Dream about it? No. I do it. Once a week I have a cheat meal or a cheat dessert. This isn't optimal, it isn't perfect, but it gives one "bad" meal out of 35... still a vast improvement over SAD (standard american diet). Indians have difficulty managing carbs like those of middle eastern, oriental, or european decent can. That's because 400 years isn't enough time for natural selection to kill of those who didn't adapt and those who did to pass on DNA...and since we have insulin and modern medicines like metformin...it's not going to happen. So to be healthy, we have to eat more like paleo...if one cheat meal a week enables us to be more successful with this...then that one is a good thing.

I didn't join a paleo cult so it's not blasphemy to do so, nor is it heretical to say so...it's just realistic for the real world.

Before anyone says, "but that's not real paleo"... I did use this way to change myself from 300 lbs at 60% body fat, get myself out of a wheelchair, get myself off of insulin and all diabetic meds, and control my multiple sclerosis without MS meds. Now I'm fit, healthy, 200lbs and sub 10% body fat.

I've had those dreams too! I'm always so relieved when I wake up that I didn't actually screw up my diet.

It's funny, I don't have willpower problems - I just worry I'll forget and pop something into my mouth. :)

YES. I dreamed about peanuts and icecream the other night! Same guilt, same relief when I woke up.

Happens with a lot of people, not just paleos. When I was vegan, I used to have dreams where I was eating meat. And then I'd freak out because I was vegan.

Yes. I was sitting on a bench feeding bread to ducks and I decided to eat the bag myself and the ducks attacked me and tried to eat me :(

When I'm awake I have no desire for grains, which is good. In my dreams and when I'm awake grains are dangerous.

Not just DREAMING, but DAYDREAMING. Boy. Sometimes I live in a fantasy land of carbs. Usually its grapes. Seemingly innocuous, no? But grapes nonetheless. Thoee are times when I (surprise!) eat more carbs than others, but carb day-dreams still happen to me even while eating VLC. I have yet to find that a sweet spot where my carb addiction doesn't haunt me--perhaps its just a matter of time--but its out there, and I'm quite certain it has something to do with IF, plentiful coconuts, generous portions, and very. large. steaks.

No, but Dr Davis has a story about that.

Marion sat in my office, sobbing... "I can't do it! I just can't do it! I've tried to eliminate wheat, but it's making me crazy. I'm having dreams about bread!"

Nope, but that is very funny!

I always dream about eating sandwiches and coke. At least a couple of times a week. I wake up and realize that I didn't blow it, but I was pissed in my dream when I realized what I was doing.

When I first discovered that wheat was making me deathly sick (quite literally!) and I stopped eating it I would have nightmares about going on picnics and eating pizza and brownies. I would wake up and instinctly wait for that horrifying sick feeling. Then, of course, I would have to laugh with relief knowing I hadn't really eaten it! But I've been wheat-free for 7 months (I've only just gone full paleo in the last few weeks) and haven't had any of those kind of dreams since those first couple of months.