Since I lost 35 lbs., I don't get belly button lint anymore.

My skin improved dramatically.

My hips and knees no longer hurt.

I'm not constantly hungry.

I'm not nearly as anxious.

And I use far less toilet paper.

I used to have far more grey hairs on my head than a healthy 23 year-old should. 4 months paleo, and every grey hair I picked out was BROWN at the root and halfway up the hair - the colour was literally being reversed back to my natural colour. 7 months paleo now, grey hairs are a rare occurrence. WOOT! I kept one of the reversing grey hairs I picked out and use it as a shrine as I bow down to the paleo gods.

I've gotten lots of physical benefits that surprised me -- I was just looking to lose weight, and along the way "lost" my depression, my joint pain, my asthma, and my constant hunger -- but something else I didn't consciously try for was an evolutionary perspective on my whole life. Thinking in "Paleo" terms, I feel I have a better understanding of why I'm unhappy in an office job, even if I like the work itself (sitting all day away from the sunshine), and why human relationships feel the way they do (tribal), and why I'm drawn to some leisure activities more than others (art, music, even spiritual pursuits, versus, say, selling little objects I don't care about at parties). So I cut myself more slack around those feelings, and even honor them as being natural, and try to make more accommodations for the impulses that nature built into me.

Man, do I sound like Deepak Chopra or what? LOL. Wasn't my intention, but it's all true.

I don't need to buy my shirts online anymore.

I find that my arches are stronger now. It could be the hiking or the Vibrams, but overall, I don't have jelly-joints as much as I used to. I had hypermobile joints in my fingers, hands, feet and ankles that weren't very strong, and while I'm not as flexible as I used to be, I less prone to injury. I concur about the plaque and breath odor. My fingernails are stronger and don't break as easily. Farting is virtually a thing of the past. I finally became a morning person. Not constantly thirsty anymore. No more dry or chapped lips. Fine lines and milia around my eyes are going away. Facial hair that plagued me with PCOS doesn't grow in as fast or as long as it used to.

I am also very fair skinned and find that I don't sunburn as fast or as often as I used to. On a sunny day in late May, I could have gotten a sunburn on my face on the ten minute walk to work, but no more. While I get freckles too, I noticed that I've actually started tanning now.

The benefits for me are my attitude is better, headaches gone, energy level increased, and body pains gone. However, I feel as if I am regressing, headaches are back, feeling lazy and joint aches. I did not lose a ton of weight either, which was my inital goal. I have been Paleo for 5 months now and plan on staying on it, because a bad day on Paleo is better than a good day on proccessed foods, bad carbs, sugar, and grains.

I realised a few weeks ago that I no longer have any plaque.

my main benefit gained from paleo comes from showing a new way to live........seeing patients and watching them change their lives one day at a time. It is quite rewarding to see years of disease and illness vanish over a short period of time.

As one of the posters already mentioned, farting is virtually a thing of the past. That was probably the most shocking development.

It is not an epiphany like no dandruff. Nothing dramatic but I realize and know that my overall feeling of well being and contentment is soaring. And I also know that I am thinking more clearly and purposefully in my old age at 68.

Anytime I hear someone say "I just had a senior moment" I smile because, for me, those moments rarely, if ever pop up.

And I am happy all the time.

Yes, Paleo is pretty amazing.

Um, let's see...

• 90% of my white hair went away. Most of my gray hair is gone too, and my hair and beard are darker in color.

• I can actually find clothes that fit. I'm to the point that everything fits off the rack, and no going to specialty shops, or ordering online.

• I don't do political bs or "mr nice guy" anymore. I'm very much aggressive, confrontational, and be afraid if you get in my way. Which is weird. I basically had my personality flip flop completely.

• I know I can lose weight. It's always been a battle, but when I dropped 15 pounds in 30 days, I was blown away.

• No joint pain. I used to have chronic knee pain, tendinitis, and several other fun conditions.

• Better reflexes. I can actually catch things that are thrown at me.

• Healthy skin. No red skin, acne, or anything else to bug me.

• I can eat spicy food! I have over the past 5 years lost my ability to handle spicy food. 10 days in and I could eat 5 star thai food without a worry.

My hair and skin are so much healthier. I used to have to wash my hair once a day at least because it would get so greasy and just an hour after washing my face it would be coated with grease again. Paleo for nearly 6 weeks now and my hair looks GORGEOUS. I only have to wash it 2-3 times a week and my skin is a thousand times better.

My skin improved, though I never had acne I had bad dandruff and I used to get dry oily patches on my face. Also, I know this is gross but there have been times when I've had to really sit and remember if I brushed my teeth that morning because I don't get grimey plaquey teeth anymore.

Oh and after I started high fat VLC my exclusively breastfed baby boy's bowels went from frothy and green to yellow and curdy which is a sign that he's getting plenty of hind milk (high cream breastmilk.) Also, his cradle cap went away and he stopped having scaly irritated skin on his face too.

I had soreness in both of my knees, probably from a few years I spent powerlifting. I'm on my 21st day of paleo (started May 1), and the soreness is totally gone - I'm amazed, thrilled, and looking forward to other positive changes.

I'm going on 3 weeks Paleo and also running for 30 minutes everyday. A few of the things I have noticed:

My hair is so soft and just feeels and looks so much healthier

My skin feels softer, w/ very few pimple outbreaks

My mouth feels cleaner

Any natural everyday body odor seems to have vanished

I have tons more energy

Feel full all day, barley any food cravings

Menstrual Cramps are not nearly as bad as they have been for my whole life

I've only been Paleo for 3 weeks now and to see all these changes this soon makes me super excited to see how my body will react when sticking with Paleo for a lifetime. If this is just the begining, I can't wait to see the final outcome!

After only a few months being paleo, I've noticed quite a few amazing things! My hair stays cleaner longer (I wash it once a week now), my body hair has thinner considerably and has lightened in color (I shave about once every 3 weeks now!!), my chronic joint pain has all but disappeared, I don't sunburn after 0.0000001 seconds in the sun any more, I no longer have to take a nap in the afternoon (nor do I yawn through the whole evening!), my lips are rarely chapped any more, I only fart when I eat fruit (before it was alllll the time!), my body odor is fairly neutral smelling now, I no longer need facial moisturizer nor do I need oil/shine-control (I used to have to moisturize at night and shine-control around noon), I wake up feeling AWAKE... and the list could go on!

Just stumbled across this thread. Love it!! Very encouraging!

I used to get terrible, bloated stomach aches after 60-70% of my meals. It was a total crapshoot, as I could never pinpoint one thing that would set me off. I remember being on the subway several times with a stomach ache so bad I felt like I wanted to die. Those are all but gone since going paleo.

I also used to get terrible "hot flashes". I put that in quotes because I'm 23 years old and shouldn't have been dealing with that. If I got flustered or ate something that didn't agree with me my face would get bright red and uncomfortably hot. Those are completely gone.

I developed anxiety in college and used to pop Xanax regularly. The bottle is collecting dust in my cabinet. No anxiety at all anymore.

Finally, and most importantly, I dealt with bulimia off and on for seven years. I thought I would always have occasional relapses. Since going paleo, the urges to binge are gone. And those urges were STRONG. I'm positive now that grains, particularly wheat, set me off. I don't like to think about how much further I could have damaged my health if I had continued to binge and purge. Thank goodness for paleo.