Today was excellent.  No weirdness...just fullness.

Totals:
kcals 1735
pro 150
fat 108
cho 53

Questions:
How many eggs are 'acceptable' for one days consumption?
What other oils are Paleo acceptable?  EVOO & coconut are the only 2 I've been using.  Are sesame and walnut okay?

Your calorie breakdown is spot on!
Any cold pressed oils are good... cold pressed grapeseed, sesame, walnut, etc... as well as tallow, schmaltz, lard, bacon fat... as long as the source is paleo. I try to cook with the more stable oils, so  I used animal fats or coconut predominantly for cooking, grapeseed oil I use for my homemade mayo, and I season curries with a drop of sesame after they've already been cooked.

Quote from: gb on July 02, 2010, 05:35:19 PM

Today was excellent.  No weirdness...just fullness.

Totals:
kcals 1735
pro 150
fat 108
cho 53

Questions:
How many eggs are 'acceptable' for one days consumption?
What other oils are Paleo acceptable?  EVOO & coconut are the only 2 I've been using.  Are sesame and walnut okay?

Your calorie breakdown is spot on!
Any cold pressed oils are good... cold pressed grapeseed, sesame, walnut, etc... as well as tallow, schmaltz, lard, bacon fat... as long as the source is paleo. I try to cook with the more stable oils, so  I used animal fats or coconut predominantly for cooking, grapeseed oil I use for my homemade mayo, and I season curries with a drop of sesame after they've already been cooked.

EXCELLENT!  Thank you!  I will check those out...as well as coconut milk.  I'm ready to try new things.  I'm hoping to find some turkey bacon somewhere that doesn't have all the processed shit in it....

Just read this from my Dave Ramsey FPU book (yes, I'm one of those Dave Ramsey believers...IT WORKS!) 

Anyway, back to what I read:
The old saying holds true: if you are going to eat and eat excellently, you must get up, leave the cave, kill something, and drag it home.

I guess it's a good thing that I'm working on Olympic lifts so I can drag my food home

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Fourth of July weekend...was excellent!  I bought this cantaloupe/honeydew/watermelon type melon (not really sure what it is but it's good ) and I've been loving on it.  Today is shaping up to be a super day as well!

I may get chastised for this, but I don't think paleo needs to be expensive. You don't need to buy everything Organic-Grass Fed, Pasture Raised, 100% Free of Everything. I mean, you *should* if you can. But there's nothing wrong with a grocery store steak, except the O3:O6 ratio. Just make sure you eat some fish or take fish oil.

There are SOME fruits and veggies in which buying organic is a good idea, but for the most part it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that you eat an apple instead of a Snickers bar, organic or not.

Farmers markets, though, are awesome.

Even then it's still mote expensive than a high carbohydrate diet full of starches as staple foods like rice, pasta etc.

Protein just costs far more than carbs for the very reason that agriculture became the norm; because grains can be mass produced far more easily than proteins can.

You can buy a $20 bag of rice and pasta that will last a LOT longer than $20 of any meat.

Destor & Pinon---

I agree with both of your posts.  Yes, a CHO diet is more friendly to the bank account but not to the waist and hips   Farmers markets are awesome and I do love to go to them and stock up...the problem is that for my meats I can only get what will fit in my tiny freezer, which isn't much.  Before we moved to TN we were looking into buying a deep freeze....then the move happened.

I do like to roast chickens in my roaster though.

Sometimes we can't afford to pay more than for the cheapest (for me it was from 18-28.)  Now, I can afford to vote w/ my pocketbook.  I believe what you spend your money on is often the most honest description of your values.  And sometimes those values have to start and end w/ making the rent or the credit card payment.  And then there are times when you got those basics covered, so do you choose to support factory farming, environmental degradation, animals standing in a foot of manure, profits for big-ag, exploitation of immigrants?  This whole question is important to me, b/c this is the first time I have ever felt secure enough (financially) that I could walk by the London Broil at $1.87/lb.  Milk at $1.67 a gallon.  And it is kind of difficult, as a lifelong frugal person.  But I getting a lot of joy out of it, too.  This is probably way off topic. 
Pinon

Not at all.  I understand exactly what you mean.  I have always been a very health conscious person and I hate it when I can't buy good stuff.  Now we are earning a bit more so it's easier but I still have a hard time buying ALL organic.  One of these days I'll be able to but right now I just do the best I can..
Right now I'm on the hunt for where I can get good cuts of meat, poultry, etc.  Just moved to a new state so I still am adjusting...it's hard.  Kind of why I decided to give Paleo my full efforts.  I figured everything else in my life is changing (for the better-mostly) so why not my nutrition.  And really it didn't have to change much.  It's more my mindset that had to change rather than my food choices.

Speaking of food choices:
yesterday went well.  Not sure what my totals were as I lost count and made a few concoctions that I didn't track the macros but I would say I kept it around the 1800 kcal mark.
I feel great...still working on getting rid of the thin layer of pillow over the abs but it's slowly deflating    I did get on the scale again just for giggles and it says 128...I can tell I'm getting stronger and I like to think that I'm leaning out more.  Time will tell I guess.

Society as a whole needs to work on making healthy low carb high protein foods more available on a larger scale and for prices that are going to compare with carbs.

Organic should be the norm, but instead it's the expensive exception.

There are two ways I can see this happening:  either people become more coinscous about what they're buying and as the demand for the nutritionally vapid food lowers, the companies will need to change with us;  or the companies/governments need
to be proactive and work towards forcing the change.

Either options work for me! 

That is a brilliant idea Lone Wolf.  I definitely don't buy organic everything.  Went shopping w/ my partner and she puts things in the cart w/o looking at the price.  Uh, no.  I do my best to keep her out of the grocery store.  She tries to keep me out of thrift stores, so I guess we are even.  The amount of processed food I buy is now miniscule compared to what it was.  And almost all of that is for my teenager.  Must work harder on that.
Pinon