The Paleo Diet – Robb Wolf on Paleolithic nutrition, intermittent fasting, and fitness

Written by: Theodore (Ted) F. Berthelote In early September 2011, during my habitual reading on the subject of  individualism, I came across an interview by Lew Rockwell with a woman who advocated a “hunter-gatherer” approach to human nutrition and it caught my attention. The ideas discussed in said interview were Read more…

Written by: Kepa Hi guys, My story isn’t quite like the other testimonials I’ve read on here, so congrats to all the other paleople (paleo people). Back in 2009 after my second daughter was born, I got to my heaviest ever weight 80 kg. Now I know that might not Read more…

Written by Elysia: Dear Robb (and Team)… I just wanted to write you a quick note to tell you how much the book The Paleo Solution has changed my life. I moved in with some friends for about two weeks while in transition and they were doing Paleo.  They had Read more…

Written by: Angelina In the spring of 2012 I was told about ”The Paleo Solution” and how it changed a friend’s life. I picked up a copy of the book and it collected dust on my nightstand for months. On December 13, 2012 my mother had pancreatic cancer surgery. I Read more…

Written by: Sylvie Hi Robb, Your book and Mark Sisson’s have most definitely changed my life. I’ve lost 60 lbs with paleo but really that’s just the cherry on top. I didn’t find this lifestyle to lose weight. I’d sort of given up on the weight front, assuming that after Read more…

Written by: Zsanae To start off, I am a 19 year old female in active duty service for the U.S. Navy. I have tried every diet in the world to try and improve my body and overall happiness with myself. I was sadly getting taped to pass my annual weigh-in Read more…

10 years ago I weighed in at 275lbs, tons of health problems, and only 28 years old. Depressed and lost, I had finally decided to stop being a victim and changed my diet. I had to do it, nobody was going to do it for me. Eating a conventional clean Read more…

Written by: Sarah Tobias It has been a year since I started the Paleo diet. I’m amazed by all the wonderful changes that have taken place. The first two weeks were the hardest. I went through some withdrawal symptoms. My regular headaches got pretty extreme, and felt like I was Read more…

Written by: Chadwick Roland I guess the story starts in April of 1987, I was born a healthy giant baby. Somewhat average life ,average ability, lost my parents and brother to cancer at the age of 12-13. I kept through the awkward teen years terrified of girls, playing sports, and Read more…

Written by: Sarah ElRaheb   Dear Mr. Robb Wolf, Your book changed my life. That’s not an exaggeration or a snazzy opener to grab your attention; it’s the sober, honest truth. Beginning in July 2011, I began to have bouts of nausea and vomiting in the mornings, seemingly unrelated to Read more…

Written by: Mim Haigh It’s a simple story. I was diagnosed with MS at 35 and within 4 years I had gone from being a healthy active mum with a toddler to being riddled with spasticity my limbs twisted up on themselves to the point where no function was possible. Read more…

Written by: Leanna Cappucci About 12 months before I went Paleo, my brother started Crossfitting, and I drowned out every word he said about it. But, as a good brother does, he understood my stubborn side better than anyone in the universe, and as such, he let it sink in Read more…

Testimonial written by: Michelle One morning in January 2011 I woke with a nasty elbow pain. After a day or so with little range of motion the other elbow began to have the exact same pain. I went to my doctor and explained this bizarre symptom. She ordered blood work Read more…

Written by James Waller: Hi guys, I wanted to share my experience and success I’ve had this far with the Paleo diet, and how I’ve reduced the symptoms of my Crohn’s disease pretty much 100%. I really hope anyone reading this who currently has Crohn’s and has recently been diagnosed Read more…

Written by: Jessica Zaneis It seems strange that I am excited to type this story to you about what was a life changing illness for me considering how sick I was. It is even more strange that I am so willing to share such a personal story about what many Read more…

Written by: Wes Gross My name is Wes and I am NOT going to tell a heroic story of overcoming obesity or serious illness. What I’d like to relate is the feeling I now have of being in total control of my health and fitness. Something I haven’t felt since Read more…

Written by: Sarah Ballantyne   I used a standard low-carb diet to successfully lose 100 pounds.  But, I had to lose those 100 pounds twice.  Even though low-carb helped me to lose weight, it did not help me to get healthy. My name is Sarah Ballantyne.  I was a medical Read more…

By: Joy Gannon Being diagnosed as pre-diabetic, having PCOS (an endocrine disorder), debilitating migraines you could practically pencil into the calendar, having high blood pressure, living as a morbidly obese person, a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, lectures from my doctor,  and having a personal trainer did absolutely nothing to Read more…

Written by: Tom Watson At the age of 40 years old I had gone from the 185 lb 21 year old athletic former Marine, benching 320, squatting 405 and running 3 miles in under 18 minutes, to the puff weight of 223 lbs.   It was then that I decided Read more…

Written by: Paul Robinson Hi guys, My name is Paul Robinson. I’m an Aussie and a proud husband and father of two awesome boys aged 10 and 8. My eldest boy, Brandon, has Vitiligo, which in it’s simplest form means he has patches on his skin with no pigmentation. Vitiligo Read more…

Written by: Leslie I gave up sweets and alcohol for Lent. During this 5 week period I noticed that my arthritic knees did not hurt so bad. So I began doing some research regarding the effects of sugar on the body to discover that it is an inflammatory to the Read more…

Written by: Jeremy Suggett I was diagnosed 18 months ago with insulin resistance…also have Microalbuminuria, high BP 161/100, and chronic pain. 12 months ago I put in motion serious changes to my life, as I had been an ex athlete and suffered some terrible injuries/surgery that sent me and my Read more…

Written by: Robert Hi there, My son is a Cross fit type, and we were traveling across the state to a job one weekend.  I had not really seen him for months (I am 60 and he is 35), and had a great conversation where he told me about the Read more…

Written by: Blayne Prowse My exploration into the Paleo lifestyle started with the reading of ”The Vegetarian Myth” by Lierre Keith in the winter of 2012. The words in this wonderful text blew my mind to say the least. The idea that one did not have to eat grains for Read more…

Written by: Alex Peterson “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists From where I started, where I am now, and what I’ve learned along Read more…

Written by: Kathleen Hi, I’m 55 and have been at least 100-150 lbs overweight for the last 20 years. I take HBP meds and was borderline diabetic. When the scale reached 300 I got physically sick with disgust at myself and vowed to never see that number again. My 28 Read more…

Written by: Pamela I developed Hashimoto’s (autoimmune) Hypothyroidism and was searching for a way to relieve the symptoms. I had suffered significant weight gain, severe fatigue, hormonal imbalance, sleep issues, and pain in my joints, muscles – essentially all over.  My doctors were of very little help beyond initial diagnosis Read more…

Written by Jenna Scott: I originally went vegetarian for Lent. Yes, Lent. Vegetarianism was something I had dabbled in my entire life, and now I had a justifiable reason to remove meat from my diet for a specified amount of time. In the first few months as a vegetarian, I Read more…

Hi Robb, Let me start off by saying I attended your seminar in September 2010 in Brooklyn NY, and am so happy I did! Now, ANY question any of my clients have about Paleo I reference you. I tell them you are my guru when it comes to the Paleo Read more…

Written by Suzette Wenzler Dear Robb, Hello, I’m 38 years old, female, 5’2″ and 95 lbs.  Although I have been relatively healthy for most of my life, approximately  2 and a half years ago, I was diagnosed with Lupus, but only after a seemingly sudden and mysterious onset of symptoms: Read more…

Written by: Robert Allen Robb, I’ve been a wreck. I’m 19 years old, yet you would think I was 3x that age with all of the recent health problems I’ve had. It all started when I was 17 with random stomach aches that lasted for about a year, but only Read more…

Written by: Tabitha I’ve always been an athletic and healthy person. No one in my family really struggles with disease or conditions. The women in my mom’s family seem to get hypothyroidism, but it hasn’t affected me. I grew up very active and able to eat anything in as large Read more…

Written by: Susie Singer My family is living proof that it is never too late to do the right thing.  A year ago almost to the day I write this, my father nearly died.  He had been unhealthy and ignorant of his diet all his life.  My mother frequently attempted Read more…

Hi Robb( & whoever else may read this), At the end of February I had had enough. I was feeling awful- no motivation to move my body at all, a general sluggishness and talking crap to myself about how I was having a hard time getting back ”on track”. I Read more…

Written by: Lauryn Lax         The Paleo Solution, by Robb Wolf. Hmm..this looks interesting. It doesn’t have the word “diet” on it…but Solution? And so about a year ago, I picked up Robb Wolf’s bestseller. It is important to note, prior to my encounter with this publication Read more…

Written by Jennifer Eidahl Just over a year ago, I weighed 298 pounds. At 5’ 3” and 35 years old it was not a question of if, but when, I would develop type 2 diabetes and other weight-related problems. The media is riddled with gastric bypass success stories, and I Read more…

Let’s be honest, sexy sells; but there’s a lot more to me than this bared body you see. Now that I have your attention though, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jenna Phillips. I’m the founder of I’m On A Mission, a Transformational Wellness company. I began this Read more…

Testimonial from: Jeremy H. I grew up an athlete, a pretty good one even. I made it into my 20′s fairly lean and strong. Like most, I got wrapped up in every day life, work, stress, eating and drinking. I’m 5’8″ and in my 20′s got up to 245 lbs. Read more…

Where do I begin?  This journey started in October of 2004 when up until then I was a ‘normal’ teenage boy, going to grade 12 and playing as many sports as possible at school.  I was the captain of both the volleyball team and the local A level hockey team. Read more…

I have a new lease on life, owed in large part to the support of my trainer, co-workers at the gym and Robb Wolf. I know that without the knowledge gained from them I would still be in the same unhealthy slump and not on the successful path I am currently on…Sure it is tough at first, but once you realize all the benefits (more energy, less pain, weight loss, less inflammation, gained concentration, confidence… the list goes on) you will not want to go back to the way you ate before. Trust me, this diet works.

FINDING HORMONAL BALANCE When you hear the word hormone it often invokes images of once sweet, cuddly children who overnight turn into angry, irrational adolescents covered in acne. The truth is hormones affect every one of us long before we’re born and until the moment we cease to exist. They are Read more…

  I used to weigh over a quarter of a ton. The last weigh in I did before I started my weight loss campaign showed 538 pounds on the $250 scale my wife had to buy me with our tex return in March of 2010.  As of today, I weigh Read more…

  This is an odd statement to use in this particular situation, but here goes: I was a vegetarian for most of my life, and it actually didn’t completely ruin me. Yep…I started abstaining from meat when I was about four years old, oddly enough, for moral reasons. The rest of my Read more…

Everyone starts life the moment they come into this world…or so it would seem it should be that way. I was always the sick kid, I knew all my doctors on a first name basis by the time I was 5.  My favorite blanket was one I had taken home Read more…

Exactly one month ago today, I embarked on this new way of eating.  I don’t have positive associations with the word diet, so it’s actually now become a way of life.I’ve been a type 1 diabetic for 8 years which has meant a readjustment of how I eat but not Read more…