I'm waiting on a new book, "The Primal Blueprint", and one of the things I noticed over at the Mark's Daily Apple blog was the Primal Blueprint food pyramid, it has a 'base' of vegetables, fruit, and then the next layer is the protein etc.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-...imal-blueprint/
(scroll down to see the Primal Blueprint Food Pyramid)
This is very new-ish thinking for me, as I've still got that old Atkins mindset happening. I do eat vegetables, but had to really push myself to eat them at first. I hardly ever eat fruit. Maybe a few berries here and there, but not as a regular menu item.
That said, the 'base' of my diet still seems to be meats/fish etc. I'd like to go in new-ish direction here, and was just wondering what everyone here thinks of the Primal Blueprint Food Pyramid. Also - is it just my eye, or does it look as though the 'base' of the pyramid is skewed slightly in favour of more vegetables and less fruit?
What does everyone here think of the idea of making the 'base' vegetables and fruit?
editing to add: for the longest time, I avoided vegetables for the most part, believing they'd make me gain weight, and when I finally decided to follow Atkins induction and make sure that 'most' of my carbs were actually coming from vegetables, my weight loss sped up.
No one was more suprised than I was. I *still* have a teensy bit of 'carb phobia' going on, as if a piece of fruit or too 'many' vegetables is going to mess me up or something. Seems silly, but that's why I'm asking for your opinions/experiences re: vegetables and fruit.