I've been on the paleo diet for a while now and I feel that I've gone all the way with respect to what I eat. Time and time again this diet will get interrupted due to social influences.
Yes, there has been a few threads on this subject, recently. It seems as though the Paleo diet has caught public attention. What type of social influences are you encountering?
stepdad and family who brings stuff like bread, cakes, sweets and other stuff you shouldn't eat on a paleo diet.
If social influences are getting in the way, then you're not committed enough. Then again, that is easy for me to say because I don't have a huge social life, and my life at this point pretty much revolves around my health and fitness. A piece of cake here and there won't throw you off too much, but you want to make it a very infrequent occurrence (holidays, special occasions, etc.). I have found that since being away from sugar, I don't even crave it. And if I do eat it, I feel horrible afterwards. I really have no urge to eat that stuff anymore. The key is to avoid these foods for as long as you can, so that even when it's around you don't want it and your body begins to actually reject it when you do eat it.
I agree with this. I'm vegetarian and my family used to make me feel guilty about it, and I never caved in to the pressure. Now I am somewhat turned off by meat in general and they have realized that they can't make me give in, so I'm they don't even try any more.
@ Pressed Rat I remember some time ago trying a marzipan bar and found it too sweet. Before I was able to eat marzipan bars. I've found that organic raw minimally processed chocolate tastes great but sugar tends to be 20-30g/100g but I don't eat it much. By golly that marzipan bar was like 80g/100g no wonder I didn't feel that great after eating it. BTW should I avoid that chocolate I like although its an organic raw chocolate?
Dark chocolate is fine and healthy, but make sure it's at least 80% cocoa. There is some sugar in it, but not a lot. Just don't overindulge.
Milk coffees really annoy me because they ruin my paleo diet. How can a fight off the addiction? Yeah I know its the caffeine.
Get used to drinking black coffee. Or use real cream instead of milk. Better yet, add butter to your coffee.
The problem I see with the paleo diet is.....what is the paleo diet? There were people all over the place at the time....eating all kinds of different local diets. We can probably assume that they all didn't eat processed foods (by todays standard) but aside from that....diets were probably drastically different based on location.
I suppose that there are many variations of the paleo diet but they have some things in common like no grains, no processed foods and the like
People were eating primarily vegetables and meat, regardless of location. That is pretty much the paleo diet in a nutshell: whole foods with an avoidance of grains, refined carbs and added sugar.
How do we know they weren't eating any grains? Maybe they weren't....I don't know. But how can we say what every population at the time was eating? I don't find it unreasonable to think that some humans were eating grains back then. I'm not slamming the paleo diet but it just seems like the newest, hot ticket item to me.
