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Originally Posted by Calianna
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Any chance you could raise a few of your own from chicks so that you can control their diets? (I live in an area that prohibits backyard chickens, but it might be worth looking into)
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Not a chance. They are allowed here. But as a musician, I get a lot of out-of-town work, sometimes gig on cruise ships for extended periods of times, so to have any pets or livestock that will depend on me is out of the question.
It would be cruel to the animals, and I can't do that.
I do eat one or two eggs per week. At that rate, it doesn't bother me. When I was eating them every day, it was killing me. I buy those pasture raised eggs at the grocery store.
I quit eating chicken, too. Once or twice a year, at the most, only if invited to join friends. Breaded, fried, chicken breasts with honey were a treat for me in the past, and I enjoyed it then, but not now. I enjoyed skin diving and other activities, too, but no longer do them either. Life is indeed a journey.
Instead of dwelling on the foods I once enjoyed, and no longer eat, I focus on the foods that I can eat, and are nourishing for me.
So, my diet is limited, but my health is outstanding, and I plan to live to be a healthy 120 — so far — so good.
When I see my doc for an annual physical, she tells me “See you next year”. All my blood work is in the normal zone, I hardly ever even catch a cold (last one was about 15 years ago) and I can't remember the last time I had the flu. It was before keto, and I don't get flu shots. I did get COVID shots though - better safe than sorry in that department.
You can focus on what you like to eat, you can focus on what agrees with you, and you can focus on both what you like that agrees with you. Everyone has to make that choice. I choose the third.
It sometimes takes some work to find out what agrees/disagrees with you. Research plus elimination diets worked for me. No two of us are alike in that respect.
IMO without your health, you have nothing. So instead of living to eat, I eat to live.
I hope all of us on this board finds their individual way to health.