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Exploring nutrition, fitness, and self-experimentation in a space originally created to detail my six-week primal eating experiment.
If you read this blog, I'm sure you've seen this somewhere else, but I'll re-post nonetheless.
Naturally Engineered has a survey up and you should take it.
From the survey page:
The purpose of this survey is to collect information about paleo diet community members, including demographic information, medical conditions, dietary preferences, and physical activity.
Why should you participate?
The resulting data will be invaluable in terms of understanding the nature of the paleo movement. It will be provided to other bloggers and researchers with the goal of providing a clearer picture of how the paleo diet has affected the lives of its adherents. The survey itself is relatively short and should only take a couple of minutes to complete.As well, several incentives for completion of the survey have been provided, and will be explained further at the end of the survey. These include a coupon code for Paleo Treats products and the opportunity to win one of several giveaway Amazon.com gift cards.
Go forth and answer.
Primal Toad has been generating lots of great content lately, and his series detailing a heart-healthy eating plan is no exception.
In the third installment, he decries the practice of counting calories (he's gone on record before with a similar sentiment). I agree with him... sort of.
I certainly agree that for the large majority of people (even dieters), counting calories is unnecessary and even counter-productive. However, I think there are parties with something to gain from the practice (think: bodybuilders, fitness models, anyone navigating single-digit BF%, etc.).
Rest assured that you can live a very long and happy life complete with six-pack abs without tracking your intake. I know I have had great success in the past without weighing and measuring my food but I still think the practice of counting calories can be of value.
Jump for what Taubes meant and when counting helps.
The water temperature adjustment knob in my shower is a little touchy. Of its 180-some degrees of rotating range, about 3 are tolerable for human skin. Also, after you move it, it takes about 30 seconds for the temperature to change. The solution as I've found it is to move it ever so slightly, then wait, then move it, and so on. It's very tedious - much like reading this paragraph if you aren't a plumber - so I'll get to the point. Until I learned to be patient, I would end up freezing or burning myself when I turned the knob too far after not seeing the result I wanted.
The knob is your diet, and the water temperature is your mirror and scale. Boom, an analogy has been dropped upon you.
A friend of mine asked how a Paleo diet affects muscle recovery.
Needless to say, I have experienced great muscle recovery on Paleo.
The pictures really cover all 1000 words, but I'll spill a few more anyway after the break.
Manic Monday is a feature I hope to run every Monday(ish) - provided folks out there in the "mainstream" keep supplying the fodder.
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I had another "Manic Monday" post all cued up and ready to go (The Diabetic Climber), but that can wait until next week. As I was leaving class this evening, I got into a discussion about the merits of "cardio" (mostly me whining about how silly I think it is). This is a topic that has come up quite a bit lately, so without further ado, we're off and running. (I warned you about the puns.)
It's been a month since I last shampoo'd my hair, and I don't plan on doing it anytime soon.
Ask my girlfriend, and she'll tell you that it smells fine and feels thicker than it used to.
To me, it feels a lot softer, and it stays where I put it better, which I think is called manageability in the industry. It also looks more voluminous than it used to. The biggest upside imo is that my showers are faster and more convenient.
When I'm in the shower, I do the same motion I used to do to rinse out shampoo. Basically, I massage my hair under the running water for roughly 30 seconds.
Most accounts detail an extra-greasy transition period of 1-2 weeks. Mine lasted about 4-5 days, and was barely noticeable. I was worried I'd look like Danny Zuko, but I didn't. If anything, my hair looks more natural now.
A word for any out there interested in ditching the goo themselves - make sure to remove your bottle from the shower. After roughly 30 showers, I still reach for the bottle most of the time. I'm sure that if the bottle were available, I would have shampooed without realizing at least a few times.
Next Move? Ditch the face wash.
Last night, the girlfriend made deliciously cheesy eggs and bacon - a pretty common meal around these parts. However, this time she made a chopped cucumber and tomato salad drizzled with olive oil and lemon juice. It was wonderful.
Cheap meat dinner after the break.
I am often asked what I eat. Though it's not the same every day, I'm also a pretty routine-oriented guy without much desire for variety, so I do have a pretty well-practiced menu. Also, I've become a much better cook, and am now much more able to throw something tasty together when all the fixings for one of these meals aren't available.
You won't find my menu in a "pleather" booklet or on a doorknob, only in my belly (or muscles) or at the link below!
I've made a few updates in the bedroom since my post about keeping the light out. First, I lined my window shades with black rubber trim. The runner is attached to the boards, not the wall, so it removes easily with the rest of the shade. It is unbelievable how much darker the room is. It's a whole new kind of darkness.
It's so dark, in fact, that light now makes a great alarm clock. I picked up a cheap electronic timer from home depot, and it has been working very well. I don't entirely trust it, so I set it to turn my bedside lamp on 5 minutes before my real (loud as all-get-out) alarm goes off. I have woken up before that 5 minutes ends every day, and I feel much less alarmed by the whole thing. Prepare for more puns now that I'm better-rested.
*Unfortunately, they don't have the one I got on their website. Mine was fully electronic, and cost about $4. Like this one, but cheaper.
