East Grove Blues

Monday and Tuesday were a little rough for me. Not anything especially bad, but a sluggishness that wouldn’t go away. I felt heavy and tired all the time, which is terrible if your trying to motivate yourself to get outside and workout a bit. I am not sure what brought it on. Perhaps it was because of the fast, or perhaps it was because I started eating again. I am not really sure yet what it was. I felt pretty good during the fast, even energetic at times. Even with the sluggishness I did work out a bit the last two days, but I couldn’t really push myself. I couldn’t go above and beyond the relatively simple. It was frustrating to no end.

As always Yoga helped. After Yoga yesterday I was starving, even though I had eaten a large dinner. I decided to go ahead and eat again, and then again. I couldn’t seem to fill my belly. It was like my system finally kicked into gear. I only got about six hours of sleep last night but I woke up relatively rested. I felt good this morning shoveling my drive way at five in the morning and I felt good skiing with my kids at elementary school. I felt strong again after a short workout in the gym and I feel alive right now after running barefoot on sub-0 pavement outside my house. I even did a couple of sprints to really get the blood moving. It is so much fun jumping over ice and dodging rocks while I run. I have to pay attention to every movement or I end up with sharp pains from rocks in my feet. When I run barefoot it is no longer a strait line, but a curvy line that is ever so much more fun. Even with paying attention and even though I have only been running short distances, I still have managed to get a blister or two. Nothing to keep me off my feet or even from being mostly barefoot all the time.

I was browsing through the Daily Show website and saw a link to the Colbert Report about an upcoming guest that does the Paleo Diet. It’s really interesting and I might even try it. I remember my friend Tom mentioning it to me a while ago but I brushed it off because I was assuredly thinking I was already on the best diet. I still get on my high horse and ride it, something I need to work on.

Anyway the diet is similar to mine except more meat and no grains. I already like to eat mostly fresh fruit and veggies, so all I would do is get rid of the grain. Not eating bread would be hard, because I really like bread, in all its forms!  Most everything else I am already doing; spend as much time outside as you can, run barefoot, be active and fast. I have to thank Tom again for some idea’s on fasting, he has been doing it for ages. The whole point of the diet, even though I would consider it more of a lifestyle, is to go back to what we are designed to do. We are good at several things: running, eating and having sex. Those are in fact what we are programmed to do and it is hard to fight programming. A lot of times we have to go a long period, some longer than others, without one of those things. Surprisingly though, we are as good at not doing as we are at doing, but now I am loosing myself.

So I don’t know yet whether I will try the Paleo diet. It would be hard seeing that I eat rice almost everyday at school. Here is a website with a bunch of links if you are interested. http://paleodiet.com/