Liver disease-pure and simple.  Its a disease of nutritional deficiencies and gut fermentation really but a paleo diet put it back on track. 

+1 Sissy... Keep it up and NEVER LOOK BACK.   

Alot of friends from my Crossfit have been following this diet for quite some time and we had a talk about it. I dont think this is a diet. I already feel its a way of life.

For me it has been culmination of my various trips down 'weight loss lane'.

I remember always being a chubby kid, everyone in my family has weight issues. When I was younger, maybe preteens/early teens I remember reading food lables and not knowing what anything meant. I came to the conclusion that I would pick things with lower numbers on the lable. Whatever the numbers meant I guess I figured that less of whatever I was taking in would result in weight loss. Looking back it was really just a 'calories in-calories out' model I just didn't know it. I had some success, lost a few pounds, they came back.

That was basically me for a very long time and then my mom decided she was going to do Atkins when I was in high school and I decided to do it too. I lost a lot of weight but I found it, mostly the first few weeks, to be very restrictive. I missed veggies, I missed variety, maybe I was doing it wrong, not putting in enough effort whatever it was I fell off and basically kept putting on weight until college.

Once I hit college I was able to cook for myself and I just started making meals that centered around protein, low carb veggies and fruit I was pretty much doing paleo and didn't know it. Then I remember reading something about it and just worked out the details from there.

Now it's gotten a bit rougher that I'm in rural Malawi, protein is expensive and hard to get and keep fresh (no electricity) so I eat a lot of eggs and tuna packets that my mom sends me. Not a very diverse diet as far as protein goes but I am looking forward to my first big steak when I get back to the States.

Make that +2 Sissy...

I am just starting out. As in this is day one. I have avoided the plan for a long time not sure whether this is a fad diet or just another diet I will fail at. Meanwhile, my health has been going down hill and my appearance has taken a nosedive. I cannot think straight most of the time and my memory is horrible! My blood pressure is way up. My cardiologist suggested a low carb diet, because it still lets you eat fun things, he said. Like bacon. But I avoided it wondering how to live with out bread, pasta and the like. But here I am today I am starting the whole 30 challenge  leading into Paleo. I am looking forward to seeing if this works....and maybe getting into some cute clothes.

One of my customers who is retired doctor recognises the benefits of low carb, high protein 'diet'.  He's not paleo, but his sentiments echo what we on this forum know.

I'm here after lapsing, and my motivation is really to improve the quality and duration of my life, broadly speaking.