Well, I finished up my 30 days of Paleo and I have to say my results were good.   Here are the results:

Total weight lost= 4 lbs

Total inches lost= 4.5 inches

Total body fat lost= 2%

The inches lost were from chest (1 inch), waist (1 inch), abdomen (.5 inches), hips (1 inch), and thighs (1 inch).  The only areas measured that I didn’t see a loss were neck and calves.  I am happy with the overall results.

I will say that the diet wasn’t too bad to do for 30 days but I found it way too restrictive to live on permanently.  I didn’t like having to give up artificial sweeteners, legumes and cheese.  I also started craving sugar on day 5 and pretty much craved it throughout and ended up trying to satisfy my cravings with fresh fruit, fruit smoothies and dried fruit such as raisins.  I didn’t really crave bread, pasta, chips and other salty snacks….just the sweet stuff.    The good news is my digestion did seem better.  I had much less bloating and gas and still seemed to have plenty of energy for working out doing CrossFit.  Anyway, I don’t plan to try to live on this diet because I would feel way too deprived.  However, I may try a similar plan that is less restrictive such as the South Beach Diet which does allow legumes, artificial sweeteners and low fat cheese.  I think that would be more sustainable long term.