My first post... Am I doing this right?

Hi everyone!

I love eating delicious food, so I am going to make my first photo a picture of one of my favorite meals, which you can make yourself or get at The Counter if you're not feeling like firing up the grill:

Back in 2016, when Steemit was an infant and I was clueless, I wrote a few articles on Medium. I wrote about a diet I was experimenting with, and how I believed it could help people cure themselves from type 2 diabetes. I don't have diabetes, but some of my relatives did, and the diet helped them immensely.

I thought only a few Facebook friends would read the article. But by some random luck, in the first couple days it got over 10,000 reads. After a week, interest died completely. For seven months the article sat idle, unnoticed, collecting dust in a far corner of the internet. Even I forgot that it was there.

One day recently, I remembered about the article and out of curiosity logged into Medium to check its stats. Lo and behold! The stats showed that out of the blue in March 2017, people started reading the article again. At first just a trickle, a few a day. But by August, the number had grown steadily to over 200 reads a day. And there it sits to this day. Every day since August 2017, the article has gotten 200-250 reads.

I like to think that it took seven months for the article to pick up traffic because that's how long it took for the thousands of people who read it in the first two days to test it, prove to themselves that it indeed cures type 2 diabetes, and share it with their friends. Hard to say, but maybe so!

My experimentation with the diet has not stopped. I continue to try different things. My quest is all about finding a diet and lifestyle -- a foodstyle -- that conforms to these five principles:

• Sociability: My foodstyle must not cause me to miss out on or avoid normal social activities.
• Universality: My foodstyle must provide energy and health for me to thrive in any normal environment.
• Availability: My foodstyle must not require difficult-to-find, expensive-to-buy foods.
• Savorability: My foodstyle must include a full range of tastes and textures that I can savor and enjoy.
• Sustainability: My foodstyle must not require 24/7 discipline 365 days a year; it must be relatively easy and leave some room for indulgence.

This is the first time I'm talking about this, so please let me know what you think in the comments. I am working on a follow up or two to this post to share some of the results of my experimentation with intermittent and prolonged fasting, so look for those posts in the coming days or weeks.

I've only just learned about Steemit, and it seems like a great place to settle down. Glad to meet all of you and be part of such a vibrant community. I appreciate your feedback and support very much!