Rolan
Member
Hi all. My name is Rolan, and I came to Peats work via Danny Roddy whom I have been vaguely following for a couple of years, though I can't remember how or why - most likely I was linked to him through some awful Paleo forum like MDA or other. So, let me frame my introduction by stating that I'm a relatively healthy 27 y/o English male. I'm not coming from any sort of metabolic derangement, illness, hypothyroidism as far as I can tell. I've been pretty active most of my life, never been overweight, and have been intermittently training my body for about 10 years. My natural indolence meant that I have taken extended breaks from that from time to time, and never taken it to any sort of extreme which is probably going to save my **** further down the line.
So why am I here? Like many I'm looking for that illusion of perfect health and youth, but first I'll just expand a little on my dietary and health background. I grew up on the typical 'SAD', which because I'm English is probably slightly better than what a current SAD is. It wasn't too bad but obviously I shudder to think what my folks let me put in my body. When I got to 19/20, I started training and thought that I should change my dietary consumption. A ton of absolutely disgusting farm raised Salmon, Chicken, undercooked broccoli, grain fed beef, brown rice and ***t ton of olive oil - I honestly thought this was healthy. Then, during my half-hearted quest for the perfect diet I sadly fell in with the Paleo protocol, and combined that with the Zone system. I became paranoid about eating carbs(and about food in general), and lived off poor meat, leaves, veg and way too many nuts. It didn't really occur to me how tasteless and soulless the LC thing is. I upgraded the quality of my food and started putting coconut and butter in there, and a higher quality of meat, but literally freaked out when forced to eat a potato
There are some benefits to this - although I looked gaunt all the time, I felt light as a feather and could go without eating until past 2-4pm(I considered this a benefit at that time). It got to a point, however, where I just didn't ever feel satisfied and always on the verge of hunger. One day I walked out of my house and went to the local deli, and started gorging myself on carbs - a whole loaf of white bread and a stick of Kerrygold butter, muffins, brownies, yams, red kuri squashes(amazing stuff)...all with packs and packs of butter. This lasted 6 months or so. I think this was actually a very clever move for me because it broke my paranoia about eating. The irony? I became far, far leaner than I had ever been. Finally I was getting sufficient calories. I spent the subsequent 3 years eating a lot of starches, butter, beef, lamb, chicken and almost totally dropping vegetables, which had become obselete in my dietary life. Pufa ridden food seemed to drop of the radar for me(chicken the exception), more as a natural realisation that olive oil and nuts are just crappy, tasteless things that no-one needs.
Over the last 3 months I have become frankly bored with eating. I have come to feel slight revulsion at having to eat eggs and meat everyday, and forcing myself to consume potato because I need to buffer my caloric intake - despite the sometimes apocalyptic farting that accompanies too much starch. The nutritional health industry is an absolute joke and diet gurus should be exiled from the Internet and never allowed to make money from their 'expertise' again. It's very stressful to feel the need to continuously read conflicting nutritional science.The Paleo crowd are just as bad as the conventional wisdom drones in my opinion. LCP is a sham, based on evolutionary speculation and pseudo-science. I'm a little sheepish that I ever believed eating meat, green vegetables and fat all day was what 'our bodies want and need'. I often think how absurd it is that in the 21st century we are all still so confused about what our bodies and minds need to be healthy
And now here I am. The reason? I suppose the worst that can be said about my health is that I have encountered some energetic problems throughout my life. I've always had this nagging feeling that my energy is not what I'd like it to be, and could definitely be described as fatigued, all at the tender age of 27. This is something I'm desperate to change because I want to become re-acquainted with the feeling of youth and vitality which has evaded me for such a long time. Whilst I'm lucky not to have had to battle with some of the issues I have been reading about here, the last 6 or 7 years have been highly stressful for me for various reasons - mostly a daily internal 'psychological' battle which has effected all areas of my life. This is why I'm so interested in Bioenergetics and I really feel Peat has some interesting perspective on this. I don't believe diet can solve everything, but I do truly believe that it can help on deal with daily, unavoidable stressors in a far more capable manner.
So anyway, onto diet. For the last 8 days I have been consuming daily;
4 Pints whole, Organic(whatever that means lol) pasteurised/non-homogenised milk
900ml 'Innocent' OJ
Cheese, pasteurised/non-pasteurised, some raw, and from animal rennet
Some white potato with butter, only twice I think, as opposed to every day
Some muscle meat, only 3 times this week, probably a little too much but I had to eat out twice
Lot's of coffee, which I've been doing for years now, but this time consumed with my milk
Couple of raw carrots
1 glass bottle of coke. It's from England I think, so not sure if it's alright, but whatever it won't be a regular thing
2 500ml tubs of Vanilla Haagen Daaz. Again it won't be a regular thing, but felt like this site gave me a nice justification for downing those bad boys and not feeling guilt-ridden after. Thanks guys
Think that's it. Obviously I'm missing the gelatin and liver, but I've been eating quite a bit of liver of the last 3 months anyway so no biggie. Can't really be bothered going to buy it
As for fruit, well, anyone who lives in England can testify to the atrocious quality of fruit here. 90% is imported from other countries/continents - no thankyou!
Positive observations;
My gas is so much better. Barely farted at all for 10 days.
This is so easy. I realise now how boring it is to wait around for an hour to cook something to eat.
My energy levels were noticeably increased over the last 10 days, really even throughout the whole day. This is despite getting a few hrs less sleep(I'm staying with friends so...).
Physically and mentally I feel far more vital. Previously I'd be sluggish, but despite the habitual over-thinking(which is such a drain on energy), my mental clarity has increased. I was starting to become a little annoyed with brain fog recently. It was like 'Goddammit man where the hell is my mind going!'. Now I have this mental energy and it's awesome.
Ability to deal with stress is better. As I said my life has been stressful for a while, and I noticed very recently that I was becoming incapable of dealing with it. I was highly temperamental, impatient etc. I've always been like that, however, now I feel like I can deal with people a little better. I'm seemingly more carefree as opposed to ragingly angry at the world.
Eating more calories, and feel satiated all the time.
I love milk. I've always done well on it, but it's so refreshing to just pull this out of the fridge and take a slug. Coffee is also so much better with stuff in it, to the point where I would never consider drinking it first thing on an empty stomach again, and likely only have it black occasionally.
The relief from not feeling like I have to depend on eggs and friggin' meat all the time is a weight off my mind.
The thought of eating PUFA crap like Chicken is completely unappealing. Good riddance Chicken! Good riddance Pork! I can now let my Pig and Chicken friends live out their lives in peace. Same cannot be said about Lamb and Beef though, but I will cut way down on the poor chaps.
Not so positive observations
I've had TWO absolutely appalling bowel movements this week. They were actually painful to the point of excruciating. Now I know what it's like giving birth - OUT OF MY ANUS. I'm thinking a fibre issue, but I'm suspiciously eyeing up my cheese. He could be the culprit, the bastard.
Fruit - As I wrote above, our fruit is garbage. I refuse to eat imported fruits from other continents, while the the fruit from closer European nations are either poor or not really Peat friendly. i don't know how important this stuff is, but I'm not really a fan.
Same goes for sea-food. I'm skeptical about the quality of it, plus it's completely overpriced. Can I live without this and forget it exists, like tropical fruit?
Otherwise all good. I'm not going to make a shrine out of Peat or his dietary concepts. I understand fully that it isn't really a diet protocol, and yes I have read the word context alot on this site. I'm not particularly interested in Science and don't have the time to delve into it, but hopefully can find a intuitive approach to my food and health through the concepts outlined here. I do hope however that this is a legit way of eating and not another fad for us. Still can't get my head around people eating gummy bears and marshmellows, but oh well. I'll give those a miss. I think my presence on this forum is going to be more an observational/subjective analysis/asking questions one since I'm in no position to give advice, but am interested how this all pans out.
Thanks for reading.
So why am I here? Like many I'm looking for that illusion of perfect health and youth, but first I'll just expand a little on my dietary and health background. I grew up on the typical 'SAD', which because I'm English is probably slightly better than what a current SAD is. It wasn't too bad but obviously I shudder to think what my folks let me put in my body. When I got to 19/20, I started training and thought that I should change my dietary consumption. A ton of absolutely disgusting farm raised Salmon, Chicken, undercooked broccoli, grain fed beef, brown rice and ***t ton of olive oil - I honestly thought this was healthy. Then, during my half-hearted quest for the perfect diet I sadly fell in with the Paleo protocol, and combined that with the Zone system. I became paranoid about eating carbs(and about food in general), and lived off poor meat, leaves, veg and way too many nuts. It didn't really occur to me how tasteless and soulless the LC thing is. I upgraded the quality of my food and started putting coconut and butter in there, and a higher quality of meat, but literally freaked out when forced to eat a potato
There are some benefits to this - although I looked gaunt all the time, I felt light as a feather and could go without eating until past 2-4pm(I considered this a benefit at that time). It got to a point, however, where I just didn't ever feel satisfied and always on the verge of hunger. One day I walked out of my house and went to the local deli, and started gorging myself on carbs - a whole loaf of white bread and a stick of Kerrygold butter, muffins, brownies, yams, red kuri squashes(amazing stuff)...all with packs and packs of butter. This lasted 6 months or so. I think this was actually a very clever move for me because it broke my paranoia about eating. The irony? I became far, far leaner than I had ever been. Finally I was getting sufficient calories. I spent the subsequent 3 years eating a lot of starches, butter, beef, lamb, chicken and almost totally dropping vegetables, which had become obselete in my dietary life. Pufa ridden food seemed to drop of the radar for me(chicken the exception), more as a natural realisation that olive oil and nuts are just crappy, tasteless things that no-one needs.Over the last 3 months I have become frankly bored with eating. I have come to feel slight revulsion at having to eat eggs and meat everyday, and forcing myself to consume potato because I need to buffer my caloric intake - despite the sometimes apocalyptic farting that accompanies too much starch. The nutritional health industry is an absolute joke and diet gurus should be exiled from the Internet and never allowed to make money from their 'expertise' again. It's very stressful to feel the need to continuously read conflicting nutritional science.The Paleo crowd are just as bad as the conventional wisdom drones in my opinion. LCP is a sham, based on evolutionary speculation and pseudo-science. I'm a little sheepish that I ever believed eating meat, green vegetables and fat all day was what 'our bodies want and need'. I often think how absurd it is that in the 21st century we are all still so confused about what our bodies and minds need to be healthy
And now here I am. The reason? I suppose the worst that can be said about my health is that I have encountered some energetic problems throughout my life. I've always had this nagging feeling that my energy is not what I'd like it to be, and could definitely be described as fatigued, all at the tender age of 27. This is something I'm desperate to change because I want to become re-acquainted with the feeling of youth and vitality which has evaded me for such a long time. Whilst I'm lucky not to have had to battle with some of the issues I have been reading about here, the last 6 or 7 years have been highly stressful for me for various reasons - mostly a daily internal 'psychological' battle which has effected all areas of my life. This is why I'm so interested in Bioenergetics and I really feel Peat has some interesting perspective on this. I don't believe diet can solve everything, but I do truly believe that it can help on deal with daily, unavoidable stressors in a far more capable manner.
So anyway, onto diet. For the last 8 days I have been consuming daily;
4 Pints whole, Organic(whatever that means lol) pasteurised/non-homogenised milk
900ml 'Innocent' OJ
Cheese, pasteurised/non-pasteurised, some raw, and from animal rennet
Some white potato with butter, only twice I think, as opposed to every day
Some muscle meat, only 3 times this week, probably a little too much but I had to eat out twice
Lot's of coffee, which I've been doing for years now, but this time consumed with my milk
Couple of raw carrots
1 glass bottle of coke. It's from England I think, so not sure if it's alright, but whatever it won't be a regular thing
2 500ml tubs of Vanilla Haagen Daaz. Again it won't be a regular thing, but felt like this site gave me a nice justification for downing those bad boys and not feeling guilt-ridden after. Thanks guys
Think that's it. Obviously I'm missing the gelatin and liver, but I've been eating quite a bit of liver of the last 3 months anyway so no biggie. Can't really be bothered going to buy it
As for fruit, well, anyone who lives in England can testify to the atrocious quality of fruit here. 90% is imported from other countries/continents - no thankyou!Positive observations;
My gas is so much better. Barely farted at all for 10 days.
This is so easy. I realise now how boring it is to wait around for an hour to cook something to eat.
My energy levels were noticeably increased over the last 10 days, really even throughout the whole day. This is despite getting a few hrs less sleep(I'm staying with friends so...).
Physically and mentally I feel far more vital. Previously I'd be sluggish, but despite the habitual over-thinking(which is such a drain on energy), my mental clarity has increased. I was starting to become a little annoyed with brain fog recently. It was like 'Goddammit man where the hell is my mind going!'. Now I have this mental energy and it's awesome.
Ability to deal with stress is better. As I said my life has been stressful for a while, and I noticed very recently that I was becoming incapable of dealing with it. I was highly temperamental, impatient etc. I've always been like that, however, now I feel like I can deal with people a little better. I'm seemingly more carefree as opposed to ragingly angry at the world.
Eating more calories, and feel satiated all the time.
I love milk. I've always done well on it, but it's so refreshing to just pull this out of the fridge and take a slug. Coffee is also so much better with stuff in it, to the point where I would never consider drinking it first thing on an empty stomach again, and likely only have it black occasionally.
The relief from not feeling like I have to depend on eggs and friggin' meat all the time is a weight off my mind.
The thought of eating PUFA crap like Chicken is completely unappealing. Good riddance Chicken! Good riddance Pork! I can now let my Pig and Chicken friends live out their lives in peace. Same cannot be said about Lamb and Beef though, but I will cut way down on the poor chaps.
Not so positive observations
I've had TWO absolutely appalling bowel movements this week. They were actually painful to the point of excruciating. Now I know what it's like giving birth - OUT OF MY ANUS. I'm thinking a fibre issue, but I'm suspiciously eyeing up my cheese. He could be the culprit, the bastard.
Fruit - As I wrote above, our fruit is garbage. I refuse to eat imported fruits from other continents, while the the fruit from closer European nations are either poor or not really Peat friendly. i don't know how important this stuff is, but I'm not really a fan.
Same goes for sea-food. I'm skeptical about the quality of it, plus it's completely overpriced. Can I live without this and forget it exists, like tropical fruit?
Otherwise all good. I'm not going to make a shrine out of Peat or his dietary concepts. I understand fully that it isn't really a diet protocol, and yes I have read the word context alot on this site. I'm not particularly interested in Science and don't have the time to delve into it, but hopefully can find a intuitive approach to my food and health through the concepts outlined here. I do hope however that this is a legit way of eating and not another fad for us. Still can't get my head around people eating gummy bears and marshmellows, but oh well. I'll give those a miss. I think my presence on this forum is going to be more an observational/subjective analysis/asking questions one since I'm in no position to give advice, but am interested how this all pans out.
Thanks for reading.
