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What is 49 difficult? I am glad you asked! 49 difficult is my riff on 75 hard. I believe it will push me but not be over whelming.   Check out 75 hard here:  75 Hard | The 75-Day Tactical Guide to Winning the War with Yourself (andyfrisella.com) The summary is: Follow a diet - you pick it but follow it 100% Complete two 45 min workouts, 1 must be outside Take a selfie to show your progress Drink 1 gallon of water Read 10 pages in a non-fiction book. Two of those I could finish on any night with 15 min left (read, and take a selfie) I'm going to keep those. Drink 1 gallon of water seems like an achievable goal, but one that will make me stretch. I have a half gallon mug, if I fill it twice a day I will get there, I suspect I'm not too far off. I'm not ready to do two 45 min workouts every day, so I am going to do 1 a day, and at least 4 of those have to be outside in the week.  I think this one is doable as I can go on walks, play disc golf, or do field work and meet this re

 It's Presidents Day 2023.   I have been at the new me now for 7 weeks so it is time to assess how things are going. 1 Diet - I started this with the GAPS diet which stands for Gut And Psychology (or Physiology in her later book) Syndrome and was designed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. The whole premise of GAPS is that if we heal our gut and our microbiome then other things in our lives will get better. So, per the GAPS protocol I pretty much ate soup: meat stock, boiled meat, boiled vegetables that are very soft,  for 3 weeks. The GAPS protocol also pushes probiotics (but only), so I started making kefir (both water and milk kefir) and tried my hand at sauerkraut. Mostly things went really well.  I felt better although it could have been just missing grains, legumes and sugar, all of which have some inflammatory impact. About a week in I found another book I really liked, by Dr. William Davis called Super Gut. I'm not sure I am convinced of everything he proposes, but I defi