Greetings!

> >Ardeith:  Eat it!  To heck with Paleo....chocolate
> >is "soul-food"!!!
> here that encourage others to cheat. It is one's prerogative to cheat
> themselves, but please don't encourage the 300 others here to cheat.

I've been off-and-on the Paleo diet for the past month or so and I've lost
about 6 pounds (I lost the first four pounds twice, but that doesn't count
right?). The thing that keeps making me fall off the wagon is bad planning:
I'll find myself downtown, starving (to the point of getting the shakes and
seeing spots) and in a rush to get somewhere. So to keep myself from passing
out, I break the rules and eat crap.

And then I feel horribly guilty. I come down on myself like a ton of bricks,
berating myself for being so weak-willed. And then I'm filled with despair,
thinking I'll never lose this weight (I'm not looking for a Thriftian
washboard stomach, but I'm sick of this Maytag I'm sporting).

So what does this have to do with cheating with chocolate? When I read the
posts on this list from knowledgable people who manage to keep it all
together and stick to a diet that garners virtually no support from the
world around it, it encourages me to know that the people out there are as
human as any, and as such, break the rules once in while.

And when it's done with good humour, it's easier to shake off the ton of
bricks and keeping plodding on.

Dave