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[Moonbeam]

To the OP about things to eat: big giant salads, big giant bowls of vegetable soup. I wouldn't have even guessed you were trying to do paleo from what you said you were eating. Go paleo like a bad hunter--lots more veggies. You're hardly eating any. A little more fruit wouldn't hurt.

[TheFountain]

You should definitely replace the grains with low-glycemic fruit and vegetables. Berries, apples, carrots, and celery are good options. The blood-sugar increase from grains contributes a lot to your hunger -- some kinds of fruit will be better because the carbs are bound up with fiber which leads to a more gradual glycemic curve.

I really have seen little to no evidence that whole grains cause the kind of blood sugar raise that leads to an insuline spike. Again, it is the fiber content and isoflavones in them that make all the difference. These benefits are essentially killed in processed grains.

[stephen_b]

As far as grains are a net negative, I have a bowl of buckwheat goats (80g uncooked) covered in cinnamon with some type of berry. I've only seen beneficial effects since this inclusion into my diet.

Buckwheat groats are not a grain but a seed (or a pseudocereal). They are also gluten free. I would add oats to the list of good carbs. From wikipedia:

Oat is the only cereal containing a globulin or legume-like protein, avenalin, as the major (80%) storage protein. Globulins are characterized by water solubility; because of this property, oats may be turned into milk but not into bread. The more typical cereal proteins such as gluten and zein are prolamines (prolamins). The minor protein of oat is a prolamine: avenin.

StephenB