Meeting other paleo folk

For months I have been subscribed to an online meetup group for paleo eaters in New York. The group is large and very active, but the first few meetups also involved physical fitness, so we held back for something more age appropriate. Saturday we got that chance when group leader John Durant hosted us at his rooftop apartment in the upper east side. Seemingly the only guests over age 35 we were out of breath when we arrived at the walkup apartment. The reason for the party was a book launch for a book called the Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. Since we got there early, we were able to spend 10 minutes or so chatting with Wolf who was articulate and very knowledgeable. Anything we'd experienced such as the elimination of snoring was something he already knew about. He has also seen others with my biggest problem - losing pant sizes but not much weight. He said that bone density and muscle can compensate for the lost waistline - some people even gain a few pounds.

What I hadn't realized was that Durant has become a legendary figure in Paleo since the night he went on Colbert and shut down all efforts on the part of the comedian to turn this into a joke. He managed to get his entire point across that night. We had to get back home to Long Island so we missed a brief talk by Wolf, but we're now diving into the book, which we can highly recommend already.

When I'm 64

Last week I had that birthday made famous by the Beatles. Part of my modification with caveyness is that once a year I can have birthday cake, so I set out to find the best on the island. That turns out to be Sweet Karma in East Meadow. We told them we wanted a Beatles theme to it, and you could see the baker's eyes light up as he thought of the possibilities. A week later we picked it up, and it was fantastic. Otherwise we were having people over and wanted to make things as paleo as possible. We had tamales flown in from Texas, and I suppose that is beyond the plan, but I don't care. Our biggest accomodation to our guests was to make hamburgers and hot dogs with buns. My son went out and bought chips, but otherwise we had an excellent and in-plan offering of beef piziolla, zucchini casserole, spinach salad and broccoli salad. It certainly made our guests happy because the last one left after 11 - well past my bedtime.