Well, as much as I don't want it to be true, I think that I may have to admit that it seems very probable that diet is at least in part responsible for one of the plagues of my existence: headaches. At the other farm, where my diet was exceedingly different from home, I went almost a whole month without any headaches (excepting a couple I could directly attribute to dehydration). Now that I am at the new ranch, and I'm eating fairly similar fare to home, the headaches have been back in force. Since I am still away from (most) of the stresses of home, and the physical environment is nearly the same, I think the diet change is the most likely culprit.
So.
When I go home, it is my goal to mostly if not entirely quit the following:
Caffeine
Gluten
White sugar (probably corn syrup too)
Preservatives
Boo! Despite the fact that I loved the food at the farm, and never really felt like it was lacking (though it had basically none of these) I somehow feel my life at home will be sadly devoid of goodness without these things. ;-)
We'll see how well I manage. Easy to "avoid" such things when they are no where in evidence, but when I'm surrounded by them on all sides, I suspect it will be more difficult.
I've got to work on cutting all of that stuff out too, so we can feel "devoid of goodness" together. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat about alcohol?
ReplyDeleteIn going from literally eating brown sugar by the spoonful to regularly declining free cookies, I've found my life's goodness density has increased significantly. Regular food tastes better, I don't feel like shit, and I only ever crave sweets as much as I do any food when I'm hungry.
ReplyDeleteI think gluten is the only real tough one on that list. Sugar, at least, is easier to abandon than you think.
So, no salt then? ;)
ReplyDeleteYou did say no preservatives.