Captain's Log - Chapter 38
Weather - Cool
Mood - Sleepy
Still Reading
1. Dragonstrike (completed. yippee!)
2. Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King) - reaching the end soon
3. Getting Rid of Gout
4. Positive Revolution - Edward de Bono
Meatless Diet... well almost
Had a horrendous gout attack since my last update. Well, I should say recurring attack as my ankle did not recover from my first 2 visits to the doc. The gout attack on my ankle doesn't seem to be much impressed with my attempts in cutting the amount of meat in my daily diet. Trying my best don't seem to be good enough. I have to admit that I took quite a lot of duck soup at my girlfirend's place. Her mum really knows how to cook up a storm! But well, one moment's folly has given me another week of pain. Advice to all gout sufferers out there, do remember that soups made with meat is as bad as consuming the meat itself.
Oh well, that was around 2 weeks back. Since my 3rd visit to the doc, I have been a rather good boy. Avoided meat when I could. In absolute terms, my meat intake has dropped significantly to around 10-30% of the meat I used to consume in my daily diet. Hope I cam cut down on that figure some more. Apart from the fact that my joints are getting less stiff (hope I am not imagining things!), I feel psychologically better. Guess taking control of your life, no matter on what issue, is a boost to one's outlook and psyche.
Surprisingly, I don't really miss consuming meat. The only problem I have now is that the food served at my office's cafeteria sucks big time. The vegetables are no good, and it doesn't help that the cook is better in the preparation of meat dishes. But for the sake of my health, I will have to live such a life. To ameliorate this meatless diet, I am going learn all the tastiest non-meat recipes in the world!
Oh yeah, I am also currently working on a website. This will be unleashed on the Internet sometime soon. So do keep a look out!
