Day 8

It’s the start of a new week. The routine is building. Your genes are re-wiring. Your cravings are starting to settle down. Your taste buds are changing. The new you is starting to manifest itself. The life that you truly deserve and that you really want is now even more visible.

“Sometimes the body weight is not something you always wanted to lose”

Diet – No Labels Challenge

Conventional Wisdom suggests you scrutinise the government-mandated “Nutrition Facts” labels on all packaged foods – watching your fat grams, RDA percentages, or sugar/carbohydrate ratios. As you learned in the Key Concepts, going Primal transcends most of this sugar-burner advice.

Today your challenge is to give Nutrition Facts the boot by avoiding any foods that have a label on them! Emphasise local produce, farm-fresh animal products, homemade nut butter or jerky, and other non-industrialised options. Take the challenge as far as you like. While no one will scorn you for eating a carrot, see if you can find fresh carrots over sliced, washed, and bagged options, and pastured eggs from a local farmer over a commercially-produced carton of eggs.

Exercise – Sprint Workout

Scale your effort to your experience with sprinting. If this is your first attempt, try a no- or low-impact exercise and make your hard efforts about 80 percent of maximum. If you have a decent level of comfort and experience, sprint at 90 percent of maximum effort. Be sure to warm up and cool down effectively, and keep the emphasis on quality instead of quantity.

Lifestyle – Tiptoe Into the Barefoot World

Try to go barefoot or use minimalist footwear for at least 60 minutes today. Let your feet breathe and become re-engaged in the act of walking, jogging, and supporting your standing weight. If you have no experience, start gradually by simply walking about the house barefoot. When you become comfortable, you can introduce brief bouts of barefoot workout time.

Day 8 Key Concepts/recommended amounts