Everything in moderation

I know I shouldn't have to say it here. But I am getting sick and tired of people trying to convince me that "cutting out X food" will help treat my health problems.
If I thought that cutting out certain foods or food components would truly help me, I would speak with my doctors, have many tests done, and form a personal nutrition plan.
Just because "everyone is doing it and they feel amazing" does not make me want to jump on any bandwagon.
I sympathize deeply with people who actually are allergic to things like gluten, dairy, soy, etc. I have a mild soy sensitivity myself. However, a food allergy is not a fad diet.
Also, I love whole wheat bagels, and if I hear one more person insist that bread is evil I will honestly start growling.
You eat or avoid whatever makes you feel good, and I will do the same. There. Everybody can be happy.

I've had such an insane craving for chocolate, any kind of chocolate, even junk chocolate. For the first time in years, I ate Hostess cupcakes and Little Debbie brownies. I've started making a beloved treat from childhood, chocolate chips in almond butter or peanut butter. Oh, how I must find pistachio butter and cashew butter. Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Ice Cream is now in the freezer. I haven't eaten potato chips in weeks; pickles seem to fill that craving. I've been snacking constantly on varied nuts. I wonder how chocolate pumpkin seeds taste.

For dinner, Adam made grilled pork chops that had marinated overnight in Asian spices. But the star of the meal was the side dish: White mushrooms smothered in a sauce made from mashed avocado, real butter, and chocolate flax seed oil. I've never had anything like it. I don't think it existed as an actual specific thing until tonight. I'd love to know if anything like it has been done - not just avocado with butter and plant oil, but something as particular as chocolate-flavored flax oil.

I'm normal, actually, thanks.

I don't know if this counts as whining, but...

Hey, body? Walking for twenty minutes twice a day with rest in between should not trigger massive flares that lead to spastic hypertonic reactions complete with hemiparetic tremors, intention tremors, locked joints, muscle cramps, migraines, shakiness, vertigo, and exhaustion.
Oh, wait. I forgot. You're you. It happens naturally. Right. Yargh. Lulz.
Well, at least I got some exercise in.

Time for more qigong and Pilates-style stretching! Again! The only workouts I can functionally do without screaming! Good thing I love them so.

Also, ha ha, this is funny: A few Facebook friends have been advising me to "erase every Facebook post that seems happy and cheerful" so that I look as pathetic and weak as possible in case someone with connections to SSDI sees my Facebook. However, it was my posting about feeling weak and in pain that caused several people to stop reading my posts or to drop me altogether. Hilarious in hindsight. Besides, I always pay a price for being out and about and being happy and cheerful, and I make a point to say so. Like when I went to DC the day before my birthday with friends and walked four miles between the MLK Jr. memorial and the Jefferson memorial and back. When we all got back to my house, I had to be physically supported by Red and Ramon, hobbling, from the townhouse parking lot to my front door, in tears and shaky. Climbing my stairs caused an outburst of tears and cursing. So, what do they want me to say? That I can enjoy going out and doing things but I must be miserable afterward? Pfft, I can do that in my sleep. Wait. I actually do that in my sleep. I wake up miserable all the time. I win, I guess?

I've been devouring the book "Chasing The Moon" by A. Lee Martinez, and there are so many amazing quotes that I've wanted to copy here, but I only have a physical copy, and typing in whole paragraphs would hurt my hands after a while. I just love that book so much. I even hugged it after a few pages in. I think it is that awesome. I also hugged Seanan McGuire's "Discount Armageddon" but that was because it's the best "first in a series" urban fantasy book I have read in years. I want to lend these books to all my friends, but I also want to try to keep the books safe and healthy with no damage or yellowing. I'd have to buy more copies strictly for borrowing. I have a thing with books, that favorite books must be stored and handled with care for as long as possible, even if they must be sealed in Ziploc bags whenever I am not reading them.
People think I'm weird or crazy for owning multiple copies of "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett as well as "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. My books are my preciouses.