Maybe try some butter or ghee instead of bacon fat, since those dairy fats tend to be less greasy and have a smoother flavor. As much as I love bacon, sometimes I find that pork fat can be a bit of an overload when I cook with it.

Just take it slow, and remember that fat is an extremely important component of the diet, especially for getting fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, and K2.

This is a great article by Mark Sisson. He takes a moderate approach to diet, and gives a great number of different ways to up the fat content of your food.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-eat-more-fat/

Two words: Gary. Taubes.

After reading his books and watching several of his talks on YouTube, I left conventional wisdom in the middle aisles of the supermarket.

I started to overcome it after reading Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat and Sally Fallon and Mary Enig's Eat Fat, Lost Fat, but I really overcame it when I started seeing the results in the mirror and on the scale. It seemed like the more fat I included in my daily diet, the less fat was on my body. Seeing is believing.

You can get lots of fat in your diet without eating greasy food or globs of fat off the spoon. If you don't like those things, don't eat them. Stick with the foods you like: avocado, coconut milk, cream.

I think fat should be embraced, but not forced. Eat full fat everything, and eat the fatty things you enjoy. However, I do not think that you need to add extra fat to your meals. I do not see how this is helpful in any way. For satiety I would say to increase protein intake, before melting coconut oil over a fatty pork chop, just because.

Keep reading, studying, researching. Eventually you'll come to truly believe it.

Eat organic, grass fed fat in the form of butter, ghee, raw cream, raw milk, lard, avocado, activated nuts and seeds, fatty cuts of meat. You will never be hungry and save money. The difference between eating good saturated fats is that you can see them, whereas all those seed oils and transfats are hidden so you can be in denial that they really exist. When you embrace what fat can do for you, lose/maintain weight, curb hunger, endless energy, regularity, cognitive clarity, no aches and pains and save you money you will enjoy seeing it slapped on your food. Take a bowl of steamed vegetables covered in grass fed butter - healthy? Yes! Compared to a vegetable stirfry in peanut oil - healthy? No!
I have lost 6 kilos in 6 weeks by increasing my fat intake, I can get through 250g of organic butter on my own in one week - it's great give it a try.. Check out my blog for ideas on how to incorporate fat into your diet..

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This is kind of weird, but thinking of my brain as fat makes me feel like I'm supposed to feed it fat to keep it functioning well, if that makes any sense.

I'm with you on greasy foods! I don't like that sensation in my mouth. I still don't like excessively greasy foods and I still pat down my bacon with a paper towel. I get plenty of fat otherwise (butter in cauliflower mash, cream and coconut oil in my tea, the fat still present in the bacon after patting, etc), so I stopped feeling like it was necessary for me to like the way "greasy spoon" food feels. Yech!

I think you could start by eating more the types of fat you already enjoy; having to choke something down every time won't endear it to you. Maybe over time, as you increase the fatty foods you DO like, you might start to feel okay with the fatty edge on the steak. (Though I don't think it will harm your health if you never adapt to it, either; I get more than half my calories from fat without eating the stuff I don't enjoy.)

I feel the exact same way, so you are not alone. I have recently tried all variations of Paleo - lean protein, limited carbs, low fat (lost my mind with no satiety) than sort I've been gradually increasing my fats, (very very scared while doing so) I am up to eating 60% fat, 10% carb, 30% protein and i am still terrified when i put cream in my espresso, or eat an avocado and have fatty beef for dinner. I just don't trust that this will help me lower my body fat %? Can you tell me how you have been doing with your fat intake?

I just sort of forgot about it over time. In the beginning of my Path to Paleo™, I read books and studied blog posts about it, and I still had those lingering doubts. Days and weeks passed, I stopped reading, studying and thinking about it so much. Instead, I just kept on eating in a way that someone like, for example, Mark Sisson would probably approve. I kept on feeling great.

Fast forward a year or so, and now that I re-visit the issue, I find that the experiential part of this path informs me as much or more than any book or blog post I could read. Instead of hoping the theories I have been reading about are true, I now know that I feel great and quite honestly I don't care one iota about the fat fearmongers. I feel good and know I'm healthy and that's enough.

This might be an unusual answer, but marrow was a big gateway for me. I was in a similar place as far as my preferred fats (leftover from a vegan-ish lifestyle), but the first couple times I tasted that rich creaminess that is unique to good marrow - and the primal voracity that it seems to invoke - I was really hooked. I started cooking in tallow shortly thereafter.