Raw Paleo makes me feel healthy and positive, but to be quite honest I have had much more creativity when I've fucked things up...hungover, caffeinated, carbed up...I seem to write and compose more easily and pull together ideas better.

Is this something that changes as you get into 1 year plus of raw paleo, or is it simply that modern vices give you an abuse-fuelled creativity that you simply can't get from being healthy?

Now summers gone I can't go to the park and sprint, so wondering if anyone has ideas for what I can use for sprint (all out sprint, then full rest) and also Tabata training in my house.

It would be good if it didn't work the muscles too hard, like say press ups, as I'm lifting weights as well.

I'm thinking of taking a cheap cod liver oil to boost my vitamin D over the winter, as I have been tested with deficiency in the past FWIW and raw meat doesn't seem to contain much. I don't really want to import blue ice from dr ron's.

Does anyone have any experience with the health food shop brands?

Or any other ideas....do the lizard or human sun lamps work?

What do you think of melon - honeydew, galia, canteloupe etc.?

They're all the same family as watermelons (Cucurbitaceae), and presumably are fairly closely related to plants that are very edible in their wild form..e.g. watermelon has sweet varieties found in the wild in Africa.

I find it's easier to eat melon and not crave more carbs, and also you can eat a lot as it's so much water and it satisfies.

Also it's easy on the stomach somehow...if I eat 2 apples it can make me uncomfortable sometimes.

Long shot, but does anyone over here have a surplus of grass-fed pemmican, or could plan to have.

If so maybe we could come to a mutually beneficial arrangement...I could do with a good quantity.

I know freezing puts bacteria into suspended animation does it also kill a proportion?

If I freeze slightly high meat mix, then defrost it and eat the next day, how much bacteria am I getting?

Cheers, Josh

Just that. Lamb steaks with a bit of salt and lots of dried mint. I recommend fairly thin strips so it dries in 2ish days.

Just for fun, as the fat in lamb won't keep long, but tastes delicious.

in person, on skype etc.

Would be good to chat to some people.

I'm London based for in person meets.

I'm having problems timing all of this at the moment.

I sometimes have to exercise in the evening because of work, and some activities with other people are arranged around this like combat training.

It seems to make sense to eat after exercise to give the body protein...at least that's the standard idea.

However, when I have a raw meat and fat meal, I seem to get an energy boost between 2-4 hours afterwards and can't sleep for hours. That might be ok...but I have work early the next day.

I thought of eating in the day and training later, but think I will still need food after. This will be even more true when I start lifting weights.

What do you do about this?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609122857.htm

Your thoughts? Good luck to anyone recreating that diet. I thought it was important as it may add some weight to the idea of eating a varied diet not just meat and fat.

"It's not clear to us how early humans acquired or processed the butchered meat, but it's likely that it was eaten raw,"

I find it hard to decide how big and strong to get. At the moment I'm fairly lean and do mostly bodyweight stuff.

I'm very tempted to start the weights and get big and strong. Not extreme bodybuilder, just functional strength and a good size. It's got a lot of advantages for life in our society. I can't help thinking it's not natural though and will have some bad effects later on.

It looks like our ancestors were runners first and foremost, fairly strong, but mostly lean and fit.

What are your thoughts?

'News' from 1958! An interesting read. Reposted from imminst.org/forum

http://ourcivilisation.com/fat/

My friend has been trying a cooked paleoish diet, and wants to keep going a bit more seriously. He's not gonna go raw, but I want to try and help him stay on something relatively healthy.

He has basically been avoiding a lot of carbs in the week apart from a bit of sugar in coffee, eating cooked meat and veggies, getting some extra fat from eggs - without measuring calories. He loses weight from cutting carbs, but has lapses at the weekend when he drinks beer and gets takeaways.

So really two questions: I have suggested to him that it's a bad idea to randomly cut carbs in the week, then lapse as it's making his body go in and out of ketosis, trying to adapt but always breaking it with a carb hit. My feeling is that he should eat more carbs in the week to keep ability to deal with it...something like 1/3 calories from protein, 1/3 from fat and 1/3 from carbs which some bodybuilders favour. Maybe getting carbs from fruit and cooked tubers.

What do you think he can do about macronutrient ratio, given that he will continue with the occasional beers and takeaway?

The other question is given that he's not eating raw, how much green veg etc do you think is a good idea to eat. He won't be getting so many micronutrients from raw meat, so is the best compromise to eat veg and salad, or something else?

Oh yes, I would have thought omega 3's from fish like tuna would be a good compromise as well.??

Welcome your thoughts.