Jennifer – have you looked into the Nourishing Traditions aka WAP (Weston A. Price) way of eating? There are a LOT of similarities with Paleo. Also, an off-shoot diet book called, “Eat Fat, Lose Fat” has been very helpful to me. I LOVE your blog (and it was posted and briefly discussed on my VitamixEnthusiasts email list). Currently, I eat NO grains or sugars and for fruits only berries, green apples, lemon, and lime. Basically, I eat Paleo, but I consume a LOT of Greens (in juice and cooked form) and fermented veggies.

I am also a Christian and have never believed that there was anything “anti-Christian” about eating the Paleo way (or along those lines . In my field (demonstrating and selling Vitamix machines), everyone assumes that I am a vegan or vegetarian!

Karla, if you start drinking Green Smoothies at the same time that you get off of all forms of wheat and sugars, it will help with the cravings. Also, adding Coconut Butter to my diet helped immensely with food cravings, fatigue, sleep, weight loss, and symptoms of hormonal imbalance. I’m not Karla, but here is what I eat on a daily basis:

AM
a small bowl of fermented veggies
about 1/4 cup of grass fed ground beef
coffee (my one indulgence) 1/2 organic regular, 1/2 organic decaff (water processed) full-fat coconut milk for cream, stevia
spoon full of coconut butter to end the meal (I make my own coconut butter from dried, unsweetened, coconut flakes sweetened with stevia

LUNCH
one pound of Greens Juiced (pulp made in a Vitamix, then strained in a nut milk bag) I add this juice to one of the following (which I blend in the Vitamix WITHOUT removing or straining out the fiber):
- 1/2 apple, 1/2 lime, 2 carrots, ginger, one clove garlic
or
- berries (usually a triple berry mix like raspberries, blueberries, blackberries)
or
- cucumber, red pepper, celery, 2 carrots, 1/2 avocado

I follow lunch with a hand full of walnuts or almonds and a spoon full of coconut butter

DINNER:
A Bone Broth Soup (learned of the importance of bone broths from the GAPS diet)
with the meat that was on the bones and whatever veggies I cooked it in. Organic bones and meat.
After this soup is hot, I crack an egg over it letting the whites fall in and cook, and I slurp down the yolk raw. (this is discussed in the GAPS diet too)
- dinner is followed by a spoon full of coconut butter (it is my dessert and the sweet signals the end of a meal for me.

This diet has cured my insomnia, ended my PMS, stabilized my hypoglycemia, helped me drop 5 lbs. (I was already at a very health weight wearing a size 8 jeans), and increased my energy.

Hope this is helpful!

this link was sent to me by a friend, but i have to comment because i find it astounding that you can pick and choose the science that works for you. by all means, accept the science of our bodies, but remain willfully ignorant of the science of evolution because it doesn’t fit a value system designed by your ancestors. i’m happy that this works for you, and perhaps there is a reason it does?