Q&A: Organ Meats and My Exercise Routine

Hi Peggy!
I was searching your site but couldn’t find any detailed posts on organ meats. Did I miss it? Or have you not done one yet? If not, could you do a post on an Introduction to Organ Meats for new primal eaters? I really have no idea where to start.

Thanks!
Caszie

I haven’t written a post about organ meats yet so as a reply to this question I made a video about how I eat organs. My method is pretty silly, because I don’t like organs, but you do what you’ve got to do to get them down.

This next question came from a very long email asking several questions one of which was about how much I exercise.

The first thing I did for my “health” after college was to quit drinking and smoking and start exercising. I figured distance running would help me lose 15lbs so I built up to around 35 or 40 miles per week, plus I lifted weights. I don’t even like thinking of those days. I was tired, irritated, and looked older than I do now.

I quit distance running after I got pregnant. I felt remarkably better taking 4 or 5 mile walks than I did doing interval sprints and 15 mile runs.

While my daughter was a baby, I went hiking quite a bit but never got back into running. Even without knowing anything about the problem of over exercising I knew I felt better since giving it up.

These days I like the idea of taking it easy. I don’t concern myself with the amount of exercise I’m getting in a day or a week. I have plenty of energy since changing my diet, and don’t need to force myself to get out of the house. In fact, I just always want to go do something active.

A year ago I sold my 2 year old Mazda3. I didn’t feel like I really needed it after leaving California so I relieved myself of a $500 payment each month and started walking and riding my bike everywhere.

On average I ride my bike 6 ot 7 miles per day or I walk 5 or 6 miles. This is my commute to and from my daughter’s school twice a day plus usually a walk to the store or around the neighborhood with my family in the evening.

My boyfriend has a car which we use on the weekends to go to the mountains but sometimes we just stay in the city and mess around at the river and downtown. This can make for a lot of exercise.

In the summers I play at the park with my daughter a lot, swinging on the monkey bars and, well, playing on all the equipment. In the winters I do a lot more pullups, pushups, situps, and yoga, to stay warm and active, plus I snowboard almost every weekend.

I’m pretty active, but I don’t get caught up on how much exercise I get or don’t get. There are days when I seem to exercise all day long because I have so many places to go and things to do. And then there are days when I’m pretty much locked up in the house writing till sunset.