Emphasizing fat all the time I don't think is good, letting peoples instincts work I think is better.... 'High-fat' is confusing. If someone's lacking fat they'll naturally look for more... The main food is the meat, and it has fat, and then you can find more fat if you need it.
I don't think TD was emphasizing it, he asked if OP had tried a version of cooked paleo that had a good amount of fat...it important to know because you can eat a very low fat version of paleo and be ok, but you may then have to eat more often. When I eat lots of raw roots, fruits and some lean meats or fishes I feel pretty good but I have to eat more often then if I ate a steak with a giant chunk of butter or lard on it for breakfast...
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....but I work at home so I don't care if I have to eat 100 times a day (well you know what I mean), but for Steve its a different schedule...
Since he's a cop and has crazy shifts, it may not be convenient for him to only follow his instincts - and he may have to design a version of his diet that has a longer filling effect.
Steve is your cooked paleo high in red meat and lots of animal fats? If not the more of those you add the less often you'll have to eat IMO.
You said you hit a plateau? For loosing weight? If you want to loose more weight going on raw paleo will definitely help that. I for one can't help but loose weight on raw paleo no matter what I try, and hence add some cooked foods just to slow down my metabolism and because they favor me gaining a nice layer of fat I can use in the winter. But for most people who have lower/normal metabolism and gain weight more easily this is a bliss to be in raw paleo!
Also you said you lost muscle tone from some work related stuff, this is maybe why you have hit a plateau, you need to pump some iron as they say....
And grow them muscles back! No matter how you eat if you're not getting enough muscles you'll always have some problem or other. With muscles you often will loose the "wrong" weight and gain the "right" weight.
