Primal Experiment, After One Week

Well, I did a week of fully-primal/lacto-paleo, and I did fine. I actually feel great. Part of that was probably because I was eating around 100g or fewer of carbohydrates per day, although I wasn't really trying to keep that low. I've learned that hunger isn't a bad thing, and that you don't need to drop everything and get a snack every time you get hungry. I'm trying to go dairy-free this week, to alleviate my allergy congestion, but I'm thinking I'll probably relax some of my strict paleo/primal rules from now on. I don't do well with overly restrictive diets.

The important thing is that I've developed some good tools for making meals that don't focus on grain products, so that I can re-incorporate them judiciously, rather than as an assumption. I definitely feel more ready to go back to a nourishing diet, something I had fallen out of habit of doing, and I probably won't be eating any oatmeal for breakfast anytime soon. All in all, it was an interesting experiment and I feel better having done it.