1. Misuse of punctuation, such as "biggest Paleo"
2. Questions that aren't fleshed out
3. Answers that aren't fleshed out
4. Stating probable/possible opinion as absolute truth
5. The general lack of books authored by Kurt Harris or Stephan Guyenet
6. The general lack of posts by PersonMan (recently corrected)
7. Demonizing small amounts of fructose
8. Rants against overweight/fat people
9. Diminishing marginal returns on paleo knowledge
10. Duplicate questions

People saying "but I could never give up bread" when they ask me what I eat.

Far and away the biggest three things for me are:

The near constant equating of what works for people coming from a metabolically damaged, unhealthy, perhaps overweight background with what is "healthy" for the rest of us. That is where the paleo=lowcarb thing came from.

The fear of insulin. (we have it for a reason)

The thought that you need seriously huge fat-intake to be healthy.

One more: the overly strong fear of cortisol. Workouts over one hour are avoided because of a fear of cortisol. Who cares! Short temporary rises in cortisol are fine. It's only chronically raised levels from society and our schedules is the problem.

• Refusal to acknowledge that calories matter for some people, dousing everything in fat won't usually lead to weight loss, etc.
• Blind rejection of absolutely anything remotely mainstream as "flawed CW" and of all mainstream medicine and science; alignment with woo like homeopathy. "It's mainstream so it must be wrong" is not a sound argument.
• Tearing apart articles/studies that suggest low-carb isn't healthy, or even that grains can have health benefits, ripping on the scientists and saying they're unbelievably stupid and can't they see how wrong they are...all the while uncritically accepting studies that support Paleo.
• Cardio fear leading people to limit their activity. A few hours of running a week will not kill you.
• "I've been paleo for 2 days and I haven't lost any weight! What am I doing wrong?"
• The bacon obsession. Yes, I'm a killjoy, whatever.

when I tell people what I eat (eggs, meat, etc...) and they say "aren't you worried about your cholesterol?"... freaking annoying!

Acknowledged non-paleos coming over and eating my grass-fed organic raw milk cheese when there is a perfectly good block of Kraft crap cheese in the fridge for them.

• Healthy fats
• Lean meats
• 'everything in moderation'
• calories in/calories out

and as much as I love Robb Wolf, the terms paleo- 'schtick', 'gig', and 'deal'

If we're talking pet peeves about Paleohacks it's people who don't know the difference between 'loose' and 'lose' - drives me nuts!!! Stop writing about all the weight you have to loose - loose is an adjective not a verb!! You want your clothes to be loose not your body. It doesn't take two minutes to proof read your post. Sorry I'm an English teacher - its my job to notice these things. Thank you for giving me a chance to say this.

The USDA. Try raising a kid in any type of daycare or public school system without them shoving the USDA guidelines down your throat! I showed up with a doctor's note saying my kid is allergic to all grains, beans and soy and they told me "that's ridiculous" and continued to feed my kid the "recommended daily intake" of grains. That's at least one serving per meal including snacks. So instead of a baby getting breastmilk, he gets 4 saltines. Instead of beef and broccoli for lunch (which he LOVES) he gets a slice of bread with KRAFT 2% milk PROCESSED cheese. It's not even real cheese! ARRRRRRG! I get some satisfaction when he chooses to nurse instead of eating what they provide, and I definitely smile when he NEVER eats the fruit.

The worst part is how FAT the people are who are telling me what is healthy for my child. Because they are subject matter experts, and I - a misled, obsessed with breastfeeding, and obviously delusional mother -have no freaking clue what is best for my own child. The end.

Articles/websites/people saying paleo is bad because it's low-carb. Or because you need a "balanced" diet.

(P.S. I have nothing against low-carb. I also dislike people dissing low-carb unless they're really familiar with it...)

People who are paleo and think they are better then everyone else.....aka the paleo elitists.

People who are over training even though they know better, but just want to brag about all the training they do.

People who use the word brang or "axed" and using the wrong there, they're and their :)

People not understanding Paleo and lecturing you on what you should be eating instead ... telling you how "weird you are" because of what you eat, yet always curious and asking "what's for lunch today?"

Magical thinking. Rampant. Self-diagnosis. Rampant. Fake illnesses, mostly self-diagnosed and placebo healed with magical thinking and quackery. Rampant.

people assuming they know things they have no idea about the context of the arguments...like

• heard fructose was bad so the never touch it and run away from the watermelon in fear.

• heard avoid carbs so they load up on butter when they dont put into context the difference between industrial carbs and primal carbs. STOP assuming you are insulin resistant with a fatty liver because the shitty carbs you ate before primal made you that way so even trying out REAL carbs

• heard leptin controls stuff so they now have the answer to their obesity

• hearing the next big thing in nutrition or paleo and NOT UNDERSTANDING that everything is connected. for example, fructose is ONLY BAD if you eat a caloric surplus...THATS THE ONLY TIME. guess what, fat is bad if your eating a caloric surplus too. yes, that means salmon in the context of a caloric surplus means the omega 3 will automatically get stored as fat. fat is always stored first in a surplus

• 99% of paleo is centeredin your brain. not your food or your exercise. it is all interconntected

people self diagnosing themselves with shit they dont have, especially hypothyroidism or other common 'symptoms' thrown around. there are symptoms for everything. just because you have symptoms of a low thyroid does NOT MEAN you have a DISEASE OF THE THYROID, i guarantee youre malnourished and eating the wrong food, or living a lifestyle your unwilling to change and look at from the outside

people treating small but interesting studies, epidemiological studies with murkiness between causation and correlation and untested but seemingly plausible hypothesis as absolute truths instead of things to consider but not totally base decisions on. This has more to do with some elements of the community that frustrate me rather than "paleo" itself.

run on sentences are also a pet peeve :-) paleo pet peeve? i don't know but definitely a peeve . lot of self-hatred over here hah.

The look my mother-in-law gave me the other day when I said "no, thank you" when she offered me watermelon. She looked at me like I had just swallowed a pill that was guaranteed to give me cancer or a heart attack.

The demonization of white potatoes.

Trying to convince me that if I run a marathon that I will immediatly fall over from 8000 different types of cancer...

I came over here looking for a recommendation on % dietary protein, and found some useful info. But I do have two pet peeves to add:

1-Fish oil. Since fish were not prominent in the prehistoric diet, it seems at the very least ironic that fish oil capsules are so prominent in the modern paleo diet. The Jetsons meet the Flintstones?

2-Zeal. Were cavepersons zealous in trying to convert non-cavepersons to their diet? Concealment of dietary information seems more likely as a survival strategy rather than advertisement.

Having to defend myself when friends and family push fruit on me, exclaiming how unhealthy any diet without fruit is.

The expense of crossfit gyms

How none of my meat sellers had any friggin soup bones at the farmers market today.

This might seem petty, but the word is "probably" NOT "prolly". It kills me every time!

My pet peeve is my mother rolling her eyes at me when I say "I eat a Paleo diet". Diet is the word for the food and drink that a person or animal regularly consumes. It doesn't mean it's a fad. It doesn't mean that I'm obsessing about what I eat. It simply means that the foods that I eat can be described as Paleolithic and some research suggests that my body can digest it better than other refined or modified foods. And I feel better when I eat it!

I hate the word "diet" for the misconceptions it can cause.

I have A LOT of pet peeves, mainly because I'm pretty misanthropic (does paleo cure that?). My newest pet peeve, though, is more with regards to being gluten free than paleo.

I have Hashimoto's, so I am very strict about gluten free (even outside of my attempt to be super-strict autoimmune protocol until my blood work in May). I have to travel a lot due to my husband's job, so I am highly dependent on restaurant food. Generally, I will search Yelp for gluten free restaurants in the area I am traveling to as I figure if they already are comfortable with gluten free they will work with me to meet my other dietary restrictions.

Anyway, the new pet peeve is people who "try to stay off gluten during the week" and sometimes "take one for the team" and try the bread and/or flour-laden dessert. In my opinion, this gives the impression that being gluten free is optional and I worry that if too many restaurants hear people make these sorts of statements they will either A) refuse to accommodate gluten and other sensitivities on request or B) Say that they will, but then not actually do it, causing some people to become very ill.

If you only do gluten free part time, that's your choice. But don't publicize it or make a big deal out of being gluten free and then eat the damn bread.

/end rant

i can hardly tolerate obsession with coconuts (esp. coconut oil, milk) in the paleo community

i can hardly tolerate obsession with fat in the paleo community: dietary fat (esp. purposefully added fats: smothering a steak in tons of butter) is where the calories are - and you don't need that many of them / fat is what you generally would like to lose, right?

i can hardly tolerate the general obsession with food - be it paleo or not - eating [paleo] 3 times a day - is that a joke?

i can hardly understand the idea of 'bulking up' when people write something like: "i can't put on weight, help me!" - why such persons do not realize that they can look quite muscular / ripped if they lose all the fat they are covered with

"So, you're never going to eat bread again?"

People being over interested/fascinated with what I eat. Picture the scene(at work) Minnie gets out her lunch, colleague "what's that your eating" Minnie "sweet potato, etc" then colleague usually wrinkles up nose or goes "oh".

Stop commenting on my food! Just cause I don't eat effing sandwiches.

Redundancy is a peeve of mine.

For example the phrase: "biggest pet peeve" - totally redundant.

And in the questions here - same old, same old.

And my meals lately. Getting pretty dang repetitive. Meat and eggs and greens. I'm not feeling inspired to spend time doctoring things up, the margin of sensory-improvement doesn't warrant the effort, I reckon. I'm missing/mourning the variety of foods I used to eat.

My Pet Peeve (and I've only been Paleo for a little over a week), is the stupid comments/questions people give/ask, such as:

• Well if you're so "Paleo" then why do you....(drive a car, use a hairbrush, use a computer, etc, etc, etc."

• "You're eating "that!?!"

• "Why don't you eat normal food?"

• "Aren't you worried about heart disease (from the fat) and cholesterol (from the protein)?"

• When they ask, "What about when you have children, will you make them eat the same way?" When I reply "Yes, I will try hard and encourage a Paleo lifestyle", they give me a look like I will be the worst mother in the entire world, and as if I am causing them pain and suffering.

I could go on and on.

People who aren't paleo: when they turn their nose up at my diet when I describe it to them, then the next day they're all "wow you eat soooo many vegetables! you so healthy!".

People who are paleo: sometimes a tendency to tar all conventional medicine with the same paint brush, and fall for a little woo and quackery every once in a while. Also, ALL fat-blaming fat-judging and fat-stereotyping makes me want to hit my head against the wall. It happens here a LOT and make me grit my teeth HARD.