Sexual mania.

Life was was less complicated when I was chemically neutered by tortilla chips and pizza...

Knowing too much. Second-guessing my nutrition, when I shouldn't even have to think about it. I've benefited greatly from Paleo health-wise. But the amount of knowledge I've gained about omega-6s, antinutrients, insulin, leptin, vitamins, etc. is more detrimental than it is helpful. Yes I apply this knowledge, but quite frankly, it gets exhausting. I don't wanna have to think "I'm going to eat this grass-fed beef here because it has a better o3:o6 ratio and eat it with coconut oil because it has medium chain triglycerides and I'll have it with a side of spinach, but not too much spinach because it has oxalates." I just wanna be like "Me see meat. Me eat meat. Meat goooood."

$50k worth of plastic surgery to remove skin I didn't need any longer. Countless thousands on new clothes and shoes. $100 for a new diaphragm (everything gets smaller with weight loss except for ONE THING which gets bigger, lol.)

I'm going to be running very fast and hiding after I post this, but, no downsides for me at all. I think I'm 8 months in?

My diet actually didn't change by much - just eliminated a few things and added in a few. My clothes fit exactly the same. I do CrossFit and lift and have happily gained 12lbs of muscle - tubers make me grown big and strong. My rosacea is gone.

WAIT! I have a downside! I now take longer in stores because I have to read the backs of all new products that I see in the grocery. No more running in and out. WAIT! Another - I have to eat so goddamn much more now that I must eat before I go out to dinner so I can afford the bill. Which basically means I no longer go out to dinner. So sashimi is a very fond and veryveryvery missed memory.

Every time I think of something to write I'm already halfway to rationalising it into a positive. Does that count?

Perfectionism. Every time I get a health problem I get damn pissed.

Downside? Maybe visiting friends and having to be persnickety about my diet and clue them in on what I can eat and what I can't. However, they are usually very nice about it and seek to please. They also learn a lot by asking questions.

I miss pizza, not going to lie.

Seeing friends and relatives who clearly need to get on the Paleo plan immediately, but knowing that if I push it too hard they will resentfully continue with their SAD.

Okay, I'll speak for the old people--I'm shrinking but my skin doesn't keep up! My usual joke is I started as a hippo, I'm currently a rhino and I hope to become a bloodhound.

I'm probably lucky my skin is shrinking as nicely as it is, since I'm down about 40 pounds and the worst is a few more wrinkles on my face and a half-withered double chin. I asume I'll wind up with folds of skin on my underarms and I wonder what'll happen when I lose the rest of the midriff and belly mounds. At half-gone, they're just sagging a bit which is good since I thought they'd already be turning into folds.

I'll just have to be proud of the residue of my obesity because plastic surgery is not a budget possibility.

Emotionally, socially and physically there is no down side for me. Everything about my life is better than it was 8 months ago.

Upside? Improving the curves at and below my waist. Downside? Downgrading the curves above the waist.

No pants at the store in my size.

Relative to where-ever I was on the attractiveness scale, I now feel unsure that I can control this new superpower.

Having to buy new pants every month! Started in August as a size 12 pants and now in December am buying size 6s!

Listening to my trainer tell me I need to stop eating all fats, buy a juicer, and eat quinoa and soy--and the doubts I feel about my diet as a result. She's never had meat in her life and recently became full-on vegan....

Sagging skin.

hmmmmm. Downsides- I am always thinking (obsessing) about getting stuck at work or out without proper food. I have to admit that I am a little freaked out to learn by trial and error that I only feel really good when I have a considerable amount of fat in my day- hence the getting stuck without food because everything is so freaking lean- it just won't hold me, also the lingering fear from prior thinking that FAT is BAD.

The upside however is the love affair with myself.I have always been so down on myself- not nice at all. Frankly- I am not really traditionally attractive at all- but now I FEEL beautiful. I look at myself, I pat my flat stomach- I brush my hair and wink at myself. I think that I am so hot that it doesn't matter if anyone else does or not. Me and ME are so very happy together!

Loss of strength, but this comes with loss of size, can't be avoided ;)

And I miss my porridge sometimes, and my old PWO ice-cream shake

Apparently so I am told, I need to buy new jeans as I no longer "fill them out" as I did before and she says I no longer have any "chicha".

I kinda miss having junk in the trunk. I want a butt you could serve tea on.

I filled out when I went Paleo. Now I can run for three hours whilst fasted without breaking a sweat, but my thighs and butt chafe because they're so freakin' gigantic now. It sometimes hurts to look fertile and ancestrally attractive.

i miss all the food. i was so good a cook i was fat from my own cooking. but i dont miss the rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and impotence, and the GOK=God only knows.

I have to eat more to stay full, which is difficult for someone like me who has an unpredictable appetite. I often fall short of my target maintenance caloric intake :(

Do I understand that you find it annoying to need a new pair of jeans because the ones that used to fit are now too loose? That is pretty nearly inconceivable to me, who has had to make that shopping trip twice since July. Oh, the horror, back to the size I wore three decades ago. What, oh what, will I ever do with my old baggy clothes...

Seriously, count your blessings. Remember that most people in your life are choosing devolution. They need new clothes, too. Larger sizes...

Personally now that my transformation is close to over the major downside is that I now fully realize the true value of time and how precious it really is. I have wasted a lot of time unproductively not furthering my life's missions. Now that I am fully aware of deficit because I have an abundance clear thoughts from a brain without inflammation, I need to prioritize my actions to make the greatest impact that I can with the time I have been given.

My transformation has led me to begin to predict my future by inventing it in my present. Now that I think differently, my mistrust of my future is no longer greater than my trust of what I have already conquered in my life. I no longer dwell in the past and live for tomorrows and their promise. I have moved to the edge of my comfort zone where all my fears lie. I am no longer fearful of life's scars. None of us will die without scars; and we all are going to die to be sure if we are paleo or not. My goal post transformation isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will outlive me though. I am ready to change my world now today, and everyday I breathe, in this present moment I now must begin to create the changes I see before I get taken out. I now realize fully nothing is promised until we create it.

This is why the optimal life should be tied to the healthy life that is evolutionary biology. Time is my most valuable asset now that I am transformed and I no longer will waste it.

Most everyone that I meet who is eating a sad diet smells 'off' to me, as if they were rotting and dieing from the inside.

It's creeping me out, even if it is a valid approximation of their health level.

My tinnitus (ringing in ears) has become a lot louder since eating Paleo. Sometimes it is so annoying that I debate quitting, just to improve my quality of life. I have been paleo for 14 months now.

Has anyone else had this experience regarding tinnitus?

Confusion. Constant frustration. Im gaining weight and storing fat and my body fat % has shot up, and everyday I don't know If I should be eating more fat/less carbs/protein --->lean meat/tubers etc CONSTANT frustration and confusion.

Im at the gym 4 times a week, eat clean as a whistle, and still pack on fat. Constant frustration and confusion for sure.

And constantly craving and ravenous...never satiated, no matter how much a take everyone's advice to eat more fat (which do) it doesn't work. I've been at less than 20g of carbs (NO Fruit, NO nuts, No ANYTHING) other than meat and green veg and other fats for a while now, and i am always hungry, and storing fat. I'd say that is definitely the worst part.