What do swimmers use for electrolyte replacement and/or meal replacement shakes, etc? I am trying to loose weight but despite all my swimming, it's not happening. I think it's got to be because I'm hungrier, but have a hard time gauging my calories, so I'm looking for a meal replacement system that will help me meep track but that will also have adequqate protein and vitamins for maintaining training. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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I'm not sure that Paleo is, in fact, based on a 60% fat component. As I stated before, that 60% figure is from a computer generated analysis of what my wife and I actually eat in a day. Neither of us actually set out to eat a Paleo diet (that just happens to describe more or less what we do eat, except that unlike many Paleo adherents, we also eat dairy products and some legumes). If anything, the diet we set out to eat is more along the lines of the one advocated by the Weston A. Price Foundation.
As far as health goes, and I'm sure we both agree that that is the primary consideration here, I'm more than 100 pounds lighter than I used to be 8-9 years ago when I followed a "heart-healthy," low-fat diet, I recently had a Berkeley Heart Lab analysis of my cholesterol done that showed all parameters in the "good to excellent range," and I lowered the dosage of the anti-hypertensive medication I have long taken by two-thirds. All this under a doctor's supervision, by the way.
I think the biggest issue with long term studies of diets is that they do not normalize for calories accurately. I have yet to see much convincing evidence that the reasons red meat eaters are less healthy is due to the red meat and not due to the likelihood that red meat eaters eat more total calories and lead less healthy lifestyles overall (e.g. if you eat a lot of burgers you probably also eat a lot of fries).
I'm not sure that Paleo is, in fact, based on a 60% fat component. As I stated before, that 60% figure is from a computer generated analysis of what my wife and I actually eat in a day. Neither of us actually set out to eat a Paleo diet (that just happens to describe more or less what we do eat, except that unlike many Paleo adherents, we also eat dairy products and some legumes). If anything, the diet we set out to eat is more along the lines of the one advocated by the Weston A. Price Foundation.
As far as health goes, and I'm sure we both agree that that is the primary consideration here, I'm more than 100 pounds lighter than I used to be 8-9 years ago when I followed a "heart-healthy," low-fat diet, I recently had a Berkeley Heart Lab analysis of my cholesterol done that showed all parameters in the "good to excellent range," and I lowered the dosage of the anti-hypertensive medication I have long taken by two-thirds. All this under a doctor's supervision, by the way.
I think the biggest issue with long term studies of diets is that they do not normalize for calories accurately. I have yet to see much convincing evidence that the reasons red meat eaters are less healthy is due to the red meat and not due to the likelihood that red meat eaters eat more total calories and lead less healthy lifestyles overall (e.g. if you eat a lot of burgers you probably also eat a lot of fries).
