down the woods
Any disruption from the normal routine is still difficult for me as far as the diet is concerned, and recently I’ve been going down the Woods a few times.
This is one place that I still tend to be tempted to have coffee, which I’ve done a great job of avoiding, having indeed no caffeine at all for weeks. There they serve it in filthy mugs brewed strong in a heavily oxidised kettle, and it’s good. It’s also very strong. I had two and a half cups the other day and ended up completely unable to concentrate, and unable to sleep. It sent me pretty loopy. It’s clear at least from this diet that coffee is out.
Fortunately, it was one of those times that I was able to do something productive whilst unable to concentrate, and so I tried to draw something of the scene down at the woods. I finished off this sketch on paper long after midnight while watching a programme about Ewan McGregor going on a long trek on a motorbike.
I’m currently reintroducing wheat, which may be one reason I’m fairly depressed and shiftless now unable to see how I could get down to anything. Again, I managed to finish off the drawing on Photoshop, darkening it with a few brushes. Still, I’ve been this way for a while now, perhaps since I realised how far my ADD inhibits me in terms of my writing, seeing the same patterns again and again, so it’s difficult to see if it is primarily down to the food or not. This makes motivation towards the diet the more diffictult. But I must go back and try to get down to something (I’m at mum and dad’s now, having come over with M____ for sunday lunch)!
