Nuggets of Wisdom on my Paleo Lifestyle

Here are just some of the things I said as I was talking to my friends about eating Paleo/Primal and living that type of lifestyle. It struck a chord in me as to how much I have changed in the past three months so I thought I would share.

"What to eat: Meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, salad, fruit (but not too much), nuts, seeds.

What not to eat:  Bread, rice, pasta, potato, cereal, wheat, dairy, beans, any processed food, sugar.

The Fat Question: Fat is healthy – even saturated fat. The one type of fat to avoid is vegetable fat. This means margarine, vegetable cooking oils and processed foods that contain vegetable oil. In addition, whilst eating the fat from free-range animals is healthy, eating animal fats from industrially farmed animals is not as healthy. Avoid the latter if you can."

"My hunger has gotten to where I rarely get hungry more than once a day actually... must be all that stomach fat keeping my body working, lol."

"I just cook meat, I am on 20 grams of carbs or less, and eat the the small amount of veggies raw... often I eat zero carbs per day, lol. The kids say they love that they get meat every meal, that they would rather have meat than rice or pasta or anything else."

"I wasnt a veggie fan, but after no sugar, veggies started to taste good. Romain lettuce can sometimes be sweeter than a rather unsweet grape."

Where is my milk from?

Now, I don't drink milk or consume dairy due to me being Paleo, but my wife and children do (they are Primal), hence why I found the following extremely interesting as well as worrysome when I was unable to locate where any of my fridge's dairy came from.

Go to the following site (http://whereismymilkfrom.com/) and follow the directions on how to enter in the dairy codes to see where, exactly, the products in your home came from.

Here's a list of all the possible products that you can use the site to find out where they came from:

Raw Milk for Pasteurization (May include Lowfat, Skim or Cream)
Pasteurized Milk, Reduced Fat, Lowfat and Skim
Heat-Treated (May Include Reduced Fat, Skim, Lowfat or Cream)
Pasteurized Half and Half, Coffee Cream, Creams
Ultra-Pasteurized Milk and Milk Products
Aseptic Milk and Milk Products (Including Flavored)
Cottage Cheese (Including Lowfat, Nonfat or Dry Curd)
Cultured or Acidified Milk and Milk Products
Yogurt (Including Lowfat or Skim)
Sour Cream Products (Acidified or Cultured)
Whey (Liquid)
Whey (Condensed)Whey (Dry)
Modified Whey Products (Condensed or Dry)
Condensed Milk and Milk Products
Nonfat Dry Milk
Buttermilk (Condensed or Dry)
Eggnog
Lactose Reduced Milk and Milk Products
Low-Sodium Milk and Milk Products
Milk and Milk Products with Added Safe and Suitable Microbial Organisms (Such as Lactobacillus acidophilus)
Dry Milk and Milk Products
Anhydrous Milk Fat
Cholesterol Modified Anhydrous Milk Fat
Cholesterol Modified Fluid Milk Products
Cream (Condensed or Dry)
Blended Dry Products
Whey Cream
Whey Cream and Cream Blends
Grade 'A' Lactose
Raw Goat Milk for Pasteurization
Pasteurized Goat Milk and Milk Products
Cultured Goat Milk and Milk Products
Condensed or Dry Goat Milk and Milk Products
Aseptic Goat Milk and Goat Milk Products
Raw Sheep Milk for Pasteurization
Cultured Sheep Milk and Milk Products
Concentrated Raw Milk Products for Pasteurization
Concentrated Pasteurized Milk Products
Ultrafiltered Permeate from Milk
Ultrafiltered Permeate from Whey
Orange Juice
Anything else produced at processing plants where milk products are also processed