HOW I BEAT MY GOUT - AND YOU CAN TOO
  • How I Beat My Gout - And How You Can Too
  • Moving foot muscles to beat gout
  • Why Go On A Diet - And How
  • Who Is Benessere Watertree?
  • Disclaimer - Not Medical Information
  • Alternative Medicines For Gout
  • Where does uric acid come from?
  • What are purines
  • Forbidden Gout Foods
  • Food for gout sufferers - tasting better than your old diet
  • The inflammation is causing the pain
  • The Danger Of Being Fat
  • What to do when the diet gets boring
  • Great foods for gout-beaters
  • Why Drinking Lots Of Water Works
  • The Goutbeater Program
  • What To Do When You Have A Gout Attack
  • Why Milk Flushes Out Uric Acid
  • The Signup Page
  • The Goutbeater Blog
  • Do Cherries Work Against Gout?
  • Why gout happens in your big toe
  • How much uric acid does your body contain?
  • Unboxing the UASure uric acid meter
  • Can you change the pH of your urine - and does it matter?
  • Why you should avoid sugar
  • Two weeks of measuring my uric acid
  • Your Heart And Gout
  • The Daily UA Variation
  • Low Uric Acid Recipes
  • Gout-Friendly Weight Loss Recipes
  • Why Fish Oil Has No Effect On Gout, And How I Know
  • Trying Apple Cider Vinegar
  • Gout-Friendly Recipes
  • Three months of measuring my uric acid
  • How Did The Apple Cider Vinegar Test Go?
  • The Purine-Free Beers Of Japan
  • Six Months Of Measuring My Uric Acid
  • The Daily Goutbeating Routine
  • Do Celery Seeds Protect Against Gout?
  • Going OMAD

Sunday, May 30. A day at the onsen (after the TV).

5/31/2021

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Today, we finished all the cleanup and then we took a trip with the kids (after they finished watching TV). And me. Shadow and bone is not bad!
​Todays weather and temperature: Very nice day, clouds and sun alternating with a bit of wind.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 2
Breakfast: Leftover French toast and a few slices of salami.
Lunch: Vegetable curry
Snack: Japanese senbei crackers
Dinner: Noodles with vegetables; and tofu with spicy sauce.
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules, 4 garlic capsules (although maybe I only had two?)
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 7.1 mg/dL
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 10213 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 2.5 liters, tea 2.5 liters.
This weeks weight: 118.6 kg
​Waist circumference: 114 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 78 bpm
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 137/93 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 6 times, #2 3 times. You sweat a lot in an onsen.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? None, on a break.
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Saturday, May 29. Shopping day while keeping carbs down.

5/29/2021

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All the hard work is paying off! But I still eat too much carbohydrates.
​Todays weather and temperature: Sun and clouds, around 20 deg C all day.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 3
Breakfast: French toast and some vegetables.
Lunch: Sushi - the tastiest ones are always full of fish...
Snack: No snack today
Dinner: Nachos and dip.
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules, 4 garlic capsules.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 6.9 mg/dL
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 13087 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 1 liter, tea 1.5 liter, coffee 0.5 liter.
This weeks weight: 118.2 kg
​Waist circumference: 114 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): Forgot to check
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): Forgot to check
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 6 times, #2 2 times
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6 again
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? None, today is a break day.
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Friday, May 28. I could not believe it was not chicken!

5/28/2021

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For some reason, keeping a low-purine diet while eating with the family has become harder.
​Todays weather and temperature: Sun and clouds, a bit windy and about 25 degrees centigrade.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 4
Breakfast: "Here", my wife said, "try a piece of this chicken". I did, and it was delicious. Then I gave her back the rest. "Why don't you eat all of it?" she said. "You know I don't want to eat meat." "But it is soy meat!".
It did fool me! I was completely flabberghasted! It did not just taste like chicken, it had the same texture. So then we had it with "omelet rice" for breakfast.
Lunch: Leftover spaghetti with tomato sauce, leftover apple pie, and yoghurt.
Snack: Konyakku jelly with pomegranate juice.
Dinner: This mornings "omu-rice" without the omelet, since the kids ate all of it before I got there. And some salad with cucumber and tomatoes (and mozarella cheese).
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules, 4 garlic capsules.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 8.7 mg/dL, it has been quite high for a long time now, time to get stricter with the diet.
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 11495 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 1 liter, coffee 1 liter, tea 1.5 liter, beer-like no-purine drink (with alcohol) 1 liter.
This weeks weight: 119.6 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 76
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 142/89 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 6 times, #2 2 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? 20, lots of desk time today.
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Thursday, May 27. Starting garlic capsules (against high blood pressure as well as gout).

5/27/2021

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Here in Japan, garlic matured in black vinegar is considered both a delicacy and an important part if folk medicine. And the blackend cloves are actually delicious, developing a heavy sweet but mature taste. So I decided to take them (in supplement form) to see if they would lower my uric acid level, which has been high for some time and will not come down (well, I have not focused on my diet). And besides, they are supposed to help with high blood pressure, which I have developed recently. So let us try, it will last a couple of weeks. And at the very least, it will keep the vampires away.
​Todays weather and temperature: Colder than yesterday, still spring but not so warm, and cloudy with rainshowers.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 4
Breakfast: Sandwiches with cheese and pickles
Lunch: Chinese cabbage and boiled tofu in tomato sauce. Couple of pieces of parmesan cheese.
Snack: Japanese crackers
Dinner: Half a bowl of ramen that my daughter did not want, and crackers.
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules, 4 garlic capsules.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 8.0 mg/dL
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 13080
How much did I drink today?: Water 1 liter, coffee 1 liter, tea 1.5 liter.
This weeks weight: 119.6 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 70
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 142/92 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 7 times, #2 3 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? 20
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Wednesday, May 26. Total lunar eclipse. Without gout.

5/26/2021

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Total lunar eclipse coming up!
My UA will not get down, even though I am back on the low-purine, low-sugar diet. Either I stored up a lot of uric acid during the last few weeks, or I am eating something with hidden purines (there could be shrimp in the spice paste, for instance). There is a potential third explanation, that I am losing so much weight that I am releasing purines, but that feels a bit too much like wishful thinking.
​Todays weather and temperature: Cloudy, warm, a gew raindrops. A bit colder in the early morning. But clear enough to see the total lunar eclipse!
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 4
Breakfast: Sandwiches with cheese and egg.
Lunch: Bok choy and onion stir-fry with tofu.
Snack: Sandwiches (left over from breakfast).
Dinner: Some of the kids delicious stew and saffron rice, but even though I removed the shrimp I was not successful in removing the purines.
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 7.7 mg/dL
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 12951 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 1 liter, coffee 1 liter, tea 1.5 liter.
This weeks weight: 119.6 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 79
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 134/98 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 8 times, #2 3 times
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? 20, lots of desk time today.
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Tuesday, May 25. Quite warm and no gout.

5/26/2021

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Now it is almost summer, today was quite warm. But here, thst just means switching on the air conditioning.
​Todays weather and temperature: Warm and high clouds, almost no wind during the day, 25 deg c.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 4
Breakfast: Granola and milk
Lunch: Stir-fry with whole grain bread.
Snack: Japanese crackers (some sweet).
Dinner: Vegetable stew-like soup. Leftover, of course.... And half a "soykatsu", which is usually made with breaded and deep-fried meat. But this was meat-free. Could have been a frozen cheap tonkatsu.
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 7.4 mg/dL
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 12454 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 1.5 liter, coffee 1 liter, non-alcoholic purine-free beer-like drink 0.3 liter.
This weeks weight: 119.4 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 83
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 126/90 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 7 times, #2 2 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? 10
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Sunday, May 23. Sugar is worse than purines, but we are genetically conditioned to eat it.

5/24/2021

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Of course I had to eat something sweet and ruin my uric acid efforts.
​Todays weather and temperature: Rain showers on and off all day.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 3
Breakfast: Bread from our favorite bakery cafe. Although they are only bakery now, the cafe part is closed until the pandemic is over.
Lunch: Yakiniku restaurant, no meat. Yes, that felt as weird as it sounds, but the stone-baked bibimbap was quite acceptable.
Snack: Fried and pickled vegetables in the restaurant of the hot spring bath next to closest to us.
Dinner: Hamburger, tonkatsu, and baloney sandwich. No, I am not going on a high-purine diet again. The supermarket suddenly had an entire corner full of meat alternatives. And while the menchikatsu (a kind of breaded and deep-fried hamburger) was so-so, the hamburger (with cheese in it) was better than many hamburgers I have had in restaurarants; and the baloney sandwich was better than most I have had in America. Unfortunately, I also had a slice of apple pie and helped my son eat his traditional Japanese sweet. Which probably will reflect on my UA tomorrow.
Todays supplements and dosage: None. I am thinking what I should try next: Orotic acid, bicarbonate (but not of soda), Japanese matured garlic, or vitamin C. But I would really like to get my uric acid under control first.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 9.5 mg/dL, so one thing I will do to get it under control is to avoid those fabulous Taiwanese lunches.
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 9114 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 2 liter, non-alcohol beer-like no-purine drink 1 liter, coffer 1 liter.
This weeks weight: 119.4 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 75
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 126/90 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 6 times, #2 2 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 7
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? None, I am on a break today too.
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Saturday, May 22. That was not the right keto diet.

5/23/2021

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I gained weight by trying to lose weight. That is not what I had hoped for by skipping carbohydrates and adding fat. I am probably better off going back to my original diet, but increasing the amount of non-starchy vegetables. And no more nuts....
​Todays weather and temperature: Rainy and cloudy all day.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 3
Breakfast: Pancakes with cheese, and bread. And a carrot.
Lunch: A really sumptous Taiwanese lunch, the ramen were amazing and but the biggest surprise was the mango and bean jam choulompou.
Snack: No
Dinner: Blue cheese and German whole grain bread.
Todays supplements and dosage: None.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 7.4 mg/dL
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 6333 steps
How much did I drink today?: Coffee 0.5 liter, tea 2 liter, water 1.5 liter.
This weeks weight: 119.4 kg.
​Waist circumference: 118 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 75
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 108/104
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 7 times, #2 3 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? None, I had a day off.
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Friday, May 21. The day I fried my nuts.

5/21/2021

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Stir-fry with nuts turned out to be a great idea, the consistency becomes really intetesting.
​Todays weather and temperature: Rainy all dsy except for when I went for my walk, and 15-20 degrees all day.
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 4
Breakfast: Miso soup
Lunch: Carrot, onion, and walnuts stir-fry with blue cheese. And maybe too much bread.
Snack: Nuts
Dinner: Soup and cheese, too much cheese. And wine.
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules.
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 8.2 mg/dL.
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 11008 steps
How much did I drink today?: Water 1 liter, coffee 1 liter, tea 1.5 liter, wine 0.5 liter. Because it is Friday.
This weeks weight: 118.6 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 88
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 124/90
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 7 times, #2 3 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 6
Was my urine strange in any way? Not at all
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? 20, before and after lunch.
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Thursday, May 20. Another gout-free day, now without foot pain!

5/20/2021

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Better shoes and no foot pain today. Sometimes the cure is that simple.
​Todays weather and temperature: Nice and sunny in the morning, cloudy and cöose to rain in the evening.,
Current stress level (scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high)): 4
Breakfast: Miso soup and vegetables
Lunch: Vegetable curry and "gammo" tofuburgers
Snack: Cucumbers, carrots, and nuts
Dinner: Kimchisoup
Todays supplements and dosage: 6 fish oil capsules
Todays UA reading (before breakfast): 8.0
Todays step count (total at bedtime): 11786 steps
How much did I drink today?: Tea 1.5 liter, coffee 1 liter, water 1 liter
This weeks weight: 116.8 kg
​Waist circumference: 117 cm
Heart rate before beadtime (read more here to see why it matters): 75
Blood pressure before bedtime (read more here to see why it matters): 162/108 mmHg
How many times did I go to the toilet today? #1 7 times, #2 3 times.
My urine pH this morning (for why this matters, read more here): 7
Was my urine strange in any way? No
How many minutes did I use the Sixpad Foot Fit Plus? 10
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  • How I Beat My Gout - And How You Can Too
  • Moving foot muscles to beat gout
  • Why Go On A Diet - And How
  • Who Is Benessere Watertree?
  • Disclaimer - Not Medical Information
  • Alternative Medicines For Gout
  • Where does uric acid come from?
  • What are purines
  • Forbidden Gout Foods
  • Food for gout sufferers - tasting better than your old diet
  • The inflammation is causing the pain
  • The Danger Of Being Fat
  • What to do when the diet gets boring
  • Great foods for gout-beaters
  • Why Drinking Lots Of Water Works
  • The Goutbeater Program
  • What To Do When You Have A Gout Attack
  • Why Milk Flushes Out Uric Acid
  • The Signup Page
  • The Goutbeater Blog
  • Do Cherries Work Against Gout?
  • Why gout happens in your big toe
  • How much uric acid does your body contain?
  • Unboxing the UASure uric acid meter
  • Can you change the pH of your urine - and does it matter?
  • Why you should avoid sugar
  • Two weeks of measuring my uric acid
  • Your Heart And Gout
  • The Daily UA Variation
  • Low Uric Acid Recipes
  • Gout-Friendly Weight Loss Recipes
  • Why Fish Oil Has No Effect On Gout, And How I Know
  • Trying Apple Cider Vinegar
  • Gout-Friendly Recipes
  • Three months of measuring my uric acid
  • How Did The Apple Cider Vinegar Test Go?
  • The Purine-Free Beers Of Japan
  • Six Months Of Measuring My Uric Acid
  • The Daily Goutbeating Routine
  • Do Celery Seeds Protect Against Gout?
  • Going OMAD