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What was your diet like before paleo? Were you cutting out grains, fruit, or simple sugar?
Burritos, sandwiches, pasta, salads, chicken, etc... Affirmative; I cut out grains completely and significantly diminished my sugar intake. I still eat fruit, but less than before.
Well I was really trying to figure out which of these is the important thing to cut out (or if they all are important). I already have low sugar intake but moderate starch intake. I want to figure out whether there would be advantages to cutting down on starch or if eliminating simple sugars already gives me most of the benefits.
ETA: Also, thanks a lot for sharing your data with us! That was an interesting post to read.
The data I collected can't really unambiguously answer this question; subjectively, my 'mind-fog' seems to be most sensitive to the ingestion of simple sugars, so I think that is where the greatest bang-for-the buck lies.
In most cases, I'm really not intelligent/knowledgeable enough to make good decisions based primarily on scientific theory. On the other hand, I am fairly conscientious and very patient, so I can get by to some extent by letting the world do the thinking for me (via cheap experimental results). I'm glad that you obtained some amount of value from it.