Sunday/Monday I came down with a cold: sleep deprived, stuffy head, runny nose, aches, pains, cough & sore throat...insert violins here. I am not a big fan of working out while your sick - your body is already in overdrive trying to fight off whatever is making you sick and maintain daily function and I still went into work so adding to that the stresses of working out. That doesn't make sense to me. Plus, your creating an environment that bacteria/disease thrive in by raising your core temperature due to exercise. I'm pretty sure "flushing" your system out by squeezing in a workout while your sick doesn't work - but that's just my opinion.
With that said, I only worked out on Monday and I de-loaded so it was easy weight on everything...since then I have not lifted though. What I have done since then is finished one of my books. (I am doing well with my goal of reading more ... 2 1/2 books read with only 2 months in the year down) I read The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain, Ph.D. It was a who, what, why, and when book of the The Paleo Diet, more commonly known as The Caveman Diet.
For those of you that don't know the Paleo Diet is very simple - eat only what a paleolithic person had available to them...65 million years ago. huh?
First of all - whether you believe in evolution, creation, or a combination of the two or some other Matrix-y/Men In Black theory - Cavemen/Paleolithic people existed at some point the time doesn't matter 8,000 years ago or 800 million years ago they existed and they didn't have the processed foods that we do.
So the gist - Cavemen ate - meats, vegetables, fruits, and seeds and nuts. They ate from these 4 categories and they ate as much as they could from these. They ate until they were full and then they'd do it all over again. Some catches to this are...they ate leaner - game - meats and they were much more active than the average adult is now a days. They had to hunt their food, not drive to a store, they also had much more rigorous daily livings compared to SOME of us nowadays. They had to gather their fruits, nuts, and seeds plus gather sticks/stones/etc for building, hunting, and everything they did. There was no such thing as a finished product - they did everything themselves. But through exercise and active lifestyles or lifestyle changes we can adjust for that. So really it comes down to our nutrition not matching theirs. Hence the diet/lifestyle change.
Ground rules -
eat whatever you want as long as its a meat, vegetable, fruit, seed or nut
no fried/processed foods
no dairy ... try milking a wild animal - good luck ;) - also high in sat.fats
no/limit sugar ... I added "limit" because its just plain hard, do-able, but hard to not eat sugar - supposedly cavemen would only get sugar via honey
Limit alcohol/caffeine - Red wine/light beer encourage if consuming/keep caffeine to minimum
That's about it...the abundance of fruits, veggies, seeds and nuts (alkaline based)balance out the amounts of protein (acid based)your consuming limiting protein toxicity, the non-existent processed foods diminish free radicals, level out hormones like insulin, and greatly reduce ones chances of disease like heart disease, obesity, diabetes, multiple types of cancers plus much more. You increase your intake of good fats like mono-poly unsaturated (including omega 3/6) while decrease saturated fats/trans fats by taking out dairy, processed, deep fried, grease laden foods and focusing on lean meats/game meats for protein sources.
I'll add more to this topic once I can pull specific information from the book - plus I'll add a weekly meal plan and a few recipes I try.
I'm already starting to read Food, Inc. edited by Karl Weber. Its also DVD, but I thought I'd be the smart guy and actually read the book first. Its about the food industry and how poorly companies are regulated, managed, and run and how its effecting consumers health and making us sicker and the stockholders richer...at least that's what I think its about, I'm only on chapter 1.
People will read again! ~Thomas Tibbs (Vanilla Sky-a great movie btw)
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
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