First let me say I'm a week and two days into eating pretty healthily. The caveat is that I have to subtract out last Sunday as I ate nothing healthy that day. Plus I'm using strict terms of Alcohol usage guidance. Because it is allowed and not specified as to how much, I do not feel the need to limit consumption.
So given those assumptions and reference points, I've been eating healthy for a week and two days.
Yes if you clicked on the link above, it references what Susan calls the Caveman diet. Call it what you will, - Primal, CrossFit, etc - I'm sure it's possible that some of those links may take offense at the reference, but it seems if you start websufing for Paleo Diets, you stumble across those links and their various terminologies, so I posted them here.
Why that diet in particular? For me it's weird, but it's also one that I've tried and done with ever increasing degrees of success.
By that I mean the first time I started it it only lasted a few months, but I saw gains. I relapsed (as I mentioned I do), tried it again, and saw a drastic decrease over the nearly four months being pretty strict about it. Then I relapsed.
So last week I pulled out the book, and started reading it again for motivation. Found a few blogs, to check out from time to time, and well here I sit typing this.
So how did it go...
Remember I'm not counting Sunday, and I'm an Engineer, so I'm going to get all geeky:
- Monday ~ weight was 233lbs, by Saturday it was 231, and on one day the scale even flashed a 229 digit before resting on 230. So I'm going to be conservative and say it was a two lb loss.
- Calories - 17080 for the week. That's 2900/day. However if I subtract out the estimated calories burned during workouts, well that average drops down to 2200/day.
Now the whole point of the Caveman diet really isn't about counting calories, so all that was senseless babble to take up your internet reading time.
The idea of this diet is to increase the Protein and decrease the Carbohydrate intake. There's a lot more to it than that. But I'm trying to keep it short. Eat lean meats and fresh fruit, yaddee yaddaa yadda..
Again I'm leaving out a bunch of information here.
How did I do:
- Protein: 24.98% of my recorded total.
- Carbs: 62.1% of my recorded total.
- Fat: 12% of my recorded total.
First thing you note is I was dead on with the Protein, and way off with my carbs and fat. How did this happen. Easy. You see one has to write down and record all you eat, and what's in it. Obviously I didn't do that as best I can. Plus over the weekend, I consumed a great deal of Wheaty Carbs in place of fruit -and grains are not allowed.
The Fat Content is where I think my error of input comes into play. Like if I have to input the separate ingredients of my Cheesecake Factory Meal, well obviously I probably left out a tablespoon or two (or three) of Olive Oil, which would have loaded up on the fat.
Those are my theories, and those are my results.
I should also say I rode about 70 miles, jogged three times for a whopping total of 6 miles, and went the Y twice.
Tomorrow, I'm going to start a new feature that I'm sure I will maintain with varying degrees of lacking success.
Caveman Recipe of The Week tommorrow.
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