Christmas time is a hard time for most of us when it comes to sticking to our diets. Most of the people bringing the pot luck food are on the regular standard urban diet and standard high carb food pyramid. Well I get away by being forthright among friends and family that I’m on raw paleo diet and the most I will compromise myself with is a bit of cooked meat which still falls under cooked paleo diet.
I was fortunate in the Friday night party, these people had a penchant for meat, they served no rice, they served a combination of raw sea food Japanese sashimi style and cooked fatty meats… yeah, paleo diet men!
In the Saturday party I brought my own food, a large chunk of raw fatty beef brisket. No shame in eating in front of my wife’s relatives. Yes they know what I’ve been through. They see I look healthy and look good with my new long hair. In fact, a 15 year old girl was curious and had a taste of raw beef herself.
To sum things up, my strategy for surviving the christmas binges is to eat my raw food before parties and at parties either have raw fruit or raw fish or at worst cooked meat… which is still paleo diet, albeit cooked.