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[semphoon]

Where can I buy coconut or macadamia oil?

[Kepler]

[Harpeau]

Nutivia make an excellent coconut oil at iherb,

[chungbukdo]

[chungbukdo]

[The Cosmic Hum]

[I'm With You]

Can anyone here suggest a website or book that shows people how to do this diet? I'm still not clear on how it works and what food to eat.

[KimchiNinja]

It's the optimum human diet; what we are fully adapted to eating from 2.5M years, and how we became the dominate force on this planet. Changing what worked wasn't wise. You get tons of vitamins, minerals, animal fat, protein, water. And none of the junk you don't need, like grains, sugar and dairy, which most people aren't fully adapted to eating.

I've been eating nothing but foods with one ingredient; meat, fish, eggs, vegi, butter, fruits, nuts since Jan 1st. Embarrassed to say it took me this long to figure out nutrition, but I grew up in the USA where false information is everywhere.

The results are crazy. Lost all my beer fat effortlessly, just lots of tastey food and some cardio every day. Dropped 18lb in 6wks, and the gym body analyzer says it was all fat and zero muscle loss. I feel like that's true, my body fat % is where it ought to be now but I feel stronger than ever. Now switching to lifting.

A few things to mention. First like everything I do I did it 100%, no "cheat days" or such nonsense. I don't recognize things with more than one ingredient as being food. There was a period of about 3-4 days where my life sucked hard. The body needs time to convert from using carbs to using fat as a fuel source (we've been using fat for millions of years so the body will remember, but the transition sucks hard). I slept a lot and ate a lot of fat and vegi carbs. Like everyone says, after the transition weight loss is effortless and you never really feel hungry, not like with carbo addiction where you crash if you don't eat.

In the gym I'm much more efficient running on fat as fuel. Last year in the gym I was having to carb up before/after and having energy problems. Now I'm a machine, can do an hour of cardio like its nothing and not even need a refuel meal, big change in that area.

As far as eating in KR it's pretty easy, most KR is caveman style, w a side dish of rice you can ignore. I eat at the whole fish places, pork/beef bbq, shabu shabu, steamed egg side dish, vegi side dish, etc. Koreans don't put sugar and sticky sauce on everything so you're clear there. The grocery bill however will be off the charts, meat and vegi is seriously pricy here.

Marks Daily Apple is a cool site to learn more about it. Like others I had all sorts of improvements where I didn't know there was a problem. All the chicks kept saying "oh your skin lots glowing", LOL. Lots of other little improvements. Long post babbling on Sunday morning while drinking my coffee, but it's an important topic.

It's too bad the USA govt won't issue the REAL food pyramid to the people.
http://eatdrinkpaleo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/paleo_food_pyramid.jpg

[KimchiNinja]

[Riddle]

I also have read marksdailyapple.com and found it to be a fantastic resource. I started the primal diet around new years and have since lost more than 15 pounds and 2 inches off my waist. Eat when you are hungry, don't when you're not. Cut out grains. Don't have to count calories, just focus on real whole foods.

I have not been taking the whole gung-ho approach as my workouts have been sporatic and I haven't given up alcohol, though my eating has been quite clean. I enjoy having wine with dinner and drink quite a bit of beer when I go out on the weekends. I also enjoy dairy and have milk with my coffee etc. My progress is a bit slower, but it's consistent. There are a lot of foods you can eat in Korea on this diet. White rice is not all that bad, it's just devoid of any real nutrition. I have maybe a third or fourth of the bowl of rice most restaurants give you with meals and enjoy the steamed eggs side with Korea bbq. Have been cooking at home a lot too and love costco for meat and veggies.

I've also started experimenting with intermittent fasting after reading a lot of good things about it. I think it's helping my progress quite a bit. I'm looking forward to the spring, as I'll be much more likely to exercise outside. I think the primal blueprint diet is very maintainable and is a good option for anybody wanting to lose weight or just simply improve health.

[Kepler]

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[Kepler]

[wishfullthinkng]

while i don't follow the paleo "diet" 100% i try my best to stick as closely as i can to it and can also attest for its effectiveness. i feel worlds better, have noticed it does definitely switch your body over to using fat as fuel, and as others have mentioned, i don't have food cravings almost ever.

however, i hesitate to call it a diet because it's not. it's what the human body was designed to eat and what people should be eating and what they did eat before food science became an actual thing and people created all sorts of artificial and processed foods/sugars/chemicals.