This Crow Tastes Terrible

On this blog, from time to time, I have poked fun at food, diets, gluten, eating fads (though I have never called anyone a faddy to their face) etc.

All in good fun, of course. Yes, that's only a tongue in my cheek, naughty people.

And now I find myself having to make some serious changes to my diet.

So it's time for me to "eat crow" concerning all this making fun of diet fads. I apologize to all the foodie people out there, and to the crow I'm about to kill and eat.

For most of my life I've eaten pretty much what I want, when I want it. Except when I was single. You can replace the word "eaten" in the previous sentence with "drank", and that was my single life.

Nowadays, as the free radicals attack my aging body, I find I have issues with drinking beer while eating.

It's getting harder and harder to carry on with this healthy activity. I need to make a change.

It's not a change I take lightly. I want to live to be a healthy 137, but also enjoy myself a bit. It's just so hard to do that when I have a couple of beers with, say, a pizza or chicken wings.

I get way too full, even bloated, when I coincide beer and food. And tired, too. Oh, so tired. But then I can't sleep properly. What the "F" is that? I don't get it.

This obviously can't continue.

I did some research and this is all very common as people get older. There's a ton of research out there and I studied a fair amount of it.

I have to thank some of my Facebook friends as well, who have posted informative articles on food, special diets and how to handle digestive problems.

Some of that research is contradictory, to be sure, but I think I've settled on a strategy that makes sense for my circumstances.

I've discussed this with my wife as well. She's fed up with my complaining and just wants me to adopt new eating habits that are healthy and will stop the whining.

So, there you have it. Add me to the list of people who are getting a bit fussy with their dietary habits.

From now on…I will drink before I eat.