Wright - Paleo for Weight Loss: Mouth-Watering Low Carb Paleo Recipes for Losing Weight, Feeling Great, and Satisfying Your Primal Cravings The Practical Paleo Series

Paleofor Weight Loss

Mouth-Watering Low Carb PaleoRecipes

for Losing Weight, Feeling Great,and

Satisfying Your Primal Cravings

Jamie Wright

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Tableof Contents

People who make the switch to the paleo diet arealways amazed by how much it boosts their energy and mood, improvestheir health and vitality, and makes them feel great every day. Butdespite these amazing health benefits, many people find that evenafter adopting a paleo diet, they're still struggling to lose weight!

Luckily, it doesn't have to be this way. With theright know-how, you can make some easy tweaks to the paleo diet thatwill crank up the fat-burning potential of the diet and allow you tomelt pounds away faster than you ever thought possible.

In Paleo for Weight Loss ,you'll learn dozens of delicious paleo recipes specifically designedfor weight loss on the paleo diet. Each recipe is strategicallytargeted to be low in carbohydrates, fully compliant with paleoprinciples, rich in nutrients, and best of all, absolutely delicious!

Some of these delicious fat-burning recipesinclude:

- Lamb and Bacon Meatballs

- Thai Coconut Shrimp Soup

- Spicy Bison Burgers

- Pesto Scrambled Eggs

- Chipotle Lime Salmon

- Paleo Mocha Brownies

...and many more!

All the recipes in Paleofor Weight Loss are low carb, paleo/primalfriendly, completely free from grains, gluten, soy, legumes, andrefined sugars, and made with real, whole foods. Even better, they'realso easy to make, require no special equipment, and are absolutelydelicious!

So without further ado, let's get started!

One of the great things about the paleo diet isthat even though it's primarily designed to improve your health (andall the related benefits like increased longevity, energy, diseaseresistance, and mental focus), it's also great for losing weight. Infact, many people who adopt the paleo diet for health reasons findthat they lose weight without even trying! This is a natural sideeffect of eating a diet that is A) extremely nutrient-rich, B) low incarbs and high in protein and healthy fats, and C) based aroundnourishing, satisfying whole foods.

This is why, if one of your goals is to loseweight, we recommend that you start by just following a basic,healthy paleo diet, without focusing on weight loss at first. Thisallows you to get comfortable with the basics of the paleo diet(which can often be tricky at first, because it's a big lifestyleshift for many people), and make your transition to paleo as easy aspossible without worrying about weight loss. Not only will this makethe transition to paleo easier and more enjoyable, but as a bonus,most people will find that consistently eating paleo causes them tonaturally shed unwanted bodyfat without even trying.

Once you're comfortable with the basics of thepaleo diet, however, you may find that you aren't losing weight asfast as you want, or even at all! This is totally normal; j ustbecause you're eating healthy food doesn'tmean you'll lose weight.Healthy eating habits willtend to reduce your appetite, as well as creating an idealenvironment for fat loss in your body by optimizing your hormones,metabolism, calorie partitioning, and a host of other factors.However, you're still perfectly capable of eating surplus calories,and even if those calories are coming from healthy foods, a largeenough surplus will still lead to weight gain!

The paleo diet in and of itself isn't a weightloss diet, so if losing weight is something you routinely strugglewith, you may need to adopt some specific strategies along with thebasic principles of healthy paleo eating in order to effectively burnoff that unwanted bodyfat.

Remember that getting comfortable with paleo, andfully making the transition to eating paleo on a very consistentbasis, is critically important as a starting point be sure tofocus on this basic lifestyle transition exclusively for the firstfew months of your paleo journey, and you'll make things way easieron yourself once the basic habits of paleo eating have already becomesecond-nature to you.

Once you've reached the point where eating paleois comfortable for you, and you'd like to start focusing more onlosing weight, there are a few simple strategies that you canimplement (in conjunction with the basic principles of the paleodiet) to optimize the paleo diet for fat loss. We'll discuss a fewsupplementary strategies later in this chapter, but when it comes toweight loss, the paleo diet mostly focuses on one simple strategy:reducing your consumption of carbohydrates.

As you know by now, the paleo diet is much morethan just a low carb diet; in fact, depending on yourpersonal preferences, food tolerances, and physical activity level,paleo doesn't necessarily need to be particularly low carb at all.But reducing carbohydrate consumption is considered by many followersof the paleo diet to not only be optimal for health, but also themost effective way to lose weight.

Reducing the amount of carbohydrates you consume(and by the same token, replacing them with protein and healthyfats), has a number of positive effects that stack up to create apowerful fat burning environment in your body. Reducing your carbintake will reduce the spikes in blood sugar and insulin that promotefat storage, increase your body's insulin sensitivity, reduceappetite (which leads to a natural reduction in your calorie intake),and will overall just switch your body into fat burning mode.

As an added benefit, eating a low carb paleo dietwill typically allow you to lose weight without counting calories!You don't need to weigh or measure your food, or keep a food journal;the absolute most you'll have to do is keep a rough estimate of howmany grams of carbohydrate you're eating in a given day, and eventhis extra step is usually unnecessary. All you really need to do isfocus on eating foods from the lower-carb spectrum of the paleo diet,like meat, eggs, and vegetables (as well as the accompanying herbsand spices that make them delicious!), and if you base most of yourmeals around these foods, there's a good chance you'll be able tolose weight without counting, measuring, or recording a singlecalorie!

So with all these benefits in mind, exactly howmuch should you be cutting carbs in order to lose weight as quickly,efficiently, and easily as possible?

There are a number of factors to consider whendetermining how many carbs you should be eating in a given day forachieving the optimal balance between weight loss and simple ease andconvenience. We're going to give you some specific targets in asecond, but before you decide exactly what your personal intakeshould be, there are a few guidelines you should keep in mind:

Measuring carbs

The carbohydrate targets listed below are, ofcourse, quantified using numbers; specifically, how many grams ofcarbohydrate per day you should be eating for a specific goal. Thisdoesn't necessarily mean that you need to literally keep a runningtally of your daily carb intake in order to lose weight.