Take this 30 day healthy eating challenge

[squeally dan]

http://huntercopelandnutrition.com/

Give it a try for 30 days. It wiorks if you do it. It's centered around avoiding most processed foods. Give it a read. Give it a shot. you will lose weight, feel better, have more energy, get more chicks...well, maybe scratch that last one.
http://huntercopelandnutrition.com/

[Hacksaw]

Looks real simple. I would have to remove the potato and bread from my current dietary and I'm there!

[squeally dan]

Originally Posted by Hacksaw

Looks real simple. I would have to remove the potato and bread from my current dietary and I'm there!

Give it a shot!

I'd love to round up some other folks to try this thing here and we could use this thread as home base. It has worked well for many people in my office, when they will comit to it for 30 days. Trying to get some more folks to try it and provide some testimony after the 30 days.

[The Guy]

um. . . no thanks. too much "take my word for it"

[arthur rotfeld]

Really Guy?

It not much more than "avoid processed food and eat real food"....

[ACfixer]

Originally Posted by The Guy

um. . . no thanks. too much "take my word for it"

There's nothing but healthy stuff on that list, I can't see any harm in trying it. I think the "take my word for it" was just the author not wanting to take the time to spell out the details.

[The Guy]

the problem is, taking the time to spell it out (or more importantly, read what has been spelled out) is important. health isnt about a magic bullet or a "simple" diet strategy- its about a lifestyle change. sure, this program might work short term for some people, but the knowledge of ones own body is far more valuable.

'give a man a fish. . . ' is my point.

[PVH5150]

Starting July 1st, I'm giving this a shot.

From February 20th (day I officially quit soda) to April 30th (my birthday), I set on a quest to lose as much weight as possible to look somewhat decent for my birthday. In that timespan, I went from 320 to 282.

Since then, I haven't checked my weight at all. My guess is that I've maintained or gained slightly. Another month of dieting should do me well.

[MVrider]

There was a news story the other day about a lab test that showed that about 70% of the people who claimed gluten intolerance or issues with wheat demonstrated none of the claimed symptoms in controlled conditions...

Other that that I agree with it as I pretty much eat no processed food, avoid chain restaurants and fast food like the plague, consume virtually NO high-fructose corn syrup etc...

[beckerman]

No pasta? I'd starve in two days

[popinvasion]

Many people will experience a gluten and or dairy withdrawal as both give off opiod like effects when eaten. So it is possible that if your heavy on gluten products or dairy or both you may actually feel worse for a good 2 weeks into this type of food plan. I personally have done this diet a few times and I do feel like total crap for a couple weeks. I know I should not be eating gluten or dairy but I keep getting sucked back in and I might even be celiac.

[anathema]

Originally Posted by squeally dan

http://huntercopelandnutrition.com/

Give it a try for 30 days. It wiorks if you do it. It's centered around avoiding most processed foods. Give it a read. Give it a shot. you will lose weight, feel better, have more energy, get more chicks...well, maybe scratch that last one.
http://huntercopelandnutrition.com/

so he re-packaged a paleo diet and called it his own?

Dairy (unless raw) and grains bad, natural raised grass fed/pastured animals and organic veggies/fruit good. Yep, thats where I'm at.

http://robbwolf.com/

[crawz]

All of this fits in with what I aim at and generally try to do anyway. Gluten awareness and keeping dairy a rarity as well has been a part of things. I do this because I'm so damned sensitive to additives in foods which give me hangover headaches the entire next day. I'm fully height/ weight proportionate. So, it's not ever been about weight loss and maintaining things well. It's not hard for me to keep the starches, processed foods and sugar to a real minimum. I always do that. But not so simple at all is to get the protein at each and every meal. -The most important meal of the day? I think breakfast is the toughest challenge. What's left after eggs? Normally I eat fruit. And that's clearly not enough by itself for fuel. I'm hungry within 2 hrs of breakfast once I get my system started. That's also a lot of fructose in one blast. -Still breaks down to sugar.

I'm not so big a meat eater... for lots of differing reasons (less ethical than that I just don't trust the sources so much. And I know better than to eat much pork.) I'd eat a lot more fish if it wasn't so dear most of the time and questionable for mercury and other contaminants. Love salmon and halibut. God most any seafood I love and do well with. Also, fruit and nuts is supposedly not good food combining. So breakfast is always tough. The heavier and consistent meat thing at each meal? Whew, this is what I find the biggest hurtle. Beans as a substitute is not something my system handles well. They're automatically gas inducing and not fun for discomfort and the obvious awkwardnesses. Daily beano isn't supposed to be good for you either. Lastly, eating that much meat is spendy, particularly if you're eating so called organic meat where supposedly thins is done right (and this they want us to believe ethically.) It just ain't simple. It ain't easy... even if you have no funds and sourcing restrictions at all. Sure wish there were easier solutions. But por moi, I sure haven't discovered them. Lots of built in limiting factors that make this challenging.

[popinvasion]

Originally Posted by crawz

All of this fits in with what I aim at and generally try to do anyway. Gluten awareness and keeping dairy a rarity as well has been a part of things. I do this because I'm so damned sensitive to additives in foods which give me hangover headaches the entire next day. I'm fully height/ weight proportionate. So, it's not ever been about weight loss and maintaining things well. It's not hard for me to keep the starches, processed foods and sugar to a real minimum. I always do that. But not so simple at all is to get the protein at each and every meal. -The most important meal of the day? I think breakfast is the toughest challenge. What's left after eggs? Normally I eat fruit. And that's not clearly not enough by itself. That's also a lot of fructose in one blast. I'm not so big a meat eater... for lots of differing reasons (less ethical than that I just don't trust the sources so much. And I know better than to eat much pork.) I'd eat a lot more fish is it wasn't so dear and queationable for mercury and other contaminants. Also, fruit and nuts is supposedly not good food combining. So breakfast is always tough. The heavier and consistent meat thing at each meal? Whew, this is what I find the biggest hurtle. Beans as a substitute is not something my system handles well. They're automatically gas inducing and not fun for discomfort and the obvious awkwardnesses. Daily beano isn't supposed to be good for you either. Lastly, eating that much meat is spendy, particularly if you're eating so called organic meat where supposedly thins is done right (and ethically.) It just ain't simple. It ain't easy... even if you have no funds restrictions and sourcing restrictions at all. Sure wish there were easier solutions. But por moi, I just can't feature them.

I have to agree with this, you can only eat so many eggs. And nuts, I dig almonds and walnuts but after a while its like eating sawdust. I can do it, but just not daily. As for beans, I love them. I prefer blackbeans and lentils. As for fish-yeah right. I love how people, doctors, etc. always talk about eating fish. Well I live quite far from any ocean or clean fresh water lakes. We get fish where I live, but it is frozen and I question how contaminated it is. I seriously cannot get fish into my diet. As for other meats, that too is a challenge. The hormones and crap is a problem and I prefer to not have it in my system. I like chicken. But its back to the egg thing, how much chicken can you really eat? It gets a little blah.

Lately I have been picking up at target ham and turkey. They have this all natural no preservative no nitrates lunch meat and the turkey and ham are really good and cheap-$2.99 for 8 ounces.

[crawz]

Eating hemps hearts daily has proved to be good for this bod though. This helps and I could highly recommend them.