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[Pessimist]

Your location: Toronto, On

Age (If you want): 33rd birthday fast approaching

How Primal are you: have been eliminating the carbs over the past few weeks and am starting the 30 day challenge today

Do you consume dairy: some cheese. I mean come on! It's CHEESE! ohh and some butter too!

Do you drink coffee or tea: yes to both

Motivator for switching to Primal: weight loss/muscle growth

Favorite exercise: running, rock climbing, martial arts...lots!

Favorite Primal food: bacon!

Best part about being Primal: no more severe abdominal pain/bloating after every meal. Also I can eat fats! And meat! It has been way too long since I have had them

Worst part about being Primal: Eating out with friends can be a bit tricky.

[Cottie]

Your location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Age (If you want): 21, soon to be 22

How Primal are you: Sporadically

Do you consume dairy: Often

Do you drink coffee or tea: Tea, coffee very occasionally.

Motivator for switching to Primal: Getting rid of depression, greater mental clarity, more energy, lean physique

Favorite exercise: Crawling

Favorite Primal food: Bacavocado

Best part about being Primal: Energy, mental clarity, lack of anxiety

Worst part about being Primal: Ostrasization, being percieved as odd.

G'day to you all out there. I have followed MDA for a year now, and I know exactly what I need to do. I just lack the discipline to implement it. I'm joining so I can hopefully build toward this discipline with advice and support from other members.

[PrincessGrok]

Your location: NC
Age (If you want): 43
How Primal are you: trying to be VERY

Do you consume dairy: Organic Greek Yogurt, Kefir, occasionally decadent cheese

Do you drink coffee or tea: Coffee

Motivator for switching to Primal: greater mental clarity, more energy, lean physique, blasting the last of my middle aged pooch sag, breaking the vicious cycle of carb cravings

Favorite exercise: Kettlebells, Running, Sprints

Favorite Primal food: meat, eggs

Best part about being Primal: freedom from worry about meal timing and eating like a bodybuilder, having it be okay to not be hungry.
Worst part about being Primal: They Eye rolling that happens when you try to explain why you eat this way

[reamz]

Your location: London, UK

Age (If you want): 19

How Primal are you: very

Do you consume dairy: yes, only raw grassfed mainly buffalo milk, only consume fermented cream, butter and kefir

Do you drink coffee or tea: no

Motivator for switching to Primal: Always been interested in health and nutrition, and my search for the optimal diet led me here (as well as to WAP, paleo, low carb and raw)

Favorite exercise: General weightlifting

Favorite Primal food: hmmm...thats a hard one...will probably go for the one i eat most often - grassfed beef rump steak!

Best part about being Primal: Feeling awesome, healthier, energic and fit, and getting to eat the most delicious satisfying food every day!

Worst part about being Primal: family get togethers, going to restaurants etc, where i know the food will be crap. Also, people thining you're weird when you only eat once or twice a day

[JeanPatrick]

Your location: Montréal, Canada

Age (If you want): 21

How Primal are you: 99%

Do you consume dairy: Raw dairy once in a great while (every two or three months). I cook with Butter too.

Do you drink coffee or tea: yes and yes.

Motivator for switching to Primal: I had been toying with the idea for a few months and I wanted to improve my sport performance.

Favorite exercise: Ring Pullups

Favorite Primal food: Meat.

Best part about being Primal: High energy, high sport performance, feeling good, etc.

Worst part about being Primal: At the moment there is no Montréal paleo meet up/group (that I know of). Pm me if you are from montréal!

[AutumnP]

Your location: Southern Alberta

Age (If you want): 40!

How Primal are you: Depends on whether dairy counts as primal. Try to stick to it as much as possible - maybe 90%.

Do you consume dairy: Some -- heavy cream, butter, some cheese, and yogurt.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Have kind of lost my taste for coffee lately. A few sips and then it starts to taste *blech*. Green tea once in a while. Love matcha but am trying to watch caffeine.

Motivator for switching to Primal: Just trying new ways to improve my health (fatigue, moods, thyroid and adrenal issues). Had wondered about the gluten thing and cutting it out has made a big difference (less belly bloat).

Favorite exercise: Depends on the day. Walking, weights, yoga, sprints, swimming.

Favorite Primal food: Too many too choose! I think egg yolks and butter would have to be near the top. Almost any veggie, except raw broccoli.

Best part about being Primal: Discovering fat is my friend. Yummy foods, easier to manage blood sugar and hunger, better moods for the most part.

Worst part about being Primal: I'm trying to be quite strict on the gluten thing, so haven't had any sips of my DH's beer for the past 2 months -- I especially miss Guinness!

[AnnaB916]

Your location: Long Island, NY

Age (If you want): 25

How Primal are you: 90/10

Do you consume dairy: Cheese! I love cheese.

Do you drink coffee or tea: Both, and I especially love iced green tea.

Motivator for switching to Primal: I dropped 30 lbs over the course of a year by cutting out sugar and carbohydrates for dinner and dessert. Then I hit a plateau (despite the calorie and carbohydrate restriction) so I decided to try the primal diet out. Almost four weeks primal and down 5 pounds - it's just what my body needed.

Favorite exercise: Lifiting/Sprints

Favorite Primal food: BACON, avocados and walnuts

Best part about being Primal: Always satisfied, always full and the best part, it's always guiltfree.

Worst part about being Primal: I *love* beer. That has been the hardest thing for me to pass up.

[chipdogwa]

The Questions:


Your location: Edmonds, WA (just N of Seattle)

Age (If you want): 39

How Primal are you: 80/20, I just love a good glass of red wine.

Do you consume dairy: Yes, mostly butter and cheese

Do you drink coffee or tea: Both

Motivator for switching to Primal: I used to eat this way naturally when I lived alone. Never even heard of Primal/Paleo/Low Carb at that time either. I was fit, thin, and had boundless energy. Many years of living with someone else has made me achey, fat, and tired all the time. I want my health back!

Favorite exercise: walking.

Favorite Primal food: chicken and avacado

Best part about being Primal: Energy!!!!!!!!

Worst part about being Primal: planning meals at my boyfriend's house. He's a Carb Junkie!

[rok out with ur grok out]

The answers:


Your location:

knoxville and/or murfreesboro Tennessee

Age (If you want):

18 going on 19

How Primal are you:
as much as I can be. don't do organic do to cost (although I'd love too!!!!!), and when I'm home I have to pick around and make do with whats in the house, but I'd still say I'm doing 85-90%

Do you consume dairy: sometimes cheese, but otherwise no. never was a fan of milk, besides when you drop carbs you also drop he majority of your dairy intake

Do you drink coffee or tea:

Yup, coffee, and tea if given to me, but good tea cost a lot

Motivator for switching to Primal:
last summer I was already doing no proccessed foods. this summer I felt internally disgusting after surviing freshman year of college, and found this after finding crossfit (needed a workout to get out the the routine ROTC workout and the fratboy workout, found crossfit).
Favorite exercise:

crossfit!!!!!!!!

Favorite Primal food:

fruits!!!!!!!! almond butter, omelets, waldorf salads(not the mayonnaise kind, the in a bowl with lettuce kind)

Best part about being Primal:

great energy, great for crossfit, great for life, great for feeling great!

Worst part about being Primal:

I had to pull out my sweettooth

[Lovestoclimb]

ha! love the username. welcome aboard. Gonna go hang out with the wang out now...