Copyright 2013
By Kevin P. Jackson
www.paleolithicplan.net
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First Printing, 2013
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Paleolithic Diet Plan
I titled this book the Paleolithic Diet Plan because if I didnt say Diet, you probably wouldnt have opened the cover or bought it. Thats because we are programed by the $60+ billion dollar a year diet industry to believe our only hope and salvation to accomplish weight loss is to go on a diet (only for a short time) and lose weight, then we can go back to our regular habits and way of eating and things will be OK, and we will never have to worry about being overweight again. It reminds me of the old comic strip Peanuts when Lucie is holding the football on the ground with one finger and she tells Charlie Brown, Come on Charlie Brown, I promise I wont move the football this time, and of course she does. Just as he starts to kick the football, she moves it and he falls flat on his back. Sound familiar? It is the same thing the diet industry has been doing to us for years. Its called The diet game, one of the greatest money makers of all time. They have no interest in us losing weight on a long term basis or succeeding in getting healthier because that would put them out of business. What I am offering you in this book is a Paleolithic Diet Plan to reduce your excess weight and become healthier in the process, as long as you choose to do so by making a lifestyle change that you will enjoy.
Lets get started on the right foot and lets be honest with ourselves and each other, lets start with me. First of all, no, Im not an MD, Im not a PHD, Im not a nutritionist and I dont claim to be an expert in the field of medicine or nutrition. So who am I? Im just like you, someone who has struggled with weight problems my whole life and tried numerous fads, diets, pills and other weight loss plans of the week and, probably like most of you, ended up heavier than when I started.
So what qualifies me to write a book on weight loss? Well I guess you can call me a researcher. I certainly have done a lot of research in the field of diets and weight loss over the years, and I certainly have been involved with a lot of case studies. Even though I have been carrying around a lot of extra weight for a lot of years, I have been very fortunate to have inherited my mothers Italian genes and have never been plagued with any serious cholesterol problems, diabetes or any serious heart problems. And thats been sort of a curse, so to speak, because even though I was heavy and knew that I was not exactly healthy, I never had a good, motivating reason to be serious about keeping my weight off.
This probably sounds familiar to a lot of people, so it all boils down to, I never had a why, and if you dont have a why clearly planted in your mind, you wont accomplish anything. This goes for any goal that you have ever had in your life, and if you think about it, picture every goal that you have ever attempted to accomplish, weather you have succeeded or not, and I guarantee you that for the ones that were successful, you had a why (a clear picture in your mind of why you wanted it, and a clear picture and plan of what the outcome would look like and how to get there even though you might not have been conscious of it.)
Now lets talk about you. No, you dont have big bones. No, you dont have bad genes. No, you dont have a slow metabolism (well maybe). No, its not hereditary (well maybe again).
What most of us have done is inherited some bad habits and havent figured out how to break them and what our why is yet.
The first thing is we all have to acknowledge that there is a challenge we have to address and then we must put together a plan to meet the challenge. You noticed I said challenge and not problem. That is because this is the first step in the process, to remove the negative thought and word patterns from our mind and vocabulary that have kept us stuck in the same places.
Lets get down to some basic facts:
Your mind (both conscious and subconscious) are going to resist this challenge and try to sabotage you because sometimes theyre programed with bad information, and they think they are helping you or even saving your life when in actuality they are not, and sometimes they are doing the opposite.
We cant do the same old things that we have been doing and expect the results to change. (They wont), Most of the repetitive things we do every day are on autopilot, and our subconscious minds take over these routine tasks or (habits) that we repeat on a daily basis, and a lot of them have been programed into our subconscious anywhere from our early childhood up to the place in time that we are now. For example, when we get into a car every day to drive somewhere, we dont consciously think about every detail like starting the car, putting it into reverse, turning the steering wheel, putting on the break. Its the same thing when we decide we are hungry. Our subconscious takes over this routine task that we typically do numerous times a day and says to the conscious mind, Dont worry about this, I got it. You do the important things like looking around and noticing new things, and it makes the same old programmed choices for you!
Heres another example. Lets say that when you were young, your parents always told you that, You cant leave the table until that plate is clean. Do you ever find yourself, like I did, eating and starting to feel full, yet you keep eating anyway, until your plate is empty? And then you feel uncomfortably full? Well thats probably your subconscious mind doing its job, just like it is supposed to do, making sure that you obey your parents so you dont get into trouble 20, 30 or 40 years later, or even after they are dead. (Youre subconsciously still trying to please them)
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