Primal Nutrition for a Healthy Lifestyle

Meatloaf seems like a recipe that would fit nicely into the Primal Blueprint. Oh, how wrong I can be.

The biggest problem with meat loaf--or any type of loaf for that matter-- is that the stuff that makes it "loafy" is almost always bread. Otherwise it would just be a ball of meat. The other big problem is that more typically than not people slather up a meatloaf with any amount of ketchupy sauces, and almost always these sauces are sugar loaded.

Well, not anymore. I finally found a primal friendly recipe on the internet for turkey meatloaf. It has almost no carbs, and only 280 calories per serving, which means you can go back for seconds or even thirds!

For sauce I use plain old tomato sauce with a few peppers added in for spiciness. No sugar necessary. That way I've got my orac value from the tomatoes before I even take my daily Master Formula.

Mark has officially thrown down the gauntlet and challenged his readers of Mark's Daily Apple to live the Primal way for 30 days.

30 days? I've already got that beat! I've been living Primal for over a month now, and I love it! I chose to eat a caveman diet (no, I'm not THAT old) because I learned through Mark's website how healthy good old fashioned meats and veggies are. And have more energy now than I did a month ago, and I even put on a little weight, which is good for me (I'm a frail old woman!).

I also take Mark's Damage Control Master Formula, which certainly helps in the nutrient department, and also helps with how to deal with stress. I take one a day, even though the regular dosage is two packets per day. That's a little too potent for me.

So now everyone is playing catch-up, racing to be primal. Good for them, I look forward to hearing more success stories in the near future.

I've been skirting around it for quite awhile, but now I'm actually doing it. I'm living the Primal Nutrition way!

I've completely cut out carbs from my diet. Okay, that's a hyperbole, no carbs just isn't possible, but the Primal Blueprint allows for the good kind of carbs, namely vegetable carbs. So I'm eating meats and veggies, and a little bit of cheese and dairy as well. I've been feeling stronger, and more energetic the last week ever since I finally stopped eating bread! Maybe this whole life extension really might work.

I've also switched to natural soaps, conditioners, and deodorants. Consumer Report has a great list of soaps and shampoos for people to try who don't want the toxins and potentially harmful chemicals associated with many common soaps.

Finally, I've really hit the gym recently. For a 70+ woman, that ain't bad. I don't have washboard abs (not that I'd want them), but I can walk for almost a mile without getting winded!

Finally, I buy vitamin supplements, enough to get my blood flowing, my heart pumping, and keep my brain from forgetting things, at my age the brain forgets more than I'd like it to, and yet sometimes not enough. Some of my favorite vitamin supplements are resveratrol, CoQ10, and L-Carnatine.

The grocery store can be so confusing sometimes.

It seems more and more foods on the shelf at my local Albertson's grocery are "healthy" or "nutritious," but after I spend a bit of time reading the labels, I realize these are just the same old foods I always walk past, but some honcho up at the top of the marketing company has decided more products will sell if a little picture of a heart or a sillhouette of a healthy runner is stuck to the outside of the packaging.

This is grievious, I remember the days where the only frozen food out there was peas and something was healthy if it helped you bulk up!

Ah well, I must be getting old.

Check out this best multivitamin link to a post about health and nutrition. Then visit this website about the benefits of vitamins. Okay, I'm done until next month!

I'm just not a sausage person.
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I've been reading about primal nutrition, and the benefits of loading my meals up with meats and protein, but sausage just doesn't work for me. It never has. Why can't we eat fish for breakfast? Is that too weird? I know locks is common, but locks always seems to go with bagels (bagels being carby death). How about some plain old grilled salmon or tilapia for breakfast? What's wrong with that?

Maybe I'm giving sausage a hard time. I had to eat sausage most every day as a little girl, and I hated it! My mother cooked the worst sausage, god knows what was inside of those links, but it wasn't 100% beef. Or pork for that matter.

On a different note, I'd like to talk a bit about orthorexia. Orthorexia is basically being "too healthy." It's an eating disorder where people are so concerned about eating correctly that they end up hurting themselves. Learn a bit about it, as it seems dangerous.

Also, I've been getting into peoplesearch recently. Unfortunately, most of my friends aren't on the internet!