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Ok, so how do I lose weight?

I'm a 14 year old girl (almost 15) 5'4" and 150 pounds. I have a belly, and I've gained fat on my legs. I was quite happy with the paleo diet. Every so often, my parents would ha …
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Eating Paleo at McDonalds!

My in-laws are generously taking our entire family on a four day trip to Chicago. I KNOW I will be eating McDonalds at least once, but more likely twice to three times a day. It ha …
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How to Encourage Obese Loved-Ones to go Paleo

Something that has been weighing heavily on me for quite some time is the physical and mental health of people I care about who are struggling with obesity. Having grown up in a f …
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Having Family Issues

Recently, I started eating Paleo, partially because I've had a bad relationship with food for awhile, and it's helping me to think of eating as something I do to take care of mysel …
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best intro to paleo?

i'd like to introduce some of my family members to paleo, but don't know what the best place to start is. Which books/sites/videos would you recommend? Just for some background, m …
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The greatest chicken nugget recipe known to paleo man

So after getting my feet on the ground with paleo a year ago I’m actively converting my family—mostly my children who are 5 and 6. In their lunches I regularly put meatballs and …
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Funny Reactions to Paleo

What are some funny reactions you've gotten when people see your meals or when you try to explain what paleo is? My coworkers favorite thing to do is say, "cavemen" didn't do this …
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Paleo and my family

I realize this question has come up many times, but in most cases it seems to be the wife that is Paleo and doing the cooking and the husband that could care less. In my case, I'm …
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So what do I buy…

After researching dietary concerns for the last few months I finally approached my wife about altering our SAD approach to a more paleo/primal/anti-inflammatory/unprocessed/moderat …
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Is your family paleo?

My family isn't paleo at all. I'm VLC, I cook 3 times a day. It's pretty hard to continue doing so when you hear all your relatives talk about SAD food all the time ("I want a pizz …
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Anyone else get a POSITIVE reaction to the Paleo diet from family?

Home for a visit, and dealing with eating Paleo in a very non-Paleo (but otherwise fairly healthy) family. My family is a little skeptical (especially of the carb levels, even thou …
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Paleo and Family issues

Hi since going from near vegan and ruining my health and going cold turkey on Paleo has,scared my parents quite abit first with my collapse health wise and fighting ED for 1 year I …
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How could you tactfully push someone to Paleo?

A lot of my friends are morbidly obese (this tends to happen when you're in the IT/technology world), and while I feel Paleo may not be the solution for all of people's health prob …
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Help convince my dad with cancer to try a ketogenic diet.

Hey guys, I need your help. My dad's cancer has reemerged once again, it's been many times now, I've lost count. I've tried in the past to get him to change his diet which is woefu …
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What was your family’s relationship with food growing up?

I'm curious about learned behaviours with regards to relationships with food. This is a long post, but I'm asking for personal stories and it's only fair to share first. As a chi …

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