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Totally open ended and want to hear what and how your planning on effecting that change?

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Less computer time, more time in the garden with my kids.

Less time "exercising" more time playing outside in the sun with my kids.

Fewer supplements, more food.

More sex (don't tell my husband).

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Would like further elaboration on your last point. – Thomas Seay Jun 3 2011 at 16:23
A very non-sexy answer - I just don't want to get the fella's hopes too high. – none Jun 3 2011 at 16:50
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 No offense, meredith, but when you have a warped mind like mine, you like to interpret things differently. In my mind, you could have meant that you didn't want anbody to tell him, because you were going to be having more of it with someone else. Of course, now I see what you really mean. – Thomas Seay Jun 3 2011 at 19:18
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 Reasonable. If my wife said that to me I'd be waiting in bed with high hopes (and other things) every night. – CaveRat Jun 3 2011 at 19:38
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 My wife and I plan on this. I hope you can meet her one day. She is completely paleo too. Rocky start but she fully understands this lifestyle is about longevity. And if your not sexing yourself with regularity.....well nature takes you out. – The Quilt Jun 3 2011 at 20:07
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Be kind to myself! Thru these sub-goals:

  1. Fall in love with/re-learn my (newly fertile!) body.

  2. Only eat while eating.

  3. Cheat better, ie. "I'm going to buy this crazy expensive chocolate and really love it" as opposed to "look! there's a cheese plate GORGE"

  4. Listen REALLY DILIGENTLY to my body and what it wants/needs. Trust it.

  5. Eliminate guilt. Destroy shame.

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Love #5! Maybe I need to: Only not-eat while not-eating. – Dave S. Jun 3 2011 at 19:26
Love 2 and 5, great thoughts!! – Minnie The Minx Jun 5 2011 at 14:37
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I'm going to play more music with my friends!

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Make more art. A lot more.

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 Rose I love this......I am now engaging my brain after years of feeding my left brain as a surgeon. Im done with my left brain. I am finding I have a lot buried in that right hemisphere. Plus one! – The Quilt Jun 3 2011 at 20:12
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 It really does work that way TQ (as you obviously know already) - my grandfather was a scientist for most of his life. After a stroke clobbered his left brain (paralyzing the right side of his body and greatly limiting his language) he took up painting, most of which was copying Impressionist art out of books. I have many of his paintings and cherish them very much. – CaveRat Jun 3 2011 at 21:39
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To refrain from talking about Paleo so much to non-Paleo folks. They are probably getting bored of my conversion and I don't want to be banished from my Tribe. Hopefully my silent, stoic progress toward becoming a Jedi will inspire someone to come along with me.

...oh and I also want to get an unassisted pull-up.

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you can do it! Keep pulling! – Futureboy Jun 3 2011 at 21:11
Unassisted pull ups - hell yeah! – Minnie The Minx Jun 3 2011 at 21:31
good one. step one with paleo: never talk to anyone about what you eat. – ben61820 Jun 3 2011 at 22:27
two thumbs up on this answer. could not be more in line with my goals for the summer – henrydrn Jun 5 2011 at 15:21
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 I want to make this work for my daughter (she's 12), who aspires to doing an unassisted pull-up. I have a pull-up bar to install in a doorway, and I'll toss over a rope with a weight on one end and a foot loop on the other - step in the look and the weight takes some pounds off the pull. A couple of those a day should make her strong enough to do her own... I'll update you with the results :-) – CaveRat Jun 6 2011 at 5:45
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  1. Going to cut out sugar completely. Recently I've been backsliding/eating out too much.

  2. Get to the gym more regularly, so I can see that 6-pack! My primary goals are getting lean, building functional strength, and a bigger chest/visible abs. I've been a skinny kid all my life, and I'm sick of it.

  3. I'd love to figure out how to be more economical in buying grassfed meat/pastured products. If it means buying in bulk, then so be it.

  4. Adding sprint intervals and some distance running back into my workout schedule, once or twice a week. I cut it out for a month, and I tend to feel stronger and leaner if I'm at least running a bit. My weight/fat loss also stalled out when I cut out running. I'm very interested also in running in minimal shoes, as I've always had super unhealthy collapsed-arches and poor gait all my life.

  5. Really need to dial it in. I need a plan. I've been flying by the seat of my pants since I went Paleo, and I really would feel alot better if I sat down and mapped out my strategies as far as eating/fasting/working/living goes.

  6. Getting out of New York city as much as possible and reconnecting with nature.

  7. Buckling down, and recording some music, getting these ideas out of my head and onto tape. This goes hand in hand with getting a band together with my girlfriend, getting her a guitar, teaching her how to play it, and getting her on stage ASAP.

Hopefully this will be a very productive summer! One for the books.

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 good list, sprinting/running really does make me feel stronger, and definitely helps with leaning out for me. I also agree with point 6, you should come up to VT, gonna do some hiking this weekend! – ryan Jun 3 2011 at 18:06
VT sounds awesome! My girlfriend's family lives in NW Mass., which is pretty close. We might be going up that way a few times in the summer, but it's a long drive from NYC. I usually try to get out to the Delaware Water gap in N Jersey, which is only about 45 minutes away by car, and pretty secluded. It makes a great day-trip spot and there's tons of hiking, camping and waterfalls. – Futureboy Jun 3 2011 at 18:28
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 plus one....... – The Quilt Jun 3 2011 at 20:07
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  1. Greatly limit the amount of time I spend on the internet reading about health and nutrition.
  2. Go from 90/10 paleo to 80/20 for the summer.
  3. Train myself to crave liver like I crave sex.
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I think I've mastered the perfect liver recipe, and I NEVER liked it. This...I LOVE. It was SO GOOD. – Futureboy Jun 3 2011 at 21:01
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 I use grassfed calve's liver. Filet it, then slice it into roughly 2"x2" sections, then marinate it in a bowl of lime juice for 25-30 minutes. While marinating, slice a quarter or more of a white or yellow onion into shoestrings, sautee on low heat with ghee, adding cubed bacon (I do it with scissors, so easy!) halfway through, until the onions are soft, translucent and golden, and the bacon has rendered and is starting to crisp a little. Raise heat to med, drain liver, add liver sections, sautee for 3-5 minutes until tender/MR. Turn off heat, remove liver to plate... – Futureboy Jun 3 2011 at 21:08
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 finish with 2 TBs or so (a generous drizzle...sorry I don't measure when I cook!) of good Balsamic vinegar. Give it a stir, and spoon the bacon/onions/balsamic sauce on top of the liver, garnish with a sprig of thyme. Oh yeah, I spice it with a black/green/pink/coriander pepper mix, fresh cracked, sea salt on the onions, and a sprinkle of dried thyme (go easy on the thyme). YUMMMMMM – Futureboy Jun 3 2011 at 21:10
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 i would agree that grassfed is far more important with liver than muscle meats. if you're gonna do organs, make them the best versions of those organs you can. save money elsewhere. – ben61820 Jun 3 2011 at 22:28
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I'm planning on a bunch of stuff actually...have already started #1, working on #2, which should lead to #3 and #4 being accomplished.

  1. Fix my sleep by going to bed earlier (before midnight). Already have the blackout blinds! :)

  2. Get off the normal paleo bandwagon (been on it for a couple months) and try very-low-carb for a while. Based off what I've read around here and the rest of the net/research/books going very-low-carb to zero-carb for a while fixes most of the issues with the body and metabolic issues.

  3. Fix leptin sensitivity. Which seems to be harder than I thought. Or more complicated. Doing a lot of reading and waiting for you (@the quilt) to talk about it on your blog.

  4. Fix insulin resistance. Because really, SAD is bad, and ruined my life for a while. I'm taking it back!

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I take that back. It looks like #3 just had an update via the blog! Yay, more reading! =) – Jake Jun 4 2011 at 0:20
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  1. See a physical therapist to learn just what my limitations are as far as fitness goes.

  2. Obstain from sugar totally (just now started - about 2 weeks in).

  3. Re-think my garden, and fix my chicken coop.

  4. Learn more about cooking natural.

  5. Be outdoors more often, hiking, riding, camping, barefoot and fancy free.

  6. Spark up the grill more often before the heavy winter comes.

  7. Harvest

  8. Hunt and gather to get ready for winter.

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1) What do you think a physical therapist could teach you? 5) Riding what? A horse, a mastodon, a Ducati? Also what does "fancy free" mean? – Thomas Seay Jun 3 2011 at 16:25
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 1.) I had a life altering operation that limits my physical activity. On the 20th this month I will see a physical therapist to re-learn what I can and can not do as far as working out and day to day life. 5.) Riding a Skeppshult Natur! And it was a play on the old saying footloose and fancy-free, which means: Having no attachments and free to do as one pleases. – Uggla Jun 3 2011 at 20:09
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I've been using a casein-based protein powder for post-workout. I think I'm going to buy some egg-based protein powder and make a lot of jerky so I don't have to rely on it.

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Nice and simple. Not cluttered. I wish there was only one thing I could think of! – Futureboy Jun 3 2011 at 15:16
Making jerky sounds like a wonderful plan. I've only made it once, but I loved it. – Ali Jun 3 2011 at 18:42
I should add jerky to my list too, I love it. – Futureboy Jun 4 2011 at 0:53
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Hm...I think that for the three months I am left in Korea, try to be outside as much as possible, incorporate more strength training into my routine, muster the courage to buy the offal the butcher doesn't know that English word for, use up my shampoo and go back to egg-based wash.

For the next three months when I am home, I will try to be outside as much as I can, hike the parks and trails, buy some weights, go to the farmer's market often, make a lot more stock (cheaper to make in the US), eat a metric ton of oxtails (also cheaper in the US) continue to walk instead of drive as often as possible, and figure out how to continue to finance my paleo lifestyle...

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  1. Get more Sun.
  2. Make more homemade sauerkraut & kombucha.
  3. Increase my Vit K2, Vit A & Vit D intake to experiment with tooth re mineralization.
  4. Join a local CSA again.
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What foods/supplements do you plan on emphasizing in to increase your intake of those vitamins? – henrydrn Jun 5 2011 at 15:19
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I am going to read your backposts :-)

and also:

1) hack my potassium to sodium ratio better than 4:1 ( I have heart rhythm issues) 2) hack my 3:6 Ratio Closer to 1:1

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 getting your omega 6/3 is probably the healthiest thing a human can do. plus one. – The Quilt Jun 3 2011 at 20:08
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1- once they start selling, buy grass fed/pasture raised products from the area 2- buy produce from farm stands and farmers markets 3- Get back to being able to run 8 miles again, with hills and sprints, so I don't die during the Spartan Beast 4- Get more sun and try to hike every weekend

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I keep making forward and backward movements on Paleo... my goals for the summer are probably more in line with getting more fit while my gym membership is cheap and it's nice outside:

Long hike on weekends, 1x per week

Eat more vegetables from my garden

Strength train (Starting Strength book) with my boyfriend 3x per week

Low intensity, relaxing yoga 2-3x per week

Be more strict with cheats than I have the past few weeks, especially with parties and alcohol (harder in the summer though!)

Incorporate white rice and starches a la Perfect Health diet, as I don't think a low carb approach has been working for me.

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Great question! Good motivation

  1. Get rid of the stevia in my coffee. So hard!! Might have to give up coffee altogether because honestly, I don't like coffee, I just like sweetener.

  2. Use electrical tape to finish blacking out my bedroom so I really have it pitch black.

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I switched to unsweetened coffee by switching to a 3/4 butterscotch 1/4 house blend mix and can now drink black or cream only coffee. – vroy Jun 3 2011 at 18:22
I personally enjoy coffee so I just had to get rid of the sweetener really. – vroy Jun 3 2011 at 18:23
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 Thanks......This will be the source of a future blog. I am also giving a lecture locally about change and motivation. To me its the first step in paleolithic living. – The Quilt Jun 3 2011 at 20:11
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  1. Re establish my periods without resorting to the frickin pill

  2. Declutter my house, goodbye useless stuff

  3. Stop holding back at the gym and just going for it

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declutter! thats on my list too. we've had like half our stuff in storage for a year and i think i can probably say goodbye to a lot of it. – tartare Jun 4 2011 at 19:55
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Keep lifting heavy.

keep eating clean

with both of those the goal within the next six months will be to backsquat 300 lbs. Definitely within six months.

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though I suppose those arent "paleo", theyre just my own goals. – ben61820 Jun 3 2011 at 22:30
backsquatting 300# is a good one. I wanna try and break 200# this month. – Futureboy Jun 4 2011 at 0:56
Awesome. You can do it, I can do it. I like hearing people in the iron game. Fun and so good for you. Pleasant mix of fear and fun no? – ben61820 Jun 4 2011 at 2:20
Haha yeah, when I go hard on the squats I like to be inches from failure, that way I get that much better. Right now I'm stalling out on my overhead press though, which is super frustrating. – Futureboy Jun 5 2011 at 0:10
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 im with you: i was stuck at 95 lbs for 3x5 for two weeks i think. Only two days ago did i finally get 100 lbs up for the 3x5. Talking with other lifters though it does seem that the OHpress is always the first to go. In today's world most of us just don't use those muscles as regularly as we do the ones called in for benching, squatting, DLing etc yknow. – ben61820 Jun 5 2011 at 12:44
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  1. Add strength training. Haven't found something yet that I can stick to long term.
  2. Reduce (but not eliminate) dairy -- less in daily coffee, less reliance on it with cooking
  3. Reduce alcohol consumption to 1-3/week. Ironically, the change in my tastebuds after a year of paleo have led me to like alcohol for the first time. Now I'm having waaaay too much fun with interesting cocktails (usually still very low sugar, but still).
  4. Go off as many supplements as possible. Gonna cut out the fish oil since I'm eating wild tuna salad quite a bit now, but I'm not sure what else I can ditch.
  5. Simplify life! Getting rid of more things we don't need and making our lives more mobile, less attached to stuff.
  6. Try out a standing desk at the office.
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More yoga, more day hikes.

Ride my horse regularly through the mountains.

Lift heavy things.

Receive plenty of bodywork.

Find a local grass-finished beef farm in the area to supply me with beefy bits.

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Riding a horse through the mountains sounds cool! – Minnie The Minx Jun 5 2011 at 14:41
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  1. moving to Brazil in the next 2 months so I need to avoid changes in diet to get thru another international move and the unpacking afterward.

  2. Yoga, need some sort of exercise to tone and de-stress

  3. Need to do GAPS to fully heal my gut

  4. less technology, its helpful but takes up a lot of my time!

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  1. Stay the current course until I get close to my goal weight - another 20 kg
  2. Add strength training and sprints when I can do so without hurting myself
  3. Tweak my lifestyle when I get to that point, to get to my best health and stay there
  4. Play more
  5. Never stop learning!

I'm someone who tends to dive into things and do too much at once. This is a plan to correct my health issues in a sensible and achievable order and time frame. Feels good so far!

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Give yoga a try

Add strength training to my life

Cut out the "it's just this once" silly little dietary deviations

Come up with a structured plan...i.e., put all these goals into one big-picture 8)

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Do another Whole 30, starting... now. I just polished off a pint of Haagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche.

Try not to stress too much about the fact that my doctor has told me that I need to do absolutely no exercise until June 24th. I ignored him and picked up a 16-kg kettlebell with my left arm this morning, and felt the ends of my broken right collarbone pop back out of place.

Try to let things go. I'm feeling so much frustration with myself right now over that ice cream.

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oooooooooouch!! even though you can't lift anything, you can still exercise! exercise your brain, all this downtime is a blessing. I would love to have all that time to just read. – Futureboy Jun 5 2011 at 0:12

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