Yummy! Fresh cow pie!

One of the largest factors of weight loss, muscle gain, CrossFit performance and overall feeling of well being is diet. I think Bill Cosby said it best with his book You Are What You Eat. How true. Eat like crap and you will not only feel like crap, but you’ll perform like crap too. What does crap feel like? Well, it’s kind of soft and squishy I’d imagine.

One of the questions I get asked the most is, “What is this Puh-layo diet?”

The FDA food pyramid is cow pie friendly.

“Well,” I respond, “the Pay-Lee-Oh diet is really simple. You eat meat and veggies, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.”

Then comes the inevitable, “What about grains?”
“Nope.”

“Even whole grains?”

“That’s still a grain.”

“So potatoes are good, right?”

“In small quantities, hence the ‘little starch.’”

“Oh. . . That sounds like it sucks.”

Fear not my friends, the Paleo Diet does not suck. It’s pretty darn tasty actually. Let’s go over a quick list of Paleo approved foods:

Lean Meat:

• Lean beef
• Flank steak
• Top sirloin steak
• Extra-lean hamburger (no more than 7% fat, extra fat drained off)
• London broil
• Chuck steak
• Lean veal
• Any other lean cut
• Lean pork
• Pork loin
• Pork chops
• Any other lean cut

Lean poultry (skin removed)

• Chicken breast
• Turkey breast
• Game hen breasts

Eggs

• Chicken (go for the enriched omega 3 variety)
• Duck
• Goose

Other meats

• Rabbit meat (any cut)
• Goat meat (any cut)

Organ meats

• Beef, lamb, pork, and chicken livers
• Beef, pork, and lamb tongues
• Beef, lamb, and pork marrow
• Beef, lamb, and pork