GraceK
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Defren said:GraceK said:Ha! :lol: Blush indeed! You should be a life coach! Are you a Capricorn by any chance, because apparently they get younger and fitter as they get older so it sounds about right where you're concerned.
What's AJA? Is that Juvenile Arthritis?
I'll be 60 next July and now that I'm eating the right diet for me, I'm absolutely determined to be the fittest and healthiest 60 year old ever! So I've got a goal and I'm on a mission. I feel like I'm turning into the person I've always known as 'MYSELF' and I've never been so interested in food in all my life! I'm now researching all the wonderful websites I've been given on the forum and primal and paleo sound absolutely perfect to me. You just know when something makes sense don't you? I've found that I've very often gone totally against my intuition where food is concerned, I'm actually looking back and thinking "You KNEW you didn't really want to eat THAT, yet you damned well ate it!" I actually don't LIKE carbs. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy! I'm free!
That's another side effect of my new diet ... I get euphoric from time to time.:lol: :lol:
I am indeed a Capricorn, I'm not a life couch, much more boring and mundane than that.
Aggressive juvenile arthritis, yes. It's (apparently) one of the nastiest forms as it hits quick and knocks you for six and that is exactly what happened to me. I was fine one minute, next minute paralyzed just about. I spent the next 17 years in hell. Trying to work, bring up my daughters, not easy, but if I am anything I'm a fighter, so I battled on, then once diagnosed diabetic, the whole world seemed to go back 15 years. I could walk, I could do bits of housework, now, I do virtually everything in the home. There are a couple of things I still struggle with, but am lucky to have a cleaning lady come in and help. So, I can now manage all alone, even though I did get married this year. See, still life in us old goats. :lol:
Primal suits me down to a tee. I don't ever drink milk, but can't do without my Greek yogurt and cream, so I can't see me doing Paleo, I might do a 30 day paleo challange, but that would be all. I don't ever eat wheat or any grains, so it all slots into the primal lifestyle perfectly for me. I have a few friends on another site who are paleo, and I love reading how they are doing, should I ever change my mind.
I've been known to do a bit of primal screaming in my time :lol: Yesterday I bought a ready cooked bacon joint complete with 2 inches of fat and could hardly wait to get home so I could pounce on it! Of course I ate the fat first and I wondered why I bothered with the meat because I was enjoying the fat so much. And it was guilt-free too! I've stopped drinking milk too and don't miss it at all but I swapped to cream and coffee. No wheat or grains for me either. I'm wondering if all that bacon fat I ate yesterday is what gave me the energy to go swimming today, followed by a trip to Tesco followed by a walk in the park?
I'm not saying I like having diabetes but it's been a blessing getting the diagnosis because at least I had something to go on. And yourself with AJA and finding your change of diet has helped to alleviate that is absolutely brilliant. I'm so chuffed for you.
