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[ara_chan]

All right. So as many of you know, there has been a mythical "diet" in the works for some time now. Hunter and I are determined to make it work this year. To this end, the Saturday gaming *has* to be adjusted to not order six frickin' pizzas for 8 people!! Saturday is the worst for killing the diet effort. So we proposed that we cook food. This was

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[ara_chan]

As we are designed to consume hunter-gatherer foods, we should be consuming:

-- Meat --- if you eat less red, more white
-- Eggs --- om nom, very good for you if you don't include a slab of bacon
-- Insects (and larva) --- pass, thanks
-- Seafood (fish and shellfish) --- fish is wonderful for your diet, but being landlocked makes it hard.
-- Root vegetables that can be eaten raw --- raw veggies are your BFF, don't peel them, cause that's where all the good stuff is
-- Fruits --- depends on what your specific goal is: apples take a lot more calories to eat/digest than bananas, which don't
-- Nuts --- high in fat, so keep an eye on what you eat in combination
-- Seeds --- mmm, mufas! also good.
-- Herbs and spices --- I'm not a fan, but some are
-- Vegetables --- lettuce is water in a green leaf. but filling.
-- Honey, maple sugar, date sugar (natural sugars) --- honey is THE SHIT! it's fabulous as a sweetener, and it's an all-natural antibiotic! yup. bee vomit kills bacteria

We are NOT designed to eat:

-- Grains --- keep in mind that the brain lives off of carbs, don't take in so few your brain suffers; but processed white flour has nothing good for you in it
-- Peanuts, beans, peas, cashews, tofu, soy milk, flour (legumes) --- soy is NOT NEARLY as good for you as the hippies would have you believe.
-- Root vegetables that cannot be eaten raw (potato, tapioca, parsnips, sweet potato, yam) --- disagree. sweet potatoes are super awesome healthy for you, and I eat potatoes raw. but if you can substitute something else for them, then cool.
-- Refined sugars ---duh
-- Separated fats and oils---duh
-- Foods that contain yeast---hm... but yeast is tasty!
-- Juices, sodas, coffee---duh
-- Alcohol---duh
-- Dairy products --- another disagree. calcium is important, yo. VERY important. I like my bones and have no desire for hip surgery later in life.
-- Processed meats ------McD's chicken nuggets are not real food.
-- Salt ---piss. >.> I like salt a lot.

You might try speaking to a nutritionist about WHEN you take in certain foods. EG: If you take in 10g of protein right off in the morning, it can help jumpstart your metabolism for the day. You want to up your fiber as well. Fiber really helps with the processing business. Cut out a whole mess of processed carbs: white bread, white rice, white sugar (see a trend?). Eat nothing within a few hours of bedtime; you will never burn those calories before they get stored as fat.

Also, check it out: http://nutrition.about.com/library/bl_RDA_guide.htm -- keep in mind that certain minerals are absorbed better OR GET BLOCKED by other things you eat. So you might be eating all the right foods, but if you take the wrong things in combination, you might not be absorbing enough of it from the food into your body. Creepy, isn't it?

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[lotusmegami]

Thanks! I'm not going to go too extreme. I'll keep the dairy and some whole grains.