Fat is broken down by bile (not in the stomach), which is made from cholesterol. Bile is kinda like a soapy detergent that breaks down fat. Producing more bile in the gall bladder to needs time to ramp up slowly, otherwise fat that doesn't get emulsified will cause intestinal distress and diarrhea. Just go slow and see what you can handle. As long as everything is working properly, your gall bladder should be able to produce more bile over time.

could it be that its just too much coconut product? I'm one of those who have issues with too much coconut of any kind. Maybe trying half the amount you are taking in of coconut and add more variety of fats (avocado, ghee/butter, EVOO, Walnut oil etc, nuts)

When your body isn't used to digesting fats, you may need to help out your gallbladder for a while to support bile production. I have had success with a product from Biotics called Bio-HPF. It contains: deglycyrrhized licorice, bentonite clay, slippery elm bark, myrrh,bismuth citrate, clove, bererine hcl, anise, barberry, oregon grape root, and wild indigo. I highly recommend taking this, or some other similar supplement. People whose gallbladders need support that don't address it sometimes end up with their gallbladders removed, and then need to supplement bile salts to digest fats(or, horrors, not eat fats) for the rest of their lives.

In my experience, it takes a while to get adapted to higher amount of fats. When starting "paleo", I had a hard time drinking a cup of heavy cream or eating coconut cream.

Here is a thread I made about it: http://paleohacks.com/questions/4223/mascarpone-cream-overdose#axzz1OTb7JoYb

Now I can drink a cup and eat a cup of cream cheese and I'm OK. My advice is to start with lower amounts of just one fat "variation" (e.g. just coconut milk or just coconut butter) to exclude the option of one of the components of your mix being troublesome somehow.

As for super enzymes I think there is a certain "eat em until you feel a slight burn, up to 6" protocol although do a search since I'm not exactly sure.

I did seem to have problems increasing my fat intake. I had pretty serious GI issues, though I can't say high fat was the cause.

I don't think there's any need to consume as much fat as a lot of people on paleo seem to do. I'd suggest lowering your fat intake and upping your starch consumption- I'm assuming you're doing low-carb, as almost all people new to paleo do. You certainly don't need to avoid fat, but I don't think you need to go out of your way to eat a whole lot either.

I too avoided fats most of my life and now, I finally realized that I did a lot of damage doing that. Ahhhh, the price we pay for trying to stay so fashionably skinny.

Boy, did I ever suffer trying to digest the fats. I also suffer from IBS which didn't help. After many hours of searching & reading comments, I found an obscure comment on one of the websites stating that Ox Bile digestive enzymes aids in the digestion of fats. No wonder the several different popular brands of enzymes I tried were not working. They are not strong enough to digest fats. They are plant based, to cater to vegetarians.

Buy the end of the week, I became so bloated and in so much pain I thought I would head to the hospital. That's when I found the comment about the Ox Bile and called my local Health Food store to see if they carried it. Just one tablet and it worked immediately. Mind you, I had to take it with all my fat meals for about a week. Since I didn't want to my body to get lazy bcos of the Ox Bile, the following week I only took it with my fatty dinner. The week after that I only took it every 2nd day, until I weaned off them. I still feel bloated, but not to the intense degree as I had before. And there is the rare time that I still have to take them.

As the others have posted, yes our bodies need time to get use to digesting fat. But at least I now know about the Ox Bile digestive enzymes and how much they work on digesting fats.

btw: I googled: "Enzymes that digest fats" and did not find one site that spoke of Ox Bile.
Had it not been for that obscure comment that I found, I would not know that they exist. Now that you know the name "Ox Bile Digestive Aid" you can find their web site. Again, not much info out there about this wonderful fat digesting enzyme. Hmmm?