Is your paleo food-based or philosophy-based?

This is a difficult question to word properly, but basically, I see two camps in the paleo community:

1) Food-based: Those for whom paleo simply means eating good, real, natural ingredients, and cutting out processed food, sugars, grains, dairy, etc.

2) Philosophy-based: Those who take it further, for whom paleo means replicating the reality of the paleolithic era, including cooking/prep methods, timing of meals, balance of food and exercise, etc.

My first impression of this dichotomy is that those who are “food-based” are motivated to eat paleo to lose/maintain weight, while those who are “philosophy-based” are ‘hobbyist’ or 'academic’ in their approach (i.e. they’re motivated to eat paleo because they’re interested in paleolithic human existence or something like that).

I haven’t thought these categories out completely, so feel free to propose your own, but I think my baseline assumption that there are different (and definable) camps within the paleo community is generally true. What different camps of paleo eaters do you see?

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