Paleo and Me (Part 1)

Soon after my son was born, almost three years ago, my wife and I decided to lose the pregnancy weight.  I say "we," because pregnancy weight is not just for mothers...the daddies get it too.  So much food would go to waste due to mom's lack of appetite from instant nausea, or Cletus the Fetus pressing up against mom's stomach.  Dad eats it.  Late night run for a McDonald's Oreo McFlurry (add hot fudge)?  Dad gets one too.  I'm pretty sure I made that run for at least three straight nights.

So, we started out counting calories with the FatSecret app, and we did get some results.  But it was slow going.

On the night of April 28th 2010, I got into a GTalk chat with my fraternity brother Luan, who has also served as my fitness guru through college.  I was talking to him about our calorie counting and he starting saying basically "bro, stop wasting your time with counting calories.  Paleo." 

It blew my mind - you eat like cavemen did because our bodies are genetically designed to process certain types of food.  And our society is getting fatter and sicker because of all the junk our bodies aren't supposed to process.  It all made so much logical sense.  I learned the meaning of insulinemia and Syndrome X, and how the current American diet propagates these problems.  I had so many questions, my mind was spinning.  But - if Luan recommends it, then I want in.  Now I just had to convince my wife to not eat pasta or bread anymore....

TO BE CONTINUED