AMAW/CAMAW, Day 4!
on 10/13/18 11:09 am, edited 10/13/18 11:10 am
Hello AMAW/CAMAW Warriors! I hope that Day 3 was stellar for you! It's already Day 4 of our week-long challenge, so hang in there!
I am going to extend my own personal AMAW wee****il next Friday (to give myself a week of full compliance), because last night I went to dinner and didn't feel I could politely decline the salad. But I'm back on the wagon full force today! Go AMAW!
Today marks the halfway point of our week, and then some! Here's to powering through stalls and seeing positive results on our scales. Go forward fiercely today, my friends!
on 10/13/18 12:11 pm
I'm actually not sure it's healthy to do strictly AMAW for the long haul, though it is the traditional diet of Eskimo tribes, and they are totally adapted to it. But great Cassie! I'm glad you're likely to extend past Tuesday too, it is fun and helpful to have a partner in AMAW!
I understand that the precontact diet of Inuit in what is now Canada typically meant eating the whole caribou, including stomach contents. As caribou graze on grasses and tundra moss, the people did get some vegetative matter and fibre. Also traditionally iniut ate lots of whale and other seafood. So I don't think an all meat diet is defensible on that basis (which is not to say it's always a bad idea to de-carb!). I am going to try as much meat and as few grains and sugars as possible this week but I can't do without some veggies so I admire your commitment!
on 10/15/18 11:31 am
Oh, good point about original native diets including partially digested grasses and lichens from within the stomachs of caribou. Also, in the summer, green things, berries, etc. do grow in circumpolar regions, below a certain latitude.
I recall reading an article once wherein a far northern Native, transplanted to an urban, more southerly area, bemoaned the lack of seal oil in her diet. She said that she had grown up eating it every day and that her stomach hurt badly without it. She gave the impression that it acted both as lubricant and anodyne.
I found this article on this topic interesting:
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/oct/inuit-paradox
Great article -- I think the essential nutrients thing will probably be borne out through more and more science.
Slight tangent - I have been obsessed with the Franklin Expedition for years (and have been so impressed as the Terror and the Erebus have been found by our Canadian friends!)...I don't think there's any doubt that if Franklin and his crew had listened to the indigenous they encountered, they would have survived (and without that whole cannibalism thing) but their racist/classist attitudes could not be overcome, even at the literal threat of death. It's so fascinating to me.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
on 10/15/18 5:59 pm
I was also fascinated by the discovery of the Terror and the Erebus! Thank you for reminding me of this - I'd like to read more.
On a similar note, I gave this book as a gift to my brother a few years so and meant to buy a copy for myself, but never got around to it. I think it's time to read it, too:
https://books.google.com/books/about/In_the_Kingdom_of_Ice.html?id=-VAQBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
