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General Discussion / Re: How NOT To Lose Weight?
« on: February 15, 2013, 06:14:02 am »
Organic for plant foods is typically pretty good.

But organic for animal foods can mean very little.

Well, I said 'organic' for lack of a better word. I live in Portugal and here we say 'biológico', which literally means 'biological'. For meat, this means it's free-range and grassfed (in the case of ruminants). I'm not sure what the pigs are fed, and unfortunately the website of the farm I buy them from is currently shut down for maintenance. I do, however, trust that they are healthy. I'm also storing the fat in the fridge with salt, which should kill any existing or newcoming parasites and bacteria (right?) -- I wash the salt off before eating it.

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General Discussion / Re: How NOT To Lose Weight?
« on: February 15, 2013, 04:47:41 am »
Pork fat is typically a bad option as most pigs are fed horrible diets.

I'm aware of that, so all the meat, fat, etc I get comes from an organic farm and is fed their natural diet. The fish I eat is either wild-caught of from 'good' fish farms, where the fish are grown in the ocean and not in an unnatural tank.

Btw, I'm having some salmon tomorrow for lunch. Would you recommend adding a bit of that pork fat to it? Just wondering cus though the salmon is fatty, it's not such a big portion.

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General Discussion / Re: How NOT To Lose Weight?
« on: February 15, 2013, 04:24:03 am »
OK, so I bought raw pork lard (or suet, I'm not sure. Anyway, it's just fat). Imma add it to my meals, especially if I eat lean meats like chicken breast. I also bought bone marrow (tried it today... yum!). I'm probably going to start drinking green smoothies in the morning to increase my stomach acid production so I'm better able to digest protein and stuff, plus the extra fruit will give me more calories. If I'm hungry between meals I'll try to eat some raw eggs, though they always give me a funny feeling in the stomach -- maybe I'm just not used to them yet.

As I said before, I'll also cut down a bit on my workouts and focus more on really slow stuff like walking and high intensity stuff like the push-ups and sprinting. This morning I'd lost 'only' 200g relative to yesterday morning, so I think I'm starting to get the fat loss under control. I'm expecting to start maintaining or even gaining weight soon.

Thanks for all your help!

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General Discussion / Re: How NOT To Lose Weight?
« on: February 14, 2013, 05:40:22 pm »
@Barefoot instincto,

So you're saying I could run a half-marathon in a few weeks by just sprinting once a week? Maybe if I did that and added one run (say 12km slowly the first two weeks, then 18km) per week at a 'slow' pace like more than 6min/km (9.7min/mile)? Thing is, I want to complete the half-marathon in less than two hours, so when the time comes, I'll have to run at a pace of less than 6 min/km. After that I'll stop the long distance running, so it's not going to hurt me long term, but I really want to do this.
And about the training programs: instead of doing them 3 times a week I could do them on Mondays and Thursdays only and skip the second day of each week. What do you think? Right now I'm on week one and it's not been that hard.

If I follow what I said above, the resulting week would look something like this:
Monday: Day 1 of hundredpushups, twohundredsquats, twenty pull-ups
Tuesday: Run 12km at a pace of 10km/hour (6min/km)
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: Day 3 of workout programs
Friday: Sprint (6 to 8 times 50 meters at near-maximum speed)
Saturday: Rest
Sunday: Rest

On resting days I could try to make sure that I walk more than usual or maybe I'll swim a few slow laps or something (I should swim to correct a minor scoliosis). Does that sound good?

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General Discussion / Re: How NOT To Lose Weight?
« on: February 14, 2013, 05:05:20 am »
Thanks both of you for your answers. I have another question, though. I'm 17 and I still live with my mother, so she can stop my experiment anytime (if she thinks I'm losing too much weight, for example). How do I explain to her that early weight loss is normal?

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General Discussion / How NOT To Lose Weight?
« on: February 13, 2013, 05:34:56 pm »
I've started a 30-Day raw paleo experiment on Monday. My starting weight was at 61.9kg (normal for my height), but I have since gone down to 61.5kg on Tuesday and 60.9 today. All in all, then, I've lost 1kg (2.2lbs, I think) in two days. Problem is: I didn't want to lose weight when I started, and I still don't want to. Is this something everyone goes through that eventually stops? If I keep losing weight at this rate, I have about 4 months till I'm completely gone xD.

I'm working out three times a week (Mo, Wed, Fri) doing the hundrepushups, twohundredsquats and twentypullups programs as well as running twice a week (right now I'll be doing 8km/12km runs; gonna start doing 18kms in two weeks and will run a half-marathon in 6 weeks). How can I keep this workout load and gain weight instead of losing it?

I've also been trying to eat increasingly more calories, but it's kind of hard... I eat until I am satisfied, and I haven't really been hungry these past few days... I've also been trying to eat more fat by having eggs, grated coconut and duck's legs. What more can I do?

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General Discussion / Re: Beef Tongue -- How to prepare?
« on: February 08, 2013, 10:08:45 pm »
Thanks for the help. I guess I'll just have to experiment and see what I like.

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General Discussion / Beef Tongue -- How to prepare?
« on: February 08, 2013, 07:42:28 pm »
Hey, I just bought a whole beef tongue and was wondering how to prepare it raw. The butcher said I'd have to cook it very well in order to be able to take off the rough skin (I didn't tell him I was planning on eating it raw). Do you know how it could be done without cooking?

Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks :)

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Exercise / Bodybuilding / Re: Insanity on Raw Paleo?
« on: January 29, 2013, 11:43:03 pm »
Can we lock this thread?  It doesn't make any sense.

Go ahead. Though it does make sense and my questions were legitimate, I've decided to do my own training program  and it doesn't involve High Intensity Interval Training (à la Insanity), so I couldn't care less about this thread.

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Exercise / Bodybuilding / Re: Insanity on Raw Paleo?
« on: January 29, 2013, 12:04:36 am »
Go ahead and eat carbs. I recommend getting them from fruits, vegetables, honey, and some nuts (all raw of course). I think eating them right after your workout should be fine.

I read somewhere that you should eat carbs before the workout and not afterward, and that afterwards you should eat protein. That's why I'd be eating the carbs as an afternoon snack (fruit smoothie or something). That way my body would have to rely on fat for most of the day and would still be able to do the workout in the mornings. Also, not eating sugar in the mornings is good because it would otherwise cause to high an insulin spike.
Do you agree?

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Exercise / Bodybuilding / Insanity on Raw Paleo?
« on: January 28, 2013, 05:36:31 pm »
Hey y'all, I'll be trying out a (mostly) raw paleo diet in a few weeks, and I think I'll be doing the second month of Insanity in the mornings while I'm at it. Do you think it would work? My diet right now is pretty paleo, so I won't be experiencing a lot of carb withdrawal symptoms (I hope).
Doing Insanity also means that I'd need a lot more carbs than usually recommended, but it's only for a month so it should be OK. Do you think I should get them just from fruit or from other sources as well?
I'm thinking of getting 150-300g of carbs per day except on Saturdays, because I won't work out on Sundays. Will this prevent my body from learning to burn fat?
Also, when should I eat my carbs? I'll do insanity in the mornings on an empty stomach (done it before and it worked fine), so my glycogen stores will be pretty depleted during the day, unless I eat carbs, which I'm thinking of doing in the afternoon. Post-workout I'll be eating raw eggs with veggies.

As you can see, I have a lot of questions ^^ please help me with anything you can. This diet is an experiment and if it goes wrong, I won't be able to continue it after 30 days (I'm 17 and live with my mother, and it was really hard to convince her to let me try this).

Thanks :)

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