Holy Sh** I am in for a long long long arduous journey.

So let me give you some info on how I am eating.  I am doing a thing called the Paleo-Zone diet.  Paleo (from the Paleolithic Era) is a method of eating that is meant to simulate that of man kind in that era.  During the Paleolithic era all men were hunters and gatherers.  That is, for you numbskulls, animals were hunted and plant foods were gathered. No one farmed animals and grew crops.  So nobody ate cereal, rice, wheat (what everybody eats all the time nowadays).  Also no one drank milk after weaning.  Now I will not be THAT looney, only somewhat.  Let me mention if you have any other questions about the Paleo Diet, google it, or you can ask me.  The main thing is that with this method of eating one does everything possible to eat clean.  Eat meats, nuts and seeds, vegetables, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.  You do not measure, you eat to satiety.  The Zone is a more caloric restrictive diet.  One measure things according to blocks.  Blocks are prescribed through several ways.  The one I used was measuring my body fat and performing a simple calculation (if you have any questions about this method let me know).  However when one is on the Zone, one can eat sugars, grains, rye, tropical fruits, etc. and as long as its measured its OK.  I am combining both.  

I have actually been doing the Paleo-Zone for about 9 months and have dropped to single digit body fat percentage 6.1% to  be exact.  Once I to single digit I double my fat blocks (any questions about this ask) and kept the rest the same, 16 blocks.  I have been eating like this 80% of the week and eating whatever my heart desired, mostly pizza and beer, 20% of the week.

Well, things have changed.  I am no longer doing 80% good and 20% bad.  I am going to cheat only 1-2 meals a week.  In addition, I will now follow a gluten-free diet.  Thank god for gluten-free beer.  This means I will avoid grains, oats, legumes, rye, etc (like the paleolithic man).  I have also multiplied my fat blocks by 5.  I am eating ALOT of almonds, peanuts, olive oil.

I have been doing this for the past 2 days.  Man am I stuffed.  I have not even began to increase my blocks and I feel heavy.  My workout today was horrible.  I getting close to meeting pukie the clown for the first time.  Puking in your mouth does not count.  I have done that several times.  This should be very interesting.

I will not post my meals, but if you want to follow Zac has his meals up.  They are very similar.  Check out his blog.  Ernesto is also doing some cool sh**.

Also just so everyone knows.  I am not gaining wait for vanity, but for performance.  The point is to gain lean mass and strength.  I hope to maintain the same strength to weight ratio.  I could care less about big biceps and shit like that.  

W.O.D. Nate as Rx'd

12 rounds + 2 muscle ups, 3 handstand push ups

PR 13 rounds (I feel really heavy)