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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 [...]

I am still having a hard time getting organized and active with my dietary changes. I get real busy and a little stressed and it is hard to mobalize the energy and create the momentum of change.

I had a thought today on my run that was based on some experiences I have been having recently. [...]

My resistance to dietary change has been up front for me lately. I haven’t made the moves into eating foods that I could grow that I have wanted to. I am lazy and complacent and eat by habit, not design. Gotta make it through this resistance to get to a place where growing my food [...]

I did some research on the web last night and there seem to be a lot of things I can grow and I am less worried, a little excited, but kind of overwhelmed. I had assumed that a wide variety of vegatables could be grown in my yard but I was worried that growing other [...]

I am going to begin a personal sustainability project. I want to live as sutainably as possible and to record a journal of my process. The first thing I am going to do is to start changing my diet to see how close I can get to living on foods that I could grow at [...]