Paleo Diet...5000 calories a day and losing weight!!

I'm sure the Paloe diet works---especially if you live like a caveman. You NEED 5000 calories a day if every bite that goes into your mouth you have to chase down and kill. (*grin*)

Ms.Batt that is friggen hilarious!!!! lol!!! Not to mention since we will be slim and gorgeous on the 5000 calories a day we will have to run to stay away from the men who will be hitting us over the head with a club and dragging us back to there caves by the ponytail!
Tracy

I suggest you read Gary Taube's book "Why We Get Fat".

Lots of great information in there about carb/protein/fat metabolism and why the typical high carb/low fat diet pushed as a weight loss mechanism is making us (as a country) FATTER.

Bingo!
I really try to not push Taubes' books (only because it makes me sound like a zealot sometimes).. but you beat me to it on this one! Yes, I find (for me) carbs in any form = fat gain or no loss.. My husband has recently made the switch to a low carb lifestyle despite being 44 & lean just due to his lipid panel. He's retesting in a month to see where he's at. Triglycerides are directly linked to carb intake, and his intake was pushing med-high for a while. He already reports he's waking with energy and not getting the slumps during the day like he used to.. he likes it for that alone. 

I also highly recommend his other book Good Calories, Bad Calories- but Why We Get Fat is a much easier and faster read and covers the same basic stuff, our local library had both. I just really appreciated that for the first time SOMEONE explained the actual metabolic and hormonal mechanism of obesity.. that it is NOT as simple as excess calories in = gain. I knew this, but didn't know why until I read it. Neither one is a "diet" book, they just explain the processes involved in carb metabolism and it's effect on our bodies.. should be required reading, seriously.

Yes, Good Calorie/Bad Calorie is a good book but VERY science based and a bit dry in sections. I think it would be more difficult for the average non-science background person to read....that's why I rarely recommend it.

When I follow the principles outlined in the books I do not crave carbs and have a VERY easy time maintaining my weight; when I don't, well.....

Right now I'm in "don't" mode, post-vacation. That is going to change starting TODAY.

I was going to try the Paleo diet but I couldn't find any Mammoths to chase down and kill.

You'll have to wait until they clone some from the frozen mammoth they dug up in the Siberian permafrost!

I do consider this a MAJOR drawback---if there is nothing TO kill, then we cavemen will starve to death.

Unless we start hunting and killing pizza delivery men...

I  have looked at the Paleo diet and while I don't follow it or Atkins,either,religiously,I have found that any kinds of carbs,even "healthy" onws,whole grains included will stop my loss.

Conversly,I can eat all the meat and full fat items I want,including *bacon* gah! and full fat milk,cheese and yogurt,plus a tremendous number of eggs and I lose .

And,no,my triglicerides are NOT out the roof from these items. The idea  that dairy and eggs  in their natural form is "bad" is seriously outdated information.
H

May I be a total ass here? How does this relate to "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceddeth out of the mouth of God"?

Again, I AM being a total ass here. (*grin*)