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[bbqSUPer]

Three years ago I discovered paddle boarding and the Primal thread.  Three years and 70lbs latter I am In the best shape of my life.  Went pasture raised meat and organic.  Pretty much only eat meat and veggies.  Of course depending on the situation would have to eat "mainstream" food.

Usually I am pretty strong during the holiday seasons.  This year for what ever reason I have not been as much.  I am a school teacher so from Thanksgiving on there are treats, gifts, and PTA lunches/breakfasts.  In the past I would smile, say thank you, and later trash all of those baked goods that students brought in.  This year I devoured them with the ferociousness of a T-rex.

I'll call it an experiment.  What will happen if I eat like the average american again?  Well I found out this morning.  I've been saving it.  I got on the scale today.  I had been hovering between 170-173.  Todays verdict: 190.  This has pretty much been from Thanksgiving on so about 35 days.

Going to go primal hardcore again.  Lets see how long it takes to get back.

[madmax]

I'm getting the impression that I've misinterpretated the primal diet.  Time for more research.  While I'm not overweight, at 56 any help with health is welcome.

[Luc Benac]

Whoa. 20 pounds gain seems a lot from 170 lbs.
We went to a almost no gluten diet (a few exception from time to time otherwise no) 18 months ago and I dropped from 170+ back to a youthful 167-
But to me the real gain was in having more energy and not be blotted (I did not even know that I was blotted before).
If slipping, then the loss of the above is the first thing that I notice.
I guess that been New Year and all, you already have the recipe to go back to normal....so good luck.

[supsurf-tw]

Any "diet" will cause you to lose weight if you take in fewer calories than you use.
Any "diet" will cause you to gain weight if you take in more calories than you use.

Once a diet is discovered that breaks the laws of Thermogenics then things will change, but not before.

[bbqSUPer]

Any "diet" will cause you to lose weight if you take in fewer calories than you use.
Any "diet" will cause you to gain weight if you take in more calories than you use.

Once a diet is discovered that breaks the laws of Thermogenics then things will change, but not before.

You are absolutely correct.  Diets don't work.  It was a lifestyle change.  It's not rocket science.  By only generally eating meat and veggies it is pretty easy to not take in more calories than you use.  The added bonus is you generally feel better and are more heathy.  Again kind of a duh statement. 

My point of this is not saying there is a "diet" that breaks the laws of Thermogenics.  More that if you eat what your body naturally was intended to eat at appropriate servings, you will most likely not be overweight.

I'm getting the impression that I've misinterpretated the primal diet.  Time for more research.  While I'm not overweight, at 56 any help with health is welcome.

I don't get over the top with it.  Try to stick to mostly naturally occurring food.  I'm not into trying to bake paleo great or deserts and such.  I just don't eat them.  And when I do splurge I just go for the real deal and get it out of my system.

[Subber]

100 calories from high fructose corn syrup has many different effects than
100 calories from a good fat.

They maybe "equal" in strict terms of calories but they are far from the same in
terms of their effects on your body.

Fat satiates but sugars (crappy carbs) above a certain small amount per meal
stoke your hunger and mess up your hormones. 

[supthecreek]

Go go bbq.... best thing about primal is food sourcing... much healthier choices.

My problem is trying to buy SUP's with my food money.... it's really hard to eat the best "source food", if you blow the budget on floaty things

Plus everything organic has gone through the roof.... but I'm not getting a job.... I'll just paddle instead of lunch.

[madmax]

100 calories from high fructose corn syrup has many different effects than
100 calories from a good fat.

They maybe "equal" in strict terms of calories but they are far from the same in
terms of their effects on your body.

Fat satiates but sugars (crappy carbs) above a certain small amount per meal
stoke your hunger and mess up your hormones.

Crap.  Reeses Pieces, Skittles, and Coke (cola  ) ain't gonna get it?  What's the use...

[Subber]

100 calories from high fructose corn syrup has many different effects than
100 calories from a good fat.

They maybe "equal" in strict terms of calories but they are far from the same in
terms of their effects on your body.

Fat satiates but sugars (crappy carbs) above a certain small amount per meal
stoke your hunger and mess up your hormones.

Crap.  Reeses Pieces, Skittles, and Coke (cola  ) ain't gonna get it?  What's the use...

Even excess carbs from fruits! (and, grains) - ugh.

As for paleo, a million years ago an apple had 5 grams of sugar not the 25 grams of sugar
it has today - its been "genetically modified" over the last few hundred years,
not by gene splicing or whatever, but by selective breeding/growing, etc. 
Even on "paleo" it is easy to get too many crappy carbs.

[madmax]

My diet changes are slow to come and become entrenched deeply.  The older I get the more I notice diet affecting me.

Soooooo many opinions.

[bbqSUPer]

100 calories from high fructose corn syrup has many different effects than
100 calories from a good fat.

They maybe "equal" in strict terms of calories but they are far from the same in
terms of their effects on your body.

Fat satiates but sugars (crappy carbs) above a certain small amount per meal
stoke your hunger and mess up your hormones.

Exactly.  One of the most noticeable things to me has been my increased energy.  I am way more productive at work.  I'm also off of two medications I was on.

[madmax]

100 calories from high fructose corn syrup has many different effects than
100 calories from a good fat.

They maybe "equal" in strict terms of calories but they are far from the same in
terms of their effects on your body.

Fat satiates but sugars (crappy carbs) above a certain small amount per meal
stoke your hunger and mess up your hormones.

Exactly.  One of the most noticeable things to me has been my increased energy.  I am way more productive at work. I'm also off of two medications I was on.

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That got my attention.  Always looking for a more natural way.  I'm a tough case though.

[stoneaxe]

I need to reach down deep and find the willpower. I watched firsthand what happened with creek.....incredible shrinking man. I also talked it up to a friend/co-worker who embraced it big time. He's a runner, lots of marathons but has very bad rheumatoid arthritis.....RA meds were raising havoc with his immune system, two major infections with a week on IV antibiotics in a year, and he was afraid all the ibuprofen was eating his liver. He was having so many issues he couldn't run. Went paleo....he's managing his RA with 400 mg of Ibuprofen a couple times a day now and back on the marathon circuit.

[nuernbergsup]

This is a nice reading about a calorie is not a calorie...

[Zooport]

Yes, bbqSupper, I feel your pain!!  I am a teacher too.  I do pretty good all year until the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas when kids and parents bring me all kinds of homemade baked things and candy.   I was resisting it and then I fell off the wagon, now I have to detox from sugar, wheat and processed food.  The cravings come back really quick.