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Posted in Personal Health, Personal Story on Mar 31st, 2013
Slept well, but woke up at 5 am because work issues were racing through my head. Not unusual. Stayed in bed for another hour, alternately resting and playing with my iPad My headache is still with me this morning. I’m starting to think that my belief last year that the headache was due to caffeine withdrawal was […]
Posted in Personal Health, Personal Story on Mar 30th, 2013
I went to sleep about 9pm last night, and slept deeply until I was Woken up at 5:40 this morning by my alarm. Oops forgot to turn it off yesterday since its my day off today. But I had some things I had to get done this morning before I start the routine today. Because […]
Posted in Personal Health, Personal Story on Mar 29th, 2013
After having such a rough time of it last year on the juice portion of the fast, I decided to take matters in my own hands. Last year I bought prepared juices and had a fairly rough time. I’m not sure if it’s just that my stomach didn’t like the extras that come with commercially […]
Posted in Personal Health, Personal Story on Mar 28th, 2013
Last year, I did a milk cure for 3 weeks, blogged it and regained my health and perspective in the process. This year, I’m going to do it again. I’ve had a number of people ask me why I’m doing it for a second year and if its going to be a yearly ritual. This […]
Posted in Fitness, Personal Health, Personal Story on Mar 26th, 2013
For a while I thought I was going to have to confess to another set point or plateau this month. But in the last week I’ve dropped some weight and while the overall weight loss is only .9 pounds. It’s still a loss. I’m just about 4 1/2 pounds away from my next reward. Finally […]
Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Mar 19th, 2013
Over the past few years, I’ve ordered all of my meat from I order my meat from a local farmer. He not only sells beef, but poultry, pork, lamb and goat. I tend to have two orders, a spring order which includes beef and pork and a winter order which includes beef and a whole […]
Posted in Personal Health, Personal Story on Mar 12th, 2013
A few weeks ago, I went for my yearly physical. In preparation for this, I went to get blood tests. In the interests of light and transparency, I’m not only posting this year’s values for some of the more important tests, but test values that I can find going back to 2005 as well. I […]
Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Mar 5th, 2013
One of the frustrations of doing a gluten-free and low carbohydrate way of eating is sometimes you just want something hot and heavy and cheesy. I haven’t had lasagna in many years, but I knew this summer that I wanted to experiment with making it out of my preserved foods. So when I had a […]
