I was on a similar regimen called The Primal Blueprint for several months. I went from 310 lbs to 275 lbs. Unlike the vegetable/fruit juice diet in this movie, I ate steamed veggies and meat without worrying about fat content (similar to how cave men eat).

Overall the concept is the same. Cut out all the flour, sugar, and processed foods. Get more nutrients in your diet. Your body will adjust, and will require extra water to detox and convert to ketosis. You will feel better, exercise will be more enjoyable, and you’ll see clearly that you are finally making progress and it will lift your spirits.

When I was on The Primal Blueprint lifestyle (diet and exercise), I didn’t crave the bad foods as much. I walked through an aisle at a grocery store that was filled with cereal, and it really didn’t temp me so much.

Any time I had tried to fast, I always ended up getting a horrible headache that got close to being a migrane. If someone told me to do some sort of extreme diet, I would totally consider the idea crazy, because I did not want to put myself in such pain just to feel defeated afterwards.

I learned that you won’t get a headache transitioning into the diet if you get fat, nutrients, and drink a lot of water.

Fats are okay. It’s best to start the diet and allow yourself to have as much fat as you want in the beginning. You won’t necessarily feel the need to have a bunch of fat later. I got to the point eventually where I was fine with extremely lean grilled fish and veggies with very little butter. Don’t even think about fat as an issue. Have Bacon, eggs, and veggies with cheese in the morning, have two uncured premium hot dogs with a bunch of steamed veggies for lunch, and then have a nice grilled chicken, steak, or fish for dinner with a bunch of steamed veggies as well. Mix it up. Asparagus sometimes, brocolli and cauliflower other times. Zuccini. Use as much butter as you want, with a little salt, or even alfredo sauce.

If you had protein (meat), fat (also in meat/animal products), and vegetables (fiber/nutrients), for your first meal, that will be the best transition to the diet for you. If you feel you need something still, eat more. You don’t have to count or measure. Your bodys natural feeling of needing more, or needing to stop, will kick in. It’s no longer being thrown out of whack, with blood sugar spikes and abysmal dips, so you won’t get a headache from blood sugar irregularity.

You might get a headache from dehydration that you’re unaware of though. I didn’t know it, but my body needs water every time I start on the diet again. If I drink a lot of water, and just ignore the bloating look I get (especially the 2nd chin), it subsides in a day or so and I become leaner looking in the neck than I did before going on the diet. It’s like my body goes into detox mode, and to do this well it needs water…or else I do get a headache.

It was so amazing to find out that I was only experiencing intense cravings for food every 3-4 hours, including sometimes symptoms such as headaches or even shakes, just because of the flour, sugar, and processed foods. Those foods are easily available, long lasting, and addicting, and it seems like this is important for the world to realize. We’ve slowly become part of a system where junk food outlets and the medical system have locked us into a perpetual dependency, which is plummeting our culture into a major imbalance and major dysfunction. Health care costs are up because of the cost of keeping us alive. Our productivity and sense of life, mentally, physically, and spiritually, is down because of how we are poisoning our own bodies. I am so glad that I’ve found a cure, and this movie above is just another two or three examples of how change is possible.

I was on the Primal Blueprint for about 3 months and lost 35 pounds. I’ve been off the Primal Blueprint for over a month now, and I’ve put about 5 pounds back on. I plan on getting myself into the right space where I’m motivated to get myself out of this addiction to junk food (especially bread). I’ve already shopped for groceries which have no flour or sugar. Time to get back on track.

I really expected to gain some insight on why Netflix raised their pricing which would help me to understand why it was necessary, something along the lines of  it being necessary for negotiating better content with content providers. As it turns out, it sounds like a bunch of bullshit.

How does splitting Netflix into two separate companies help them focus better on one thing or the other? I can perhaps understand from a website development stance that it’s a bit complicated trying to program their system to handle new things like video games in the rental queues (something they mentioned adding to the new Quickster DVD-by-mail service), with streaming video handled by the same website…but really come on…it can’t be holding you back that much. If it’s about organization, can’t two divisions within the same company be formed to handle the two different services?

This sounds like bullshit you’re trying to pass on your customers, as you didn’t justify it at all. Did you really think this was going to help? I kept a tight lip when a friend of mine talked about how he was mad that you raised the rates without formal notification. I figured that you’re just trying to make the service better, and really getting DVD’s and unlimited streaming video for the price that was offered was just too good of a deal. I didn’t have a problem with that…but to do this and then not improve the service with better content, or at least communicate to your clients that is what you’re working on accomplishing…and then pull this and make the service more inconvenient?!?! Seriously Reed?

Don’t you understand that people just want convenient entertainment, and being able to watch streaming video while they wait for the DVD in the mail, and manage both via the same queue, was the whole reason why customers were with you? Don’t you know that should you raise the rates, somehow those customers should be getting more?

You’re throwing away all the value you provided, the respect that your customers had for your company, all out the window. I expected you to be the leader in the entertainment revolution, with all the support of your streaming service added to Roku boxes, video game systems, or desktop applications (such as Boxee). I expected you to steal away all those clients who are tired of paying for a bunch of shit programming for $100 a month through a cable provider, opting to pay you $15 for your service, and $30-$50 for their broadband internet service. I expected you to bring the cable industry to it’s knees, just like you’ve done with Blockbuster. Even Redbox doesn’t have the advantage you have…no late fees resulting from the everlasting tendency for humans to get occupied with other things while that DVD sits on the table.

I expected the cost of better content to mean raises in your pricing. If people are using the service too much, cutting into your profits, I would understand implementing a change in packages that imposes limits or something..but I never expected this.

Here’s an idea, feel free to take it and use it. Leave your customers on the current price and service, and if you’re wanting to improve the service as an initiative into the future, offer that extra programming for an extra price. Kind of like ‘Want content from Disney, or Sony, or whatever? That will be an extra $10 per month.’ If you do that, you won’t get lashback from your customer base.

Though it’s not exactly like it, it’s very reminscient of Big in Japan by Alphaville.

As part of my aim to switch to a healthier lifestyle. I’m trying to cook using more vegetables. Tonight I’m having crab cakes with brown rice, diakon raddish, carrots, steamed greens (spinach, mustard, collard, turnip), and some boiled yams. It’s the first time I’ve made yams myself. I was surprised that they are white, not yellow like they typically are.

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I’m going to Satsang in Santa Cruz, then stopping by Babaks house for a while on the way back.

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Here are some photos I took while during a short stop in Pacifica, CA…my first cool scenery + motorcycle photos.