I'm another who mostly avoids conventional grocery stores to buy all organic foods, including grass fed beef when I eat it at all, and organic eggs and chicken. Usually shop Whole Foods. I remember a few years or more back when I first bought organically raised chicken how it tasted like chicken I used to buy many years ago. I had forgotten that taste! Also, like long ago, the organic chicken does not last long. The regular chicken I had been eating before switching always lasted a long time before going bad. What does that say?! Have others noticed this? I'm so glad I've switched to organic, as I used to eat a lot of corn, and only recently learned about Roundup in conventionally grown/gmo corn. YIKES! One other thing, I ate out more than usual this summer but often did not enjoy quite as much as I kept thinking of the food - especially salads, as kind of "toxic".... I did have a large weight gain this year when mainly eating conventional food during a long convalescence, but believe it was connected to no activity + increased appetite and unhealthier choices. When I lose weight eating organic I connect it to my Mindfulness about eating healthier and my focus on making more wholesome choices. Also, organic food is VERY much costlier, and it is harder for me to justify $$$ by eating more.

Before the tonsillectomy I simply could not gain weight. I did not enjoy being a skinny guy, and I would lift weights (to no avail) in an effort to bulk up. Then at age 26, my tonsils were so bad that the ENT doc decided they had to be removed. After the 3-4 recovery, I noticed my body growing noticeably larger. Without much effort, I was able to put on muscle. Usually this process is slow and insidious. But I swear that the tonsillectomy had a transformative effect on my body. From January to July of that year, I was a skinny twerp. For the 3-4 weeks which followed the July surgery, I was a sickly mess. But from August to December, my physique had quickly started to look more like a man's than a boy's. The chronically infected and swollen tonsils were draining a certain amount of lifeforce out of my body. Perhaps my body was so busy fighting the infected tonsils that it neglected other areas. And like a couple others here have said, the chronically infected tonsils were making probably me sickly.

Well, it's an expensive method, but I just ate out all the time. That meant no snacking between meals, no grazing out of boredom. I had to get up and leave the house to eat anything more than fruit, so I only really ate meals when I was hungry. And I never really had more than one meal's worth of food on hand at a time, so I couldn't really overeat. Also, restaurants are better at preparing vegetables than I am, so I find vegetables at restaurants a lot more exciting and ate a lot more of them. I wish I could afford to do that all time. It was easier, I was thinner, and the food was better.

I've run out of window space. Wish I knew hot to set up artificial lights. I've been looking at set ups with T5 bulbs, but they only come in 5,000K. Can't find the set up with 6,500K bulbs