So you’re here because you want to either join in with some paleo challenges, or laugh at me whilst I undertake them?
Originally inspired by this post by Primal Toad [http://www.primaltoad.com/primal43/], I wanted to come up with challenges that would help keep me on track, develop my sense of what it is to be paleo/primal, and hopefully fill any ancestral health gaps that weren’t going to be filled by good food, good sleep and good exercise.
I graduation from university with a BA Hons in archaeology and an MA in experimental archaeology. I’m not an expert on hunter-gatherer lives but I’m used to messing about with replicating stuff in the name of science, along with researching about the past. I’m also pretty certain I sat through whole lectures about how spiffy fat is and how important they were/are to hunter/gathers (along with poking fires with sticks, bashing rocks together and messing about in the dirty).
I will try and provide a full 52 challenges, but there won’t necessarily be one for every week. Many of the challenges will require (hopefully) minimal equipment and limited planning, but where I do plan on a challenge that requires a bit more, I will try and give you some warning. You don’t have to do any of the challenges at the same time as me (although that would be fun) but if you do I would like to hear how you get on. I’ve tried to think outside the box, but there is a focus on things that help improve mental health. I get the impression that this is something that many of us need to work on. I certainly don’t claim to be an expert there, but currently my own mental health is holding back by physical health.
I hope we’re all healthier by the time we get to the end of the next 52 weeks . . .
