Paleolithic Diet and My Testimony

Neither of these has anything really to do with the other. I like the new paleolithic diet based on lean meat, fruits and vegetables, and most notably absence of grains and legumes.
I also have noticed that I get a very strong feeling when I listen to LDS leaders and others bear testimony of Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and the First Vision.

Paleolithic Diet

So, I have been researching the likely diets of our ancestors and intuitively and based on research I am coming to the conclusion that our bodies are designed for lean meats and eggs, fruits and veggies and some root veggies. Domesticated fatty meats, grains and legumes apparently don't work well in our bodies, based on the number of discomforts on one end of the spectrum and life threatening diseases on the other. Our current ancestors had about one million years of evolution eating the aforementioned foods vs. the relatively recent onset of cooked grains and legumes in the past 10,000 or so years. So non domesticated animal meat with no or little salt and lots of herbal spice, potatoes and carrots, fruits and vegetables seem to be the foods of choice. So much of our current American diet is laden with salt, fat, and sugar all of which apparently was not a part of our ancestors' diet. We exercise the hell out of ourselves trying to compensate for all this physiologic nightmare we swallow all day long.
http://www.beyondveg.com/cordain-l/grains-leg/grains-legumes-1b.shtml

Critical to success is eating balanced smaller meals with protein, carbs, and fat which satisfies hunger.

Yesterday I had 3 doughnuts, a turkey sandwich and french fries. I continue to fit better every day in my clothes. I haven't worked out since Sunday.

2 weeks out

I am now two weeks into this and I have lost one inch around my waist. I have comments that I look thinner. I have not weighed myself so I don't know. My clothes fit looser and are much more comfortable.
I workout every 2-3 days either lifting weights or aerobic exercise for 20 minutes. I don't feel hungry and I don't gorge myself. I only eat when I am hungry and I eat more natural foods. Every day or two I still succumb to eating a piece of pie or having a shake or something. Nonetheless, I definitely feel better, more emotionally stable, and able to handle life better.

Battles with Carb addiction

Last night I came home and watched some TV. I ate very well all day and felt good but hadn't eaten for a while so I made some scrambled eggs and goat cheese with buttered rye bread toast. Now, pure rye bread is heavy and dark in color. It is made with molasses and really is thick. There is no wheat in rye bread and this is coarsely ground. Its a pretty good carb to eat. This did nothing to stay my hunger so I kept on eating whole grain cereal with soy milk and all the time my roommate kept offering me brownies which was so tempting. I finally started feeling the blood sugar rise and my appetite was satisfied, but it was pretty tense for a while. Probably sounds dumb but that's what sugar addiction can do. We get to the point of needing a sugar "hit".

I met someone this weekend who is in a 12 step program for sugar addiction. She tried all kinds of weight loss methods for years weighing about 250 lbs. She tried running marathons and training for them. Until she conquered her addiction to sugar and refined carbohydrates she did not lose weight. She now is more than 100 lbs. lighter and eats lots of (2 lbs per day) veggies both cooked and raw. She also makes sure to eat 500 calories of more of lean protein.
I started making wheat berries. For me wheat berries are an excellent food with incredible amounts of nutritious stuff. Wheat berries is the name given to germinated wheat just before it sprouts. I make it by soaking in hot tap water in a container simply put on the counter. I place the whole grains in a strainer and put in the container of hot water after rinsing in water. I usually let them soak for 3 days, changing the water daily with cool tap water. After that I refrigerate them until I use them up. They are living growing and full of enzymes and other amazing nutrients. The value of them is that the gluten which is in raw wheat is broken down. Wheat gluten is what makes wheat the ideal flour for bread because it gives bread the texture that really no other flour can do. Unfortunately, there is a large percentage of our population that cannot handle wheat gluten and in some it causes celiac disease, a severe intestinal inflammation that if left untreated can result in death. In many it is so severe that even other types of grains can cause it simply by being near wheat flour or grains. So, that problem is averted by growing wheat berries. I do best when I eat small portions of wheat berries. Large amounts, like large amounts of fruits can cause very loose stools and sometimes gas.
So, again my pitch for eating based on appetite. Listen to our bodies. Our bodies actually know when we need protein carbohydrates and other types of foods. When we put refined sugars and carbohydrates into the mix, the body can become addicted and then crave "junk" food which overrides the normal sense of need of natural foods. Then we diet and continue to eat bread and pasta and potatoes which continues to feed the appetite and we resist. But, as we all know resistance is futile and the body goes into protective starvation mode by storing fat. Then, we workout harder and starve ourselves more and the body protects itself even more using up muscle until finally our conscious ability to resist food is overcome by our need to survive and we binge and gain more weight due to return of muscle mass and more fat because the body is in survival mode. Hence, the term "set point" for our weight. We only have a set point because our bodies are surviving. Weight loss is natural when we live abundantly eating the foods our bodies are designed for from millions of years of evolution.
STOP RESISTING!! Start living abundantly by eating adequate amounts of natural nutritious foods.