meal.

After a couple months on this regiment I noticed tremendous improvements in my over all energy, my negative symptoms also slowly faded and became barely noticeable.

I began tapering my medications. I went from 1,500 to 500 mg of one, then off it completely. I was on 120 of another one, and tapered to 40 mg but didn't fully stop it.

Later I heard about the specific carbohydrate diet, so I started that.

Later after that I heard about raw paleo, which is essentially a raw meat diet for humans. I decided to only eat SCD legal carbs, coupled with high quality raw animal foods.

So that's my story of how I came to paleo/raw paleo.

[DetroitRemedy]

Your location: Eastpointe MI

Age (If you want): 41

How Primal are you: Primal/Paleo hmm

Do you consume dairy: alot less than most, never just drink a glass of cows milk.

Do you drink coffee or tea: no tea and i drink kombucha and some green teas

Motivator for switching to Primal:

Favorite exercise:

Favorite Primal food:

Best part about being Primal:

Worst part about being Primal:

[GreginCinti]

Greetings - I began experimenting with the Primal lifestyle in August '12 and was committed by September 10th. So far I've lost 30lbs, reduced colesterol by 45 pts and feel great. I stopped my normal exercise routine at the same time in September. Instead of light running and weight machines, I began walking the dogs consistently and taking short walks during lunch at work. Interesting that I made more progress in ten weeks doing less than the previous five years. Can't wait to see what happens when I begin running/light lifting again in December.

Your location: Cincinnati, OH

Age (If you want): 43

How Primal are you: 85/15

Do you consume dairy: Yes, quality cheeses and organic butter.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes, 12 oz daily.

Motivator for switching to Primal: weight loss and future health.

Favorite exercise: Running; 5k - 10k.

Favorite Primal food: Avocados

Best part about being Primal: Feeling good

Worst part about being Primal: Peer presure to drink beer (poker night and a nice Merlot...)