Deciding to re include some meat in my diet

 I am reminded of a TV series that I recently began watching again after skipping an entire season or perhaps one and a half. It’s called The Handmaid’s Tale, and I am able to relate to the part where she says something like, pain has a way of making your world a whole lot smaller. To this, I would add that pain also has a way of slowing everything down.

 I had written about how my body seemed to just decide to stop eating meat, but I now see that there’s a little more to it. I had been wanting to cut meat out of my diet for quite some time. Truth be told, I would like to be able to stop eating altogether, while continuing to live as a human being of course. So while I’m here, I may as well experiment.

 When I stopped eating meat, I also began eating less and less — as per the undercurrent instructions that I’ve apparently also been giving myself, my body. After a while, however, I also began noticing (along the lines that others have warned) that it was becoming more and more difficult for me to keep up with the nutrients required to sustain my day to day living, working and especially the exercise that I like doing. Then one day, I noticed a pain in my left ankle. I recognized this kind of pain from back when I used to get gout from consuming large amounts of alcohol — which I no longer do.

 It seems to me that my physical body along with my reality and everything that goes along with it is like an enclosed system wherein balance must be maintained in order to optimally function. In reducing weight, reducing the mass of fat cells while also having to increase the muscle mass to keep up with my exercise regimen, my body was unable to contain or process certain toxins out of the fat cells. When that happens, the toxic information, which is what it is, seems to travel through the bloodstream and get stuck between the joints, which can be very painful. Yea, I, too, am sure that there is a lot more to it. I guess change is in many ways a balancing act of pushing ahead and sometimes pulling back a little to reroute and then push ahead some more.

 So, after a week of painfully enduring work, going to class and having difficulty sleeping, I decided to eat a couple of boxed lunch meals (one with chicken and one with pork) that the school cafeteria sells inside the entrance of the building that thankfully has all of the classrooms that I work in this semester.

 I don’t know if it was the massive amount of water that I’ve been drinking, eating a little meat, slowing down or just a coincidence of time passing by that made the difference. Either way, as my body has started feeling better and my physical energy has begun to return – almost immediately after eating some pork and chicken. So, I guess I’ll be including some meat in my diet for a little while longer.