For the last several months, I have been eating out of control. Snacks at night, ice cream, cookies, cookies, and cookies, crackers, junk food, and eating at least twice as much as one should eat at meals. I was snacking during the day, candy, crackers, you name it, I was shoving it down my mouth. My RA was getting worse, (you would think I would correlate the two, right?) I put on over 7 pounds, my swelling was worse, I was aching more, tired, getting down, emotional mess, you name it. The about 10 days ago, I said: "STOP THE INSANITY!!!!" I just literally stopped eating all the junk food, cut my meal intake to about a fourth of my normal sized meals, and quit eating after dinner. Once dinner was done, I was done for the night. I also stopped drinking all sodas, diet drinks. The only fluid I have is water or milk. OMG, within 48 hours, my swelling was down, my RA was not really bothering me, my emotional state is so much better, my sleep is better, I am drinking more water (I sometimes really forget to drink fluids as I just don't get thirsty) my energy is up! But the biggest difference is that my RA is really so much better!!!! I have been very tempted to eat at night, but then I think about how much better I feel - oh, I really think because my sugar intake has been reduced by leaps and bounds, my RA is doing to so much better. Earlier this week, I saw my RA doctor and she told me to try and go gluten free. While I am not really there yet, just the reduction in the foods I eat (crackers, excessive breads, things with gluten) that probably that has helped too. With the way I am feeling, it's worth it not to go back to those really bad eating habits!!! Just wanted to shout this out in case anyone who eating habits are out of control and your RA is bad too, maybe give this a try. Over and out.....oh, I also have lost 5 pounds!!! Of course, I still have 40 more pounds to go. uh!