I'm always happy to have more Paleo friends

Have you considered cutting out snacks? I find myself feeling a lot better when I stick to 2-3 squares per day. I have nuts and things on hand if I think I might die if I don't eat something, but I find that a lot of my snacking tendencies are an emotionally triggered or boredom driven thing.

Yeah, we need to snack because we are running ut of available food to draw glucose from. Sugar takes about half an hour to go through our systems and be gone. Carbs up to 2 hours, proteins 3-5 hours. So if you are eating solid proteins and fats, they take many hours to digest and for the body to take the glucose out to circulate through the body..So, usually the higher fat and protein will keep you stable and nourished and not needing snacks.

Yeah, we need to snack because we are running ut of available food to draw glucose from. Sugar takes about half an hour to go through our systems and be gone. Carbs up to 2 hours, proteins 3-5 hours. So if you are eating solid proteins and fats, they take many hours to digest and for the body to take the glucose out to circulate through the body..So, usually the higher fat and protein will keep you stable and nourished and not needing snacks.

Eh, you don't need to snack. The body can make the glucose it needs, and can run just fine on ketones (no, nutritional ketosis is not bad). If you're fat-adapted, you don't really need dietary glucose at all (and the veggies in one's diet are for the micronutrients more than the carb content), because you'll already be running on fat reserves.

A snack to me is 1/4 cup of walnuts or almonds, something like that, I usually have them after work before I exercise or do more physical work and want to power through the activity. I am not always hungry but I do not want to poop out during the work out and it helps me get closer to my calories for the day because I am usually under.

I'm looking for mfp friends too! My diet is a little (or a lot) fat heavy lately as I'm playing around with keto. I have been paleo for 2 years and would be happy to have you peak at my diary. I do paleo + high quality dairy (heavy cream and good aged cheese).

Hi,
I would like to start Paleo and would also love to have Paleo friends for support advice and diary inspiration I need to loose 4 stone and get rid of horrible heartburn. Feel free to add me too

Me too!

I'm Paleo. I snack more than I should (usually nuts, carrots, and salad) but I'm stuck in the office all day. I'll send a friend request. Anyone else who views this thread feel free to friend me.

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Feel free to add me as well - I've been Primal going on 5 years now (not super strict, but I follow the 80/20...most of the time it's about 90/10, but sometimes, I have weekends that are like 20/80, so it balances out, haha)

My diary's open as well.

Well, challenge is 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. +2 points per paleo meal/snack, -3 for non paleo. So if I don't eat snacks I actually lose out on points.
Ok, besides my extreme competiveness...I do find it easier to make it through the day if I do snack. Otherwise I have a tendency to try and overly stuff myself at meals to make it to the next one. And there's nothing worse then being hungry and knowing you have nothing acceptable to eat. I"d rather be ready with some paleo snacks if possible....

There's more and more people talking about "challenges" and competitions. I don't understand this. So, someone has decided that everyone should eat 6 meals per day so one loses "points" if they don't? Ridiculous. Most people that "need" to snack frequently are having issues with blood sugar and eating too many carbs/starch/sugar. It's illogical to me that the human body can't operate on periods of food shortage; in fact, it does and usually it's optimal.

There's nothing wrong with snacking if that works for you, but there should be no one dictating to another that they must eat a certain number of meals per day for "points". Paleo snacks are easy; can of salmon, oysters, handful of veggies, avocado, leftovers, etc.

The Paleo lifestyle is only a win as a permanent commitment. Measuring ourselves against others is illogical and imo totally detrimental and fosters a competition/race mentality that is not healthy.