Urban Primalist

Today, while reading the Before and After thread over at Mark's Daily Apple, I came across Timothy Williams' site, Urban Primalist with a great before and after series of photos. There are a ton of similar stories on the message board and it really encouraged me when I was first starting out on our primal journey. "After" is a bit wrong for most folks, given that it doesn't ever really start. When it comes down to it primal/paleo is more about paying attention and eating and exercising in a smart, healthy fashion. It's not about dropping a set number of pounds or anything like that, it's about being healthy.

Check out Timothy's story, and then maybe some of the others. Worth reading.

In my case I'm much healthier now than I was back when we started at the end of February. Since we're about six months later I'm going to take some new photos soon and post up a new before/after comparison. It'll be interesting to see the difference.

Second Day

Heading to Work

It's been almost two years since we moved into our small rural 1970s ranch house. When we bought the house one of the things I particularly liked was that the house sits about a half mile from the Yelm-Tenino Trail. Not only that but the trail runs all the way down to within about 800 feet of work, giving me a perfect gentle ride to work. A little over ten miles, about 10.44 as Google Maps it. When we first moved in I thought I'd end up riding nearly every day unless a meeting or something meant I needed to drive.

Only that hasn't happened. Sure, I've ridden to work, but at my best I've ridden two days out of a week. Rarely two days in a row. Now that I'm thinking about mountain bikes and riding much longer endurance events I have added incentive to ride more regularly, but I don't think I'd be doing it if I hadn't lost so much weight by following the Primal Blueprint (mostly). Since February I've lost over thirty pounds. That's almost as much as the trike weighs! I think the last time I checked I had lost 32 lbs, but I think I might have lost a couple more since then. On top of eating better I've also been running lately and I think that's made a difference in riding the trike as well.

So now I've ridden two days in a row. I'd like to keep it going. I guess I'll see tomorrow.

Heading Home

I still have a long ways to go before considering anything like the Arizona Trail Race or the Tour Divide, but I'm starting.