(I still have trouble GAINING on the paleo diet). me too but since i started Dhea and more meats i have been able to gain little bit. One thing I have noted is that many folks have mentioned they are either vegetarians or ex-vegetarians. The light bulb flashes over my head when I read about folks with autoimmune disease who are ex-veggies. I'm sure you've come across a lot of these folks too. I started a vegetarian diet at the same time than the first signs of adrenal insuficiency occur. The year before i was a semi professional soccer player in a special soccer school and we had for breakfast every morning piles of meats to at( specially me i went crazy ,was eating the parts of many others) . I bet our coach who required those special breakfasts knew something about paleo manners. I quitted soccer , started to be a rebel vegetarian , quitted sport teacher studies , made wrong competition, worked with mentally handicaped teen agers ,went thru deep emotional hurts, got scared of going to prison for refusing army etc. turn the back to my family. and the whole society . 3 years of vegetative life later i end up to the hospital in a crisis. as a kid i was not vegetarian but had my share of white wheat, dairy, potato and white rice because we were poor jean-claude