Primal Blueprint

Why This Grain-Eating Girl Loves The Primal Blueprint [The nutrition question I still can't answer]

October 19, 2011

I was a modern vegetarian runner, he was a paleolithic meat-loving functional exerciser – when we first met, we could not have been more different. Paleo/Primal style eating now has quite a few different flavors now but five years ago, it was new and with its exclusion of all grains, was also quite controversial. Whether it was from a genuine interest in the science behind this new philosophy or because I’ve always had a thing for men who want me to change everything I am to be with them, I decided to give it a try. As those of you [...]

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Are Carbohydrates The #1 Health Menace? [Good Calories Bad Calories]

September 15, 2010

Sparkly vampires that don’t die in sunlight and fall in love with inarticulate teenage girls, zombies eating brains with grapefruit spoons and their pinkies out (or off?) with Elizabeth Bennett, hapless-yet-cunning teens battling to the death in a reality show that makes Jersey Shore look like The Christian Ladies Aid Society – these are the types of books that keep most people up at night. Me? I’ve been up for a week now reading the gripping tales of The Fat-Cholesterol Hypothesis and The Carbohydrate Hypothesis spun by Gary Taubes in his game-changing tome Good Calories Bad Calories. Kinda like the [...]

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Eating Fat Does Not Make You Fat

August 23, 2010

Confession #1: Today I stopped and bought my boys t-shirts at a garage sale to wear because I haven’t had time to do laundry for two weeks now and everything they own has been worn twice. (Once right side out and once inside out – for the latter, I just tell everyone they dressed themselves. I don’t add that I told them to dress themselves that way.) I hang my motherly head in shame. But that is nowhere near as shocking as my next confession. If Charlotte-from-10-years-ago knew what I was about to confess, she’d have had me committed then [...]

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The Diet Wars: Learning to Listen

March 16, 2009

You can thank Reader Forest for this little gem. Hope you weren’t eating! Welcome to Dueling Diets! I’m your host, Crazy Charlotte. Today I’ll be pitting the Primal Blueprint a la Mark Sisson against the Engine 2 Diet a la Rip Esselstyn, all as part of my “Striving for Perfection” Experiment this month. I’m going to be honest with you. This has not been the best Experiment. Physically and mentally I would have been a lot better off with my original plan of kickboxing. And yet I’m still glad I’m doing this. Why? Because this is quintessentially how I think. [...]

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Eat Like a Firefighter (Giveaway!)

March 10, 2009

What do you suppose that a burly, buffed-out Superman in a helmet and oxygen tank eats? If your answer has anything to do with a 16-oz porterhouse in the firehouse then you don’t know the firefighters from Engine 2. Rip Esselstyn, a former elite triathlete turned firefighter, is on a mission to educate you on the healthiest way to eat and get fit in his book The Engine 2 Diet. Hotties in uniform are just an added bonus. What Do Firefighters Eat?I’m going to give you the short version so listen closely: Firefighters eat like Skinny Bitches. That’s right, these [...]

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Here’s Your Chance To Do Some Good

December 19, 2008

Back when the husband and I were first married, I was fulfilling my new-bride task of writing thank you notes for all the generous gifts we had been given. (Random funny story: Someone gave us an electric teakettle which we promptly returned because we’re LDS and don’t drink tea – and also we lived in a 500 sq ft studio apartment and counter space consisted of our two-person table. The store gave me a whopping 75$ for it which thrilled me to no end. Who knew they were so pricey? But then two weeks later we got a call saying [...]

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The Recession Makes People Eat Less Meat But More Fast Food

November 17, 2008

Too bad Johnathan Swift died before the Internet came about. This will thrill PETA right out of their naugahyde pumps: doing what no bag of thrown flour could ever hope to accomplish, the recession has caused the average American to cut their meat consumption. According to a survey conducted by Parade magazine (Yes, the cheesy insert in the Sunday paper. Yes, I read it. Shut up.), nearly 60% of respondents say they have reduced the amount of meat they eat due to rising food costs. In an unrelated but strangely appropriate survey, apparently the recession has also caused an uptick [...]

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One Year of Great Fitness Experiments

October 7, 2008

It’s official! September 2008 was experiment number 12, concluding an entire year of treating myself like a lab rat! It’s been quite the ride. I’ve been in more compromising positions than a Hooter’s waitress, tweaked my diet so much I got a new-fangled eating disorder, and typed so many blog posts (300 exactly!) that I earned a spot in the carpal tunnel hall of fame. And I’ve got the hemorrhoids (thank you one-rep max on the squat!), shin splints, bruises, carpet burns, stubbed toes, calloused hands, pummeled wrists, and wounded pride to show for it! But I’ve also learned a [...]

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Primal Blueprint Experiment Results and a Plea for Help

July 29, 2008

This would normally be the post where I sum up the previous month’s experiment and list my stats along with the pros and cons. However, seeing as the Primal Blueprint was a rather spectacular failure (my fault, not theirs) – I’ve spent the last week or so licking my wounds and pouting – this will be a little bit different. But hey, if I’m going to go down at least I went down in a blaze of glory. Or ignominy. Whatevs. The Food PlanI should know better than to mess with my food. After years of living in this body, [...]

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Opinions On the Primal Blueprint

July 17, 2008

My stars, you people have opinions! 41 comments and counting on my “Primal Problems” post and every single one of them well thought out, passionate and informative. And that’s not even counting the incredible number of you who e-mailed me about this. It’s taken me all day to read and process them all in my mind, much less reply. So Thursday’s report on TinkerBell Goes to the Y (you’re gonna love it!) got pushed to Friday so I can address all my primal thoughts. First of all I want to say thank you with all my heart to every single [...]

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