The newly discovered road to a Paleo Lifestyle

As a crossfiter at the Crossfit Darwin box, I was exposed to a new Paleo Challenge. A challenge of the food you eat, and if you have a slip than you get punished with burpees!! So what is Paleo? I have heard of Atkins, Jenny Craig and loads of other fad diets but never this one.

So what do you do when you want to find something out? Google it! I got this definition from Wikipedia. The modern dietary regimen known as the Paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various human species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic—a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture.

So what does that mean? Do I have to move to Africa to hunt lions and live off the land? Do I have to wear Flinstones clothes and walk around with a baton? No...

To follow a paleolithic diet you need to eat meat as it was back in the Stone Age. So not processed, not grain fed and not pumped with drugs. So organically grown grass-fed animals that are not confined to a tiny little spot in a dense shed. Free Range so to speak. That goes for fruit, vegetables, nuts, herbs and spices as well. Organic - no fertilises, no chemicals, no preservatives... all natural. There was no dairy back in this era and there were no processed grains i.e. bread, cereal, cookies, chocolate =( so none of that..

I thought this diet would be quite hard considering I like to use packet ingredients and just add it to my meat. And the fact that I have ALWAYS had cereal and milk for breakfast and also that I am probably the most sugar addicted person on the planet!! Bit of an overstatement I know..

But I wanted to give this diet a shot as I want to be a healthier person. I battle painful blind pimples, severe bloating and sometimes stomach upsets after meals. I also have crazy hayfever - constantly sneezing, itchy eyes and throat and runny nose. And to top it off I get indigestion (heart burn) accommodated by thousands of hiccups!

I have read many success stories of people following the Paleo way of life so there is no harm in trying right? Let's see how I go..