The Leaning Caveman

Hi.  My name is Mike and I am starting this blog to discuss weight loss, diet and lifestyle modification.  You see not too long ago I could see my abs, lift twice my body weight and dunk a basketball (I'm only 6' tall).  Then I bought a business and ate up all of my time for the gym. Then the recession happened, any sense of eating properly went out the window and the stress level went through the roof.  Eventually the business went bye-bye and now I'm cleaning up the mess.


Over the remainder of 2009 I tried a great multitude of diets and exercise regimes, none of which lasted.  Heck I even started training for a triathlon in the spring until the combo punch of H1N1, pneumonia and an upper respiratory infection put the kibosh on that until I can ride my bike without sounding like a barking seal.  Needless to say I have I have lost the same 10 pounds half a dozen times in less than a year.  But enough is enough and I think I've found the way forward which is why I'm starting this.


Over the past several weeks I have read nearly a dozen books on diet and all of the research that I can get my hands on and I keep coming back to a pretty basic idea.  My idea is that our ability to process ingredients and create food out of things our fore-bearers would have balked at has greatly exceeded our body's ability to handle it.  In other words, our technology has beaten our genes.  With that in mind I'm going to use my body as a laboratory to implement a more primitive diet that relies heavily on fruits, vegetables and delicious meat to get my blood sugar and adipose tissue (aka fat) under control.


The core of what I'm doing is based on two books; The Paleo Diet by Dr. Loren Cordain and The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson.  I find each of them to be very credible and authoritative on the topic of diet.  Dr. Cordain is a professor of nutrition at Colorado State University and Mark is an Ironman (Hawaii), publisher of Mark's Daily Apple, recovering marathoner and consultant to the ITU and IOC.  As I continue down this path I will blog what works for me as well what doesn't, recipes, tips, motivation and most importantly results.  I want to create a clear record of how well the process works and how quickly this particular caveman was able to lean out.  Ugh.


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