Never say never

I should have known better than to have swore that I would never try and eat paleo.  It appears that I am about to eat my words.  Actually more likely I will be eating my way through a small herd of grass fed ruminants. 

As the burpee challenge draws to a close and after having some success with the Wendler cycle method for weight training I am realizing what kind of trainee I am,  I need relatively short time frames in which I  reach a very realistic goal.  The ambiguity of it ends when it ends doesn't work well for me. I have decided that if I want to get something done I have to work in shorter time chunks.  So after eating poorly, drinking excessively and working out very little I knew some kind of "cleanse" was in order and during one of the few silent car rides around BC I broached the idea of trying the paleo diet for a month with W.  Understandably he was a little leery as I was the one that got us into this burpee gong show in the first place.  During our holidays the discussion and research began but it wasn't until we were home that we decided that the time to commit was now. 

As a lead up to Thanksgiving, fitting since its the carb lovers favourite holiday, W and I have agreed to "go paleo".  We dove right in and I found tons of resources to help us get started but particularly liked one website called Paleo Diet Lifestyle which provided us with a 14 day meal plan to follow.  My cooking skills leave something to be desired so we had to do some "modifications" and settled on a 7 day meal plan in order to "tweak" it after.  We simply combined the meals we thought we would like and subsisted some of the more "difficult", time consuming dishes for ones that looked relatively more easy, keeping in mind the idea of ratios of fats to proteins to carbs that is suggested by Mark Sisson, the Primal King.  After a relatively quick trip around the outside of the grocery store our freezer, fridge and cupboards are full of things that I imagine would be similar to the foods that would make up Fred Flintstones daily meals. Though some purists out there might scoff at our attempts to eat more primal we are looking forward to all the promises of feeling healthier and better.