Leo,
thanks so much for this!
For me, the most depressing thing is trying very hard to do this right and not being able to because there’s something I don’t know of. (But, I confess, I’d be a little sad if you told me I shouldn’t drink oolong, because it is my favorite!)
I’ve tried many types of diet and I’m used to having restrictions.
The irony of this, it seems, is that the more I avoid foods/drinks that are bad for me, the stronger effect I get from eating some of them inadvertedly.
For example, today, after lunch, I felt extremely sleepy (and I was not sleep deprived), I just had to sleep for a few hours (I keep asking myself.. what did I eat? I suspect it was some dish with wheat, or maybe raw tomatoes and onions are harmful for me). I think the sleepiness is consequence of something I ate.
I used to drink beer once in a while (once a week, at most), but after I began drinking tea regularly, I had a can of beer one day and I felt so sluggish that I was completely useless. I just had to lay down and sleep a couple of hours. I feel like I became more sensitive to it, I don’t know if it is related to tea drinking. i just don’t feel like drinking beer ever again, after this experience.
Last year I spent most part of my days sleeping. I’d sleep at least 10 hours regularly, and on weekends i could sleep up to 12 hours… (this, plus the water retention, plus a tendency to inflammations on my skin, seem to be related symptoms; whenever one of these things get worse, I suspect of something I ate/drink…)
I think this is related to what I said before, that even though I avoid harmful things, I end consuming something bad for me on a regular basis.
It is a little difficult to know what it is sometimes, because we eat different things in a single meal. Maybe I think one thing is not good, but end up adding some other thing and it takes some time to distinguish.
In some periods I would just get tired of this, and ended up eating whatever I wanted (needless to say, it didn’t help much). I guess I feel a little helpless sometimes, because I’ve been trying to figure this out for some years now. If I went to a doctor, he’d say that I’m completely healthy; I did some blood tests last year and the response I got was that I was in great shape.
It puzzles me that some people will just eat all sorts of junk, and they seem to be great despite of this. But I guess each person is different.
If you have any clues on salads and fruits that may be harmful for me, please tell me, it would be very helpful. Also, if possible, tell me what kinds of black tea would be harmful (would it be the case of Qi Men Zhu Ye Zhong from Anhui or Dian hong gong fu – Feng pian zhong from Yunnan?)
(I guess I’ll just use that bai mu dan tea as a closet deodorizer, together with my green jasmine tea, which I suspect to be bad for me…)
Thank you once again!
