Well, it’s almost 2 months in, and I just finished entering
my numbers into the spreadsheet. How am I doing? In absolute numbers, my acts
of kindness are above the requirement (having a spouse with a injury causes
these to add up), my blogs are on track, and everything else is at about 40%.
In some ways, I could beat myself up, but on the other hand I am congratulating
myself on how far I have come. Before I Ho Chuan I rarely did much practice
outside class, and it showed. Now I am doing something every day, even if it is
not the magic number of reps.
Real Food
On the subject of diet, I have been thinking of Mr Repay`s
responses, and they do have some merit. I have been Gluten Free now for just
over a year, and this has side effects. When you go off gluten, you also tend
to go off of junk & fast foods, as these tend to be loaded with gluten. You
find that your choices are basically limited to healthy food and healthy
restaurants. If the only thing on a menu
of a restaurant that is gluten free is the fries and coke, it is not worth even
stopping in the first place. When the free donuts come around at work, I go
back to my lunchbox and get a gluten free snack instead. This means that I am
missing out on the usual sources of High Fructose Corn Syrup, extra salt and
red dye number 40, among other things. So is gluten the absolute guaranteed
cause of my previous arthritis symptoms? No, but whatever is, if it is not
gluten, it rides alongside of the gluten, and I am not willing to put myself in
pain to do the required experiment. So if you are not willing to go gluten
free, consider only eating high quality gluten (from artisans such as Mr Repay)
and forgo the garbage that is loaded with gluten and other chemicals, that
passes itself off as food.
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