Obligatory forum Introduce yourself thread
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timconradinc
MemberIn other forums I've been a member of in the past - at least for small communities - there's been a 'introduce yourself' thread with some questions that people can answer. I know that there are people reading this forum that are fully primal, partially primal, and are considering it. I thought that I'd put some questions together to cover these things just to get an idea of who's out there.
The Questions:
Your location:
Age (If you want):
How Primal are you:
Do you consume dairy:
Do you drink coffee or tea:
Motivator for switching to Primal:
Favorite exercise:
Favorite Primal food:
Best part about being Primal:
Worst part about being Primal:Posted 6 months ago # -
timconradinc
MemberYour location: Brooklyn, NY
Age (If you want): 32
How Primal are you:
Mostly Primal. I don't consume grains or refined products. I'm more interested in eating healthy good food today than the semantics of what 'grok' may or may not have eaten 10k years ago.Do you consume dairy: Yes. But, I'm going to experiment without it in a week or so.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Only herbal iced tea when it's warm out.
Motivator for switching to Primal:
Initially I started by switching to the P90x phase 1 'low carb' eating plan. Then I started doing more research about low carb and found that it's a more healthy way to go. I read Protein Power and am reading Good Calorie, Bad Calorie to learn more about it all. I was already working on weeding out most processed food in my diet, this just takes it to another level. Partially it's to lose more weight, but also to hopefully avoid eventual Type 2 diabetes and other health related issues.Favorite exercise:
I've been enjoying P90x, but have been enjoying running/jumping in the park with my Vibram FiveFingers. There's a great big stair case up a side of a hill that's a lot of fun to jump up and down.Favorite Primal food:
A nice grass-fed steak.Best part about being Primal:
Steak. :)Worst part about being Primal:
Eating out - I live in NYC, sometimes it's unavoidable.Posted 6 months ago # -
JonesJitter
MemberYour location: Phuket, Thailand (born scandinavian though - I'm a permanent vagabond)
Age (If you want): 22
How Primal are you: 100% grok'ish almost all the time. I have maybe 2 non-grok meals a month, if I'm eating out on a special occasion and is only in it for the taste and experience.
Do you consume dairy: Almost never - a couple of times a month I'll have some natural youghurt because of the healthy probiotics.
Do you drink coffee or tea: I almost never drink coffee - but I drink green tea a couple of times a week. Not because I'm addicted though, only because it should be healthy.
Motivator for switching to Primal: Being as healthy and fit as possible is like a sport for me. I love to experiment with the way I live. But being healthy, having a lot of energy, looking good and being in shape to do whatever life throws at me is the major ones.
Favorite exercise: Deadlift. I have no place to do it at the moment though.
Favorite Primal food: A big juicy steak.
Best part about being Primal: I have almost never problems with my stomach anymore. I've suffered from such problems a lot.
Worst part about being Primal: Don't any have any problems about being primal.
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madMUHHH
MemberYour location: Germany, not too far away from Hamburg
Age: 17
How Primal are you: Hard to say. I don't eat any grains or refined sugars, but I still consume some processed foods and non-organic meats/vegetables. That's because it's a matter of cost and I'm also not 100% responsible for what I eat and what our family buys. Gradually getting more primal on that though.
All in all I'd say around 85%.Do you consume dairy: Yes, my body seems to get along with it quite fine. But I'm trying to limit myself here. Not really improving at the moment and I also think kefir and yogurt on a regular basis don't do that much harm, since they also have loads of good bacteria.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Yes, both, but not daily, like every 2nd day.
Motivator for switching to Primal: When I started it was mostly about muscle growth, but the primal lifestyle has so much more benefits, I don't even know where to start.
Favorite exercise: Hard to tell. I like bodyweight exercises like push-ups and pull-ups quite a lot, even though I don't do them too often at the moment, but that's gonna change soon again.
Favorite Primal food: I don't know where to start. I really love my weekend super-duper breakfast omelettes, but there are so many more great things out there.
Best part about being Primal: Once you stopped eating all the refined sugars and stuff within processed food, you really learn to appreciate the taste of real food!
Worst part about being Primal: The social aspect. My friends still don't really get what I'm doing and are joking about it quite a lot, but I can't even blame them. But I've already started to make them understand the primal-lifestyle and its benefits, but there's still a long way to go. (Honestly, who of you really gave a f*ck about what he/she ate at my age?)
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Tarlach
MemberYour location: Australia
Age (If you want): 33
How Primal are you: I have been eating hardcore paleo for longer than there has been a MDA. I just cruise by to look for good info...
I do not eat:
• Grains (wheat/rice/oats etc)
• Dairy (milk/yogurt/butter/cheese etc)
• Refined foods (salt/sugars etc )
• Nightshades (peppers/tomato/eggplant)
• Tubers (potato/arrowroot etc)
• Legumes (soy/beans/peas)
• Modernly palatable (cashews/olives etc)
Do you consume dairy: No. None. Not even butter (Yes butter is dairy too)
Do you drink coffee or tea: I will drink coffee (it's a seed so BACK OFF!)
Motivator for switching to Primal: I started paleo eating as it made sense for good health.
Favorite exercise: Lugging my sandbag or swinging a sledgehammer
Favorite Primal food: Pork belly on the BBQ (followed closely by grass-fed steak on the BBQ)
Best part about being Primal: Being healthier, having more energy, building muscle, not getting sick...
Worst part about being Primal: Talking to the muggles about food - "What do you mean wheat is bad???"Posted 6 months ago # -
marci
MemberThe Questions:
Your location: NYC
Age (If you want): 46
How Primal are you: fairly
Do you consume dairy: yes (local and raw)
Do you drink coffee or tea: yes mostly tea
Motivator for switching to Primal: my doctor & MDA
Favorite exercise: biking, yoga and lifting heavier & heavier weights!
Favorite Primal food: turkey (was vegetarian for 20 yrs so I'm going slowly)
Best part about being Primal: not getting the hungry horrors like I did when I was vegetarian
Worst part about being Primal: not losing any weight!Posted 6 months ago # -
Ecala
MemberWhee! I'll jump in
Name: Ellen
Your location: Massachusetts, USA
Age (If you want): 45, almost 46
How Primal are you: about 75%
Do you consume dairy: raw only
Do you drink coffee or tea: coffee
Motivator for switching to Primal: I want to look as good as Mark when I'm in my 50s- which is quickly approaching. Plus it just makes sense from a health standpoint.
Favorite exercise: resistance training, kettlebells and mountain biking
Favorite Primal food: MEAT and leaves
Best part about being Primal: the lack of grains
Worst part about being Primal: Hmmm... lack of refined sugar maybe? But I don't miss it.Posted 6 months ago # -
deepthought
MemberThe Questions:
Your location:
Sweden
Age (If you want):
35
How Primal are you:
More and more, but since have a three year old at home, some processed food(fishfingers) slips in sometimes. Working on converting my wife(vegerarian since twenty years). In numbers 80%
Do you consume dairy: yes, butter, yougurt, cream and sourcream, cheese (mostly ecological)
Do you drink coffee or tea:
Yes coffee
Motivator for switching to Primal:
started out as an experiment, half a year ago, and I found it fantastic, no sugar dip before meals, and no after meal "coma"
Favorite exercise:
Running, intense wheightlifting, traditional Jujutsu
Favorite Primal food:
All
Best part about being Primal:
Makes me feel good
Worst part about being Primal:
NonePosted 6 months ago # -
Karin
MemberYour location: Chicago area
Age (If you want): 32
How Primal are you: depends on the day...aspiring to be moreso.
Do you consume dairy: pretty much every day. yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese cheese.
Do you drink coffee or tea: seldom for both.
Motivator for switching to Primal: trying to lose weight/avoid some of the health problems that run in the family (heart attacks and diabetes).
Favorite exercise: inline skating.
Favorite Primal food: avocados. I've given up cutting as much fat as possible and gone back to enjoying nuts and avocados (portion controlled, yes).
Best part about being Primal: Not feeling like i have to cut nearly all of the fat from my diet. (I was doing weightwatchers online and boy do they ever penalize eating fat...)
Worst part about being Primal: Semi-vegetarian (I eat fish) low-carb fast food barely exists. (And a pile of iceberg isn't enough calories for a proper lunch). I make my own lunches when feasible.Posted 6 months ago # -
The Questions:
Your location:Michigan
Age (If you want):33
How Primal are you: Dietary I am 99%, physically about 10%
Do you consume dairy:no
Do you drink coffee or tea:coffee
Motivator for switching to Primal:Pain, anxiety, obesity
Favorite exercise:Walking
Favorite Primal food:steak
Best part about being Primal:Can't believe how much I love fruit now. Love feeling more energetic.
Worst part about being Primal: Explaining myself when I pass on birthday cakes or meals served by others that aren't primal.Posted 6 months ago # -
egmutza
MemberYour location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Age (If you want): 31
How Primal are you: 80-90%
Do you consume dairy: Yes. I gave up dairy for a while on the diet, but suffered from crippling night-time leg cramps. Tried calcium supplements, but found that only a daily yogurt and a little cheese made them go away. I only do raw milk products.
I'm actually severely lactose intolerant, so I'd like to phase dairy out some day if I can get the muscle cramps resolved. Lactaid isn't cheap! I've also noticed that my chronic elbow rash has returned along with the dairy. Going to see if I fare any better on goat's milk.
Do you drink coffee or tea: tea w/coconut oil
Motivator for switching to Primal:
I was a vegetarian for nearly 10 years and it caught up with me the past few years. Last winter I caught 10 colds! A few of them developed into sinus infections and/or eye infections (both eyes at once). I had frequent canker sores, sometimes as many as a dozen at once. Had a positive ANA blood test. Doctors thought I might have lupus. That's what got me researching diet and autoimmune disease. Stumbled across paleo/primal and the rest is history.Favorite exercise: Pull-ups. I could literally only do 1 this time last year. I'm up to 20 now.
Favorite Primal food: Steak
Best part about being Primal:
Not being sick all the time. Not being embarrassed to take my shirt off at the beach (I was textbook skinny-fat). Easier, tastier meals!Worst part about being Primal:
Having to explain to everyone that dietary fat is good for you!Posted 6 months ago # -
ReachWest
MemberYour location: Calgary - Aberta - Canada
Age : 50
How Primal are you: 90%
Do you consume dairy: butter and cheese very occasionally
Do you drink coffee or tea: coffee and tea
Motivator for switching to Primal: tired of being tired (and fat)
Favorite exercise: P90X
Favorite Primal food: eggs - all veggies - steaks - salads
Best part about being Primal: dropped over 25 lbs of flab around my torso since starting primal last January - feel better - sleep better.
Worst part about being Primal: eating out - still tempted by traditional burger on a crusty rollPosted 6 months ago # -
Jude
MemberName; Jude...who'd have guessed!
Your location: Wisconsin but originally from England.
Age : 36
How Primal are you: I haven't jumped into being Primal yet, although I'd say without even trying, I'm well over 50% of the way there.
Do you consume dairy: Yes, currently
Do you drink coffee or tea: Coffee
Motivator for switching to Primal: Really liking how I feel during P90X Fat Shedder stage. I feel less bloated and more lean and have more energy. I know going primal will only make me feel even better.
Favorite exercise:currently, anything P90X/P90x+
Favorite Primal food:Avocado!
Best part about being Primal:I can eat lots of avocado? =D
Worst part about being Primal: Not sure yet but I'm guessing no beans in my chilli is going to suck.Posted 6 months ago # -
maranne
MemberName: Marianne
Your location: Altrincham, UK but I am Austrian by origin
Age (If you want):39
How Primal are you:I have been slowly getting used to the idea...have been incorporating it over the last 2 months
Do you consume dairy: Since I have a central european background with lots of dairy, I have no problems digesting it so yes I do have full fat milk in my tea, some cream, curd, cheese, sour cream and sometimes a bit of whey and buttermilk
Do you drink coffee or tea: herbal tea and assam, no coffee
Motivator for switching to Primal: I do not want to be sick all the time ( have been suffering with all kinds of things over the last two years since living in the Uk) and wanting to get back to my "normal" weight
Favorite exercise: I love walking, interval training and free weights
Favorite Primal food: eggs and avocado
Best part about being Primal: feeding your body what it needs
Worst part about being Primal: finding it difficult to adapt to social situations when it comes to family gatherings and work related events and getting your head round the simplicity of it all.Posted 6 months ago # -
PrimalJewishAmericanPrincess
MemberYour location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Age (If you want): 31
How Primal are you: 100%, 3 years now.
Do you consume dairy: no
Do you drink coffee or tea: coffee
Motivator for switching to Primal: general health and well-being, plus my migraines that I've suffered from most of my life virtually disappeared. Huh? Go figure
Favorite exercise: I'm a bodybuilder, anything that involves biceps.
Favorite Primal food: My AM pre-workout omelet
Best part about being Primal: The way I feel, the way I look, the feeling that I finally woke up (kind of like Neo in the Matrix) and am one of the enlightened few
Worst part about being Primal: Ugh, everything social. Trying to explain what I eat and why I eat it, trying to eat out and stay within primal and not have the waitress spit in my food when I order the fish without the sauce and instead of the potato, can I have extra vegetables? My non-primal boyfriend guilting me into white bread. The best thing about this lifestyle? Me. The worst thing? Everyone else.
Oh, and then there are the people that want to look like me, ask me for advice, and then don't listen to anything I say.Posted 6 months ago # -
Your location: Tucson, AZ
Age (If you want): 28How Primal are you: 75%- I'm great at home, but occassionally eat legumes with my partner who is not primal, and prefers not to eat as much meat as I do. When I go out for dinner, I'm very bad at sticking to primal only foods. But I'm definitely working on going 90% + primal this year. I'm having a hard time with my sugar/carb addiction, and am trying to conquer that right now.
Do you consume dairy: Occasionally cheese, don't drink milk otherwise.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Tea often. I live in the neighboorhood with Seven Cups, an awesome tea house which imports the finest varieties of teas from china. hundreds of them. I will very occasionally have coffee w my partner at the little coffee stand run by the local sw barista champion, but it is only a few times a month.
Motivator for switching to Primal: I read Paleolithic Perscription in college, while living in a vegetarian co-op, and read Paul Shephards Coming Home to the Pleistocene, which completely changed my life and my view of humanity and society. LIving primal/paleo style feels inherently right to me, plus the added health benefits of avoiding diabetes, heart disease, Insulin resistance related diseases of modern civilization and the weight loss aspect are a definite benefit. But mostly i want to feel vibrant and alive and full of energy and I truly feel that way when I eat primal.
Favorite exercise: Hiking, or swimming in a river or lake.
Favorite Primal food: Steak, or blueberries.
Best part about being Primal: Being able to eat as much fat as I want and not blink an eye!Worst part about being Primal: Being surrounded by non primal eaters, and being tempted constantly by the things I should not want to eat, but still do.
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Ken
MemberHey Everyone!
Your location: Phoenix area, AZ
Age (If you want): 45
How Primal are you: Keep starting/stopping, need to make a commitment!
Do you consume dairy: Yes, but may cut out as much as possible to go really Primal...
Do you drink coffee or tea: COFFEE!!!
Motivator for switching to Primal: Body Composition, adrenal fatigue...
Favorite exercise: Cycling
Favorite Primal food: Chicken
Best part about being Primal: Eliminate sugar addiction
Worst part about being Primal: Recipes ... family eats non-primal diet...Great to be on here, and look forward to being a part of the Primal community!
ken
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NaturesReturn
MemberName: Dave
Your location: Southern CaliforniaAge (If you want): 24
How Primal are you: 90% ?
Do you consume dairy: Nope
Do you drink coffee or tea: Green Tea
Motivator for switching to Primal: Health..not going into food comas anymore!
Favorite exercise: Body weight squats
Favorite Primal food: has to be steak
Best part about being Primal: Feeling great about what is going into my body, not going into food comas, better sleep, more energy, better workouts
Worst part about being Primal: Explaining it all!Posted 6 months ago # -
Dollface
MemberYour location: New Zealand
Age (If you want): 28
How Primal are you: 80%
Do you consume dairy: butter, cream and some cheeses (but the good cheeses)
Do you drink coffee or tea: only a decaf vienna (which has cream instead of milk) once a week if that or herbal raspberry tea
Motivator for switching to Primal: to lose weight is the main motivator, help my anxiety, improve my quality of life
Favorite exercise: BodyJam (dance) and Weights
Favorite Primal food: Slow Roasted Pork Belly
Best part about being Primal: No extreme hunger or so called "hypoglycemia" symptoms! Not getting colds as often :)
Worst part about being Primal: probably the social aspect, most people just don't get it.Posted 6 months ago # -
prairiegirl
MemberYour location: Regina, Canada
Age (If you want): 30How Primal are you: I avoid grains entirely, sugar/sweeteners mostly (occasional dark chocolate, honey in dressings, that sort of thing), and processed foods always. Given that I eat dairy (which I don't plan to give up, it works well for me) I'd say I'm at about 80%
Do you consume dairy: Yes :). Usually about 1 serving a day, occasionally two. Cottage cheese, cream/milk in my tea, raw milk cheddar occasionally. If I could get raw milk I would drink it.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Tea once or twice a day, but mostly Roobios so no caffiene. No coffee.
Motivator for switching to Primal: Two years ago I was trying out veganism and then abruptly switched to a "traditional foods" approach - I guess I had an ontological shift. A few months back I was noticing feeling sluggish after eating grains (even properly soaked/sprouted ones to remove phytates) and that my sugar cravings weren't going away. Some of the folks at my crossfit gym were going Paleo so I did some digging and found that I like the Primal MDA approach better. So, I convinced my partner and now we are both doing it and easing our son into it as well.
Favorite exercise: CrossFit . . . I'm really digging the olympic lifting lately and am a big fan of pullups.
Favorite Primal food: avocado (how did I live my whole life without it?!), steak . . .all of it, really
Best part about being Primal: I feel better than in a long while and I am trimming down quickly, I expect my bf% will be down a fair bit by summer's end. Crossfit is getting easier.Worst part about being Primal: grocery costs have gone up a bit and I've had to answer the same questions to friends over and over . . . but neither is that big a deal.
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chuenseng
MemberYour location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Age (If you want): 22
How Primal are you: 85%. Living in a culture where the staple is rice. I can hear my grandma asking "You're eating raw vege for lunch? Won't you get hungry really fast?". Au contraire, I can go longer between meals now.
Do you consume dairy: Yeap. Occasional cheese, butter, milk and yogurt
Do you drink coffee or tea: Occasionally. Tea's an integral part of my culture :)
Motivator for switching to Primal: Vanity at first but gradually realized that it just makes sense. Thanks to Mark really. And obviously, who doesn't wanna look like Mark at that age? So aesthetics and health for me.
Favorite exercise: Sprints & bodyweight exercises
Favorite Primal food: Big Salad ala Mark with choice of protein.
Best part about being Primal: Watching the flab melt away while eating great food, not feeling lethargic.
Worst part about being Primal: Crashing after lunch time after a typical non-primal fare loaded with refined carbs. Not the worst per se but does well to remind me why simple sugars should be avoided at all cost!
Viva la Primal
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Noturningback
MemberYour location: SEATTLE
Age (If you want): 36
How Primal are you: PARTIAL
Do you consume dairy: YES
Do you drink coffee or tea: OCCASIONALLY BOTH
Motivator for switching to Primal: DIABETES
Favorite exercise: WALKING
Favorite Primal food: STEAK
Best part about being Primal: HEALTH BENEFITS
Worst part about being Primal: GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN
I'M WORKING ON GOING FULLY PRIMAL!
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Diana Renata
MemberYour location: Corning, NY
Age (If you want): 27
How Primal are you: I'd say about 95%. I allow myself 2 "non-Primal" days a month, and I don't even enjoy those much anymore.
Do you consume dairy: Very rarely.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Sometimes if I need a pick-me-up, or to relax.
Motivator for switching to Primal: Over the last couple of years I lost 120 lbs by cutting out grains (about 90%). Now I'm focusing on losing that last bit of belly fat and gaining muscle. Plus it just plain makes sense!
Favorite exercise: I'm still learning how to do strength training, and I like it. I've been a runner for a little while, so I like sprints too.
Favorite Primal food: Seafood! And farm fresh eggs, and meat, and veggies, and fruit. Oh hell, all of it.
Best part about being Primal: Eating fat. :) I love that I can eat well, and don't have to eat 6 times a day. I don't have to count calories anymore either.
Worst part about being Primal: The social aspect is definitely more difficult. My friends and family still don't get it. I swear my mom is determined to cook as many un-Primal foods as she can when I visit them for dinner.
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Riceball
Memberhey everyone~
Your location: Germany (I move around a lot...lol)
Age (If you want):24
How Primal are you: I eat all primal food, except for I can't afford going all organic. So I'll say..60%? I make sure all my fat come from organic sources though.
Do you consume dairy: yes, cream, occassionally cheese and yogurt
Do you drink coffee or tea: both. I drink coffee at school and green/white tea at home. with the hectic school schedule this semester, it's just very hard to give up coffee right now...
Motivator for switching to Primal: health and I guess "knowledge is power", after learning about what's good for you, there's just no reason treating urself badly.
Favorite exercise: ultimate frisbee, wondering around(if it counts. haha)
Favorite Primal food: I love ALL FOOD
Best part about being Primal: health
Worst part about being Primal: have to give up some of the convinient food....sigh.
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catzrin
MemberHello all.
Your location: North England
Age (If you want): 19
How Primal are you: Not very, as I'm vegetarian a lot of the time. I still eat some grains, oats in porridge although I make it with almond meal and then add more nuts. And I eat maybe 20g of some sort of legumes a day.
Do you consume dairy: Yes, organic whole milk and yoghurt and cheese. I would look for raw but I do have limited access to resources being a poor carless student.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Lots of rooibos tea. Some normal tea. Occasionally coffee.
Motivator for switching to Primal: When I got interested in nutrition it just made a lot of sense. You don't need carbs for anything in the way that you do fats and proteins, so why eat them? And once I started thinking about it, the idea of processed food just left me with a really bad feeling.
Favorite exercise: Press ups. And walking everywhere.
Favorite Primal food: Avocados and nuts. What I take in for lunch pretty much every day.
Best part about being Primal: Never getting ill. Not getting dizzy any more (I used to not even be able to shower before eating breakfast, otherwise I'd keel over)
Worst part about being Primal: Same as everyone else. Other people. I haven't really told my friends how "odd" my eating habits are yet and soon a situation will come up where I have to and I am rather not looking forward to it.Posted 6 months ago # -
Cayenne
MemberYour location: Glen Cove, New York USA
Age (If you want): 49
How Primal are you: ~ 90% ?
Do you consume dairy: Yes, only cottage cheese, few times per month.
Do you drink coffee or tea? Lots of tea. I am a coffee addict who is currently "off".
Motivator for switching to Primal: Feel better than when on starch, high carb, vegetarian fare; Brief, intense, frequent varied exercise "fits" better for me than LSD, etc.
Favorite exercise: Variety, as in RossTraining.com Infinite Intensity. KBs, C2, swimming laps, walking, etc., etc., etc...
Favorite Primal food: Beef, Chicken, Fish + tons of veggies, with berries for dessert. (Eat this way daily.)
Best part about being Primal: Simplicity, balanced energy, weight maintenance, health.
Worst part about being Primal: We live in a (currently,) carb inundated world. If not prepped, spontaneous choices abound with starchy carbs.Posted 6 months ago # -
Jenni39
MemberName: Jenni
Your Location: The cornfields of Northern IllinoisAge (If you want): Chronologically, 49
How Primal are you: I’m just on day 6, but I’m off to a great start!
Do you consume dairy: I’m still debating about how much dairy to include in my diet. All I’ve had so far this week is some yogurt that was still in my fridge. I guess I’ll see as time goes on.
Do you drink coffee or tea: Black tea, LOVE it.
Motivator for switching to Primal: I’ve been doing P90X for about a year and following the “clean” nutrition plan that comes with it. I’ve been very happy with the development of my upper body/core muscles, but I swear, the fat on my booty is the same darned fat that was there a year ago! Several weeks ago, some friends went Primal, started seeing results, and really loving it. So I did some research, and I’m on board. This makes so much sense to me. I’m really anxious to see what kinds of results I'll create with this lifestyle.
Favorite Exercise: Hiking with my husband
Favorite Primal food: So far I am loving the fact that I can eat nuts!
Best part about being Primal: Even after just 6 days, I’ve noticed that I don’t crave the starchy carbs like I used to. And since I’m not craving them, I haven’t really missed cutting grains out of my diet. Very cool. I thought it would be tougher for me.
Worst part about being Primal: I noticed that many of you mentioned the social aspects as being difficult, ie; friends and family not understanding your commitment. Everyone I know already thinks I’m over the top with fitness. If I tell them I’m following a new nutrition plan, they’ll probably nod vaguely, say “oh, good”, and run away before I launch into an in-depth explanation! The worst part for me? I’m not sure yet. Of course, when I try to serve my husband the jicama I bought yesterday, things could get interesting!
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