The Caveman Diet

The Only Diet That Really Works!

"Don’t eat anything that has not been growing
on this planet for at least as long as we have."

Bread, fried potatoes, and white rice make us feel full. They feel warm and comforting inside our stomachs.
They please our Gathering Instinct, and so we eat them.

We want to feel full.

Diets don’t work because our Gathering Instinct will not be satisfied with carrot sticks and celery!
They simply do not feel the same inside our stomachs.
And diets based on reducing the amounts of white flour and fried potatoes we eat,
don't work because:

Our Gathering Instinct isn’t satisfied until we feel full.

We cannot short circuit our Gathering Instinct with reason and rationalization.

Our brain is not in charge, our Instinct is!

If we even start to feel slightly hungry, or more specifically: less full,
our Gathering Instinct will motivate us to eat something.
If we are constantly trying to maintain a non-hungry feeling:

We will gain weight and not be able to lose it.

And, if we also have Nurturing Instinct, we put ourselves through
a regular cycle of shame, guilt, and fear over our weight.

- We shame ourselves about our inability to lose weight.
- We guilt ourselves when we eat things that aren’t healthy for us.
- And we live in fear of the medical consequences of being overweight.

This feels normal to those of us with Nurturing Instinct.
But, it will not help those of us with Gathering Instinct to lose weight or stay on a healthy diet;
It will simply create a cycle in our lives of losing and gaining weight, and feeling shame, guilt, and fear.

And, if we have Warrior Instinct as well, we create more problems for ourselves.
Our Warrior Instinct will tell us that we can’t lose weight or stay on a diet because:

We aren’t trying hard enough.

It believes that we can force ourselves to lose weight, or stay with a diet and exercise program.
The idea that we don’t have enough “will power” to avoid overeating, is our way of explaining

that our Warrior Instinct has no power over our Gathering Instinct.

Force works for those of us with Warrior Instinct. But force doesn’t work for those of us with Gathering Instinct.

Because overeating is instinctually driven behavior!

It is not a matter of conscious thought or reason.
And besides, for 4 million years we have never had to concern ourselves
with exercise or trying to not eat processed foods.

This having been said,
if we become aware of why we eat the way we do,
then we can start to eat healthier.

THE CAVEMAN DIET!