It isn't as hard as you think

Well, now that day 50 has passed, I have to say, It isn't as hard as you think.  Sure, you have to have bread and pasta...because you always go to a restaurant and order a plate of bread and pasta.  You have to have Diet Coke or ice cream...because those are just staples in your life.  Diet Cola is a big thing around my house.  It is a big thing around the world.  Shoot, zero calories and all the taste of a flat soda.  How could this ever not be good for me?

But I regress.

Last night we went out to eat with some friends of ours and the menu was handed over to me and I just knew that the restaurant they picked was full of deep fried goodness and fries.  I knew that this was really the first test to really sticking to the primal eating blueprint.

See, at home it is easy to stick to it, I don't have much else to choose from other than meats, veggies, fruits and whatnot.  I also don't graze like I used to because you can only eat so much okra.

So I was able to get away last night with minimal damage.  I ordered a grilled fish and had sweet potato fries.  Sure, I know the fries were not fried up in olive oil or something like that, but it was close enough.  And I know that the fish probably had the same canola oil on it that the fries did.  But it was close enough.

I remember when I worked at Chuy's many many many moons ago and there was this prick we called John Denver.  He looked like John Denver.  and this guy would come in and order baked chips, only get the fresca sauce to dip it in, a side salad with limes and the veggie enchiladas with no oil.  I waited tables for many years, had a bajillion customers, and this is the one guy that I can still remember the order he had.  I don't want to be that guy.  That guy was a prick, screwing up everything for the kitchen.  If you want to eat like tht, fine, do at home or some vegan cafe.

Don't go to a Tex Mex restaurant and expect to eat healthy, or primal, or paleo, or vegan.  Don't be that guy.

Ian