Tweak five went okay. I ate as many fruits and vegetables as I could manage.
Continuing some earlier tweaks, I also ate beans almost every day, until Friday.
When I got a bad case of food poisoning!
That kind of did away with the fruits and veg and beans for a few days. Once I started eating again, I am afraid I could only stomach simple carbs and bananas. I actually ate peanut butter and jam sandwiches on white bread.
White bread!
And I don’t mean a nice artisan bread, but soft Arnold white bread.
(I sent someone to buy the white bread, because it is not something I have around.)
But it’s fine. I am almost back to normal, eating some fruits and veg and even tuna.
This week, tweak seven, will be most appropriate for someone who was at an advanced state of dehydration over the weekend: I am going to drink 64 oz. of water per day, every day. More if I do more than a little exercise.
And I am going to count refills of my Sigg bottle, so there’s no question whether I did it or not.
I figure this one is both do-able (for a week when I am not quite 100%) and essential. I have always been a water drinker, but I don’t always have the recommended eight 8-oz. glasses. Seems like a good time to start.
How are you, readers?
How’s your tweaking going?
Is anyone out there?!?!?!?!?!
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I hope the food poisoning wasn’t a result of eating the beans. As you know, during the US economic blockade of Nicaragua when I was living there, rice and beans was the basic diet, or occasionally, beans and rice, for variety. Or if you were in the countryside you could supplement this with tortillas. During one extremely difficult year we were living on US$10 a month, plus a ration of rice, beans and sugar. Surplus could be traded at the market for plantain, vegetables and coffee. We couldn’t waste anything. Fortunately Nicaraguans are acutely aware of just how long you can leave beans sitting out (hot climate, erratic electricity supplies, no fridge). My girlfriend of the time was expert at judging almost to the hour when beans would have to be either eaten, or thrown out. Beans can be deadly, if not treated with due caution.
Hi Wrick!
Thanks for your concern.
No, I think the beans were ok. With refrigeration, I understand they can go most of a week, but I never have them more than a few days.
It was apparently a restaurant meal that was the culprit.
How is the writing going, anyway?!?
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