I met a man who told me he would work with my electrolytes if I could give up meat.  Later I gave up wheat, coffee, yellow vegetables, and grain.  The coffee I cheated on occasionally.  I met a woman through this man and we went out a few times then broke up but before we broke up she taught me qidong, the art of deep breathing, and I began to ride the BART into the city to take tai chi classes in the mornings outside facing west.  I became interested in my physical self -- muscles, sinews, abdomen -- in a way that I hadn't since I quit drinking.  That month I noticed that all  the women around me suddenly seemed to lose ten pounds.  I saw how I could make myself lean and at the same time have more energy and I acquired a dry weight measure that hung in my kitchen.  My shrink told me about directed dreaming.  I took a trip with a few people to a cabin in the eastern Sierras and learned how to not watch T.V.  For my part I introduced them to nut salads and organic tomatoes, which cost a lot more but are definitely worth it. 

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In the beginning I started off with a question and although later the question itself became less clear in my mind it seemed important to finish if I could what I started.