Saturday, June 27, 2015




Paleo and weight loss

Cutting down on the weight is one of the major concerns of people today. Visiting the gym and working out on the gym equipment is one of the major options to many when it comes to reducing weight. However, you ever thought about the implications an improper diet has on your weight? Cool, today we shall focus on the Paleo diet.

In simple terms, Paleo diet is basically foods presumed to be eaten by early ancestors. They majorly consist of meat, vegetables, fish, fruits, eggs, grains, etc. They exclude processed food and grain products, sugar, salt, legumes and refined vegetable oils.
For a sustainable weight loss, the following tips are vital to make paleo a routine part of the diet.
Breakfast. Take an omelet made of peppers, mushroom, broccoli and sauté onion in olive oil. This ensures one take a natural breakfast with no inorganic chemicals.
Lunch. For a paleo diet, a large salad should be made. Spinach, mixed greens, radishes, peppers, avocados, cucumbers, carrots, almonds and walnuts can make a good salad. This should be served with beef slices, chicken or any seafood of choice. Addition of olive oil and lemon juice will make this a complete paleo lunch.
Dinner. Spaghetti topped with pesto, marinara and meatballs. This should be served with steamed spinach or broccoli.
Dessert. This should be made up of succulent fruits e.g. berries. Celery sticks, sliced fruits and pre-portioned nuts will make easy snacks.
The above routine will make a good diet.
In taking Paleo diets, we don’t want to completely cavemen diets. Some Paleo eaters will go car free while others will be free to munch a plate of baked potatoes or white rice.  Whichever the case, the core tenets of ancestral eating remain constant:  

These are:-
1. Eat dense, unprocessed, whole nourishing foods
2. Avoid foods that will cause systemic inflammation. Toxic foods, like those containing gluten-grains, sugar, legumes and laboratory concocted foods.
3. The Paleo diet should be followed as closely as possible. Off-reading from this diet can be fun, but being principled to stay on this diet will really help. This means avoiding dietary potholes like processed junk food, soy, added sugar, gluten etc.
4. Paleo diet need not be complicated. The recipes should be less in time consumption. Cavemen never enjoyed the facilities like quick cooking or food processors, thereby it should be easy for us in the modern world to prepare these diet.
5. Paleo diet is supposed to be delicious. Many guys take a Paleo approach to eating as a mere deprivation, but this should not be the case. Instead of this, people are supposed to see the overall effect of this diet in their body fitness and health. 
With all the above tips in mind, it’s however vital to note that a Paleo diet will not shed your extra weight alone. Other practices like workouts should be incorporated to achieve the desired results. This approach is mainly about optimizing the body health and fitness not transforming you into a zero size run away model.


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