Magess

"You don't need chicken" isn't much of an argument, imo. It's not his body and not his health. If having it makes your life livable and improves how you feel, then you did need it after all. Shouldn't he want you to feel your best?

Training your body to burn fat is a weight loss thing, not a building muscle thing. I mean, you eat fat because your body needs it as a building block. You eat carbs because you need those blocks too. They each are turned into different things. Steph Gaudreau http://stephgaudreau.com/ is very much in the balanced camp. For a while, paleo became low carb, but there's not really a reason for it to be, and as a lifter she finds she needs the carbs for performance. You may be able to find some good answers in her podcasts, or even her cookbooks.

You don't HAVE to track calories on paleo if you don't want to, but if you do, remember that you count fats, too. Six eggs in the morning seems like a lot. Are you putting butter/coconut oil in the pan? Mayo on anything? Avocados on anything? Those will add to your calories quite fast, and you'll hit 2400 easy. You are definitely not having too much meat. If your plate looks like half vegetables, I'd say that's enough. 50-60% fat looks pretty normal to me.

For all the uses you've mentioned I think people typically use mayo instead. For some purposes, a cashew cream might also work.

It's actually not low carb at all. Sweet potatoes and plantains ahoy!

It does not matter. Especially not for a W30. You may run into a case where if you're going from low fat to high fat you'll need some digestive enzymes for a while, but it's not anything you need to track. There's actually nothing you need to track in MFP for a W30. It's all about the type of food, not the macros.

Calorie math has never worked for me. We aren't Bunsen burners reducing food to ash. I started AltShift 9 weeks ago and have been getting results from that. Slow, but better than everything last year putting fat on me. It was where I ended up after my Oh God someone just tell me what to do moment at one of the paleo weightlifting coaches I follow on Twitter. Sent from my XT1049 using Tapatalk

You're more likely to notice a difference if you do all meals, in terms of hey your skin is clearing up or joints don't hurt like they used to. It'll be easier to test how you respond to food if you eliminate them and then add them back mindfully. Sent from my XT1049 using Tapatalk

Or pork rinds, maybe. Although ideally you'd be working on not stress eating. Sent from my XT1049 using Tapatalk

The shake likely isn't paleo. Everything else is, depending on what's in your salad dressing. You could work on upgrading the quality of the meat to grass-fed. And having more vegetables. Sent from my XT1049 using Tapatalk

Anecdotally it doesn't seem like you're taking in that much fat. Are you steaming everything? Coconut oil will add quite a bit to calories and good fats, if that's what you're after. Sent from my XT1049 using Tapatalk

Okay, first NF workout of the challenge, after a week of recovering from the eccentric stuff. Goblet squat: 3x8 @ 40lb Bench press: 3 @ 80, 5 @ 60lb, 2x8 @ 60lb Push-ups: 3x10 Step-ups: 3x20 @ 30lb :30 plank I have gotten weaker since I did this routine last. I used to be able to do a full set of bench presses at 80lb.

Ugh, well, get a stomach virus for 2 days and lose 6lb! So I did the eccentric stuff for last week, and it's supposed to take a week to recover if you do it right. But I think I actually kinda miss doing the exercises I had been doing? So maybe I'll switch off week per week. Which means this week I'll do the dumbbell L2.

That's a competition, or...?

Okay, so the book I just finished reading said you could pretty well kick your ass with 4 eccentric exercises and recommended squats, pull-ups, push-ups, and shoulder press. So I thought, first workout day of the challenge, I shall give this new thing a go. I can barely control my arms well enough to use a knife. So that was: 6 eccentric squats per leg, bodyweight over 10 seconds 6 eccentric pull-ups stepping off my weight bench over 10 seconds 6 eccentric knee push-ups over 10 seconds 6 eccentric shoulder presses @ 40lb per arm over 10 seconds I'm a little afraid of how much this is going to hurt tomorrow.