Satisfied, excited.

So I've been eating more mindfully for over a year.  I have been going to Weight Watchers and involving myself in Overeaters Anonymous, a great self-help group for eating problems.
I still was craving more food all the time, and yo-yo-ing within a five pound range, down 40 pounds from my high weight of 270.
I saw a book at the library site called "Beyond the Paleo Diet" and ordered it. I have since embarked on an experiment, with me as the only subject, to see if eating analogously to what our ancestors ate before they started farming would affect me well. Having tried it for a month, I am delighted with the results.
My weight is down, my diet has changed from one that has too much grains to one that has almost none. I have gone from eating a careful low fat (from mostly canola oil, some olive oil and fish) to no commercial seed oils, and increased olive oil, butter, coconut oil, grass-fed meat and wild-caught fish, along with eggs from free range chickens, high-cacao dark chocolate, walnuts, and of course, lots of vegetables and fruit.
I feel better, happier, healthier, fitter, and less, much less, focused on food. I like my food more, enjoy it immensely, get full quickly, and move on. My cravings for sweets and crackers and bread are gone.
I listen to The Latest in Paleo podcast, with Angelo Coppola, and am reading Loren Cordain and Nora Gedgaudas.
There are no absolutes. We don't know exactly what they ate 333 generations ago, but we do know what they could not have eaten: processed foods, high-fructose corn syrup, pink slime.
Grass fed beef doesn't look any different, and it costs more per pound. But it is packed with nutrients that are essential and that are unfortunately missing, leached out of industrial meat by feeding the animals grains to fatten them up for slaughter. Eating meat that is naturally nutritious makes a huge difference in my weight loss program, as long as I don't mix it with unhealthy processed food, sugar, or unhealthy fats.
This country, this world, is addicted to grain products, from corn to potatoes, to wheat, to alcohol, not to mention the glut of sugar in every conceivable product.  Resistance to the idea that a simple change, based on evolutionary studies of our ancient ancestors and the few remnants of hunter/gatherers, is stiff. Doctors decry their patients' lack of success losing unhealthy weight, but are unable to break the cycle of eating and bingeing on cheap calories.
If all the miracle interventions in medicine were to disappear tomorrow, but if doctors had the power to make their patients heed their advice to lose weight, and if they were all to eat paleolithically (in any of the many iterations of that diet that can exist); if these two conditions prevailed in the absence of surgeries and miracle drugs, but with the change everywhere to a healthy eating regimen, more lives would be saved than by modern medicine so far.