Day 8

Success in avoiding drinking a gluten-filled beer!  ;)

As I mentioned yesterday, after class this evening a bunch of my classmates went out to Yard House at LA Live to have dinner and drinks.  My plan was to stick to gluten-free beers, and I did! I was really tempted to order a regular beer, when it seemed like they were having problems finding the gluten-free "Omission" beer that I ordered.  I also had a Woodchuck Hard Cider, which is gluten-free, but actually contains quite a bit of sugar.  :/   So basically I shouldn't have drank that either.  Oh well.  I'm not perfect!  I did take a sip of two beers that my classmates had, but just a sip!  

By the time we were seated, I was starving!!  I hadn't eaten much today.  Had a late class, so breakfast was some gluten-free granola from Trader Joe's, then for lunch I had tuna salad and pepper and cucumber slices, and a banana.  So at Yard House, for dinner I ordered the sweet potato fries as an appetizer, which in a lot of restaurants usually come with added sugar, but these tasted very bland, which was a good thing I guess.  Then I got a turkey cobb salad.  When I got home I was really craving something sweet, so had a serving of the chocolate covered bananas.  As I was brushing my teeth tonight, I realized that I should not be eating these, because the chocolate is most likely milk chocolate, which is definitely not paleo.  I'm really trying to avoid sugar more than I'm trying to avoid gluten.  lol  However, really dark chocolate, like over 75% is acceptable and a lot of paleo/primal people do consume dark chocolate on occasion. 

Bedtime.  Shooting for a 10 mile run tomorrow!  Will be my longest run before the half-marathon, which is a little more than 3 weeks away now!!