Adhering to the eating plan….that is very hard to do in an unsupportive household.  It’s not that the family is overtly working to make me eat badly.  But, we have been celebrating the wifes birthday for almost a week now.  That means cake in the house, going out to eat at nice restaurants and having tons of temptation come my way.  For example, last night we went to Texas de Brazil.  For the readers that do not know, Texas de Brazil is a high end all you can eat restaurant.  The gaucho’s (spanish for cowboy) bring cuts of meat to your table as long as you have your little sign up.  In the past I have eaten so much meat that I could barely walk out of the place.  Being a frugal person it is/was my belief that $50.00 per person means you need to eat your weight in meat or you are not getting you money’s worth.  So what did I do last night?  I didn’t eat my money’s worth that’s for sure.  I ate larger portions than I should have but I managed to maintian some semblance of control and I walked out of the restaurant feeling full but not busting at the seams.

Is this what’s known as a Pyrrhic victory?  I’ve traded gluttony for spendthriftness!  Arrgghh.

The Zone diet is going good.  So far I have managed to continue taking pictures daily.  I did move the tripod out so that I get a head to toe shot instead of a picture from the knees up.  Why?  Because, I have decided to enter the 2009 Body for Life contest.  The problem with Body for Life is that you need to use an EAS product during the time period you are in the contest.  I’ve got to sit down and figure out which product fits with a Paleo/Zone diet.  My suspicion is that no products will fit because they are all man made and not natural.

I signed up to become a fitday affiliate.  That means I can make a very small amount of money off of the purchase of fitday if you use the link on crossfitallen.com.  I haven’t been approved yet but once I am I will post the affiliate link in the blogroll or links section of the site.

One more thing, I was incredibly bloated last night.  It looked like I had a basketball in my belly.  I don’t know if it was the five packets of emergen-c that I drank or the brussel sprouts or the mixed berries.  I need to nail down what bloats me and stay away from it.

Later.