Tribal Tuesday Begins

As I mentioned in my last post, I've started a month-long experiment with 'Primal Living'. Basically, I was eating a lot of junk food and this seemed like a good way to eat better. Here's the details.

Foods - lots of veggies, enough protein for cell repair, fruits, nuts/seeds, good fats, limited dairy, no sugar or processed /chemical stuff, mostly limited grains, and limited alcohol too.

Basically breakfast is eggs with veggies, yogurt with fruit and nuts, protein shake, or leftovers. Lunch is a giant salad with homemade dressing, and some sort of protein source (this is the biggest meal of the day), and dinner is a small serving of protein and some veggies, with fruit for dessert (and maybe a glass of wine - for the antioxidants of course, lol).

I also mentioned exercise too. This is extremely flexible but breaks down into 3 basic things that our 'ancestor grok' did. Move around a lot at a slow pace, lift heavy things, and occasionally run fast to get dinner or escape being dinner.

It gets broken down into 4 days a week to either rest, play, or move around, for a total of 3-5 (or more) hours. Could be evenly spread between the 4 days, or done all on one day. This would include walking, hiking, biking, working on a pole routine, swimming, playing sports, or doing other fun things (makes me want to go play on kids' playground equipment)

Then there's two days of lifting heavy things (10-30 mins each day), which is basically muscle building - could be moving furniture around, actually lifting weights, or even my pole dancing would count (I lift my body, and that's heavy enough, right?). There's also 5 basic movements that grok could likely do, and not all of us can. The 5 are: pushup, pullup, overhead press, squat and plank. I'm pretty sure I can't quite do a pull-up - I don't spend much time climbing things other than my pole, lol. And that uses my legs to help.

And last but not least, is a day of 'sprinting' (20-25 mins, once every 7-10 days). This could be actual sprinting, skip rope, climbing stairs, dancing, or playing fast-paced sports.

So this week Robyn and I are focusing on the food part of this. So far it's pretty yummy. I've decided to take a daily picture of my 'Big Ass Salad' and at the end of the month see how varied a daily salad can be. Primal exercise starts next week. And I'm still doing my pole dance conditioning and stretching DVD 3 times a week. Speaking of which, I should go stretch.

See you Friday for the update on the kitties!