A walk in the park (days 8,9,10 & 11)

I built an Excel sheet to track the various body changes resulting from this half-assed but earnest attempt at a Paleolithic diet/exercise regime. There are also some before/after photos but you will not be seeing them until the end. Realize that when one is coming down from an extreme, as I am, changes are bound to be more dramatic at first. Well, in ten days, I have walked 66 miles and have lost five pounds, and two inches off my waistline. Blood pressure has remained normal though I am noticing a gradual drop in diastolic blood pressure. There has been no measurable increase in muscle mass. At no point have I felt ravenous as is often true of restrictive diets. Dietary discipline has been limited to food choices, not how much and when to eat; I just eat when I am hungry. I have not felt fatigued, but I have been sleeping like a rock for the full eight hours. This might also have to do with the fact that stopped drinking alcohol, and drinking always seemed to give me insomnia. So far, so good.

I will be modifying the routine a bit based on the study I mentioned in the prior post. I am going to try four days of more extreme exercise, interweaving days of rest or less exercise, rather than moderate exercise everyday. This seems to fit the Paleolithic pattern better. It will take a little while; we are talking fifteen-mile hikes here - five hours at the pace I go.

Today I walked down the street with Travis, his mom and his dog Grekko to Duboce Park. There we ate fresh, sweet, ripe plums from a tree in the middle of the park; urban foraging at its finest. .