blue artichoke

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Christmas was gluttonous. I made the Christmas Eve, brunch and dinner menu weeks in advance, in the throes of virtue. The meals weren't the problem. The problem was the gas station treats on the road, the bowls of candy and chocolate at every turn in the house, and the tubs of homemade cookies that followed me around. As I sank into a sugar coma, I justified the downward spiral as a last hurrah of 2009. I'll be good next year. I'd better get my fill of high fructose corn syrup while I can!

On the roadtrip back home, I listened to The Paleolithic Solution podcasts by Robb Wolf, and snacked on Little Debbie Zebra Cakes. Cognitive dissonance can be drowned in sugar.

I feel like crap, but I keep eating junk. The sugar has got ahold of me, for sure. Today, I bought myself a box of Russell Stover chocolates, and ate half the box. The chocolates aren't even that good, but I know I'll eat the rest of the box tomorrow.

I had been planning to make a batch of brownies tonight, but as I write this, I realize how ridiculous that is.

I'm really looking forward to January 1.

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This blog is being revived! Once a record of my culinary school adventures, it followed me through the transition from disillusioned student to frustrated restaurant cook to experimental home cook. Now it will document my year-long experiment to embrace a primal/paleo diet and lifestyle.

What’s a paleo diet / lifestyle? Watch this:

I’m not really one for fad diets, though I’ll admit to trying a few. This one doesn’t seem like a fad; it’s a return to the diet that allowed us to evolve and advance into intellectual beings. It just makes sense to me to eat a natural diet, of things that grow, live, and die as we do, and that exist naturally in nature.

I’ve dabbled in Paleo eating for the last two years, having success when I stick with it, but having trouble sticking with it for longer than a few months. I recently read “The Year of Living Biblically” by A.J. Jacobs, and got the idea to start my own year-long experiment. With some advance thought and planning, and monthly goals, I hope to make paleo living a lifestyle rather than an adventure in deprivation.

The fun begins January 1!

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