I eat that way normally... My diet has very little processed foods... Unfortunately it didn't help much for my weight loss...

I agree though it's far healthier to eat without all of the adjustments to food.

We rarely eat gluten in our house - if I do I use spelt flour, I use rapadura which is the dried juice of sugar cane - instead of processed sugar. etc I have to say though it didn't help me lose weight - but I didn't put on either.
I really had no issue with my weight until I used the steroids with Immy's pregnancy & it seems to have really stuffed things up.

I don't agree with the Paleo diet being authentically "cavemanish" as some authors suggest. It was known that they milked cows, ground grains etc.

What I think is that a large percentage of our population eat a high level of processed foods in their every day diet. From the first thing in their bellies in the morning to the last thing at nigt. I don't think that's healthy.

However, I would also have to agree that obesity is the scurge of our modern day - it is the biggest indicator of morbidity... So, in order to be more healthy we sometimes need to use tactics that may not be the best choices for every day health - but if they bring our weight down into a healthy range we can then slowly regain our diets for a healthier life. KWIM?

If I have 10kgs to lose and it means eating more meat than I feel good about - so be it... Once my weight is reached and new dietary lessons learned it is easier to keep on that healthy road...

I know once in my 20's I put on about 10kgs on an extended holiday. I lost it on shakes and ridiculous eating - however, I got my weight off & kept it off - until recently.

Sometimes we need to take drastic measures to get it off and get healthy.

However, I also think we have a dietary preoccupation with rice & pasta - and our portion sizes of these foods are way out of whack. I had a curry the other night with rice & felt like a balloon afterwards... I just don't eat much of it anymore and when I do - I feel it!