Pizza is evil!

I just performed a test of my gluten sensitivity. Now that I have lost weight and I'm twenty pounds lighter I thought I would try some pizza. The pizza was from Papa Murphies and it was delicious. We had a wonderful meal with the whole family.

I woke up in the middle of the night with dactylitis in my right hand proving that I am still gluten sensitive.

I'm going back onto a gluten free diet and I won't try any more experiments until all the arthritis clears up. I hope that will be soon. I didn't have any trouble until I weighed 280 pounds. I am hoping these health problems will go away this coming year.

My goal is to lose 24 pounds for 2012 and to lose 36 pounds for 2013.

Life is PAIN! The arthritis has been crippling lately and I am going to try drinking Apple Cider Vinegar, a shot every day. Maybe a shot glass twice a day. It seems to help with the indigestion. That seems strange. It is acetic acid. You might think it would make acid stomach worse, but it helps.

I started the year at size 54 and I am down seven centimeters from 142 to 135 cm and I have gone from XXL shirts to XL. I have punched three new holes in my belt. That's only losing eight Kilograms. That is the equivalent of a twenty centimeter cube of matter off my body. I like expressing it that way. I hope my imaginary cube will increase from twenty to thirty centimeters over the next year. Then I will be down 27 Kilograms.

I weighed in at 293.2 on the "good scale" today. Essential 133 Kg.

Only 53 Kilograms more to lose.

It is October the first and I just weighed in at 294.4 pounds. That's down 17 pounds for the year. Less than two pounds per month. I am now 46 % body fat. I want to lose a lot more weight and I am planning on losing four pounds for October. I really want to be down twelve kilograms for 2012.

WOW! It is September already and I have not been posting to my blog.

The good news is I am off of gluten! I went low gluten at Thanksgiving and that did not seem to make any difference. I drank a beer every Friday and had a little pizza every month. Well it seems that beer has gluten in it! It's not just the chewy breads that have the gluten so thick you can feel it. I am doing a much better now. I have been gluten free since June 2012, and I am losing weight. I have punched three new holes in my belt this year (2012) and my psoriasis is clearing up and I have not had any more arthritis flare ups. Unfortunately the joint damage is not healing very quickly. My left hip is still bad. Everything else is slowly healing. My knees are better, my shoulder is better, but my right hand still has swollen knuckles and limited flexability and a weakened grip.

I can swim but I have not been out on the bicycle. I hope to change that soon. I am only averaging about fifteen minutes of exercise per day. I really hope to increase that once my hip heals a little more.