Paleo Diet is a High Fat Diet So Eat More Fat!

Posted On January 19, 2011

I just answered a poster on cavemanforum.com who said he was always hungry on Paleo Diet: “i’ve been trying really hard to stick to the paleo diet, the only thing i’ve been eating thats not paleo is salad dressing and chocolate….and gluten free pancakes when im starving. but the thing is….lean meat and fish are not filling!! no matter how much i eat, im still soooo hungry. i tried eating walnuts/almonds/etc but it doesnt help….fruits and vegs dont make me full, ever…”

I couldn’t help but answer:

*** lean meat and fish are not filling!! ***

Exactly! This is what you are doing wrong.
You need to eat FATTY MEATS and FATTY FISH.
Eat until full.

If you want to top it off at the end with some sweet fruit like dates, go for it.

Paleo Diet must be high fat.
Can be low carb, medium carb or high carb as well.
Just make sure it is high fat.

So high fat – low carb, high fat – medium carb or high fat – high carb

Fat is the key.

Get soft boiled eggs, raw eggs, sear your beef fat, get fatty fish like salmon or blue marlin, if it’s not fat enough, add home made paleo mayonnaise (egg yolks + butter + olive oil + pepper + mustard). Drown in fat and you will be happy.

So if you read Cordain in his first book The Paleo Diet where he says eat lean meats as saturated fat is bad… he was wrong. He has since changed his mind and gives you the green light to go ahead and eat your wonderful high amounts of saturated fat from animals. Those gorgeous yellow live fat from beef, from horse, those bone marrows, those rich egg yolks…. now those are fat… most nourishing, cleansing, raw fat.

Now I’d like to make that pitch that if you want the best results, the rawer you can eat your meat and fat, the better. The fat magic works the rawer the fat. Do you really think caveman bothered to cook every bit of flesh and fat to well done? So you have a stick and a piece of meat in the end, how much cooking do you think you can achieve with that?

Back to fat. We humans are fativores, we just love fat. Fat and fat and fat and more glorious fat. If you don’t get your fat from paleo sources, your body is sure to get fat by hook or by crook and you wind up usually with the worst commercial fats out there: margarine, french fries, chicharon (cracklings), vegetable cooking oils, peanuts… all bad fats. And then you suffer from bad fat poisoning and inflammations.

Paleo fat, rare fat is soothing, detoxifying, nourishing, hidrating, energizing.