Dave –
I am realizing that not everyone is going to devour entire books on eating “Low Glycemic” …..like I have been enjoying doing this year. (What percent of the country actually reads these days?…And, I don’t mean U.S. Weekly Gossip Magazines….I mean actually reading to inform oneself of something that doesn’t have to do with the Kardashians’ latest breakup or surprise pregnancy?)
I am realizing that my daily postings perhaps offer more “bite size chunks” of information about getting the “right” nutrition into your body…and, that for a lot of people, this makes it more easily digestible. (No pun intended. 🙂 ) (I don’t advertise my blog. So, God only knows if anyone is actually reading it. But, if they are, I hope it is getting them to think…..thinking is good….and, there doesn’t seem to be quite enough of it happening these days when it comes to the nutrition found in the Standard American Diet of High Glycemic processed “quick and easy” food options.)
In truth, when i am writing my blog postings, I am just regurgitating information from many different sources that I have been reading and watching. I strongly suggest that, if you do no other research at all, you start by reading the book, Mark Sisson’s “The Primal BluePrint”.
My wife and i loved that book. But, It was not my first exposure to the concept of eating “Low Glycemic”. Actually, Doug’s whole Cenegenics experience is what got me interested in the whole concept more than anything else. I became more and more interested in the knowledge and information that Doug forwarded to me as he was having it fed to him by those Doctors there at the Cenegenics Clinic in Vegas. I don’t know if he has had you watch their nutrition video on what eating “High Glycemic”….(a.k.a. The Standard American Diet)….does to the cells in your body and why it is making us all a bunch of blubbery messes. If you have not seen the video, ask Doug for the link. It really did “change his life”….and, it got me started wanting more information about this whole concept. (By the way, if you think that phrase about blubbery messes is at all extreme, please take a quick look around you next time you venture out into the public. In the last 30 years, this country has become incredibly freaking fat! Thirty years ago, would any of us have believed that we would be paying people to live on “Disability” simply because they were “too fat” to want to go to work!!! (Good Gracious, people!)) EAT LOW GLYCEMIC!
I stopped eating the Standard American Diet in the middle part of December of 2012. But, I was still not sure that I could do eat this way for my lifetime until one of Angie’s workout Gurus (Michelle Derry) turned me on to www.marksdailyapple.com…..Shortly thereafter, I purchased and read Mark’s book, The Primal Blueprint. I read it to myself…and translated it to my slightly reading-challenged wife….(I read it every night in our Hearth Room while she created her hand-made Wrap bracelets at the kitchen island….check her out on FaceBook)…and, as I read, I reiterated (to my lovely bride) important assertions he was making about living what he calls “a primal life”. (In addition to eating “low glycemic”, he also talks about lifestyle and his thoughts on living.)
We were both finally and completed hooked at that point. And, we have both been living it ever since. …….Note: Angie’s physical (almost daily) changes are shocking to me. We literally eat whatever we want…as long as we avoid things that spike our insulin and glucose levels…and, in so doing, I am watching my already beautiful wife melt away before me. (This morning, she pulled her t-shirt up to scratch her upper side torso area….and, I was shocked by the belly that was exposed to me. She is going to have a six pack at some point in the not too distant future! That is crazy. Not a lot of women around these parts sporting a six pack abdomen any more! I guess the last time they were common in the world was about 10,000 years ago really….Hmmm….I wonder why that might have been?)
The comforting part to both of us….(two people who have tried to live the spartan, low-fat diets of the 80’s and 90’s….and, hated it…and, knew we could not live that way for our entire lives)……is that we get to eat all the food that we love…(I mean, take a look at What David Eats if you think I am sacrificing anything!) ……And, quite frankly, we don’t miss bread, rice, potatoes, and pasta near as much as I would miss it if you told me I had to cut the fat back out of my diet again. We don’t eat anything that is “processed” if we can avoid it. And, we are making every possible attempt to make sure the food we are eating is Organic in origin….and, that our fishes are “Wild”….and, our meats are sourced from “free range” hormone free, anti-biotic free animals.
I guess that sounds like a lot of change. It really isn’t. It just takes a little thought and pre-planning.
In Closing: Fat doesn’t make you fat…high insulin and glucose levels make you fat. Fat is actually a great thing to put in your body (that happens to burn real slow) and gets you from meal to meal without ever feeling empty…and/or experiencing cravings. By the way, you won’t die (and or wreck your fitness goals) if a little animal fat finds its way into your diet….I eat it every day. But, my favorite kind of fat is the Omega 3 fat I get in Raw Organic Almond Butter. If you haven’t tried some, I suggest you do so…now. And, please make sure it is Raw Organic Almond Butter…….(eating the Roasted non-Organic stuff that you typically see at the grocery store is the rough equivalent of pouring gasoline all over your body and lighting yourself on fire.)
Over and Out, Dawg. Gonna get back to tending triplets …..and, a house full of women……..I think you get the picture……:-)