Carboni Camilla - Paleo Cleanse 30 Days of Ancestral Eating to Detox, Drop Pounds, Supercharge Your Health and Transition into a Primal Lifestyle

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To our loved ones for your ongoing support and encouragement, to our readers and to the worldmay this contribute to good health and your best life.

Contents

About a year and a half ago, we each were tackling a full-time job in marketing, as well as a night and weekend commitment to writing. This left little time to focus on our health and well-being. Time slipped away from us and later that year, determined to get back on track with daily exercising, we took on the extreme home workout DVD the Insanity Workout in full force and rocked it!

Doing Insanity nightly meant eating a lota lot of protein and carbohydrates in particular. It was awesomely delicious and a great excuse to consume as much lean meat as possible. The diet centered around a hearty bagel breakfast, whey protein shakes, amino energy drinks, smoked salmon, and steak salad wraps. We couldnt eat enough.

When the nine weeks of Insanity finally ended, we were exhausted and somewhat satisfied. Dont get this wrongwe love the Insanity workout and still do Insanity regularly today, only the diet we were consuming left us both feeling depleted and experiencing regular blood sugar lows. It wasnt a good enough diet to consider continuing long term, but we didnt realize why just yet.

It wasnt until Camillas boyfriend, Matt, bought a copy of The Paleo Manifesto by John Durantwhich explained exactly why wheat, dairy, and the legume family should be avoidedthat it all started to make sense to us.

Less than a month later, we began our 30-Day Paleo Cleanse, which focused on eating as much lean meat, fruit, and vegetables as possible, while exercising regularly and writing about it, of course. That Cleanse laid the foundation for this book.

Camillas Story

I grew up in a very close middle-class family that knew the importance of diet, exercise, and general well-being. Mealtimes were family times, and we all lent a helping hand as we prepared delicious, balanced meals. We didnt eat out often; we avoided fast food, processed foods, and candy. We were certainly healthier than most people we knew in South Africa, and I believe South Africans to be pretty healthy in general.

After a very difficult and emotionally taxing two-year struggle, my dad lost his battle against bone marrow failure. The news came a week before my sixth birthday. My mother and I were forced to regain some sense of normality in our lives, but naturally something was always missing. Together we made it work. We had mother-daughter TV nights, painted, cooked homemade pizza, devoured chicken soup, and baked what I still believe to be the most delicious chocolate cakes in the entire world.

I became an avid figure skater and competed in the young womans section for my province. I was fit and toned, yet I still had troubled skin and got severe tonsillitis very regularly. For someone who exercised so much and ate well (or so I thought) we couldnt quite figure out the problem. I was presented with a whole range of topical solutions and strong antibiotics. Nothing worked. We finally came to the conclusion that there was something else at play and that all these medicines were doing were trying to treat the symptoms, rather than the root cause.

About six months later I found myself in the waiting room of a well-known Ayurvedic doctor (a form of alternative medicine based on the science of life) who had trained with the reputable Deepak Chopra. I had broken my ankle figure skating and had unknowingly skated on it for many months as I was trained to withstand pain. Subsequently, I had worn away the tissue surrounding the bone and tendon in my right foot. This Ayurvedic idea was a last resort. I had tried physiotherapy and acupuncture at the top sports medicine clinic in my city, had x-rays, had worn a removable boot cast for six weeks, and had still not seen any sign of improvement on the x-rays or in day-to-day mobility. Plus I was still in pain, though I didnt regularly admit it, as I desperately wanted to return to the skating rink.

The doctor greeted me kindly and, unlike a regular physician, did not begin with What brings you in? Instead he asked to feel my pulse and gestured for my wrist. I was baffled but obliged and sat in silence for about a minute while he appeared to be concentrating very hard as he listened to my pulse. Finally he looked up at me and said that I was too stressed out (that comes with the territory of a Type A personality, doesnt it?), that I needed to cut out wheat, dairy, brown rice, and lentils from my diet, and that I needed to rebuild the tissue around the tendons that support my right ankle. Im not too sure how he picked all that up from my pulse, but a couple of moments later I was lying on the massage bed and he was applying steam to my broken ankle while massaging it vigorously with a proprietary sesame oil blend. Who was I to judge? Id tried Western medicine for months without any luck.

When he finally spoke it made sense to me. It all came back to treating the root cause. The steam and pressure on the area forced the cells to focus on the depleted tissue, ultimately speeding up the recovery process. It was a little wacky, and the opposite of the apply ice theory in Western medicine, but truthfully, it made sense.