On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:03, mark wilson wrote: >If you eat the meal on your website without much >deviation, I think your diet is more than exceptional. > There was a discussion here a while ago about 'falling off the wagon' - that is, about what it is that tempts or drives people away from a valued commitment; in this case it is the commitment to living through a Paleo diet. I do eat the meal pictured (but with many variations, all Paleo to the same degree as depicted here) for around 10 meals a week. Breakfast seven days a week is just meat (and black coffee) (again, never the same meat two days in a row: kangaroo, beef muscle, beef organ, lamb, poultry, eggs, rabbit). Two evening meals a week I have a high carb (100-300g) meal of starches (sweet potato, parsnip, taro, carrot, yams - not the common potato) and fresh fruit (this meal is to stimulate the insulin occasionally without turning my body away from the Paleo norm of fat- burning). Oh, yes, a glass of red wine once or twice a week and a restaurant meal (as close to Paleo as the menu allows) about once every six weeks as well. There is a bit more variation than this careful recital indicates, but it's still within the same Paleo principles. Funny thing is, I enjoy this style of eating and am never at all tempted to eat groceries or more meals prepared by others. The amount of discipline I find I need is zilch. It doesn't seem exceptional to me - just fun, satisfying and I feel good about what I'm eating (too smug, perhaps? - but I hope we can be honest about how we manage our counter- cultural ways!) Keith