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[Neonivek]

Pass on the recipe for the corn cake! I don't have too much of a sweet tooth these days but I don't mind eating more sweets, especially honey which isn't nearly as concentrated as pure sugar

It isn't as sweet as ordinary cake is for example. That is why it is good with honey (in this case the honey is much sweeter then the cake).

Though I'll take what you said as more of a "I am not against eating Corn Cake, I just don't want to go out of my way to make it when sweets aren't my thing"

I don't want to argue about herbal medicine.

Ehh we were kind done with that and no one was really against it.

Woke up with whole system feeling clogged up from allergies. Must be some new pollen in the air or something

To my knowledge you can actually look up pollen indexes. I'll try to find it for you!

http://www.meteovista.co.uk/Europe/Hay-fever-Czech-Republic/137

There... depending on where you live you can be having an absolutely terrible time.

[Sappho]

Thanks for that link, Neonivek! I've been trying to find something like that for this country but haven't been successful. It seems it hasn't changed in this past week though, which suggests that my increase in allergies is either the result of not drinking the tea, or of cutting gluten from my diet. As far as I know, gluten doesn't alleviate allergies, so it must be the tea.

[Gervassen]

Entire cultures live on little more than rice and beans and they seem to do just fine. East Asians are some of the healthiest people in the world, and their diet is based on these things and little else.

1 kg of pork is 34 元 which is 7€ and people eat a lot of it in the modern era. Average height is now 1.8 meters and growing. Never pretend that the old "eastern" diet was good. I mean, I suppose being small is cute on a girl, but if you're a man, you gotta eat meat.

[Sappho]

Actually, pork is quite affordable, but it's the one meat I really dislike the taste of.

I've actually just gotten some information about vitamin B12. Apparently it's crucial for a lot of neurological function, especially memory, and a deficiency can cause all kinds of issues including terrible memory, brain fog, and even signs of psychosis. My almost entirely vegetarian diet doesn't seem to include any sources of this important vitamin. Generally I consider all vitamin pill supplements to be hokum, but I talked to some other people with asperger syndrome who said they've had great success taking 2500 mg of B12 in pill form each day to help their memory issues. So I've decided that this gluten-free experiment will end after today, and tomorrow I will buy some B12 pills and start a new experiment, carefully tracking my cognitive function as I take the pills each day to see if there is any improvement.

Spoiler: Friday notes (click to show/hide)

Breakfast: banana, glass of diluted apple juice, glass of double-strength anti-allergy tea (which means double bad taste, bleeeccchhhhh)
Snack: Chopped veggies, a few spears of boiled white asparagus (the lunch lady cooked it for us as a treat), a large slice of cornbread
Lunch: Rice and beans from last night (a big plate), cup of oolong tea
Snack: Bit of chopped veggies, more cornbread
Dinner: Can of pre-made "Mexico" flavor tuna salad (I shudder to think of the sodium and preservative content of this, but I was rushing to my Taiji workshop and didn't have any time to grab anything else), another slice of cornbread, anti-allergy tea

-Woke up with whole system feeling clogged up from allergies. Must be some new pollen in the air or something. Maybe birch trees? Those tend to be really terrible. Hoping that things get better as I continue to drink the tea. Not looking forward to work, but less lethargic and miserable than I've been. Hormone levels might finally be stabilizing. I've noted over the past few days that toilet habits have not changed at all under this gluten-free diet. I know it's only been just under a week, but I would have expected at least a small difference by now if I was gluten intolerant. Add to that the fact that I was tested for celiac about ten years ago and the test came back negative (false negatives are possible though, and I could have developed it by now anyway), and I'm leaning even more heavily towards "no gluten intolerance." I suppose the real test will come when I add the gluten back to my diet.
-As of evening, still feeling hungry, considering breaking the diet early and just boiling up some pasta. I don't even have any bread since I haven't bought any this week. I grabbed some potatoes on the way home from the workshop, considering making a batch of fries, but it's already really late and I have to get up for training in the morning...

Hopefully tomorrow I'll find time to neaten up the first post of this thread. I'll try to put each experiment in its own spoiler with the daily notes organized in each one. Eventually I will move the notes somewhere else, maybe Google docs for convenience, and just provide a link to each one. I'm looking forward to making the spreadsheets. Ohhhh beautiful, beautiful spreadsheets!!! 

[Xantalos]

Hey, B12 IS good for you!

[Vector]

Yeah, I take sublingual B12.  Without it my anxiety problems used to be really bad.

(Also an AS person)

[misko27]

Hmm, I should most likely check to see how much of each vitamin I take.


Oh yes, I recall getting a blood-test a while back. I have a deficiency of Vitamin D.

[Sappho]

OK, the woman with the info from the doctor (she was sharing this revelation on wrongplanet.net) says I should start the following immediately if I'm showing signs of psychosis:

B12 - 2500 mcg/day
Niacinamide - 100 mcg/2xday
B-multivitamin

I have taiji training now and then a demonstration at a sports day for expats in the afternoon. After that I'll head to the pharmacy and grab these.

In other news, I'm feeling very nice about my breakfast this morning. I am officially off the gluten-free diet. I'll continue to keep track of my diet for general purposes.

Breakfast: A jar of peach-flavored baby food, Several large spoonfuls of Greek-style yogurt, and a large handful of piskoty (a very popular local snack which is basically ladyfingers shaped like nilla wafers). The piskoty are soaked in the babyfood for about 25 minutes to make them soft, then mixed with the yogurt. DELICIOUS and full of sugar. Unhealthy eating tastes soooo niiice. Anyway I think I've earned a treat, and it's way less unhealthy than, say, a bowl of chocolate cereal.
Also, a cup of coffee with soya milk and a spoon of raw sugar, a glass of watered-down apple juice, and a cup of anti-allergy tea.

[Max White]

1 kg of pork is 34 元 which is 7€ and people eat a lot of it in the modern era. Average height is now 1.8 meters and growing. Never pretend that the old "eastern" diet was good. I mean, I suppose being small is cute on a girl, but if you're a man, you gotta eat meat.

Not exactly true. Soy beans contain more protein for weight than meat. Most body builders enjoy a diet involving protein supplements that are made from soy beans. As for 1.8m average height, well... Not unless you are German.

[Sappho]

Also, most of my male friends are vegetarians and have been since they were young teenagers (still growing), and all of them are very tall, some nearly 2 meters. Meat is hardly the main factor in how tall you are. And you can be perfectly healthy without meat.

[Max White]

Well, if you know how to have a balanced vegetarian diet, you can be very strong and healthy without meat. Having said that, you can't just decide to go vegetarian without doing some research first, otherwise you will end up with dietary deficiencies. Such as vitamin b12.


You can never have enough b12. 

[DJ]

As for 1.8m average height, well... Not unless you are German.

It's 1.86m if you're from ex-Yugoslavia

But yeah, I think it's more down to dairy consumption, having lots of calcium in diet can't be bad for bone growth. Though we do tend to eat meat in every meal, too.

[Sappho]

Gluten-free week is over but the pharmacies aren't open until Monday, so it looks like I'm on a break this weekend. Tomorrow morning after Taiji training I might head to the only pharmacy I know that's open on weekends and grab the pills to start that tomorrow. For now I'll just keep track of my food and overall mood, watch for any changes with the re-introduction of the gluten, and try to do some organizational things in my life like cleaning my apartment, catching up on drawing comics, finishing the preparations for my new adventurer succession game, and maybe fixing up the first post of this thread.

Spoiler: Saturday notes (click to show/hide)

Breakfast: A jar of peach-flavored baby food, Several large spoonfuls of Greek-style yogurt, and a large handful of piskoty (a very popular local snack which is basically ladyfingers shaped like nilla wafers). The piskoty are soaked in the babyfood for about 25 minutes to make them soft, then mixed with the yogurt. Also, 2 cups of coffee with soya milk and a spoon of raw sugar, a glass of watered-down apple juice, and a cup of anti-allergy tea.
Snack: some leftover rice and kim chi with very nice tea with friends before the taiji demonstration
At demonstration: one beer (half liter but I didn't finish it, gave it to one of my friends - I had about 2/3 of it)
Late Lunch / Early Dinner: several cups of leftover nice tea given to me by my taiji teacher. Three fried eggs on buttered toast with a thin slice of turkey meat on each. The turkey meat is in distressingly perfect circles, but it's nearly impossible to get real proper, unprocessed turkey in this country and this was the nicest-looking of the available sandwich meats when I stopped at the market.
Evening: One "lemonade" flavored beer. I was hoping it would help me sleep but it didn't do any good.

-Finally got the hormone relief I wanted. Feeling much better. I skipped the morning taiji training due to cramps but felt fine for the afternoon and had a great time at the demonstration. I made friends with an amazing puppy while there and my cat is currently snoozing curled up next to me on the couch. It's been raining off and on all day but the sun is out at the moment. I hope I'll finally have the motivation to clean today. I want to invite someone over tomorrow for lunch or dinner, so I really need to get this place looking presentable and that's a pretty good motivator.
-I looked at that turkey meat package and realized just how much sodium is in sandwich meat. I'm not sure the best way to deal with this. The occasional few slices of sandwich meat are basically my only source of meat, and they make a big difference to the taste of something. I'll have to be careful how often I buy and eat these meats. According to the package, the 3 slices of turkey I had contained about 600 mg of sodium. That's just crazy. Sandwich meat will have to be a rare treat from now on I guess. I'll finish this package so it doesn't go to waste, but I won't buy any more for a while.

[Sappho]

Spoiler: Sunday notes (click to show/hide)

Breakfast: cup of allergy tea, cup of strong black pu-erh tea, last hunk of cornbread

woke up feeling terrible. Sinuses hurt, eyes hurt, coughing, feeling exhausted even as I'm getting out of bed. Decided not to go to training this morning. After tea, a shower, a bit to eat I'm feeling a little better. Not sure yet if this is allergies or a cold, will find out soon I'm sure. Feeling well enough to go out now, about to go buy some of that vitamin B12 and some groceries. I know I should eat more but I don't really have an appetite, which is unusual for me.

I got some more information about vitamin B12. Apparently I should take it for a month and if I don't see any improvement, it's not helping, so I shouldn't waste my money on any more. If it does help I should see a doctor for full diagnosis. The month begins today. I'll make up a spreadsheet this afternoon to track my progress.

[ChairmanPoo]

Shouldn't you go to your doctor *before* further fooling around? You can see whether you have a B12 deficit or not with a simple blood test, you know.