Okay dear readers, this is hard to believe but I have gout. My mother had gout and my grandfather and now here I am. I looked into foods high in the purines that antagonize the condition in my left "great toe' and unbelievably I found legumes listed-LEGUMES-my beloved beans and oatmeal and whole grain breads!!!! I am amazed and will be doing a lot of change in the ol diet. I knew about meat and seafood including (sob) coquilles, but beans!! and oatmeal and beer!! Good God. However I am free to love cream soups and yogurt and cheese and some chicken and eggs and all the things the diet doctors warn us against.
Well I had a dream the other week about seeing myself weighing in at the doctor's and I was well under the dread point-NO!! dear readers I refuse to give you an actual number but I have taken this to mean that the feeling I had that the spell of obesity that had me totally bewitched has passed. Yesterday I was down another 3or4 pounds even at the end of the day of some rather hearty eating. I am thinking that as I eat more for my health I will drop more weight and I will feel better.
The main thing for me is that I eat real food. No "fast food", no food from the freezer section at the store, no food from boxes. I don't always have to cook the food but that is the cheapest and the best.
About Me
- Singing Sparrow
- I almost always write in the early morning. I am an aging hippie living with my husband lover, my adult daughter,my almost adult granddaughter looking for her first full time job and my almost teenage grandson and my sister who is 11 months the younger. As the world prepares for a righteous struggle for individual independence and the correcting of the power of corporations to tell how, where and even when to live i seek the lower level where gardens grow and children learn. +++
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