* The result of our 30-day Paleo Challenge is in. The winner is Lillian!! In 30-days she lost 20lbs and 4 inches off her waist *
Here at Team CrossFit we belive that nutrition is the foundation of your health and we promote and live this by providing free nutritional consulting along with a partnership with Paleo Plan.com to provide all our members with a FREE weekly meal plan and shopping list.
"This diet is probably the most amazing diet I've ever been on. Definitely a life changer. More energy, more strength, overall better health" - Tristen T.
"I was killing myself working out all the time and restricting my calories, but I was barely losing weight or gaining lean muscle. My doctor recommended the Paleo diet and I immediately started seeing the change in my body composition. I've never felt healthier or more energetic, I don't even miss any of the foods I gave up and now even my skinny jeans fit!" - Illiana M.
"All my life, I've been conflicted with asthma. Just eleven days going strict Paleo diet, it's gone. I also have sustained energy throughout the day. I just feel better overall." - Kyle N.
"I wasn't sleeping well at all even though I put myself in bed early enough to get 8 hours! My performance CrossFitting kinda stalled and I felt I was going nowhere. Since I started Paleo diet, not only do I sleep, I started gaining performance, shed some fat and sleep like a baby." - Roy K.
Food quality and quantity
These two main categories must be addressed when dealing with nutrition. Food quality refers to what kind of food you are putting in your body. We address this with the Paleolithic (Paleo) diet. Food quantity refers to how much of that food are you putting in your body. This is where the Zone diet comes in. Here at Team CrossFit, we offer nutritional consulting for all our clients and we believe strongly that nutrition is the foundation of our fitness and health.
What Should I Eat?
In plain language, base your diet on garden vegetables, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar. That's about as simple as we can get. Many have observed that keeping your grocery cart to the perimeter of the grocery store while avoiding the aisles is a great way to protect your health. Food is perishable. The stuff with long shelf life is all suspect. If you follow these simple guidelines you will benefit from nearly all that can be achieved through nutrition.
The Caveman or Paleolithic Model for Nutrition
Modern diets are ill suited for our genetic composition. Evolution has not kept pace with advances in agriculture and food processing resulting in a plague of health problems for modern man. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and psychological dysfunction have all been scientifically linked to a diet too high in refined or processed carbohydrates. Search "Google" for Paleolithic nutrition, or diet. The return is extensive, compelling, and fascinating. The Caveman model is perfectly consistent with the CrossFit prescription.
What Foods Should I Avoid?
Excessive consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates is the primary culprit in nutritionally caused health problems. High glycemic carbohydrates are those that raise blood sugar too rapidly. They include rice, bread, candy, potato, sweets, sodas, and most processed carbohydrates. Processing can include bleaching, baking, grinding, and refining. Processing of carbohydrates greatly increases their glycemic index, a measure of their propensity to elevate blood sugar.
What is the Problem with High-Glycemic Carbohydrates?
The problem with high-glycemic carbohydrates is that they give an inordinate insulin response. Insulin is an essential hormone for life, yet acute, chronic elevation of insulin leads to hyperinsulinism, which has been positively linked to obesity, elevated cholesterol levels, blood pressure, mood dysfunction and a Pandora's box of disease and disability. Research "hyperinsulinism" on the Internet. There's a gold mine of information pertinent to your health available there. The CrossFit prescription is a low-glycemic diet and consequently severely blunts the insulin response.
How much should I eat?
This question is answered primarily by ‘the Zone’ diet, a diet created by Barry Sears for those looking to improve health and reduce body fat. To us, the Zone seems like a sensible and conservative plan of eating that anyone could follow:
40% of your calories from Carbohydrates, 30% from Fat and from Protein. At EVERY MEAL. This balance is maintained every time food is ingested, with the intent of regulating changes in digestive hormones, namely insulin. Food is often divided into ‘blocks’, the ratios amongst which are fixed to keep designing meals somewhat simpler. Ie, a three block meal may have 3 blocks of Carbohydrates, 3 blocks of protein and 3 blocks of fat.
Check out these links for more inforamation:
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Everything you need to start your Paleo journey
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Paleo diet controls the quality of the food you eat
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More information about what is Paleo diet
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great blog site regarding all thing Paleo including lots of recipes
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Make some yummys!
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More recipes!
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Yes.. more recipes. You now have no excuse!
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Is your health problem link to gluten?
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Explaination of what Glycemic index and load along with a chart of common food and its GI/GL
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Food quality is the key!
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Yes.. you CAN'T eat bread. sorry!
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Zone diet controls the quanity of what you eat
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Figure out your zone block count
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Chart of food and its block #