I’ve been pushing myself more now to eat food. I don’t have the best diet–still need to get back to eating more veggies and fruits–but I’m starting to have more energy. And I’m trying to not assign moral values to my food. It’s still hard, though. Other people tell me that I shouldn’t eat certain things (baked goods, especially) or are constantly assigning value judgments to foods. It can make it really hard to break out of the mindset.

But I keep reading your posts and feeling hopeful that I can just be healthy and eat the foods I want to eat and exercise a modest amount and I can be okay.

Starches are a likely culprit also, they truly are villanous, and anyone who says otherwise is in denial. That people still don’t want to hear the hard, cold truth about “bad” carbs isn’t surprising. People have had many years (decades actually) to come to terms with the fact that starches are unhealthy but they just can’t seem to cope with it.

Reducing or eliminating starches and omega 3/6 fats (salmon, nuts, green vegetables, olive oil- all paleo and “real food world” staples) are going to go a LONG way for most to eliminate weight issues, with only the slightest increase in exercise and/or reduction in calories. Weight loss is actually very easy to achieve and maintain, people have to stop saying it’s hard!

It isn’t about fad diets anymore, it’s about SCIENCE AND TRUTH. Paleo bloggers must wake up to the fact that none of you are doctors and most of you don’t have any background in science. You don’t know *anything* about human biology/physiology and use dietary experimentation and paleo group think as a substitute. And THAT is the main reason the food villifiers have gotten rich.