Top 10 signs you know you’re taking paleo too far when:

10.  You start actually seeing High Fructose Corn Syrup and Poly Unsaturated Fats (PUFA) containing products glow radioactively in the middle aisles of the supermarket.

9.  You spend 95% of your non-work time writing your own paleo blog and reading and writing comments on other paleo blogs than just contently “living paleo.”

8.  You wait for the day that Vibram’s will start to make the dress shoe which is socially acceptable enough to wear to work. (Vibrams, if this idea is cool with you, how about comping me one of the first pair made? Please!?)

7.  If the 90% Lindt chocolate bar is sold out, you feel like you’re splurging buying the 85% bar instead.

6.  You interject evolutionary fitness, paleo diet and the primal blueprint no matter what the topic into every conversation that after while you become completely uninterested in talking to people about their other boring subjects AND/OR other people actually stop inviting you into the conversations altogether!

5.  When you do your high intensity routine at the gym, the other people are moving so slow, talking and standing around that you feel like you’re Superman in the scene when people freeze in place when he stops the earth from spinning by circling around it a million times a second.

4.  You forget how good smiling feels when regularly done because you’re WAY too caught up in the health consequences of family and friends (or even the entire world’s population) if meat from ~nomadic herding (e.g. grassfed) and unsubsidized agricultural products (e.g., not grains and sugar) aren’t included in their diets and produced on a large scale basis in the food supply.  (Thought I’d include at least one serious one on the list… don’t forget to smile…)

3.  While out on a pleasant walk through the neighborhood when you see long distance joggers you imagine how funny it would be to see a squirrel or a raccoon or a chimp jogging down your street trying to keep perfect jogging form for an hour.

2.  You use the litmus test of whether or not a person eats wheat to determine whether they’re worth listening to.

1.  You imagine that Loren Cordaine is like Tupac Shakur and Weston A. Price’s Chris Masterjohn is like Biggie Smalls representing various factions of the paleo blogosphere a la the West Coast/East Coast Rap wars.

You have any other items or your own list?  If so, please feel free to include it in the comments, or send me off a link to your site’s post on it, and I’ll include it here on The Paleo Garden.  

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