Paleo Zone Diet: Day 5 - No Alcohol
by Chris Savage
by Chris Savage
Founder of Savage Workouts
Ok, things are back to normal now. I started eating a lot of sauteed veggies. Also eating a lot of fish, turkey, ham, and other meats. No sugar. Lots of jerky. I can tell I'm looking better and I feel very clear headed.
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| The Paleo Zone Diet is high in Protein Sources such as these. |
Veggies really help fill you up, and the assorted amino acid varieties (protein sources) keep you strong. Energy is surprisingly high. Also, instead of going drinking with the boys, I have been much more productive. Training more sessions a day and feeling less fatigued. Actually going to work out on a Saturday night! I feel a lot more focused. I really think there is something to this whole avoiding processing thing.
Alcohol is obviously the biggest restriction of this diet. Physiologically is causes your metabolic and digestive systems to completely go out of whack. Detoxifying the alcohol becomes the biggest priority for the body at the expense of metabolizing fat or building muscle. So you cannot regenerate muscle tissue while under the influence of even .001 g of alcohol! It causes your muscles to atrophy, while your greater omentum (the sheet of fat that lies over your abdomen) stores more body fat.
It's funny, with some clients I've trained, I observe that they will go down in all areas of the body. The body fat calipers will show a lower millimeter measurement in the bicep, tricep, and subscapularis (below the shoulder blade). However, the iliac crest measurement (lower right of the abdomen above the hip bone) will increase by up to two millimeters!
This means that alcohol takes muscle from the butt and turns in into stomach fat!!!
See you at the next race!
Chris Savage
Certified Personal Trainer
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