Diet like a caveman

Its weird. When I tell people I need to change my diet the response is usually "but why? You don't need to lose anymore weight", but those are fatties who don't understand the difference between 'going on a diet' and 'changing your diet'. And a lot of these people are medical professionals! First of all, the reason it seems like I'm losing weight is cuz I ain't no slacker and I workout much more than I used to. Since I quit the smoking, I run 10-15 miles a week, I incorporate weight training 4-5 times a week with low weights and high reps, and high intensity intervals 2-3 times a week. My diet hasn't changed much and although I've made some progress, id like to see more. I'm weighing in under 160 for the first time in what seems like ever (but closer to 7 years) and I feel great. I could feel greater... which is why I want to change my diet. What sucks right now is my work schedule but its only temporary and is a means to an end.

'Going on a diet' means you want to cut calories cuz you think you're fat (you look fat or you actually are fat) and you want to look good in that bikini or speedo. Good luck! So people consume less calories or they eat more frequent, smaller meals. Some just starve themselves.  Sounds good in theory with the exception of the latter... Food choices tend to be healthier but usually this only lasts for a short time (until they achieve desired results) and then they go back to whatever they were doing before and it starts all over again.

'Changing your diet' is a whole different ballgame. It's more like  changing your lifestyle. It's making more conscious choices for the betterment of your health: physical and mental. Some of the research of looked at and listened to are quite persuasive against carbs in general and wheat in specific.

As an amateur armchair anthropologist, wheat is a very young food added to our diets arriving around 10K years ago when agriculture first came on the scene. However, our bodies evolved eating meats, fruits, fish, and essentially nonstarchy veggies and nuts for millions of years. If you look at the diets of our closest relatives you'll see what I'm talking about. Sure there are bugs in some of their diets but that contributes to the protein requirement. There is even evidence of some apes eating meat they hunted. there's a lot of veggie, fruit, and nut eating. I'm sure if there were chimp MDs, we wouldn't be hearing about a lot of chimp diabetes, chimp celiac disease, chimp rheumatoid arthritis, etc. With the exception of the smoking apes, they are generally healthier than we... but I will admit they don't smell as good... as some humans. Or if you want, take a look at som

But I digress. I've been listening to the paleodiet podcast and reading the paleodiet book and I'm going to give it a whirl. I want to get healthy and I want to get sexy. Sexier.

So I'm cutting out wheat products. If I have a craving, ill have it. We'll see how my body reacts. Its been 2 days and my gas production has gone way down. I already can't recognize myself! If I'm not farting who am I?

Found a wheat free gluten free pizza place. Def going to check it out tomorrow. Gotta avoid beer. Whisky it is!

you aint 32

This online dating thing seems to be the wave of the future. I think its kinda dumb.

Maybe I'm not representing myself properly on these websites. I see a chick who might be fun so I send a message and I get no response. I'm just like 'hey I think we'd have some fun. Hit me back' its short to the point and shows how hip I am cuz I said hit me back. I think I'm cool and funny. Why wouldn't these chicks wanna hit me back? Are my pix too extreme? I don't have any pix where you could say I'm smiiling. I'm a scowler. An angry facer. A shocked and awed-er. My bad! I guess this shows chicks how not serious I am. Why can't they see how atypical I am? I'm a man-child. Deal with it! We'd have so much fun as long as you ain't dumb. Or if you are dumb, try to limit the dumb things you say. That would help. I say a lot of dumb things. But they make me laugh. If the dumb things you say make me laugh then we're cool.

Some of these chicks are totally misrepresenting themselves. You post a pic of a 39 year old but you say you're 32. Either you ain't healthy or you are lying. Either way I ain't interested.

I also assume these chicks hate honesty cuz I'm totally honest about how I laugh a lot and I work a lot and how extreme I am. Ok maybe I'm not really extreme. Maybe honesty is boring. Probably. Maybe I'm not mysterious enough. Maybe I'm too good to be spending time on my profile cuz internet dating is stupid. What happened to picking up chicks at the mall? At the farmers market? at home depot in the power tools section? At the strip club? I never did any of those. Well maybe at the mall.

I honestly think I'm too cool for most chicks. Seriously? Yea. Seriously. And I'm too shy for the others... its a problem. gotta work on it. I'm open to suggestions. People think I'm so open and whatnot but its easy to talk to ugly chicks. I didn't mean that, I meant chicks I wouldn't bang with your dick. Am I supposed to treat all chicks that way? *ding* another issue is with aggressive women. They scare me. Assertive, confident: yes. Aggressive: no! We should just be able to get along. It shouldn't have to be work. It should just work.

Is that too much to aks?

quitters

They say quitters never win and winners never quit. I quit smoking (cigarettes) almost 6 weeks ago. It was the hardest and yet most simple thing to do. My parents thought I smoked way before I actually started smoking. I wasn't a bad kid but I did hang with smokers and went to places that allowed smoking so I almost always smelled like smoke. These smoker friends would smoke outside the car and occassionally the smoke would blow in. My manager would ask me to buy him a pack of marlboro lights when id go on my breaks and stupid me would forget the matches in the car where momdukes would find 'em. So in my senior year of high school, the parents sai "we don't care if you smoke, just don't do it in front of us or your brothers and sisters". Ok! Free reign to be cool and smoke cigarettes! Cuz seriously, in high school all the cool kids smoked. In high school I was a slacker in the AP classes, played violin in the orchestra, had a girlfriend who was always in trouble with her mom, and played sports. I wasn't a smoker... yet.

When I got to college, it was a whole new ball game. It was like all this power was bestowed upon me but no uncle ben to give me the "with great power comes responsibility" speech. So I went nuts. Stayed up all night, macked on chicks, hung out and got drunk. Barely went to class. Barely passed those first years. Had a lot of fun! Unfortunately I did start smoking (cigarettes).

That first cig was out of this world. Newports. I doubt there was a more gangster cig made back then. I took my first drag and if it weren't for that wall, I would've passed out and face planted on the hard walkway outside my dorm. It was with my buddy swatty and this chick I'm friends with on facebook.

After that I was the coolest guy on campus smoking cigarettes, flicking them on the ground when I was done, spitting. Oh baby. So sexy.

A smoke in the morning. A smoke after breakfast. A smoke on the way to class. A smoke after. A smoke here and then another smoke there. It was ok cuz smoking was cool. Sure I got sick a lot and had bronchitis a few times. One time I got pneumonia. I lost 40 pounds. Worst diet ever.

I smoked a lot. Cigarettes cost $1.50/pack when I started. This was new gunswick, nj in 1996. I left nj in 2011 and packs cost around $7-8/pack. In nyc on a Friday or Saturday night you'd be lucky to get a pack for less than $12!

This is the year I quit. I'm 33 now. I started when I was 18. A pack a day smoker. You do the math on the financial and physical damage done.

My quit date is july 19, 2011. Since I quit I saved about $160 and who knows how many days of suffering in my old age. I'm a nurse and should've known better. But I was too cool. Now I'm even cooler cuz I'm not one of those ex-smokers that tries to get smokers to quit. It has to be done at their own time when they are ready.

How'd I do it? I made a deal with myself. I didn't tell anyone. I picked a tuesday. And bought the patch. Put it on and kaboom no more smoking. Actually I used the patch for 3 days and on the 4th day I forgot it. I realized that I didn't have it on and didn't use another one.

Id have a cig before or after everything I did: waking, eating, pooping, working, working out, drinking, movies, dates, driving. Ok so I don't really go on dates but that's cuz I have yet to find a chick that's good enough for me... which ill save for another time.

The hardest part was retraining yourself to not have a smoke whenever you think you should. For me the toughest times are after a huge meal. But the craving goes away. And I'm better off for it.

So now I'm almost 6 weeks smoke free.

My sense of smell is better which is bad because there are a lot of bad odors in my line of work and are totally enhanced now. Which sucks. But now I don't take a bunch of smoke breaks which should increase productivity. Should.

And I run now. I want to get in at least 20 miles a week but cuz my schedule is totally whack I usually see around 10. Hopefully the running will help reverse some of that damage. *fingers crossed*

there were a lot of sluts out tonight

It was whore-iffic!

"It has magic! And accents!"

That's why I love harry potter.