Another fruit breakfast. I'm going to be completely over fruit by the end of this.
Cobb salad and french fries from Wendy's for lunch. Minus the salad dressing since they have to use "modified corn starch" in the ingredients. Come on, Wendy's - won't you think of the 0.0000013% of the population that are piloting exotic grainless diets?!?
First public dinner outing tonight. Of course it has to be at a pizza parlor. Not sure I'm particularly interested in explaining why I'm engaging in the dietary version of Jackass, so I'll probably just feign an upset stomach or something.
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Dinner was fine. Turns out every place has some sort of salad. So salad and a diet coke for the evening.
And braunschweiger, cheese, cashews, and wine for a late night snack. I don't think I'd normally eat a pile of braunschweiger, but that really hit the spot.
What Is This?
If you're reading this, you may have read Tim Ferriss's lifestyle post about completely cutting grains from your diet. I did. I found it on Hacker News, and I thought it sounded interesting.
I was intrigued about the diet, for no other reason than that it satisfies my "what would monkeys do" rule of thumb. That is, the lifestyle choices that were available to our primate ancestors are, by way of evolution, quite often the circumstances we're best evolved for.
The simple truth is that grains are probably not a food that you'd find paleolithic man eating. The advent of agriculture was actually quite recent on an evolutionary time scale. Before that, we were mostly toiling away in the wild eating whatever sustenance we could get our hands on - fruits, nuts, vegetables, leafs, bugs, tubers, meat, etc. That 6 billion of us have transitioned to a diet of mostly grains in a few thousand years is not only amazing, it seems to me there's a reasonable chance that it's less than ideal.
Anyway, enough background. I found this on Hacker News and, at heart, I am a hacker (as in one that tinkers and experiments). To that end, I am going to take Tim Ferriss's challenge.
For 30 days, I will completely remove all grains from my diet. No foods containing wheat, corn, oats, barley, etc.
Now the dietary elitists among you will probably exude various protestations: "no alcohol - that irritates your stomach lining" or "no dairy - that rankles your colon" or "no simple sugars - that messes with your blood sugar". Forget that noise, I'm not a monk. This is a test of one variable alone - what happens when you *completely* remove grains from your diet. We can do dairy or cheese or meat some other time...
I suppose a litlle detail about where I'm starting from is probably in order. I am a 33 year old male. I am 5'11" and weight 171 pounds. I exercise regularly, though not particularly intensely. I'm mostly in pretty good health, though I do get the occasional stomach ache, back pain, and am bothered by a bit of chronic environmental allergies. But nothing particularly serious.
Okay, enough talk. Let's see how this thing shakes out.
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Tonight at the pizza parlor look for alternatives, they might have chicken wings with no breading or a nice salad bar. if they dont, then suggest a better pizza place with more selections...good luck!
ReplyDeleteI was going to suggest a pile of chicken wings too. :) For some reason all the pizza parlors around here carry them. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteSend us some topless pics. We are dying to see the metamorphosis!
ReplyDeleteWhy not have bacon and eggs for breakfast? Or an omelet with some meat and veggies? Greek yogurt, protein powder and berries smoothie? All those are super filling. Just fruit is ok, but you don't have any protein or fat to give you fuel, just sugar.
ReplyDeleteAgreed that the fruit only breakfast is non-optimal. That's simply due to not enough time while trying to get two kids ready for school.
ReplyDeleteI try to mitigate it with higher fat and protein meals later in the day.
My tip, raisins mixed with hazel nuts or almonds. Instant energy boost and a good snack.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up, following this experiment with great interest!