ChiKat

Things I Ate in New Jersey:

1. East Coast Pizza
2. Calzones
3. Hoagies

Translation of Things I Ate in New Jersey From a Restricted Diet Point of View:

1. Dairy
2. Dairy
3. Dairy

Things That Ache Today:

1. My shoulder
2. My knee
3. My wrist
4. My jaw
5. My feet
6. My hands

I feel like I earned the pain. Have I written about this before? I can't remember right now, and I am too lazy to go back through the archives. When I am doing everything right (i.e., eating well and exercising regularly but not too strenuously) and I have arthritis pain, I become depressed and frustrated. It makes me feel like I have no control over my body.

But at times like this, when I know I ate foods that irritate my body, I feel like I earned the pain. I made the choice to eat decadently and now I'm paying the price with arthritis pain. I wish I didn't have to pay any price for eating whatever I wanted, but I'd much rather have pain I earned that random pain.