In news:internal.mailing-list.maelstrom.paleofood, Theola Walden Baker
<[log in to unmask]> posted on Thu, 16 May 2002 00:48:48 -0500:

> Oh, yes, I think you're right.  It's as though we're moral deficients.  In
> reality, having to go against my rebelling body just makes me a mental
> deficient.  <g>  I *have to* be a morning person but it's not by choice.  My
> productivity is greater when I can keep the hours that suit my body & mind
> best.  As much as I would like to be a morning person......LOL, who would
> like to fit in to the norm...........I'm just really not.

I'm fortunate enough to have a lifestyle that allows me to simply sleep when
I'm sleepy, eat when I'm hungry (or whenever I want).  Oftentimes I may wake
up and not be hungry for five or six hours, and sometimes I wake up feeling
like I'm about to starve.  But the nice thing is that I make no distinctions
between different types of food.  I know this is a paleo food list, and I'm
not currently eating "paleolithically".  I subscribed out of curiosity more
than anything.  That said, the first thing I eat in the day may be homemade
pizza.  Or I might have a piece of grilled chicken, string beans, and a dip of
ranch style beans with a glass of distilled water.  Or I might have a stack of
flapjacks with muscadine syrup, or homemade red plum jelly, or honey.  When I
was a kid, my mom used to get angry with me when I came home from school
hungry and grabbed a package of pop tarts.  "Those are for breakfast," she'd
say.  Yet I noticed she often had a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats in the middle
of the afternoon, or she'd make scrambled eggs and bacon for supper.

Anyway, I don't know if choosing to have the freedom to eat what the body most
desires is a good thing or a bad thing.  I do think that if you listen to your
body, it will tell you what it most needs using the vast buffet of all the
foods you've ever tried.

> --Not just a big breakfast, but any breakfast.  I can't handle it.  I have
> to be up several hours, usually anywhere from 3-6, before I can stomach
> food.
> 
> I have just recently begun doing a little weightlifting in the mornings to
> see how it goes.  (Philip is having an influence on me.) My typical pattern
> for last summer was to lift late morning or afternoon and then put in miles
> after 9:30 or 10 at night. Would often not finish until after midnight.
> Husband would be on the track by  6:45-7am.  The few times I did that with
> him, nothing moved right and I couldn't get any speed.  What I did get was
> injuries.

Speaking of exercise, I would think that overall it would be better to put in
about twenty minutes six times a day rather thing trying to do 2 hours of
cardio all at once.  Looking at how our ancestors probably lived, I imagine
they had bursts of activity, while engaging in lower amounts of activity
during all the other times.  I'm going to try it that way pretty soon.  I'm
going to pick up a new bicycle as soon as I can make arrangements with someone
who has a cargo vehicle.  Rather than riding once a day, I plan to ride
several times a day for short periods of time.  Like maybe ride a couple of
miles, four times a day (or more miles depending on how long it takes to ride
two miles).  Once about 30 minutes after I wake up, then do it again every
three hours until bedtime.

Damaeus