I've been on a sort of PaleoAtkins diet for two months now, and after losing about 20-25 pounds very quickly my weight stabilized and I haven't lost much, if any, for the last six weeks. I've stuck pretty closely to the guidelines, eating eggs, beef, bison, chicken, fish, and turkey and the Generally Recognized As Paleo (GRAP) vegetables - spinach, summer squash, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower. No sugar, starches, or fruit whatever, except for a little - very little - dried fruit in the first week, which clearly caused an insulin release (probably from the &*@#! sugar syrup it was cured with). The non-Paleo intake over this period has been coffee with about 1/4 cup of half and half per day, several tablespoons of commercial ranch dressing on salads when we go out once a week, and about a can of Diet Coke per day, on the average. On the positive side I wanted to thank the list members who spoke up for the Excalibur dehydrator. I got one last week and quickly dried about five pounds of bison into jerky. The butchers did a marginal job on the thickness of the bison slices, with some pieces up to a half-inch thick in places, but I just left it in overnight and it dried perfectly. I was expecting the apartment to fill with hot air and drying bison smells, but this didn't happen either. A fine product; I'm looking forward to drying fruits myself without added sugars and drying vegetables for snacking. Thanks again for your advice. Mike