Paleo Dan

Through Lifehacker, I saw an Instructable for… wait for it! 1-Ingredient Ice Cream.

1-Ingredient Ice Cream

Woah, woah, woah! Ice cream!? That can’t be paleo… can it?

Well, as it turns out, that depends on what “one ingredient” is used. How do bananas sound?

Normally, I would give you an overview of the recipe and then let you clickthrough to the original post for the specifics, but there’s not really a whole lot to this one. You put frozen bananas into a blender or food processor and go to town.

But, go ahead and check out the original post and leave comments for the original poster if you try it and like it. Besides, Instructables has tons of great DIY projects and recipes and other things.

Just a quick note here to tell you that I have signed up to run/walk the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure down at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront on October the 17th, 2009.

Please take the time to look at my page over at Komen.org and donate whatever you can to this cause.

–Paleo Dan

Update: Until recently, my run/walk of the 2009 race was just a general involvement with the charity. Yesterday, however, I learned that a member of my church is battling this disease. I tell you — it really, really sucks that I have a specific reason to be involved now… then again, it really, really sucks that any of us have to be involved at all! Cancer has got to go. Please help with the fight.

No, Timex did not pay me to say that. So far, I’ve had two watches from the IRONMAN set.

The first was one of the old school IRONMAN watches. I don’t remember when I got it or how long I wore it, but it was on my arm until the battery died. For some reason, instead of just replacing the battery I decided to get a new watch. More money than sense, I suppose.

Old School Badass

The second IRONMAN was one of the Sleek 50-lap designs. I really liked the sleek design of this watch. It was a great watch that I just wore slam out…

I wore the Start/Split button out.

Even though the wear on the “Start/Split” button made it hard to use, I kept on using it. I had to wiggle my finger around a bit on the button before it would register the start. But, alas, nothing lasts forever…

Hard to see, but the band is hanging on by a thread.

When the first “link” in the band broke, I planned to find some superglue to see if I could make it last. Unfortunately, the middle “link” broke first.

Well, with the bum button and the broken strap, I thought maybe it was time to give up and just get a new watch…

Thanks to Mr. UPS, I am pleased to be sporting a shiny new IRONMAN Race Trainer with Data Xchanger. And I have to say, the Data Xchanger is cool. I can set heart rate zones, various display formats, interval timer splits, time, and alarms. Yeah, yeah, I can set that stuff on the watch, but how tedious is it to press this button and that button over and over and over again? Much easier to just do it on my computer. How cool is that?

Timex IRONMAN Triathlon Race Trainer Kit (T5K263)

I like it.

Like my logo? There’s the header image above and then the smaller version (used for the email subscription) here to the left.

The header logo is roughly the same thing I used when I first setup this site back in 2006. This time around, I hated the text I used for “PaleoDan.com” so I redid it.

Also, at the time, the horse cave drawing was the best “paleo” style drawing I could find. I liked it but it wasn’t anything special to me. Now, though, it kinda reminds me of Fatty. Of course, his horse is the mighty clydesdale… mine is just a fat horse. I mean, seriously, look at the gut on that horse!

Oh, and, yeah! I know that I’m no great graphic artist. I don’t even rank mediocre. I can get pictures and text together, but I can’t make it pretty no matter how much time I spend working on it.

While recommitting myself, I mentioned a “paleo-esque lifestyle.” What do I mean by paleo-esque?

Well, first I guess I should tell you what “paleo” is in terms of diet. In my “About Me” post, I boil it down to “eating [just] what I could eat in the wild with nothing but a knife.” PaleoFood.com states it pretty succinctly at the top of the page:

Recipes are: grain-free, bean-free, potato-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free.
Ingredients used: meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and berries.

While eating paleo, you can (for the most part) eat unlimited amounts of the foods in the “[i]ngredints used” list. If you are trying to lose weight, you need to be careful of the amount of fruit, but otherwise, have at it. At first, you might possibly find yourself overeating, but as you’re body adjusts to the high quality foods, you should begin to self-regulate without even realizing it. That’s what happened with me during my first go ’round with paleo.

I was also better able to recognize what foods my body was craving. When eating processed foods loaded with sugars, grains, etc, my cravings were generic: I wanted something and it didn’t matter what, I just ate! Once deeply into the paleo diet, I was able to tell specifically what I was craving: bananas, fish, steak, salad, etc.

Now, what do I mean by “paleo-esque?” Well, to my “ingredients used” list, I’m adding in corn, beans, and limited amounts of dairy.

Scott Kustes over at Fitness Spotlight posted a great article about how a Paleo/Primal eating plan improves your health.