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I'm pretty anti-social, so I have little trouble giving up drinking when I decide to. Beside that, alcohol is a second-rate drug anyway. I can think of other substances I'd rather use, but I don't use those either. I can tell you that cutting it out 100% for several months early on this year, did very little to help me…

Yeah, what PrimalRunner said. A jar of almond butter doesn't last two days in my house. I'd say if weightloss is your goal, ditch the almond butter completely. I bottomed out at ~178lbs and ~11.5% BF earlier this year. After binging for a couple months (including more jars of almond butter than I can remember) I'm up to…

Sisson addressed this to some extent here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-gallbladder-less-crossfit-on-hiking-and-gluten-cutter/#axzz2k0tx97ID He may have other stuff on it too, but this is the one I remember reading about awhile back. Hope it all works out. G'Luck!

The chances of the kid being the one who killed the two sick people with Carol covering for her, are very slim, I believe. First, the logistics are unlikely. I doubt she'd be able to drag those bodies out in a timely and covert manner, and then burn them unnoticed. Second, and more likely, as everyone is saying: She has a…

I don't dismiss the idea of energy intake vs energy expenditure. I said that CICO is moronic and misses the point, not that it is wrong. To quote Taubes' article again, "It’s what logicians call 'vacuously' true. It’s true, but meaningless. It tells us nothing. And the same is true of overeating as an explanation for why…

"Fathead" was very entertaining, but I think "The Perfect Human Diet" was better. It seems to take a more scientific and detached approach. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014248/

The Calories In-Cories Out (CICO) mantra is moronic. I read an article written by Taubes, which explained things quite clearly. The whole premise misses the point. A phrase from the article "If you asked me this question — why did this restaurant get crowded? — and I said, well, the restaurant got crowded (it got…

On a related note, did anyone else see this article linked to on MDA? A mainstream news article that pretty much says "eat paleo", albeit without using the term even once. http://www.businessinsider.com/13-nutrition-lies-that-made-the-world-sick-and-fat-2013-10?op=1

Sound like it will be something like what they did with the Lee Everett story line from the Telltale Games Walking Dead video game. If the story line for the new show is as good as that one, then we'll be in for a treat.

I think 2TBSP is acceptable. I use coconut oil for pretty much everything now, though. Except on the rare occasion I make some salad dressing which is when I will use olive oil.

I have one of these ones: http://www.amazon.com/Omron-HBF-306C-Loss-Monitor-Black/dp/B000FYZMYK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382014555&sr=8-2&keywords=omron+body+fat+analyzer That one fluctuates day-to-day, as PrimalRunner also says hers does. Having said that, i think using it everyday (under the same conditions) and averaging…

The hostile attitude on the main boards is what keeps me out of there. It all strikes me as a whole f' load of dogma and ego. I always call it a "diet" because, as you say, it's a general reference to what one eats. It's not my problem if people confuse the word for something else. The way people use the word "diet" now,…

I agree with this. It strikes me as making all kinds of sense that things like fat and salt taste delicious to most people. it's almost like when humans were evolving, nature implanted in them the enjoyable taste of things that were desirable. Funny how that work, eh? Of course, then folks like to say, well if sugar is so…

Wild muscle meat is lean, for sure, but as Akimajuktuq said, wild game still carries plenty of fat. That being said, The reason why high-fat is widely espoused by the paleo community is because paleo tends to be lower-carb and because a low-carb, low-fat, high-protein diet is actually dangerous. There is a condition known…

Almond butter. So good, it will ruin your life. Well... It's ruining mine, anyway.

I made these once: http://www.delightedmomma.com/2012/07/paleo-chocolate-chip-cookies-no-flour.html I changed the recipe around a little bit. I used a lot more oil than it called for and I used crushed up 88% dark chocolate instead of the chips. They were delicious. Though more scone-like than cookie.

Strictly speaking, I'd say natural drug use is probably paleo, but I doubt it's healthy when done as often and in the amounts it's typically done today. Like with food, the wealth of modern society allows for great excess. Mass produced tobacco product, the likes of Skoal, Marlboro, and Camel, etc., are loaded with…

Ha! No worries. I was not offended. I can just see why folks would make the exception, as I do, for using it. As for making a substitute for it, I'd probably try one but I tend to be lazy about such things. If it came down to making my own or going with out, I'd probably end up going with out. That's actually why I went…

Yeah, it's definitely not paleo. But it is SUPER delicious. And really, it's not huge amount that one typically consumes. I use it when it suits me and it works in pretty much every slow cooker dish I've ever made.

I'm ok with non-paleo folks posting here. Unless we want to be as dogmatic and silly as the folks out in the normal forums, we should look at this group as a place to attract paleo folks, not necessarily as a place to deflect non-paleo individuals. Besides, I'm strictly utilitarian about things in general and what I eat is…

I used to get calf cramps in the middle of the night that would wake me up out of a dead sleep almost every night. I started taking a calcium/magnesium supplement* once a day after reading an article by Bill Sardi**, and haven't had one since. In that same article, he also says, "I can remember, as a teenager, returning…

I've never used the Vibrams. I have two different sets of Merrells ("True Gloves" and "Tough Gloves"), though, and I would recommend them. I'm probably going to buy a pair of their "Trail Gloves" at some point. A note about the True Gloves: They dug the hell out of my heels when I first got them. They're fine now that they…

I don't do just weekends - I do cheat weeks. Just wait for the week after the 21st (perhaps starting the night of the 21st, actually) of this month, to read my food log. It's going to be down-right embarrassing. It'll also be a delicious, though. I may not live through it, in fact. Death by almond butter! Haha! Oh! You…

I was actually thinking about it today on my weekly hike. If you look at WHAT I eat exclusively, I'm pretty strict Primal and only because I'll eat a bit of cheese in an omelet or something. Save the cheese, I'm very paleo all the time. Now, if you look at the QUANTITY of the things I eat sometimes... that is definitely…

I used to not EVER sleep very well. Like, I mean, from the time I was a kid until I went paleo, I NEVER knew what a decent nights sleep felt like. It's like my body wanted to be on a 36 hour schedule or something. Night would come and I'd be wired. When I'd finally go to bed at the early morning hours (working second- and…

I agree with the others about snacking in general. Having sad that, when I'm not being strict, I do eat a fair amount of snack-like foods. They usually become meals unto themselves since I have no self-controls with such delicious, and often calorie-dense, food. Almond butter (this will eventually lead me to…

One of two standard grocery stores. There isn't a Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, or even Costco within a reasonable distance of me. I don't sweat it and it's worked just fine so far.

If I'm pan-frying my meat (pork, chicken, steak), which I usually am, I throw about a half-cup of unsweetened coconut per pound of meat, in the skillet about halfway through. It works even better if you practically drown the meat in whatever fat your cooking with like I do. The coconut soaks up everything. Which, of…

Recently, as a part of my endless ****ing-around with my diet, I suffered general fatigue and degraded exercise performance. What did I change this time? Well, two things: I had been on a large caloric deficit (save for the sporadic binges, undoubtedly brought on by that very deficit) and, what I believe to be the most…

I would definitely advise not even trying to crusade for paleo. People ask me what I've done to lose all the weight and such, but even their eyes glaze over when you tell them "no bread" or "no pasta". I still haven't figured out a way to break through and I came up with what I thought were some very logical points but…