WHO GIVES A SHIT?

One of the "48 Laws of Power" (Google it) is: "Always win through action, never through argument".

In other words, your positive results on paleo dieting will do the convincing others for you, ignore the unhappy and unlucky in the meanwhile.

Seems like more of the mocking comes from within the community. If you're not eating frozen liver off a grater you're not paleo. Why are you eating white potatoes? I go coco for ketosis!

I don't necessarily have people mock me, but when they see what I bring in for lunch at work they ask, "don't you ever eat real food?" All I can do is look at them dumbfounded. Yup, Wild caught cod, steamed veggies, and a sweet potato is fake food. Forgive me for not going out in the yard and picking Oreo's out of the garden and slicing bologna straight from the (insert animal that bologna primarily comes from).

Meh, doesn't bother me. I threw a housewarming party, served "Devils on Horseback", wonderful bites of bacon-wrapped dates with an almond inside--they were hoovered up within seconds of hitting the table, and people clamored for more. I don't talk about what I eat, just sit down and nosh, and inevitably someone asks where's the ____. I say, "I don't really eat that anymore, just have no taste for it." I think that being older (60's) and in very good health with no particular weight or health issues says a whole lot, and folks generally leave me alone. If someone asks, I tell 'em. Otherwise, I allow folks to go their own ways, and I go mine. Makes for calm, balanced meals with others.

They might but I can't hear them over the crunch of my bacon.

No. Anyone who knows me knows better than that. I really don't take well to that sort of thing. Most people know that. The rest find it out very quickly.

Honestly I don't understand putting up with bullshit from people. Just turn and walk away. Or shoot them down if you need the entertainment and have the time to waste (and actually know enough to not come out of the fight looking like a total moron.) Stop caring what anyone thinks. Stop thinking you have to defend your choices to anyone. If you feel defensive then you are insecure at your own core which means you need to study more, learn more, and understand more. Stop wasting your precious time and energy on numskulls and instead use it to turn inward and better yourself.

Yes, for example I take "clean" foods as snacks or appetizers to gatherings versus the frozen, fried, processed stuff everyone else brings, and someone will inevitably post on the evite that they will "bring such and such for those who don't eat Paleo", in reference to my dietary preferences and restriction.

More annoying than the mockery is that the other participants will inevitably find whatever I bring quite appealing and eat it all, leaving me with nothing else to eat. I am learning to make sure I am not hungry when I go so that I won't care if I get to eat or not.

Most importantly, I am usually the only one who does not need to lose any weight, and yet all I hear is how they "can't" live without bread, fast food, desserts, etc.

They have begun eating crow. I have been getting more requests for my recipes than ever before in my life!

Those that mock are the most insecure about their food choices. The fact that you are eating that shouldn't affect them, but they still feel guilty about what they are choosing to eat so they decide to mock you. Just be patient and don't react to them. Most of the people who mocked me for it are now asking me how I'm doing, supporting me, and even making better food choices (not quite paleo, but better than before!). Some have even decided to go on 30 Day challenges with me :)

Yes. Not only are we mocked, we're admonished to change our ways and told that we're going to die of heart-attacks because of the saturated fat we eat, whilst they sit and munch on processed, fried non-food.

Like several other posters, though, they always seem to wipe out whatever Paleo goodies we bring to their gatherings - to the point that we always eat before we go to any party, because we might not get any of our own food! The results we're getting are starting to garner their attention, but still we hear "I could NEVER give up pasta, or potatoes or bread..."

Most people who know me well know I'm eating this way for health reasons. I came up pre-diabetic, and don't want to go any further down that road. I don't even tell them I'm eating paleo--I just say, "I'm eating this diet because it keeps my blood sugar stable." So there's nothing to mock or argue about.

I do have one crazy, toxic narcissist in my family who knows that I don't eat grains or sugar, and why, but still tries to goad me into eating junk. But, as I said--she's a crazy, toxic narcissist, and she never likes anything I do, so I just don't give her any power.

For the most part, nobody notices what I eat enough to comment on it. And if they did--what kind of douchey person mocks what someone else is eating? That's unreasonable. So rather than going on the defensive and trying to explain myself--attempting to reason with the unreasonable--I just keep pushing it back at them. Depending on the situation, I'll ask them things like: "Why is my diet so important to you?" "Why do you need me to eat that donut/bread/candy so badly?" And the killer: "So how is your diet working for you?" Believe me, that last one shuts people up and sends them scurrying quicker than anything.

Some people constantly mock me whenever they can, as if my choices on diet come from some strange idea, like if I blindly and senseless fell for a fashion. What can I say? I'm older than all of them and still my body shape is great while this 10 years younger guys have bodies that I would be ashamed of. Athletes and people who cares about food and performance, to the other hands, asks me for advices and we share ideas and opinions. We improve. So in the end who mocks you is mockin' him/herself. That's it.

yeah I get it all the time. Usually comes from fat morons who have a laundry list of health problems but continue to mock me for eating healthy. Hang out with crossfitters and they won't mock you.

Mocking is a bit of a routine occurrence for me, I'm afraid. The contorted faces get to me a bit.

I get teased a little by my closer friends but the results speak for themselves and most of the time people just ask me what I do to get in such good shape. I talk about it very confidently and that seems to keep people from mocking me. I usually end it with, "It may not be right for everyone but, as you can see, it certainly works for me".

Not any more, they don't. No one can find fault with my results.

My husband and I do have a running joke about Paleo Woman vs. Neolithic Man (he does extremely well on grains and such), and my mother in law keeps thinking I never eat (because I don't eat what she eats or when she eats, and because I've gotten so lean) but she reserves her snarky comments for when I'm not around.

After almost four years of eating this way, I've learned how to talk about it in such a way that doesn't provoke negative reactions in others. I'm not dogmatic, I don't proselytize, and I wait for someone to be genuinely interested before I launch into any detail.

The occasional odd look from someone who is puffy, unhealthy, overweight or closed-minded simply doesn't get to me any more and certainly doesn't ruin my enjoyment of either my fatty steaks or my good health.

Who doesn't love a diet where you can eat steak and lose weight? I hate the reply "but I could never give up the bread"

I've mocked paleos on blogs for years. If they set themselves up for it they get the whack-a-mole:

-Self righteous attitude is a problem. I don't like people waving their little bibles in my face. Paleos couldn't read, and I've only got one good use for GCBC: fire-starters in my smoker.

-The ripped look. I've sometimes slipped into calling Sisson the apple guy, and start calling his blog adam's daily apple. All because his blog is fronted with this surfer looking dude. Paleos didn't surf and they sure as heck didn't look like they spent 20 hours a day weightlifting.

-The brush-off almost all paleos give to hunt-and-gather. The only two paleo certainties are this and meat eating. Paleo without H&G is like riding a bike with one tire.

In the flesh I don't mock people for what they eat. Not even vegans.

My family thinks it's an oddity for sure. But it's mostly comments like: "Are you still on that paleo diet? you're skinny enough!" It's not mocking, it's just a "I wouldn't want to eat like that" sound. Though given how I eat around them (I eat anything put in front of me, usually standard holidays fare), they're a little unsure that I actually eat as I say I do.

My friends and co-workers don't really know anything. I make my voice heard that I'd prefer not to eat out at a sandwich shop, but they just think I prefer sitting down to a plate with a fork. They comment that my homemade lunches are so small, but it's usually because I don't have 2-3 cups of rice as a side.