Friday night I ate at an Italian restaurant called Izzy's . I was wondering if I could hold up the primal eating plan. When I think of Italian food, I think of pasta and endless refills of bread loaves. Then I remembered salads. I don't eat salads often, but I found a delightful one at Izzy's, a salmon Nicoise salad: salmon, hard boiled egg, tomatoes, cucumbers, black olives, lettuce, and a tasty vinaigrette.
Saturday night I ate at the Tex-Mex restaurant On the Border. It was hard to watch my friends eat the chips and salsa and not have some. I just had to remind myself that the entrees are filling enough so resist snacking on corn chips. Corn is a grain, which is not part of the primal plan. Every entree had rice, beans or both. I ordered something off the health-conscious menu which had chicken, salsa, sauteed squash and peppers, and rice. I ate the chicken and veggies and skipped over the rice. There was so much black pepper on it that I could barely taste any of it. All in all, it was filling and a decent fit for primal eating.
I went to a friend's house after dinner and had some fudge. They brought some of that fudge to a party we had last Monday and I ate at least seven pieces. Last night I nibbled on one piece and made it last over an hour. I needed the fudge to stay awake until midnight because I usually sleep much earlier.
My year ended with a lot of dining out, but I was able to easily stick to the primal eating plan very easily. Exercise was a different matter--I ended the year as a couch potato. I never said it would be an overnight change! The food plan is enough of a change for now, and I like the energy it brings. The only time I get really, really tired is around the time I normally go to sleep anyway, and I only have trouble waking up at my usual early time when I've stayed up later than usual.
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