[Dotcomdolly]

All the info HERE

I'm aiming for one step a week
so today is week 1 day 1
Add more fresh fruits and veggies to your diet. Expand the variety that you do eat. Get some diversity in there. Make them colourful if possible — dark leafy greens, blueberries, purple beets, etc.

I am pretty damn poor at eating fruit & (more so)veg so it won't be too hard to improve on this.
So I had sauteed spinach & mushrooms and a fried egg for breakfast...a very tasty start to the day.

[frag420]

I may tag along with you on this. No mushrooms however!!

[Dotcomdolly]

Originally Posted by frag420

I may tag along with you on this. No mushrooms however!!

mushrooms not obligatory

[Dotcomdolly]

Day 1 almost over and I'm proud to say I've notched up 7 veg + 4 fruit

Lunch was a very veggie omelette



and I did things like adding frozen berries to my protein shake.

Definitely keep the brain working on how to get those totals high. Bought lots of veg in Aldi today so looking forward to tomorrow.

[Dotcomdolly]

Going well, had 3 veg with breakfast, and 2 with lunch (beetroot, goats cheese & walnut salad)



+ 2 fruit so far.

Would love some compnay on my journey to better health....

[Frogdog]

Originally Posted by Dotcomdolly

Would love some compnay on my journey to better health....

I'm on a Paleo/Primal -ish diet already, sorry. I'm sure there are some lurkers out there that would be willing to try it.

[Gummy Panda]

I ate sweet potato for the first time today with tuna, instead of my usual white potato. Does that count?

[frag420]

im quite the fussy eater so I am going to have to find some alternatives to what your eating...........this will be tough!!

[Dotcomdolly]

Originally Posted by Gummy Panda

I ate sweet potato for the first time today with tuna, instead of my usual white potato. Does that count?

I think it's an improvement, I think the whole potato/sweet potato thing is a bone of contention in the paleo/primal plan. Maybe someone more knowledgable can help....

@frag - you don't have to eat what I do! Just add more veg & fruit, and a good variety of it. Try some new things

[Red Cortina]

Originally Posted by Gummy Panda

I ate sweet potato for the first time today with tuna, instead of my usual white potato. Does that count?

As far as I can see the only thing that the sweet potato is supposed to have going for it over the regular one is that it is supposed to have a lower glycemic index. But since the whole GI thing is a pile of horse manure, I really don't see the difference in having a regular vs sweet potato. They both offer different nutrients to your well balanced diet.

Also if you are really talking about eating an ancestrally appropriate diet (which is what a paleo/primal diet is, afterall) then you will be hard pressed as an Irish person to find a more appropriate food to eat than the spud IMO.

[Dotcomdolly]

Well we know where reliance on the spud got us!

Day 2 completed , once again 7+3

[El_Dangeroso]

Originally Posted by Red Cortina

Also if you are really talking about eating an ancestrally appropriate diet (which is what a paleo/primal diet is, afterall) then you will be hard pressed as an Irish person to find a more appropriate food to eat than the spud IMO.

Too right RC! I'm reading this at the moment. (Painfully dry.. not a beach-read that's for sure!) and if there's one thing that I can glean from the book so far its that poor Irish people survived off gallons of milk and pounds of potatoes and not a whole lot else for about 400 years. (To be precise, 14lb of potatoes and 2 gallons of milk PER PERSON PER DAY!!)

It's kind of ludicrous to value the sweet potato (which is a neolithic crop anyhow) over something that has been that much of a staple in our diet for so long.

Plus I fecking hate sweet potatoes. yuk

[El_Dangeroso]

Originally Posted by Dotcomdolly

Day 2 completed , once again 7+3

Well done! How are you feeling so far? I'd love to join you but I'm honestly scared of what all that fibre would do to my IBS!

[Rovi]

Originally Posted by Red Cortina

Also if you are really talking about eating an ancestrally appropriate diet (which is what a paleo/primal diet is, afterall) then you will be hard pressed as an Irish person to find a more appropriate food to eat than the spud IMO.

The Paleo/Primal 'thing' is based around eating foods that our ancient ancestors ate though, not our more recent ancestors, people we can put names to in many cases.

The reasoning being that 4-5 million years of evolution has left us very well able to utilise 'basic' 'natural' Paleo/Primal type foodstuffs, whereas we've had (relatively) very little time to adapt to 'modern' foodstuffs: grains, refined sugars, etc.; foods that were developed during the recent 10,000 years since to dawn of recognisable 'agriculture'.

Potatoes have only been in Europe since about 400 years ago, which is a period that barely registers on the total time humans have been on the planet, and were domesticated in Peru only 7-10,000 years ago.

I've pretty much eliminated potatoes from my diet at this stage, and don't miss them a bit.
Parsnip (roasted!!!) and cauliflower make excellent substitutes for bulk and mouth-feel, and they taste great too.

[El_Dangeroso]

Most veggies in their current form are neolithic and specially bred though..I don't get the potato avoidance, parsnips have almost the same amount of carbs and less protein (Fun fact: potatoes are 10% high quality protein!).

I do think if you fry potatoes yes, they become something that you are liable to overeat, I cannot restrain myself around roast potatoes, they have a strange hold on me!

But a baked potato with a dollop of sour cream is really filling and healthy.