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Originally Posted by Erik1632
Looked around and I couldn't find anything about this. I am an 18X getting ready to ship to OSUT in September, I have been Paleo for about 1 1/2 years and have nothing but great things to say about it. I have been structuring my current diet from the book "The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance " and have had amazing results in both muscle development and recovery time between workouts. My question is how hard will it be to maintain a Paleo Diet or even a modified Paleo Diet while going through OSUT, Airborne etc.? Obviously I know there won't be an option for Grass-fed beef & free range chicken but is it possible to maintain this type of a diet to some degree?
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To start with, I can guarantee you that your DS at Sand Hill won't give two hoots in hell about your Paleo diet. It would seem to me that if you were training for one specific athetic event, be it Triathalon, 100 meter dash, marathon, power lifting, or anything else, then these fad/vogue/gucci diets, supplements, and training programs are great, as they are tailored for those events. But we are talking about the United States Army here and the US Army Special Forces, specifically. I have never heard of an athletic event or team requiring you to shoot, move, and communicate in all kinds of nasty environments with badguys trying to kill you and still worry about having a bloody free range chicken in your buttpack. Paleolithic Man was a subsistence hunter/gatherer. If he could catch it, pick it, or find it lying on the ground, then he ate it. Otherwise he went hungry. Sounds a lot like a soldier in my book! When you are burning 6-8000 calories a day on 2-4 hours sleep, those blueberry pancakes, covered in melted butter, and syrup in the Dahlonega chow hall sure taste good! After a 6 mile train track ruck run at Campbell, who gives a rats ass what's in the deep fried French toast, what chicken layed the half dozen eggs, or how greasy the bacon is? We just wanted lots of it, washed down with grounds-in Army coffee from the big pot! I would be willing to bet that the US Army has spent more time and money researching anatomy and physiology of soldiers than all of the civilian athletic institutions combined. Read
A Soldiers Load by S.L.A. Marshall for starters. Try cramming enough calories in a bunch of plastic bags that can survive heat, cold, and NBC environments and still keep a soldier driving on to the Ranger objective. In SF you are going to have far more to worry about than whether the damn cow ate grass, genetically modified corn, or dogshit! Who cares?
Try the US Army Sea Food diet......if you see it, eat it! End of rant!