Well it’s been about two weeks now that I have been on my caveman diet and it’s definitely getting easier. The carb cravings are still there every once in awhile but only when I see someone else eating bread or pasta….mmmmm. But, I’m sticking with it in the name of research for myself and the ones I care about. Here are the most poignant observations thus far:

1) Fat as fuel. At the one week mark, I noticed that I have started viewing fat as fuel. Really. Some of the things used to disgust me (like skin on animal meats) but now I see the fat and see it as fuel. Ugh. When I know I need fuel, I first look for “good” fats (I pretty much eat avocados now every morning with eggs) but I will eat any fat source that is natural because, well, I need it and it seems to be working.

2) I can go a lot longer between meals. I used to get starving, irritable, shaky and useless in that order if I didn’t eat every four hours at least. If I get busy working around the ranch, I can go way longer, I mean like double the time, before any of those symptoms start up. It’s not nearly as bad a crash either. Must be the fat. That’s what I’m saying anyways.

3) My total food volume is down. By a lot. Doesn’t really make sense to me as I would think I would need to replace the calorie dense items like bread and pasta with the not so calorie dense but high volume sources like veggies, etc.

4) I feel fine with low intensity exercise so far and I feel good strength training. I have not yet tried high intensity work yet but I plan to this coming week. Just hasn’t been in my program yet. I did do a relatively large amount of moto this past week and felt good and didn’t have to snack so much during the sessions but again, still relatively low intensity.

I have not weighed myself so I don’t know if I have lost weight and if I did, I can’t be 100% sure if it’s fat loss yet. I didn’t really need to lose weight but if I lost about 5 lbs. of fat without changing my training that would be a bonus as long as performance didn’t suffer.

I will admit that it’s hard to figure out what to eat at times (breakfast especially) and it requires a lot more trips to the store and a lot more prep time (meats). I will again admit that at times, I really want to eat some bread or pasta, drink some juice, etc. but I am doing good so far sticking to the plan. I have been caught out traveling and had to eat a sandwich once and I just had my first cookie in two weeks but other than that, I’ve been a good boy. I would say I am 95% caveman.

I want to reiterate that I am doing this because the whole lack of evolutionary time in response to the agricultural revolution makes total sense to me.

OK, I will check in later with more info, possibly a weigh in and for sure the results of some harder training. Thanks for reading.