Going All In - The Whole 30 Perfect Paleo Challenge

We Pirates are at it again. After the past four months of experimenting with some Paleo protocols I feel I have the last few pieces to implement for best results. For the next 30 days we are attempting the Whole 30. Eating only whole, non processed foods while excluding all dairy, legumes, and grains. This is a "reset" to get things in order for a 3 month performance challenge. I need to lose fat to gain muscle. Goal is 10% body fat. Additionally my joints simply feel better on a carb restricted, high fat, high protein diet. Not to mention my ADHD brain. More on that in another post. This week is baseline testing and getting my food dialed in. Here is a peek at my proposed nutrition for week 1.

• Protein - 175 grams /700 kcals
• Carbohydrate - 50-75 grams / 200 - 300 kcals
• Fat - 75 grams / 675 kcals
• Total calories approximately 1700.

Based on the research, personal experimenting, and reading from the following authors we are ready to give this a go.

Loren Cordaine - Paleo Diet For Athletes

Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution

Mark Sisson - primal Blueprint

Gary Taubes - Why We Get Fat

Barry Sears - The Zone

John Berardi - Articles from his website

The only difference between this month and the following 2 months will be a weekly cheat meal / day. It has been my personal experience that if I run my diet at 90% compliance all goes well. At 89% compliance or below the wheels fall off the bus. Go figure. I have learned this lesson the hard way in many aspects of life. It is impossible to be perfect but if you are serious and want to do this or anything well you better go all in. I am not opposed to keeping balance but it doesn't seem to work well for me. Ha.

Again this is a personal experiment. I will likely be adjusting the protocol every two weeks as I check my results and look to improve on my findings.

Train Fun!

Joshua