New Year Resolutions often include some aspect of diet, health or fitness and all equate to a change in lifestyle. The success or failure of our goals determined by several key factors will (determination and motivation), ability to adapt (flexibility of mind and plan), direction and support (quality resources that inform and inspire).
How a Primal Lifestyle can help you reach your goals!
With so many choices accosting our mailboxes, TV’s and portable devices, all of which claiming easy weight-loss, fast results, a whole new you – how does one decide where to begin?
But, what if you took a whole-lifestyle approach that encompassed all your goals?
Re-discovering our ancestral roots and delving into the principles which ensured survival of the fittest, is what defines a Primal Lifestyle. “Back to basics but not literally!”
Whilst the emphasis is on simplifying your lifestyle, making a Primal shift does not involve relinquishing ‘all’ modern means instead it encourages you to leverage those which are beneficial and reduce others which are not. Just as you might remove old files on a computer before rebooting with the basics making your machine faster and more efficient – when you restore your mind and body to their default settings (minus mental or physical overstimulation), results are achieved at speed with minimal effort.
Stone Age Support in a Digital World. “Where there’s a will there’s a way!”
Quality resources covering all aspects of the aforementioned trio of goals (weight-loss, health and fitness) relating a multitude of broader lifestyle topics (recreation, mental enhancement, social and environmental impacts) to have you Primed for a New Year can be sourced online.
Our favourite Primal Resources
Mark’s Daily Apple an intuitive, collaborative resource – based on the best selling book The Primal Blueprint.
Mark recently released a concise ‘step by step’ program which makes it even easier to jump start the primal process checkout The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation.
More on Mark: Mark Sisson is an American fitness author and blogger, and a former distance runner, triathlete and Ironman competitor. Follow him on twitter or like him on facebook.
For a more tailored approach try…
Paleo expert Nell Stephenson, co author of The Paleo Diet Cookbook, with Dr. Loren Cordain and upcoming Paleoista, Get Lean, Gain Energy and Feel Fabulous with the Diet you were Born to Eat (Simon & Schuster, May 2012) who has just launched a new site, Paleoista and searchable blog.
Learn more about Nell’s Custom Paleo Nutritional Counselling Services, SKYPE Consultations and downloadable Paleo Plans, all available from her online store.
Get a sneak peek at what her upcoming book is all about.
Nell in a Nutshell: An experienced endurance athlete and author Nell lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Chris and their two Weimaraners, all of whom are Paleo Athletes. Follow her on twitter or like her on facebook.
