A primal plate is not a diet plan. It is a shortlist of foods human bodies have been eating long enough that we know how to run on them. Everything else is optional; these are the anchors.
Anchors
Fatty ruminant meat, medium-rare, three to five times a week. Cold-water fish once or twice. Raw or minimally-processed dairy if you tolerate it. Eggs from a source you trust. Seasonal fruit at peak ripeness. One honest carb, such as potato, rice, or sourdough, served warm.
Subtractions
Seed oils. Ultra-processed anything. Sweetened drinks. Bars that would not exist without a food scientist. Cut them and appetite recalibrates in about a week.
Rhythm
Two to three real meals, sitting down, off a plate, no screen. That is the format that makes the food work. Grazing all day out of packets is not a diet; it is a nervous habit dressed up as one.
