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I eat a lot off eggs, bacon, and beef. I cook everything in coconut oil or bacon grease. Lean cuts of meat are what you should buy UNLESS you are buying grass-fed, pastured animal meat. The omega-3:omega-6 ratio for your standard CAFO meat is not very good and all those fatty-acids are located in the fat. So, minimizing…

My macros are set to 60% fat/30% protein/10% carbohydrate. This is a similar breakdown to many who are paleo. "TDEE - 20% = daily caloric intake" is the common refrain you'll hear for weightloss. I don't know if that's the way to go for you or not. It'd be around 1500 calories for you based on those numbers. Sorry. I guess…

Coffee with fat blended into it. Usually coconut oil and/or butter (many use Kerrygold, specifically). And yes, you must blend it. Stirring it in doesn't work so well.

I'm all for getting grass fed when you can, or want to. However, coconut oil isn't that expensive. Yes, you can pay a lot for it if you're buying the fancy "extra virgin, organic" stuff. But you need not go that route:…

I've been paleo for three years and I have never gone out of my way, financially, to buy grassfed-anything. If it's not grassfed, buy the leanest you can and cook in healthy fats (I like coconut oil best). They say all the nasty stuff of non-pastured, non-grassfed animals is concentrated mostly in the fat.

The general idea is that animal fat is to be avoided if it's not from a grass-fed, pastured source. If you can get that sort of meat, you can, and should, eat it. Especially the fat, I say. If standard, CAFO, sort of meat, is the best you can get, get the leanest cuts you can, and cook in healthy fat (coconut oil is…

I never really noticed a bias toward fish with paleo recipes. Then again I never have bought a meal plan before. I know red meat (and bacon) are the staples of many adherents of the paleo ways, myself among them. Anyway, I know http://paleomg.com/ is a popular place. I've gleaned a few ideas from there but I guess I'm not…

Another topic for this was posted awhile back. I'm the only one who replied to it, so I'll just copy my response here: The original thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/999765-bbq-sauce

My appetite has not changed discernibly from when I ate SAD. I never had the crazy "I gotta' eat now or I'm going to go crazy" thing. I have always ate large portions of meat. My problem was the probably 300gr of carbs on top of all the meat and such. So, in short, I think I've always been a fat-burner, more or less. This…

I have no proper recipes, really but I can tell ya', single skillet meals are awesome. Cook some meat in a bunch of fat (I like coconut oil), throw a bunch of vegetables in with it (and unsweetend flaked/shredded coconut - seriously, try it) spice to taste and cook until delicious. That's my usual M.O.

You can count calories AND do paleo. I do. I even recommend it. Having said that, the absolute worst case scenario is you try it while logging and find you are too hungry relative to your calorie goals and you try something else. This tends to be the opposite problem of most. Usually folks go paleo and find themselves…

I think people get the idea that fried food is a no-go on paleo because when they think of "fried food", they think of breaded items. I suppose you could try to paleoize "breading" if that's what you want, or you just skip the breading altogether. I shallow fry pretty much everything I cook in coconut oil.

I have that same problem with protein. I always see people posting questions about how they can increase their protein intake because they can't get enough. Totally the opposite of my problem... If it really is a problem, I guess. I can easily (EASILY) eat one-pound servings of any meat with EVERY meal. A heaping salad and…

I have a working theory about fruit intake as a whole: As I see it, modern day fruit is likely much higher in sugar content than any of the fruit Grok ever found. Fruit has been selectively bred for hundreds, even thousands, of years to get the biggest, sweetest yields. I suspect that truly paleolithic-era fruit was less…

If you gain that much weight I guarantee a vast majority of it will be water retention. I doubt that it's physically possible to gain that much over a vacation (assuming a typical one- or two-week long vacation).

I take both Omega 3 and Calcium/Magnesium. I also take Vitamin D3/K2, C and E. I only started taking the Calcium/Magnesium because I read that doing so can relieve night-time leg cramps, which I was getting almost every night, despite trying the usual remedies of more water and potassium. Two days after I started taking…

I have no science degrees but it strikes me as physically impossible for one to input sometihng of less than a pound (say, a banana for instance) into their body, and then gain five pounds of weight from it, regardless of nutritional profiles. Sure, if you're constantly metabolizing more calories than are leaving, you will…

Most paleo folks set their macro goals different than the default. Mine are 60% fat, 30% protein, 10% carb. I don't necessarily shoot to hit my goals so much as I shoot to NOT hit my carb goal and then stay around my calorie goal. Paleo isn't by necessity low-carb. It just so happens to be low-carb for some, though, like…

I just housed the remaining 2/3rds of a (16oz) jar of sunflower seed butter I had opened on Friday. I want to die right now. Like seriously... it makes one nauseous eating so much. It just ain't natural. lol Actually, it was rather disappointing. I'd rather it would have been almond butter. It's funny. I can have an…

Doesn't look too bad. Paleo doesn't have to be low-carb. It's just that many people have more weight loss success with low-carb. If that's your goal, the obvious answer is less fruit, more fat (perhaps in the way of meat). There's also the possibility that you will lose weight eating just like that all the time anyway.…

Well, you set the macro goals as a percentage, here on MFP. As you change the percentage, the absolute value for that macro will change. Mine, for instance, is set to 1800 calories. The carbohydrate drop down menu percentage says 10% and to the right of it, it says 45g. Below that, protein says 30% in the drop down menu…

It various for everyone, I think. People say high-fat is super satiating and makes it easier to eat less but that's not been true for me. There is a local steakhouse that does an all-you-can-eat brunch buffet on Sundays. I can go to it and eat an obscene amount of prime rib, ham, bacon, sausage and eggs. Like, I must…

I've never worried about my fiber intake. I don't know if that's good or not but I've been plaeo/primal for three years and not only have I not died from a fiber-deficiency (yet), I feel better than at any time I regularly ate grains. That's just me and maybe things won't be so pleasant for you. Or maybe they'll be way…

That is most fortunate about being in remission. Congratulations on that! I have neither had cancer nor went through much of a carb flu since I transitioned so gradually three years ago when I went paleo. So all I can offer is some basic insight that perhaps you have already considered. I would say the main consideration…

Mine are set to 60% fat, 30% protein, 10% carbs. From what I've seen others post, this is pretty close to the norm for paleo it seems.

I never ate "breakfast" during the height of my weight loss and never had a problem. The idea of eating in the morning, for no reason other than that it's morning, is an artificial construct of civilization, society, culture - whatever you want to call it. One of the primary ideas behind paleolithic diet and fitness is to…

From the time I was about 300lbs down to about 220lbs, I was eating between two and four pounds of bacon a week, easily. This one top of several pounds of steak, pork, and/or chicken. I still eat probably, two pounds or so, a week. My weight loss has been at a sort of back-and-forth for several months, between 180 and 190.…

I've used these: http://www.cavemanbob.com/ http://www.guysbbq.com/catalog/15 The Caveman Bob's is good, purpose made to be paleo, but rather pricey. The Guy's Sugar Free is about as good (but in a different way from Bob's), not 100% paleo (Modified Cornstarch, Xanthan Gum) but can be dirt cheap if you buy it by the gallon…

I do 18-hour fasts everyday. Which is to say that I have a 6-hour eating window, which is usually ~11:30am to ~5:30pm. Some days, the first meal I eat is a salad, some days it's an omelet, others, it's steak and/or bacon and eggs. I never feel sick after but that could be because I do it all the time and am used to it.

I have a package of Jimmy Dean Original sausage in the freezer. It's been there a while but only because I just don't eat a lot of sausage. One day, I'm sure I'll pull it out, thaw it, cook the whole damn thing and eat it. I had blood work done, for the first time in my life, in August 2011 when I had been Paleo for a bit…