That’s my theory.
Things went fine last week: I had beans every day but two. Friday was a vegetable curry which had few beans, but some kind of lima presence. Saturday I had some black beans. The rest of the week is detailed here. I call it a success, and I will continue to eat more beans than before.
For those keeping track, I learned in tweak 1 not to ban foods, since it made them more interesting (even if I did avoid them).
I learned in tweak 2 not to promise to do something every day, but that 5x a week might be a manageable addition. Especially for a food item. Ahem, especially for a high fiber food item like beans.
I was not sure what to do this week, but noted that due to various reasons, I have not been walking as much as I’d like to, lately, nor as much as I am used to. So Tweak 3 is to walk as much as I am able, and certainly every day.
This may be very little, today, since my lower back is troubling me. (I spent five hours in a meeting in an uncomfortable chair– I don’t know if this ever happens to you, but the chair seems fine at the time, and the next day, you realize it wasn’t.) But I read that you should move around as much as you can with lower back pain, so I will.
Hopefully later in the week, I will walk more enthusiastically. With vim and vigour.
This seems like a manageable tweak; the onus is on me to make sure I stretch myself.
How, and what, are you doing?
Over and out.
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