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The recent period of time has been very productive in many ways, but I have slid back in my attempts to change my eating habits to the point where I can grow a lot of my own food and live well eating what I grow. I need to get back on track this weekend, more [...]

During the hollidays I got a gift of Dr Andrew Weil’s book, Healthy Aging. Dr Weil recomends eating the anti-inflamatory diet to promote healthy aging. The research and thinking behind the diet is that chronic inflamation in the body encourages the development of chronic diseases like, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and alzheimers, to name a [...]

Today has gone well so far in terms of eating foods that I could eventually grow. More vegatables today along with a fair ammount of fruit. My subjective experience has been that my appetite gets satisfied easier than when I eat a lot of refined sugar. I gained weight yesterday even though I ate better, [...]

Yesterday I had the best day of food consumption, in terms of eating what I could grow, since I started my personal sustainability project. I did not have as many urges to eat as much as fast and seemed to be a little more even tempered.

I will try to be more aware of the experience [...]

I grew up thinking that fruits and vegatables were yucky and not really food. That is unfortunate because I could actually grow and eat them. My childhood was spent growing up in the 1950’s. Mom cooked, and we also got a lot of the early convienence food, frozen dinners,

Just writing it down should give me some momentum. Grains, nuts, seeds, beans, vegatables and fruits. I can grow them all. Eating those things is the foundation of my personal sustainability plan. Once I have some momentum in eating those foods, I will start growing them in my yard. Then comes harvesting, eating, and preserving [...]