Primal Quotable Quips
It’s hard to go anywhere in the nutritional blogosphere without happening across that ubiquitous Michael Pollan quote being bandied about: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” I like Pollan, and I mostly agree with said quote (though I’d add, at the very least, “and plenty of animals”). It made me think that perhaps the Primal community would be well served with a reservoir of instant quips. So on the heels of last week’s related post (fantastic Grokkus, by the way) I threw these together. Use them to quickly explain the Primal stance to friends and family. Live by them and thrive.
Eat food. Only when hungry. Mostly plants and animals.
Our genes prefer us to be lean, fit, strong and happy. Let them have their way.
The world is your gym. Try to go every day. Guest passes are free.
Make your long, slow workouts longer and slower and your hard, fast workouts harder and faster.
The weird looks mean you’re doing something right.
Eat food a hunter-gatherer would recognize.
If it’s only been available to mankind for less than a hundred years, don’t eat it.
Living to eat doesn’t necessary preclude eating to live.
Eat when you’re hungry (or not) and drink when you’re thirsty.
You can lead Grok to water, but you can’t make him drink (unless he’s thirsty).
Results speak louder than words.
Eat things with a lifespan.
Facts are often no match for Conventional Wisdom, which is why they need our support more than ever.
What would Grok do?
Animal fat makes everything better.
Don’t underestimate the importance of sleep.
Lift heavy things. Not too often. Mostly compound movements.
Do pull-ups whenever possible. Any ledge, pole, or tree branch will do.
When your only tool is a sledgehammer, the whole world looks like a used tire.
Contrary to popular belief, the sun is not the enemy.
Life may not be fair, but it sure is fun. Adapt or get dropped.
Adaptation to the diet that’s killing us might happen eventually, but don’t be a guinea pig for natural selection. Thrive and prosper in this lifetime.
Diets are hard work, but eating the foods we’re adapted to eat is a true pleasure.
When looking at a study, always ask, “What kind of fats?”, “Were carbs taken into account?”, and “Who funded it?”
Only eat food that you could make yourself at home with minimal equipment. Butter can be churned and sausages can be ground, but can you make a Twinkie?
If you can’t pronounce the ingredient list, it’s not worth putting into your body.
Why subject oneself to watered down foot binding? Go barefoot.
Here are a few irreverent Worker Bee additions to round things out:
They say grains are healthy. Kind of like they used to say Crisco was healthy. And cocaine.
Go Primal. Because diets aren’t worth dying for.
You wouldn’t fly in a rocket built by a chef, so why would you eat food built by scientists?
You ever see a bunch of kids going nuts at a playground? It’s like that.
Some people claim the Primal Blueprint eating plan is elitist. They’re right.
I thought about trying Vegan, but cannibalism is outlawed.
Go Primal: It’s not a diet, it’s a frickin’ lifestyle.
When it comes to running, it’s not length that matters, but how hard it is.
What do you think? Got any more?
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Eat foods your ancestors might have eaten. Minus the grains. Play like your children. Only harder sometimes.
“Live Primal, your genes will fit better.”
Primal eating: the one truly conservative approach to your diet.
Real people eat real food
Dietary fat doesn’t make you fat.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny- start thinking Primal.
You have teeth and a digestive system like a carnivore for a reason. Eat meat.
Primal: tuning out conventional wisdom and tuning in to your body and your soul.
Chase it, kill it, lift it, eat it, welcome to my primal life.
I read this one to the tune of Daft Punk’s “Technologic.”
Go Primal: Think outside [the highly processed foods] box.
When shopping with the seedlings, “Not caveman approved!”
Eat meat. Not too lean. Mostly red.
Love it!
Eat animals and not food that’s mascot is an animal (i.e. cereals.
Paleo IS preventative medicine.
1. If we were meant to be fat it wouldn’t hurt so much or look so bad.
2. If man’s most primal instinct is to live then living primaly kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
You can’t outrun a bad diet. Eat Primal.
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Just kill it and grill it.
Great!!
If you had to make your food from scratch, could you make anything you currently eat with out a PHD in chemistry?
you can eat your non-fat soy latte, fat boy, I am jackin steel and grillin ribeyes. I’ll clean my clothes on this washboard.
get primal: hunt & gather at your farmer’s market.
If it could bite you when it was alive, EAT IT!
Live Primal: It’s like being a Stranger in a Strange Land, only better.
So easy a caveman could do it!
Go Primal. It’s so easy the cavemen DID do it.
Getting primo by going primal.
Nothing is poison. Everything is poison.
the fattiest foods that I see walking around are the idiots eating lowfat foods.
Free me from my shackles and just give me some animal meat! I want the blood running down my face!
I just took my vitamin D. It was a day at the beach.