Good idea, Pauline. I'll post a link to that vacation entry as an addendum to this post.

I liked those pics of yourself you posted recently after a holiday, wondered whether you would add them to the above periodic photo update link as your latest pics so that other viewers who don't read your blog daily get to view them easily. There is nothing like a visual journal to let people know this EF lifestyle works as can be seen in your photos. Keep up the fantastic work of this blog, I read it daily and sometimes more than once because there is so much to take in and the reference links take you to other interesting websites. Again, thank you, we don't take any of it for granted and it helps us all stay on track.

Ultimately, I want to get to a more moderate place where I'm only having a couple on Fridays and Saturdays. Right now, I'm generally at 2-3 and sometimes 4, most nights. Not good by any means, but it's one of the last vestiges of that old life. It, too, will wither away in time. It's hard to argue with feeling great all the time, and I have definitely verified over and over that my sleep is much deeper and refreshing when I've had no alcohol at all.

Btw, if you're still drinking beer (looks like you're holding a can of Lite in your pic, no?), you might want to try stopping for a while. After I went EF/primal, I became acutely aware of the fact that beer really confused my appetite signals and caused me to eat more than I needed to. I drink mostly red wine now and don't have the same insatiable desire to overeat.

Anyway, just a suggestion. Stay Free! Mike