so so i just started doing this paleo diet thing - feels like it should be bullshit. is it?

TJ's stopped making it because of LOW SALES at the same time as their flower pepper, btw. Lechera and I had a long cry about it on the TJ's thread.

;_;

WHat about salt and a little smoked paprika? Smoked paprika is amazing and good on eggs too.

good idea!!

also i object to "eating what you want" = "cheating"
it leads to unhealthy thinking imo/e

Most of the protein is eggs, cheese, tofu, nuts and Greek yogurt.

I thought that too but theoretically it should be OK.
ENBB if you're still feeling shitty tomorrow maybe you should try adding pulses
Make some dhal or something

Or drink a liter of booze ;)

Depending on where flax seed fits into your approach to eating atm, this is pretty great for breakfast and feels satisfyingly carby, especially with apple cut up and added before nuking it. And/or yoghurt or a bit of butter on top.

figuring out that sweet potatoes were a-ok was a big discovery for me

why are sweet potatoes a-ok? seems like more sugar would be worse for you (compared with a tuber)?

I don't know chapter and verse, but they are considered more nutrient-dense and are ok for doing paleo. regular potatoes are "empty carbs." something like that.

They are also versatile and taste good.

I haven't read a book on this or anything but am generally following what's laid out on that Paleo Nom Nom site someone linked upthread. the guidelines on their site come from the book "It Starts With Food."

xp- yeah great way to have "fries" as a side dish. I liked sweet potato fries before, anyway.

i like sweet potato fries better than regular fries, but my spidey sense is that i like it more because it's worse for me.

I've been making sweet potato hash browns for weekend breakfasts - shred 'em, toss with herbs and salt and pepper, fry until you get some crispy bits.

For weekday breakfasts, I roast a big pile of sweet potatos until they are carmelized every weekend - just wash and roast on a foil covered baking sheet for an hour or so at 300F. Flip them over on the sheet when you take them out of the oven and let them cool. The skins peel off so easily. Store the flesh in an airtight container and scoop out a hunk to nuke every morning.

that's my problem - the only time I like sweet potatoes is when they're fried! the slimy texture weirds me out normally

Try yellow or white yams instead - they are much drier/starchier.

i made these out of mashed sweet potatoes + spinach
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8050/8136844655_9f4d6edfa5_c.jpg

how did you get it to color coordinate with the placemat?!

sorry, that came out very accusatory. I mean to say, looks yummy.

Quite honestly I do try to have a variety of colors on the plate.

that little plotz in the corner of the soy sauce is wasabi, which i would have put in the mash but my household prefers differing levels of heat so

How much does Rudy like?

Not much, she likes sweets. Carrots are her favorite food.

Your food is v pretty btw

Is that raw cucumber and how did you eat it?

Yes that is a cuke - I salted it v lightly and ate it with a fork? Sometimes I dipped it in the soy sauce. I like salt.

Erica you are having "the low carb flu"

Going below 20 net carbs has made your body freak out a bit, searching for what glycogen it can find still stored in your muscles (about 2-3k calories usually). Once it runs out, you are basically running on empty and your body hasn't yet figured out how to effectively switch over to creating and burning ketones for fuel as opposed to glucose. I'd say for a vegetarian it would be pretty depressing and difficult to do under 20g carbs daily. I'd say up them to 70-100. You're going into ketosis and it is very uncomfortable at first.

Also mineral deficiency is spot on, as glycogen typically has 2g of water stored along with it, you're peeing all that out and it's not being replenished. Drink water with lemon and salt in high amounts!

i would feel sad eating a low carb vegetarian diet. i guess it's possible. but immediately going down to 20 g/day from high-normal carbs should make anyone feel like crap.

I transitioned from eating semi low carb (probably 100-150g) to very low carb, and I felt like I had a really bad hangover for two days.

does that ill effect also work in reverse (eating carbs after a prolonged absence?)

Not sure! I think the body is pretty used to burning glucose on the SAD so it could go back to it pretty easily.

I ate all the carbs I wanted the week between Xmas and new years and didn't feel at all well. Also pizza and fries tasted sweet which was weird.

oops...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa

how are you paleo folks doing? I am down 22 lbs. Still haven't strayed at all, except I did eat a few peanuts a few weeks ago.

I'm down 5 or 6 lbs since Jan 2 and Mr. Jaq is down 12. Also his fasting blood sugar has dropped by 20 points even though he's eating around 100 g of carbs a day including fruit. We're still doing the super-strict Whole30 thing, which I'm liking pretty well. I'm traveling for a work conference next week, so a little concerned but I've got a bunch of Steve's paleokits and coconut butter buttons to take along.

ps - go you! That's inspiring! Are you feeling energetic and stuff?

still sticking with it since Jan. 1, no major deviations from the road map but I'm not that strict about some stuff that's technically supposed to be off limits (peanuts, hummus)

definitely feeling healthier. probably took me months to eat the amount of vegetables I've had this January.

i lost like 8 lbs-ish right away and have just been hovering there, though i did cheat pretty big time over the holidays. i don't think i really feel ~that~ much better. the improvements to my sleep plateaued i.e. it's still largely crappy. but i haven't done any more of the waking up--and staying awake--at 3:00am thing i'd been dealing with for so long(it's happened twice since i started this, as opposed to twice to four times a week). but a lot of my problems feeling shitty i think are sleep related and i think my sleep issues aren't only rooted in diet. but anyway i eat good shit all the time and overall i do feel better, so hay!

i read scott's link last week or so. how depressing.

anybody find that this is just too much meat all the time? i'm going to be trying to flip the meat/vegetable ratio a bit.

yeah at xmas my family was excitedly talking about quinoa a bunch and i had to drop the quinoa bomb on them

I'm going to start this officially on Monday for at least 30 days. Have been sort of heading towards it since Christmas but wanted to get more settled into the semester / be done with traveling.

Of course this week has been spent eating granola, the rest of the yogurt, rice, pizza from the new and only decent pizza place around, toast for breakfast, etc.

i'm doing a less strict thing where i still eat beans, which helps a lot w/ variety and preventing meat fatigue

eggplant is a good meat substitute too imo

I generally eat only 4-6 oz meat/egg per meal with a massive amount of veg, which seems about right for me.

been lurking here and trying this out without getting too strict. loving it! i always thought i was hopeless in the kitchen, but i'm keeping it simple and doing just fine.

i'm losing weight too, even though that's not what i'm going for at all. it's mostly because my appetite isn't as voracious as usual, but i also inevitably get a little lazy about preparing meals and just go without or settle for a smaller meal of leftovers.

I'm still doing this. I've fucked the exercise and have been sedentary for the last four weeks :(

The way I keep up with veggies is to make a two big veggie dishes a day and then eat them for several days as leftovers. On any given meal I'll have about four of: baked kale, savoy cabbage coleslaw, collard greens and tomatoes, grated carrot salad, turmeric roasted cauliflower, baked broccoli, spinach salad, cucumber salad, celery soup, red cabbage in a pot with vinegar, etc.

I've been relying more heavily on restaurant food than I should be, at times, but have done a p good job of finding decent paleo friendly stuff to order (e.g. big salad with pork from Chipotle for work lunch). I don't think I could keep on it otherwise.

I use this thread for variety/food inspiration and out of curiosity about ppl and their foods, but I have to say, for the past two weeks I've barely been home one night a week--many days I'm only in my apartment for 2 or 3 hours a day (that I'm not sleeping)--and there is NO WAY to keep up with a diet that can't be picked up in Midtown.

xp haha yes!

For recipe recommendations I usually buy a big bag of [some nice looking veg] and then google "best kohlrabi ever!" and see what happens