What's Wrong With Paleo?
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 2:45PM 
When my vegan experiment ended, I focused on a new way of eating that seemed to be bullet proof. It was dubbed the paleo diet and it's tenants were simple; no grains, legumes, dairy, starchy veggies, or sugar of any kind. I quickly familiarized myself all things paleo and was proud to embrace the ideology of eating what I thought our ancestors ate.
The transition was simple. I started including a variety of meats in my diet with lots of "good fats", like olive oil. If we go back a few dozen posts we can see the paleo foods I ate on a daily basis. Grass fed burgers, pork with red and yellow bell peppers, and turmeric chicken with avocado were all staples. In my experience my time as a raw vegan wasn't that much different from my time as paleo dieter. Both are heavy in veggies, fruits and nuts with the exclusion of refined foods, meat of course being the point of contention.
As the months went by I noticed something strange. The meat and veggie meals I had started with slowly vanished making way for strange frankenfood concoctions made out of sugar free bakers chocolate and coconut flour. It wasn't long before every meal had to have several sweet elements, whether it was a pumpkin whey shake or a cinnamon and stevia sweetened egg pancake.
When I Was Paleo 
