90.Days.Grain.Free: Day 15 ~ Getting back into the swing

About Paleo Diet

What is the 'Paleo Diet'?

The diet is based on the belief that human beings have not yet evolved with a tolerance to grains and dairy or namely the 'agrarian' lifestyle brought about by farming and producing our own food sources. Instead it focuses its attention on returning to our ancestral roots of the hunter gatherers by consuming only foods that our ancestors would have eaten like grass fed organic meat, wild game, vegetables and minimal fruit.
The diet itself is not restrictive as some would believe and has numerous varieties of foods that can be consumed liberally without fear of gaining weight or causing any aggravation to one's body.

What will the 'Paleo Diet' do?

Due to the connection between processed carbs and refined sugars with diabetes, weight gain and heart disease the 'paleo diet' claims to aid in weight loss, reduce the chance of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease and may help with autoimmune diseases. Only minor scientific studies have been carried out to prove the validity of the diet and many sceptics still remain. However a diet that encourages the consumption of healthy natural and unprocessed alternatives to our current lifestyle is well worth looking at particularly when over 60% of the worlds population are obese or overweight.

Well this morning I started the day with a run... something I haven't been able to do in a long time... the next goal is to start Crossfit which seems to be a recurring pass time amongst paleo enthusiasts.
Recently I had a health professional tell me that my core was not working efficiently at this stage so work myself up to strenuous exercise slowly and only once I've healed my digestive system which is probably the best advice to follow.
As far as the leaky gut is going... I actually think it's improving dramatically, I just don't feel bloated anymore and I'm actually sleeping better than I have in years! Finally getting that deep sleep I've been so deprived of the last 2 years!!

Anyway today... totally motivated and pumped, came home to my regular routine..