If someone dropped me off in the middle of the woods I am positive that they would find my dead body a few days later with food and water in my backpack. This is about how it would go: I would realize I was alone in the woods and my fears would immediatly go to two things: BUGS! AH! And, of course, the possibility of hearing the sounds of banjos. With the sounds of banjos naturally comes my fear that I will walk into Backwoods Bob or a hybrid type human/mutant (thank you, Wrong Turn 1 and 2) - Both of who would likely defile my body, cut me into little peices, and ultimately eat my remains. Thinking of this horror panic would set in, I'd run for a mile or two (most likely in circles because direction has never really been my thing), I would realize that I had no idea which way was "out" and I would sit down in defeat. I wouldn't eat or drink, certain that I had to conserve food and water...
Fast forward 4 days... Article reads: "Local hikers find body of woman in wooded area 500 meters from a major highway..." Bummer for me.
On to my point...
I have no delusions that I am not one with nature. I love mother earth and I respect her ability to swallow me whole. She is a self-sustaining work of art! While I know that I will not be the the lone survivor on a stranded island, I do try to incorporate a holistic approach to my daily life - A dose of nature, so to speak. As I have continued my training at CrossFit Inception I have learned about fueling my body with a holistic approach - eating Paleo. The idea in a nutshell is this...We are what we eat. Human beings were designed to live on a planet with countless resources for fueling our bodies; we were specificaly created to compliment the earth that sustains us. As technological advances have been made with food production so has ruthless diseases such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis, depression...etc. Breads and grains were not eaten by our cavemen ancestors, our bodies simply were not designed to digest them and use them for fuel. We were not designed to consume animals pumped full of steriods for fast growth, or to digest chemicals used to create and perserve food. While all of these scientific ingredients have allowed for the mass production of food that has created a seemingly unlimited food supply, they are most definatly to blame for the hundreds of diseases that ravish our bodies. So I am making a personal decision to eat Paleo. I want to respect the body that God gave me by treating it the way it was inteded to be treated!
I know I couldn't live as a cavewomen - I can hardly make it as a hiker at a national park. But I can negotiate myself through a grocery store and make better choices that compliment my human body and its intrinsic connection to the natural foods the earth has to offer. I am forfieting Cheezitz, poptarts, Coco Puffs and chicken nuggets for fruits, veggies, lean meats and nuts. I am not going to count calories... I am going to eat throughout the day, when I am hungry, until I am full. It actually sounds alot more like common sense then a big revelation..
I'll let you know how it goes.
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