ItalianMuscle
Drama Queen senior Vip
- Sep 1, 2010
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There's a book called Paleo for Athletes you can buy and while you're out there don't forget to pick up some tampons.
For me, or for my friend? LOL
Paleo also leaves out a ton of things that are still healthy and packed with nutrition though too. For instance, sweet potatoes and potatoes are packed with nutrition, yet you can't eat them on paleo. Paleo is "on the right track", but yet just go far off at the same time.
It's just like anything else. Lead a shitty lifestyle, look and feel shitty. I hate crossfit, and I hate paleo, but a lot of people that do it now are getting off their asses and eating "better" than they did before, and they are exercising. Of course they are going to look and feel great to the alternative.
See I asked my chiropractor today about the paleo, because he is doing it, and he said you can eat sweet potatoes, but not white. I am following Shelbys diet, and I can eat both whenever I want for a carb source.
IM I feel your pain. My wife's chunky friends routinely ask me for diet and training plans. I made the mistake of doing it in the past only to have them "tweak the diet" as in eat whatever they want in any portion they want and skip the training for a variety of bogus reasons. Most notably "I don't want to bulk up."
The reality is they don't want to work hard. And because of that they will always be fat and out of shape.
You know bro, I try to steer her in the right direction, and she goes off in another. She literally wasted money on that xcite diet bullshit. They had her buying all their supplements to use while doing the cookie cutter diet that was universal, and everyone that was buying their products, got the same diet. I told her do the diet without taking their supplements and see what happens. You more then likely would have lost the same amount of weight, and you didnt need to spend an extra $2-300 on garbage supplements. She is also lazy. She says she has no time.. Everyone has 30mins/day to workout, I dont care who you are. Then on top of all that, she doesnt eat. She thinks that will help too. I am almost to the point where I am tired of hearing her complain about losing weight all the time. She is just stubborn, and no motivation.
What gets me too, she really thought that xcite diet was working. She told me she lost like 7lbs the first week. I had to inform her, you didnt lose 7lbs of fat, all you lost was water. Its what I and many others call 'Fake Weight'. But, she insisted it was fat..Whatever! Not going to argue with you..believe what you want.
You can absolutely eat sweet potatoes on Paleo, and there are many Paleo advocates that push white potatoes for competitive athletes as well. There's no reason you can't eat fully balanced and healthy when eating Paleo, it's just expensive and hard to get a ton of calories if you're big and bulking.
The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf is a good start IM. I don't eat Paleo, but I have in the past and I felt good (but couldn't get over 4000k cals without spending $500/wk on groceries).
Ill check out that book, thanks!