How paleo are you?

Just curious as to how y'all are eating. Since I got sick in September, I've cut out gluten, white potatoes, processed foods (mostly), cow dairy, and sugar. So most of what I eat now is:
Breakfast: eggs, nitrite and sugar free bacon, amaranth, quinoa, steel cut oats, apples, pears, mangoes, cantaloupe, almonds, cashews, Kerry gold a2 butter, goat kefir.

Lunch & dinners : fresh vegetables, yams, winter squash, sauerktaut, Kimchi, grass fed beef, organic pork and chicken, fresh fish upon occasion, canned sardines (don't gag now), canned tuna. Very occasionally I'll buy one of those puny little gluten free bread loafs from trader Joe's.

Not quite paleo. Good enough you think? Before I got sick, I never had a problem with dairy, gluten, or starchy foods.i was a bit of a sugar addict off and on. I cut them out cuz everybody says you should. Yeah, I know the pseudo grains I eat, yams, and winter squash are starchy. But I tell you, eating this way ain't much fun. I sooooo miss BBQ ribs, and oven roasted French fries slathered in ketchup, Chinese /Vietnamese /indian/Thai foods. I think I'd go mad if I went pure paleo.

How do you think I'm doing? Will I need to eat this way forever if I'm to stay well once I get well?

And no, once you get healed you do not need to be so strict on your diet. Just informed and pay attention to how you feel when you eat something you were restricting yourself to earlier.

Always keep in mind that many things will no longer taste as good to you as it once did-after a fair period of
not eating it. It won't taste or smell appetizing until your gut and palette gets used to it again.

Think about the way babies react to new tastes. That's us post paleo or other restrictive ways of eating.

My husband eats a can of sardines a day. His are in olive oil. They make me burp something awful so I only can do maybe 2 sardines out of the whole can.

Great source of omega 3.

Your diet sounds good to me. Sugar is the biggest bad food in the American diet.

But, I sure grew up loving my desserts. It has been hard for me, but when you don't have a partner that likes sugar, it is easy to stay away from it.... I buy for him more than for me. So not much sugary things in our house.

No grains, no carby veggies (potatoes, corn), no dairy, no sugar.

I also eat 7-9 cups of vegetables and fruit per day.

I'm following the Wahl's Paleo diet, I can't recommend her book enough.

Here's a TED talk she did:
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc

I basically eat meat (organic, pasture-raised, grass-fed as much as possible) and vegetables. I put about 1/2 a green apple in my morning green smootie, but that's the only fruit I eat. I've also eliminated nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant). I'm terrified to eat anything else because I'm so afraid it'll make me sick.

summer16 said...
Great video, Mustard Seed. Wondering if making a soup with a lot of the vegetables would be as beneficial.

Ya home-made soups are delicious, especially in the winter (store-bought ones are full of sugar and other crap though)

The one problem with soups is the vegetable content. One cup of soup might have, what, 1/3 cup of vegetables. At that rate it's hard to keep up with the 9 cups recommended by Dr. Wahls.

My preferred method is smoothies. My Vitamix was the best money I ever spent. I throw all sorts of fruits and veggies in there and blend to a liquid. I sometimes drink up to 7 cups a day on top of my normal meals.

My last smoothie had 15 different ingredients in it!

Kale
Spinach
Collard Greens
Watercress
Broccoli
Carrot
Spring Green Mix
Blackberries
Raspberries
Pineapple
Strawberries
Pomegranate
Orange
Kiwi
Pumpkin Seeds

Fronton said...
Is rice OK to eat? Not as bad as bread or potatoes, correct?

Brown rice has a glycemic index of 50.

Potatoes have a glycemic index somewhere between 80-110 depending on how they're cooked.

So yes brown rice would convert to sugar more slowly in your system vs. a potato.

Wahls still recommends going grain free.

My LLMD just started me on a detox/cleanse in prep for antibiotics. No grain, no cow dairy, minimal sugar, no alcohol, no nightshades, no potatoes, no oats. Power smoothie for breakfast with berries, greens, broccoli, flax seed, liver cleanse powder, coconut milk, cinnamon. Lunch is salad as clean as I can make it. Dinner is lean meat/fish and veggies. I use pistachios as a snack if I get hungry. Sometimes a hard boiled egg.

I recently added kefir and realized it's on the "no" list.

The first few days were tough. I was very achy. Doing better now.

How paleo?

Was 100% for two months, .....actually more, zero grains of any kind and zero milk products (whole30/paleo)..

Have added a little rice since.

Kiefir is not paleo, but I bought non dairy, non soy, GF , non-GMO brand....its anti-everything LOL

note: sought out paleo BB sauce and salad dressing to- no dairy , no added sugar, no chemicals ect either, hard to find!

The pregnant cow hormones cannot be removed from real milk no matter what you do- its for calves, not humans, sorry milk lovers- its not good for us and can cause autoimmune symptoms. Guess I'll find out if my AI gets better, not totally sold on that theory.

I drink non sweetened almond milk, a brand with more basic ingredients, some brands look like a science project.

All this non-this, non-that food is getting more popular, thus getting for affordable. But still, the "best" non-this not-that, grew up with in best pasture beef is out of my price range, so I skip it in steak form.

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madisongrrl said...
I was paleo years before I got sick. I would like to make the transition to Wahls...

The Wahl's Protocol book was really eye-opening for me.

Not just about Lyme and diseases like MS, but just health in general. We're absolutely robbing ourselves of all the vitamins and nutrients our cells need on a molecular level. After reading it and changing your diet a bit, you really start to crave vitamins and minerals because you know what they do for you.

I also like that it's 100% science based (as she is a research scientist), and not just some fancy-schmancy author making stuff up and writing words on paper to sell copies of a book.

astroman said...
Wahls must have some interesting 23andMe gene data vs the average Joe for food to make such a change in her.

Someone needs to compare her genes to the "average MS patients genes" vs non-MS people. This sounds to easy, but there is obviously something about her gene mutations that cant handle the popular crap food, where as others can to a higher degree. Just like lyme, there's a reason some dont get it when crawling with ticks.

She actually got funding to do a full research study on the effect of the diet on several hundred MS patients. I believe it's still on going but I agree, the results would be interesting.