Those reading this on the LiveJournal mirror already know that I’d decided to go vegetarian for a limited time to perform a little experiment. I’ve been struggling with gout this year just passing from one attack to the next, so I decided to see what I could do to lower my blood uric acid levels, so I cut out the meat for a few weeks. I have to say it’s been tremendously successful as the foot pain has vanished entirely (!!) after only a few weeks. The plan is now to reintroduce meat, but only at the evening meals. That should be a sufficient limit on my purine intake to keep the acid levels from jumping again.
…and you guys have no idea what pure bliss that first bite of meat was… Sorry to my veg readers out there, but the carnivore was made happy and the omnivore made whole!
First, kudos to you for taking a step towards at least trying something to better your health. I’m not a vegetarian, and I don’t think I could completely “go veggie” (I love all kinds of food so much!), and I definitely cannot go Vegan b/c I’d miss my cheese and yogurt (Bessie, we’re still cool, right? Right?). Pescatarian, maybe, but I admire anyone who actively tries to change for health reasons or other convictions after researching.
When I saw “last Oasis 200 miles”, I was thinking about the recent article I read about Oasis and the apparent falling out of Noel & Liam Gallagher, so my mind wandered before I finished it…
“my mind wandered before I finished it…”
Well, that’s a sure sign that the cartoonist isn’t doing his job!!! I was disappointed when I read that Oasis was breaking up, but then I remembered that it’s not the first time. With any luck, we’ll see them again in about two years…
Where were you while we were breaking u-up? Someday you’ll unite them…
Nah, my mind wandering was more a testament to how hard it was to realize we wouldn’t hear such quotes as “better than the Beatles” and see too many Noel Gallagher press freakouts…
Noel freakouts are nice but drunken Liam is always more amusing. Although, as far as drunken behavior, he peaked on that MTV concert oh-so-many years ago…