Paleo Diet

Fresh juice of beets, carrots, celery, grapefruit and lemon.

The Paleo Diet is loved by athletes, sportsmen, professional fitness trainers, tennis players, models, and almost half the cast of Hollywood. The secret of popularity is quite simple: Paleo diet allows us to eat your fill, and literally forced to watch what goes into your mouth, but does not require counting calories. Also on this diet, you can learn how to cook delicious dishes of meat and vegetables, how to eat nuts and not get fat. This diet plan is aimed against the limitation of healthy fats, and does not require the complete abandonment of carbohydrates, similar as the Atkins diet, or permanent tracking ratio of fat, carbohydrate and protein calories diet as the Zone Diet.

At the same time, the Paleo diet helps to lose weight and achieve impressive results in any sport, as it contains everything you need for recovery and muscle growth. And she has no “of withdrawal syndrome”, as it is not a low-calorie diet and does not slows metabolism.

Rules of Paleo diet

Juice of carrots, yams (sweet potatoes), celery, cucumber, tomato and paprika

There is one global rule for Paleo diet: eat only what could fall into the stomach of Stone Age man. Title diet actually translates as “the diet of the Stone Age.”

Well, canned and semifinished products poison the body, causing the liver to be engaged not retracted her nature thing: splitting of fats, excretion countless “E-additives.”

Paleo diet proponents justify this choice from the simple fact the metabolism has not changed much since ancient times, and usually we just do not metabolize numerous dishes of wheat, cereals, dairy products.

Well, canned and semifinished products poison the body, causing the liver to be engaged not splitting of fats and excretion of nutritional supplements.

Diet of natural foods will help to pacify the increased appetite, and you will naturally stop overeating and snacking. alorie intake is reduced, weight is decreased, and the first result will be cheerfulness, which is recommended to “spend” on physical exercise.

Omelette of egg whites, beans and chipotle

Our ancient ancestors did not know how to bake buns, cook porridge and they did not know any sweets except fruit and berries. They did not drink a couple of glasses of chardonnay on Friday night. Strictly speaking, they are not brewed tea in the morning with coffee, and about diet of Coke they hardly heard. On the Paleo diet you have to say goodbye to the majority of dietary habits. However, if you like meat and fish, the failure will not be so tragic. The diet of Paleo followers is simple – meat, fish, seafood, nuts, fruits, vegetables, herbs, seedlings. Most authors of books on the Paleo diet criticized dairy products. Like, most people have a hidden allergy to lactose, and a portion of cottage cheese is the best way to get swelling and increase your own weight.
But the hardest thing in Paleo – not limit types of food. The most difficult thing in the Paleo diet it is a necessity constantly buy only quality products. In this diet there is no place strongly frozen chickens and “glossy” tasteless winter tomatoes. You must select all the freshest: only chilled meat and fish, only seasonal fruits and vegetables.
That is why the Paleo diet is often called “rich diet.”

Paleo diet menu

Paleo diet. Fried fish over a campfire

However, you need a little practice and you will be able to make Paleo ration for every taste and wallet.

Here are approximate the Paleo diet menu for a woman weighing 130 pounds.

  • Breakfast: a mixture of 2 ounces of nuts and sliced apples or pears.
  • Snack: 200 pounds of berries, 4 ounces of chicken breast
  • Lunch: a portion of wheat germ, carrot salad with apple and beetroot (raw vegetables, lemon juice, a little olive oil), a portion of veal or other lean red meat.
  • Snack: any fruit
  • Dinner: salad of green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage, a portion of red or white fish cooked on the grill.

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Usually on the paleo diet the calories do not consider, but it is not recommended to overeat to gravity state in the stomach. The main difficulty for most people is the need to stop eating as soon as you feel satiety. Diet does not require that you ate everything that came on a plate, and not “insist” on any portion control methods except common sense.

Paleo diet. Breakfast of berries

Those people who exercise regularly, can afford 1-3 of “dishes violations” in a week. Very often “planned disruption” is carried out immediately after the heaviest weight training to carbohydrate energy immediately “went” on muscle recovery.

The most stringent followers of the Paleo diet drink only clean water, and consider other drinks exclusively drink for day of planned disruption. However, you will lose weight if you drink only two cups of tea or coffee without sugar a day. After all, the secret of Paleo diet is not the rejection of caffeine. The secret of Paleo is the use of a full hearty meal, which allows you to fight with gusto, snacks abuse and Fast Food eating

Paleo diet is not recommended only for those who have kidney disease. All the others can change ration “for themselves” and try to lose weight without tedious calculations of calories.