So a little late (again) – sry
I completed my Weston Price/traditional diet challenge on the 30th of October, scoring a low 16 (this is good) on the previously mentioned health questionnaire by Mark Hyman, which is half of what I had when I began the challenge, in general my numbers where preety good – I will list them at the end of this post.
It was definetely way easier and more interesting to stick to than doing the raw food challenge, and I scored better on the health questionnaire, I din't loose as much fat though, proably because I ate more food this time.
Generally I think the diet experiment went well, I really like the food, compared to both a raw food and a paleo diet, even a vegan diet, I think it is less restrictive, and I have had some fairly good results.
This diet may be able to be improved by adding some of the additional things that traditional/native/indigenous people also made use of like fermented foods and beverages, bone broths and organ meats which I'm looking into at the moment, with help from Nourishing Traditions (by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig). I will also be adding some raw food dishes, like salads and green juices. In the future I will look into using the meal timing rules of the leptin diet and the low carb rules of the primal diet, and see whether this can improve the diet.
Weight - 64, 4 kg – 2,7 kg decrease
Estimated Muscle perecentage 47,8 – 0.9% points increase
Water percentage 67,6 – 1,8% points increase
Fat percentage 7,5 – 2,3 % points decrease
Average resting pulse 46,5
Lowest reading 45
Highest reading 59
Average resting blood pressure 97,35/52,55
The blood pressure seems unrealistically low – I wil have to compare my blood pressure reader to another one, next time I get a chance.
Total score on Mark Hyman's health questionairre from the ultra simple diet– 16 – a 50% decrease
