If you’re interested in feeling healthier, living longer and losing weight with the paleo diet, there’s one technique that can get you a long way to your goal.

Here are the five most common mistakes I see people make as they transition towards a Paleo diet.

This vegetable maintains one of the highest glycemic index values of any food, and causes your blood sugar levels to rise rapidly. In turn, your blood insulin concentrations simultaneously increase. When these two metabolic responses occur repeatedly, you become insulin resistant.