I may be over exaggerating a bit because I'm sleep deprived form A) taking a red-eye flight home from Seattle two nights ago and B) going to Detroit last night and not getting home until 4:30am.
But dammit if I didn't accomplish a feat today that was more difficult than any other feat I've ever accomplished. To be honest though, the said feat is of course secondary to the feat where I convinced some nice lady to let me touch one of her boobies. I swear this has happened at least twice so far in my life, and it was awesome.
But back to today's feat of human endurance. Today, I, Brian Russell went 1 whole day without consuming gluten. A proud feat indeed.
It is a feat I've been considering for quite some time. For the past three years I've had a gastro-intestinal tract that at times was uncouth. I had no clue as to the source of this, but I thought that I should try and figure it out. I thought that I would maybe try to reduce my gluten intake since that was pretty much the one constant that featured in every meal I've ever eaten.
About 6 days ago I really made a determined effort to not eat gluten. On average the past 6 days I would last until about 3PM and usually would eat wheat based products 3 times each day. These were days where I was consciously trying to avoid gluten mind you. The worst was the day that I failed at 6AM by eating a sandwich.
After spending like 4 hours trying to think of foods that didn't have gluten and also didn't taste like ass I developed the strategy that I successfully deployed today. First I ate lunch (at 3pm because that's how I roll). I went to Chipotle for a salad. It's one of the few salads that I would order at a food establishment. Then came the hardest part, at 7:30pm it was time for Jeopardy and I needed something to drink. Usually if the food doesn't get me it's the beer and whiskey. But I had planned for this, and had bought the requisite items for a night of Rum & Cokes. Around 11pm it was time for dinner, so I leaned on my fallback option and got a Jimmy John's Bootleggers Club Unwrap. Neither meal was my preferred order, but it was out of sheer determination that I went through with my order. Mission Accomplished.
What's weird about how hard this was for me is that for the last 3 years I've lived with a roommate who was 'glu-tarded' and couldn't have gluten. I've watched him eat for 3 years and still have no idea how he survived. I think if I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance I would just eat gluten until I died because it is so good and delicious and everything I like is made of gluten.
The other thing that surprised me with how hard I found going one day gluten free was is that I once went an entire year without eating meat. I had no problem doing a year avoiding meat products but struggled mightily to spend even one day avoiding wheat products. I think my will power has gone downhill a bit.
Regardless I am a champion. Since I'm convinced that tomorrow I will falter, this probably won't tell me much if my gluten dependent diet is in any way tied to my indigestion problems. But I'm still proud of myself.
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