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I was a lot more strict when I wasn't pregnant! There is no one definition of paleo. You can make it whatever works best for you.

I found this blog post super helpful when I found myself getting down about not being the "perfect" paleo: http://balancedbites.com/2012/06/paleo-perfectionism.html

I've traveled all over the spectrum with Paleo. I got particularly interested in it when I started Crossfit, and I would say I gradually got to a point where I was eating almost 100%. I think I dropped gluten first, then legumes and other grains, then most dairy. I always ate rice. I was never that strict with sugar - just tried to not eat too many sweets. Right now I'm in the first trimester and having major food aversion so I've been off paleo for about 3 weeks. At 9w3d I'm starting to feel a little less gross so I may try to ease back into it.

I also don't always buy grass fed and organic. I buy the best quality food I can afford - and I recognize that eating whole food, even conventionally grown, will always be a step in the right direction when compared to processed, packaged food.

I think it's important to not get too hung up on "perfect," and to recognize that you have a lifetime of eating ahead of you. There will be times when you're compliant and times when you're not, and neither makes you a good or bad person. For me, at the very least cutting gluten makes me feel really good, so that is reason enough to keep doing it (or start doing it again once I can eat something other than toast!).

Not very. I would have some paleo meals but if i wanted cheese on a food, I would just do it. I would be real good about a paleo breakfast and lunch and dinner some days and some days, not so much. I eat so much greek yogurt now, I think i'd end up more primal vs paleo.