Back in Golden, Colorado

Hi Everybody.

Big gap in the blog. I left Oak Ridge, Tennessee and came back to Golden, April first. A lot has happened since April. Mostly me falling off my exercise program and getting some fairly painful psoriatic arthritis. My exercise dropped down to less than ten minutes per day.

I've been doing a lot of reading about my condition. I am experimenting. I am off of artificial sweeteners. That is helping the arthritis, and I think the psoriasis is going into remission. I've been reading about leptin and I'm trying to go on a low carb diet. That seems to help keep my appetite under control. I may try to be a vegetarian a few days per week. That also seems to cut the appetite way down.

Last week I threw my back out and I've spent most of the week flat on my back in bed. Oh well. At least the back injury killed my appetite and I'm under three hundred pounds again!

I hope to resume swimming soon and light exercise next week.