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!