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Offline mitchell

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Prepairing to start again.
« on: December 10, 2011, 11:59:36 PM »
I have tried this diet once before when I was training for an MMA competition and found it hard as I jumped straight in with not alot of research. I felt horrible at first but after a month I was energised and awake! I gave in to the love of carbs and went back to a bad diet.
I am now travelling in Australia and I planning to get into crossfit and train hard and again get on a good diet, even going to give up beer as new year resolution till i get back on track.
I'm 29 and losing my fitness fast and reluctant to let it go.

Does anyone know of a really good simple paleo cookbook I can start with and learn from?
Also any info anyone would like to contribute would be great

Thanks
Mitchell

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Re: Prepairing to start again.
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2011, 09:05:18 AM »
Hello, welcome!

Personally I am of the opinion that paleo does not really require cookbooks....given that most paleo meals are meat + veggies, which is incredibly simple!  The only thing I make that require recipes of any kind are stews/curries...have a look in the recipes section.

I'm one of these people that thinks that 'paleo pizza', 'paleo muffins' etc. are not paleo

Having said that, apparently 'everyday paleo' is quite good, as is the primal blueprint cookbook.  Also, there is 'chowstalker' which is a recipe blog

My eating usually goes like this

breakfast - usually nothing, but sometimes scrambled eggs

lunch -
Meat - salmon, grilled/steamed or sardines, grilled or mackerel, grilled or trout, pan-fried in butter with lemon zest
green/cruciferous veggies - red cabbage or green cabbage or sprouts or broccoli or kale or spinach or salad
root veggies - carrot, parsnip or beetroot. 

dinner
stew that usually contains some root veg, onions, mushrooms etc - game, venison, lamb, oxtail
or
coconut-based curry with leaner meat like chicken, prawns/seafood, lean beef
or
plain meat - roast chicken thighs, slow-roast belly of pork, lamb chops
plus
green veggies from list above

snacks
85% chocolate
berry and coconut smoothie
macadamia nuts
eggs
raw celery/carrots

lunch and dinner foods totally interchangable.  Usually I get up at about 10, have 'lunch' at 12.30 and 'dinner' at about 7.30, plus a pre-bed snack around 1 or 2am


Sugar addiction kills more people than all other kinds of drugs combined

If your food needs a prefix, it's not paleo!

E.M.F.

Offline Warren Dew

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Re: Prepairing to start again.
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 03:49:01 PM »
I would note that a lot of the recipes in the 1975 edition of Joy of Cooking are paleo, and even more are easily modified to be paleo.

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Re: Prepairing to start again.
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 02:38:42 AM »
Thanks for all the tips and advise, I'm slowly working things out and slowly getting around to losing the carbs.

Hope to be on here more learning more about paleo and cross fit

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Re: Prepairing to start again.
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 02:38:42 AM »