Sometime back around the beginning of this year, whilst looking through blog recommendations in my feed reader I came across Mark's Daily Apple, a website which promotes The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sission.

The basic premise of the book is that the human body is much better suited to the more primal diet of the paleolithic age, rather than the neolithic, grain based diet and on which humanity survives now. The book itself promotes a low carb, high fat and moderate protein based diet similar in many ways to the Paleo Diet and the research conducted by Weston Price, who spent most of his life studying the diet of the worlds remaining traditional societies.

Whilst a lot of the book discusses diet, it actually promotes lifestyle change, which can be achieved by following 10 simple suggestions, based on how a paleolithic human (known as Grok) would have lived.

• Eat Lots of Plants & Animals
• Avoid Poisonous Things
• Move Frequently at a Slow Pace
• Lift Heavy Things
• Sprint Once in a While
• Get Adequate Sleep
• Play
• Get Adequate Sunlight
• Avoid Stupid Mistakes
• Use Your Brain

After a bit of reading, I realised that what Mark was talking about resonated well with me so I decided to start making a few changes as an experiment to see what would happen. Over the following couple of months I cut out bread, pasta and rice from my diet and took part in simple lifestyle based like walking, chopping wood and doing the garden. My experiment turning out well, with positive results, including losing 8kg in weight, 15cm of belly circumference and 5% body fat.

Achieving those results in such a half-assed attempt had pretty much sold the idea to me entirely, but unfortunatly, as with a lot of things when the novelty passes, I started to slip back into my old ways. However, with the relaunch of this site I plan to get back to eating healthily by following the diet promoted by primal blueprint, whilst incorporating various aspects of the paleo diet and the work of Weston Price.