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The Paleo Diet: Eat Like a Cave Woman and Lose Weight?
It seems like every day there's a new diet on the market that promises amazing results in little to no time or effort. While most of these diets are just gimmicky advertisements from companies looking to make money (or a few million), one popular diet isn't trying to be the new thing at all. In fact, proponents of the diet are attracted to her because she's super old. Like 10,000 years ago. Like the old cave woman. The Paleolithic diet, known as the Paleo diet for short, is based on the idea that we should eat and exercise the way our...
The Paleo Diet: Eat Like a Cave Woman and Lose Weight?
It seems like every day there's a new diet on the market that promises amazing results in little to no time or effort. While most of these diets are just gimmicky advertisements from companies looking to make money (or a few million), one popular diet isn't trying to be the new thing at all. In fact, proponents of the diet are attracted to her because she's super old. Like 10,000 years ago. Like the old cave woman.
The Paleolithic diet, known as the Paleo diet for short, is based on the idea that we should eat and exercise the way our ancestors did during the, you guessed it, Paleolithic era. Below are five things you should know before dressing your cavewoman.
What you need to know about the Paleo diet
1. Think like a hunter-gatherer.Rule #1 of the Paleo Diet: If you couldn't hunt or gather it in the Paleolithic era, you probably shouldn't eat it. On this diet you eat vegetables, fruits, nuts and meat.
2. Avoid dairy and processed foods.In the days of cavewomen there were no domesticated cows, so that morning bowl of cereal with milk or that afternoon latte? Cut. No dairy products are allowed on the Paleo diet. The same goes for anything that comes in a box – or really has an ingredient list with more than one thing.
10 Easy Paleo Diet Recipes
3. Love this vegetable.Since meat wasn't always available to our ancestors, this diet emphasizes eating lots of fresh vegetables. Bonus points if you can eat seasonal and local dishes.
4. Choose free-range meat–or catch it yourself.If you really want to live this lifestyle, you can go out and actually hunt your own meat (observing all laws and regulations, of course). No game for that? Choose only natural, free-range and organic meat. You want your protein to be as natural as possible.
The Paleo Diet for Beginners
5. Train like a cavewoman.Don't forget the Paleo workout! Incorporate short sprints (to simulate running from a bear), pull-ups (such as pulling yourself up and into a tree to collect fruit), and other high-intensity functional strength exercises like squats, lunges, and push-ups to really get that lean cavewoman look.
While this diet may not be for everyone - and many well-known nutritionists and fitness professionals are very much for and against it because of its limitations - it is at least a new and interesting way to look at what you eat and how you exercise. In today's world, we sometimes forget how far our society has come in terms of diversity and widespread availability of our food and fitness. Return to your roots – in the truest sense of the word!
Jennipher Walters is the CEO and co-founder of the healthy living websites FitBottomedGirls.com and FitBottomedMamas.com. She is a certified personal trainer, lifestyle and weight management coach and group trainer, also has an MA in health journalism and writes regularly for various online publications about all things fitness and wellness.