Artifice
October 6th, 2024Good goat times today. Tough day for the goats, though. Hoof trimming day. Uh oh. No bueno!
Last time we had a visiting helper who taught Jeanette how to do it. So today it was just us. With Sebastian and Anna helping. Bella and Luna was done without too much fuss. Sebastian is a big strong guy, he basically wrapped his arms around them and help them still. I was holding their heads and comforting them. No problems with them.
And then there’s Sky.
Skittish Sky, knew something was up and was not having any of it. She ran away. And she ran and she ran. If I hadn’t been feeling bad for her it would have been pretty funny, for grown humans chasing a tubby little goat around. We tried backing her into a corner of the pen, and other things. She may be tubby, but those little legs can run fast. And she kept slipping by us. Poor girl was pretty scared. We took a break and the others went into the bunny house, I think the bunnies got some triming too. I tried to make Sky feel better. But I didn’t manage to grab a hold of her so she was on the run again when Jeanette, Sebastian and Anna returned. I went into the gouse and they manage to shoo her in there with me. And we closed the doors and were able to get it done. Bella and Luna had been standing when we did it, but we put Sky down on her side for hers. It went okay once we got going. Jeanette seems to have the hang of it.
So, at least that’s done now. Everyone survived. And a few treats later they stopped giving me the evil side eye.
Sebastian said they couldn’t have done it without me. Well I think they would have manage just fine, but it’s always nice to feel of value and I’m glad I could help.
Anna was telling me how Luna is her favourite. She is a cuddly little goat, very loving.
Although Sky doesn’t agree with that. Sky more and more running from her too. Sigh. I talked to Jeanette about maybe getting a litlte outside shelter done or fetching the goat house from the old old playground. But I don’t know if it will be possible. Apparently the financial situation is a lot tighter than previously assumed, there isn’t much room for much.
We’ll see.
30/9 2024
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The good thing about getting your hooves trimmed is you can guilt the human into extra treats afterwards. Calm down, Sky. We did not torture you, no need to call the UN.
30/9 2024
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Bella during the hooftrimming. Everyone hold on tight!
30/9 2024
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It wasn’t all bad for the goats today. After the hoof trimming ordeal, Sky went down in the pen and realised someone had left a gate open. There’s a bit of space back here, behind the bunny and chicken coops. The goats aren’t supposed to be in there, but I figured I’d let them spend a little time there to make up for the previous indignity. Because they aren’t allowed in there, the greens there were untouched. So lots for them to snack on.
30/9 2024
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Had my date with the optician today.
it went very well. I am always nervous about these things. These things meaning humans, and being around them. Especially new and unfamiliar places and people. Luckily the optician is right down in the shopping centre where Iused to do my grocery shopping, until they close that store. But easy to get to.
I was very nervous before hand. Doing that thing where you rehearse everything you intend to say in your head for a day or two before. I’m not the only one who does that, right? And then when you actually get there you get beffudled and forget everything you had planned. Haha.
But I was greeted by a nice young man. He was super kind and calm and understanding and helpful. A really nice experience. I eventually did tell him more about my condition and all that. And we went and did the sight test. Is this better or is that better, number 1 or number 2. So on and so forth. The result was that I might be able to get a tiny improvement if I wear glasses. But it won’t be much.
He wasn’t very pushy about it, said “they question is whether it would be worth it you you”. As my eye doc had said too.
Well, I decided it was worth trying. I’m not sure it’s actually going to feel any better at all, if it will be any feeling of improvement at all. But I would rather have tried it and know for sure than not tried it and go around wondering. So I decided to go ahead with it.
My plan was to get one pair for when I’m sitting at the computer and one pair of filter glasses for use outside, like the pair I have now but with a little strength in them. And they had ‘2 for 1’ deal so that worked out.
I don’t care at all about how the glasses look. You know me, i’m a mud hobo goat herder, I don’t care if I look like literal shit. So I just went with the cheapest they had. And then added on the uv filter for one pair and some digital use improveents for the other. Came out to a little more than 1000 kroners for the two. About 150 us dollars, 110 british pounds. So for me that’s worth giving it a shot. I might not gain anything in the end, but I want to try.
The optician told me that because I’m on disability and have the diabeetus I may be able to get some of it covered by our healthcare system. He filled in the application for me and I signed it and he’ll send it off. I twould be nice if I could get some of it covered, but we’ll have to see. I have to wait for the application to get processed now. Probably at least a week, maybe more. And then they have to get the glasses done, I don’t know how long that takes. But I probably won’t have it all done for another 2-4 weeks or so? We’ll see about that too. Crossing all my fingers that I can get a little benefit out of them. I’m glad I got out and got it done in any case. My first thought when the eye doc brought it up was “I don’t want to deal with that”. I am SO avoidant. Even when it comes to think that could help me, my instinct is always to bury my head in the sand and hope it goes away. So I’m glad I went and that it went well and that’s alls I can do, I cants do no more. Now it’s the hand of the second sights.
1/10 2024
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Still loe Bella, even if she’s a stinker.
1/10 2024
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Is the Earth flat? Look, who’s to say. But all I know is that pizza is my world, so in a way…
Hashtag perspectiveperplexive
1/10 2024
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Imagine spending 4k on Taylor Swift’s guitar to smash it and make a point, when there are people in dire need in your own country, let alone the whole world. I hope he donated at least the same amount to hurricane relief or something. The utter idiocy, malice, unthoughfulness, uncaring, uncharittable. I know I have deep prejudice, but I can’t help thinking ‘he must be a Christian’. Not all Christians, but definitely some.
I can’t even fathom it. I wouldn’t buy one of Bill Cosby’s old sweaters to burn it for Internet Creds, what good would that do. Donate the money to survivors, victims whatever.
ugh the fkn moral bankrupcy of humanity.
And for the record, I’m not a Taylor Swift. I’m pro swift, but i don’t really care about her music or guitars. It’s not about who’s stuff got smashed, it’s about the fkn baby hilter attitudes. The diseased public discourse.
It’s so sad to see American lower itself to this sht.
And calling Kamala mentally impaired. Whatever you think of her, she’s not stupid. It would be pretty sad if you got your orange ash handed to you by someone who’s stupid. It’s one of the things I will never get over, that half of America think that his way of acting is acceptable. The kind of stuff he says about his own side, the other side. No wonder America is sinking into the cesspool. And again not talking about the politics, it’s the quality of the person. That you can’t see what a low class individual he is. I’m doing another round ofThe Soup rewatch and he’s on there a lot because of his celebrity status and tv shows and it was so apparent even then that he was always such a nasty, low class person. The way he talks and acts. But you laugh it off when he’s just some blowhard hosting celebrity apprentice. But there’s zero difference between then and now, other than the creeping dementia.
fkdy fk. I’ll probably get banned for this one, but dang I needed to vent. Maybe I should buy a guitar and smash it over my own head.
1/10 2024
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Front page goat cleanse. Be the goat. Embrace the goat. Be the goat.
1/10 2024
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while you make pretty speeches
1/10 2024
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Red Sonja having breakfast too.
2/10 2024
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Good goat times today. A beautiful sunny day with lovely blue skies. Not warm. But pretty. I arrived later than usual, the reason for which I’ll write about in a later post. Bella and Luna were sitting together on the platform, Sky was sitting by the foot of the mountain. The sun has started to move, not hitting the bench and playset so much anymore. But all three goats had found good spots in the sunshine here. Just wish they could sit together all three. But then, even when Sky was in charge, she would often go off to sit on her own. She doesn’t mind sitting and relaxing by herself.
We had some visitors feeding the goats, but nothing too extravagant. No pancakes today, though the campfire was going. I think they were making hot cocoa.
And I got myself a new jacket! From Jeanette. You might recall she tried giving me a winter coat last winter that used to be her son’s, but I couldn’t fit it because I was too big. Well, that coat got donated. But she had another jacket, not quite a winter one but an ‘in-betweener’. And with my new size, well I was practically swimming in it. Her son must be taller than I am. But width-wise it fits a lot better. it’s warmer and comfier than the jacket I’ve been wearing. So that’s pretty good. I think that will serve me will until we get into real winter. Although Jeanette told me there had been frost on the grass when she got there. Nooo. Too soon. Ugkh.
Anyway new jacket. And I got new shoes too, these ones I bough myself. They are almost winter boots. A lot warmer than the ones I’d been wearing, but i’m still trying to wear them in. I’m in a constant fight with my own posture, to keep my back functional, and the new shoes are making it tougher. But hopefully I’ll get used to them.
New jacket, new shoes, same old me. Got home and did an hour twentyfive on the bike. It’s always tough doing it after being out goating, but it feels good. Work it, baby.
3/10 2024
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Sorry bout the no-goat photo. But I justed wanted to show off the jacket Jeanette gave me. All the pics with me and goats kinda got sunroasted.
It’s not the best fit, it’s a little too long probably and the sleeves are just a little too long, if I don’t roll them up a bit. And it has a tendency to bunch up when sitting, making me look like I still got the same old belly. Haha. But other than that, it is really warm and comfy, it’s going to sere me well here in the fall I think, until I have to bring out the winter coat.
Funny how Jeanette’s son’s coat was too small for me last winter, now it’s closer to too big.
Thank you, Jeanette!
3/10 2024
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Beautiful blue sky today. And beautiful Sky spent a lot of time sitting on the mountain in the sunshine.
3/10 2024
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I mentioned that I was late for the goats today. That was because I had to do phonecalls in the morning.
Talking to humans, ew. Gross.
I got a reply back to my application for the filter glasses. The reply was, we need more information.
Apparently the optician hadn’t ticked off any of the options of why I should get the aid.
Well, the letter said to contact. There were two phone numbers, one of the aid center and one for their optometrists. I figured it was the optrometrists I should talk to, but they only had phones open twice a week, later in the day. The main number had phone time from 9.30 to 11.30 am. So I thought I’d better try that first. So I stayed home till 9.30 and called sand they said “you should call the optometrists”. d’oh. Well, off to see the goats then. And luckily today was also one of the two days that the optrometrists answer the phone, so when I got back from the goats I called them. And the nice lady explained that they need to know why I want the aid, and since it’s eye disease related they need information from my eye doc. So now I gotta contact them.
Eye doc only has phone time between 8 and 10 am, so I’ll have to try that tomorrow. Hopefully I can get them to send my records to the aid center. i’m just.. bad one the pone. But to be fair, so am I in real life. I’m not good at explaining myself, or retaining information and stuff. I hope the eye doc secretary will know how to handle it, i’ll probably have to call the optometrists and ask them exactly what informatino they need and where it has to be sent and on and on in circles and closed phone lines fffffftk. I’m stressed and my anxiety is flaring.
Annoying,
I also had two packages schedules for delivery today. I missed them. According to the tracking they attempted delivery at 9.24 and 9.39. Which makes no sense, they would have been with the same delivery guy, how could they be 15 minutes apart, and I was definitely home at 9.24 since I called the aid center at 9.30. I guess their stated times are ‘approximately’ and they attempted delivery right after I had left home. Oh well. Would have been nice if I had gotten them so I don’t have to go pick them up.
Also kind of stressed and sad about the situation with Sky. I mean, it’s not the end of the world, I still love my goat time and we’re making it work as best we can, I’m making sure to get lots of time with Sky. But it is making things more complicated, and complications are supposed to be from the real world, not the goat world.
Alright, I think that’s all the complaining done. Sorry bout that, just needed to vent. First world problems. Tomorrow’s another day, one day a day.
3/10 2024
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Sigh. Well calling the eye doc went exactly as I had feared. I told them the municipality needs info about my eye disease, and they tell me “no we don’t send that out on our own, they have to request it electronically and then we send it to them”. So now I have to go back to the aid center and tell them they have to request it straight from the eye doc, I don’t know why they told me I had to contact my eye doc myself. Typical, I feel like running back and forth between windows ina bureaucracy, open one hour every sixth day.
Well, since I can’t call anymore this week anymore, I decided to try sending a mail. In Denmark we have an official electronic post system where you get your mail from all government agencies and things like that. I have never tried sending mail through it before, but I gave it a go. It’s a little complicated, you can’t just send to an email address, you have to go through categories and pick what departments and agencies you’re trying to contact. i’m not entirely confident I got it sent to the right place or if it’s the right way of doing it. But I tried. Sent a mail telling them they have to request the info from my eye doc. So we’ll see if that works out or if i’ll have to do more phonecalls next week. Maybe they can just reject my application so I can move on, here’s hoping! Shesh.
4/10 2024
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Do you like tea? Do you like robots?
I highly recommend Becky Chambers’ book series Monk & Robot. It’s about a tea monk and a sentient robot. Only two so far, and pretty short though.
If you like smart, funny, woke sci-fi then Becky Chambers in general is great. Fantastic world building. One of my favourites.I love her titles too.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
I just finished the two Monk And Robot books, can’t wait for more. Eventually. Are Tea Monks a real thing? Feels like they should be.
Anyway, that’s what’s I’m reading. As previously mentioned I watched Eraserhead. And I must say, it certainly is a trip. That really seems like the most fitting description. It wish I had watched it while i still had eyesight. I have to admit I was pretty lost along the way for most of it. But that may be thecase for people with good sight anyway.
I’m thinking of giving the new Matlock show a try. I hate reboots, I have no real relationship with the old Matlock. But I love Kathy Bates. So I think I’ll watch the first episode, before going to the rest of the David Lynch movies.
Been listening to the new Bright Eyes record, Five Dice All Threes. Enjoying it a lot.
So that’s what that’s what what.
4/10 2024
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It’s October, and people have started shooting off fireworks, several times a weeki hate that junk. And it only gets worse.
Angry man yells at cloud, more at eleven.
4/10 2024
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I don’t think I have posted a goat photo on the timeline today. I am so sorry, the responsible parties will be severely sanctioned.
4/10 2024
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A night of listening to versions of Brothers In Arms on youtube, and thinking of the old battlefields. Diaryland, livejournal, myspace, msn, aim. Where we used to fight side by side, back to back. I wish I could ahve held on to myself sometimes, not veered from the path. But who knows where the path was going. There are more branches in the path than branches in the trees.
Nostalgia is a powerful thug.
And they’re busy cutting down all the trees, who knows if the new ones we plant will ever amount to anything.
Anyway. Not to take a shart left turn, but my dad’s been in the hospital this week. He fell again. He’s back home. But unfortunately he’s been getting worse the last month or so I feel. He’s walking a lot worse. He doesn’t want to use his walker, because he feels he can’t control it and he’s fallen several times in the bus with it. Just walking with his cane now, but you can tell his walk is a lot harder. And his memory is getting worse, he’s been more confused annd things are getting harder. Not sure how much of it is the alzheimer’s progressing, or the repeated falls, he had the heart issue too. He’s still active and doing things, he hates sitting still and not doing anything. He still wants to get out a lot. But you can tell it’s getting harder. it’s tough to see. i wish I could be more of a help to him, but we’re all just doing our best I guess.
i have a lot of mixed feelings about things in my life, and most of all about myself.
And the world keeps degrading. Sometimes i can’t see the forest for the lack of trees.
4/10 2024
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Luna looking out.
5/10 2024
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Got an hour fortyfive on the bike. Still going strong, though I’m off the diet. Put on a pound probably, but since I lost 50 I can live with that. Blood sugar remains fine. It’s funny, even though I’m eating more and feeling more full bellies, I am also feeling more hunger. It’s like my body is saying “oh we can eat again? Well I wnt more, give me more, give me all the food”. But it’s fine. Just keeping on keeping on and monitoring the levels and values. Easing back into eating more stuff.
Gonna ease into a pot of soup now. Ready from the diving board.
Oh and thank you everyone for the good words for my dad. I appreciate having a place to vent and friends who care. Thank you.
5/10 2024
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Another one to add to the camera fall series. Unlike most times, this wasn’t a tripod getting knocked over. I put the camera down on the platform to film a little bit iwth me and Sky on the mountain. Luna was sitting down on the far end of the platform. She got up, sniffed at the camera and knocked it off the side. Sheesh!
5/10 2024
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Still watching old episodes of Saturday Night Live. Tonight I’m up to the Steven Seagal episode. And ooh boy, that’s a lot. That’s a lot to process.
Him beating up Rob Schneider’s copy guy was pretty fun tho.
5/10 2024
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Imagine thinking forgiving student debt is communism, but cozying up to Putin and Ill Kim is the right side of history.
IMAGINE IT it’s easy if you try.
You know what, Miami Vice was good at cars. I don’t even care about cars, but then I watch old clips from Miami Vice and i’m like damn that’s some cool driving.
I never was interested in cars. Maybe it’s because my family had a really, and I say it with affection, crummy car. It was a Wartburg. East German model. Picture what a car from East Germany looks like. Wait, first picture that Germany was divided in two and.. wait, for you Americans, Germany is a country in something called Europe and
okay okay sorry.
But that Wartburg was the least sexy car you could iamgine. It was solely designed to get you from one place to another. Like imagine having a phone that does phone calls, and nothing else. I know, hilarious.
Anyway. I learned from an early age to not care about flashy cars. I forget how old I was exactly, but while I was still a kid I think we got rid of the car alltogether. A family without a car, imagine it. Public transportation and bikes, total communism.
I never got a driver’s license. I didn’t even like driving games on the computers. When I look at retrogaming videos on youtube, which is something I do a lot in fact, a lot of youtubers love the old driving games. I never had an interest in driving even virtual cars.
The closest I have come to driving a car is the repeated nightmares in which I drive a car around on the roads but I don’t really know how to control it so I’m just sort of skating around and hoping I don’t crash into anything and hoping no one realises I can’t drive. Which is probably a metaphor for life, this meatsack of bones and muscles is just a thing I don’t know how to control, i’m driving it around and hoping no one realises I don’t know what i’m doing. I am an East German body, completely unsexy and boring but just meant to get me from one place to the other. Ich bin ein Wartburger Werehuman warthog warmonger this is really happening happening
Sorry, I seem to have lost control of the fingerlimbs on the meatsack that do the typing of tangents, I think I should go to bedsleep. Do east german meantsacks dream of electric beeps?
End communication.
5/10 2024
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goatlog
6/10 2024
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There’s something I want to write about. Triggered by a decision made on the basis of a random youtube comment I read last night.
A long ramble about my weight loss and my eyesight and artificial sweeteners and protein and stuff. I’ll put a tldr summation in the first comment, because this is probably going to go way off track. But I just want to get my thoughts out of my heand and down on the electronic paper.
So, the last year I have lost 50 pounds. No, I’m not going to stop bringing that up anytime soon. Not until I’ve gained it all back anyway!
Also the last year my eyesight has gotten worse, despite the fact that the eye doc has not seen any changes, my eye health situation has seemed stable.
I go to the eye doc every 6 months. When I went 6+ months ago I was seeing worse. When I went a couple of weeks ago I was seeing a little worse still.
Now, is there a connection between those two things? My weight loss and my eyesight worsening.
It is obvious that I have made changes in my life, and those changes could affect many things. I have certainly had those thoughts. It became apparent to me that for at least part of my weight loss journey I had probably been getting way less protein than was good for me. Could that affect my eyesight? I don’t know.
One of the things that helped me lose weight was stopping the candy and cakes that I was eating. But that’s not a complete truth. Because I substituted it with something else. Sugarfree candy. Licorice and bonbons. They have artificial sweeteners, and I know that’s not great. They also have a bad effect on your digestive system if you eat too much of it. The bonbons have artificial sweeteners and the licorice have very high fibers and artificial sweeteners. It can kind of act as a laxative when you eat too much of it. And I have to admit, that happened a lot to me. And I’m not proud of it, but honestly although it’s not fun, the feeling of being emptied out can be a good one. I now this is kind of getting into eating disorder territory. But I told myself that it was helping me get out of the sugar habit. My blood sugar levels went from really problematic to perfect. My blood pressure went from trending on the high side to perfect. My weight kept dropping. I was happy with that. And, I must admit, I am still happy with that. It’s not an easy situation really. But it got me here, and I feel that here is a lot better place than I was a year ago. A year ago I couldn’t walk to the goats without making stops, out of breath and in terrible back pain. Now I can make the walk pretty fast, and although my back isn’t great it’s better than it was back then.
Now. That’s all one kettle of worms. There’s stuff there to reckon and deal with. But that’s not actually what this is about.
We get to the youtube comment. There’s a channel I follow on the tube. It’s a guy who does a lot of videos about exercise, weight loss, nutrition, gut health, fasting, diet, food. Stuff like that. He’s very into the science of things. He does a lot of research and cites papers. He’s big into fasting and insulin resistance and the connections. He’s also slightly problematic in the way that his videos always have sponsors, and his sponsors are usually related to the content of the video. Which makes it a lot less credible when he wants to compare two things and oh the video happens to be sponsored by a place where you can buy one of the things. There’s definitely a conflict of interest in a lot of the stuff he does. But that being said, he gives a lot of good information and interesting perspective. I’ve gotten a lot of advice I feel I have been able to use from his channel. Supplements I take because he’s talked about them.
But that’s all preamble. Last night I watched a video where he was discussing artificial sweeteners with another doctor type person, talking about the effects they could have on blood sugar, if artificial ones can actually be worse than some types of natural sugars or sweeteners. Interesting enough. But then I went down in the comment section and read some comments. And one random person on the internet said that their eyeisght had been really badly impacted by artificial sweeteners. Specifically they had been eating yogurt with stevia and monkroot on a daily basis, and when they stopped that their eyesight got back to normal. The artificial sweeteners had made their eyesight blurry.
Now, obbviously this is just a random comment by an annoymous person on the internet of lies. There’s no scientific basis, there’s no study, there’s no evidence of cause and effect, it could be other factors, it could be just something only relevant to their situation, it could be made up.
But it did get me thinking. What is one of the biggest changes the last year of my life? Replacing sugar, cake, candy with stuff that has artificial sweeteners. The licorice, the bonbons. And the last couple of months I have been eating lots of skyr and protein bars to get the protein I wasn’t getting. And because I was so worried about the weight loss, I had obviously done the research to find the stuff that had high protein and low calories, carbs, fat, sugar etc. I went and checked on the delivery site I use. And yeah, they all have artificial sweeteners.
Again, there’s no actual evidence. But it would fit. First the licorice and bonbons would get my eyesight worse. Then the skyr and protein bars would get it even worse. The two stages, the two eye doc visits, the two degradations of my eyesight.
Could the artificial sweeteners be blurring my eyesight?
It may be a longshot, but it’s the only real explanation I can think of. Other than just random “getting worse with age” which of course is something that happens with eyesight. But yeah. I don’t know.
The last week or so I have actually already been experimenting with cutting some stuff out that I was taking, to see if it would make changes to my eyesight. I haven’t had the licorice in a week, I stopped some of the supplements I was taking. I feel like my eyesight has been a little better some days. But then some days maybe not. It’s really hard to say.
Anway. Reading that comment last night and thinking things through, I decided I have to give this a try. I have to stop eating stuff with artificial sweeteners. At least for a couple of weeks or a month. See if it does anything for me. Maybe it will do nothing. It’s a longshot. But it’s like with the glasses. i have to try. Better to try and not gain anything, than to not try and go around wondering.
Another change I’ve made the last year’s time is cutting my Pepsi intake in half. Should be good with the less caffeine, but now i’m wondering if the sodas I drink instead of Pepsi some days, if they have more or different artificial sweeteners than the Pepsi? I have been drinking Pepsi Max ever since I got diagnosed iwth the diabeetus. That hasn’t done anything to my eyesight. Have the replacement sodas done something? I think probably not. But I figure, if I’m going to cut out the licorice, the bonbons, the skyr, the proteinbars. I am also going to cut out the other sodas. Which means i’m going back to fulltime Pepsi Max.
I know the best thing would be to not drink that stuff at all. But that’s not something I feel I can accomplish. i’ll try to limit my intake, but it’s back to only Pepsi for me while I try this.
The timing isn’t the best, because today I had a delivery of pepsi and protein. I made this decision late last night, when it was too late to cancel the delivery today. So, i’m going to have to stash a lot of the stuff I got away. And order new stuff. Skyr without artificial sweeteners. There’s a little more calories and carbs in that, but not so much that I think it will be a problem. Oh and nuts. I’m gonna snack on nuts to get my protein. What, what I say? Yeah yeah. I’m gonna try skyr without artificial sweeteners and nuts. Along with my soup and other regular stuff I eat. Hopefully I can do this without it having a bad effect on my bllood sugar and weight. And then I’ll just have to see if I feel it makes any difference to my eyeaight. Like with the glasses, I don’t want to get my hopes up. But I want to try. Any little improvement would mean a lot. And hey, not eating artificual sweeteners is arguably a good idea in any case. And not eating stuff that has a laxative effect is arguably a wise decision for the health in any case.
I don’t know if that all makes any kind of sense. I know making health decisions on the basis of rando comments on youtube isn’t the smartest. But it struck a chord with me, and I don’t have a whole lot to lose by trying this for a while.
So hey wish me luck. I’ll let you know how it goes. It’s not like it can make me have good vision. But if I could get the 10 percent I’ve lost back.. that would make a big difference.
tldr: I lost 50 pounds the last years, but my eyesight has gotten worse, despite the eye doc not being able to see changes in the eye. One of the things I did to lose weight was replace sugar with artificial sweeteners. I read a comment on a youtube video from a person who said that artificial sweeteners had made his eyesight blurry and it got better when he stopped using sweeteners. I am going to try to stop all artificial sweeteners for a while to see if it helps my eyesight. It’s a longshot but worth a try.
6/10 2024
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That’s all for now.
