We teach our children they are bad, yet we continue to keep it in our vocab. Oh wait..I wasn't talking about THAT four letter word geez. I'm talking about the word DIET. Sorry I thought we were on the same page. Now that everyone has caught up lets figure this out. I have a relationship with food..I mean I get excited about certain foods, and sometimes crave different foods..so how is it that we are just supposed to not have what we want! Well...when you "eat with a purpose" cravings drastically diminish! Your body is an insanely cool machine..it tells you what it needs and what it doesn't! You know there are certain foods you hate...you know why? Because your body doesn't need what that food has to offer. Same goes with foods you love or crave! NOW I'm not in anyway saying that your body NEEDs those Cheetos! The majority of those packaged foods I equate to drugs. Food can be a drug you know. If you're used to all that sugar your body is addicted! That's where I personally think coffee enemas help a great deal! (more on that later) That, and replacing your sweet tooth with fruits helps you get through your food DTs.
There are many things that need to happen and one of them is a full on FOOD REVOLUTION! I always thought those Moms who didn't let their kids eat happy meals, potato chips, and didn't keep soda around the house were a little...well I thought YOU were weird and out there! There I said it! BUT in the words of one of my favorite people Maya Angelou "When you know better, you do better."
Isn't that a screaming cry for food education. How are people in this country who are struggling with all sorts of CURABLE (but according to our medical community incurable) diseases that have been propelled by foods that have been processed, or genetically modified, or loaded up with High Fructose CORN syrup supposed to have a fighting chance without knowing the effects it has on their bodies?!?! Here is where I have to give a big plug to Dr. Gerson. If you haven't heard of the "Gerson Therapy" I highly suggest you look into it. http://gerson.org/
But what does all this ranting have to do with a four letter word we use called DIET. I know you've heard this before but if the majority of the word spells "DIE" then I want no part of it! Cause that's what diets do they KILL YOU, your spirit, and your sense of well being. It's a mental game I refuse to play ever again!
Now for the past month I've been on this journey of health and healing. (again thanks to Dr. Gerson and Charlotte opening my eyes on food and healing). I have endometriosis and when my doctor wanted to do surgery AGAIN and then for pain management...get this...put me on LUPRON which by the way in an injectable HORMONE. Oh did I forget to mention it puts you into a menopausal state! Yeah thanks but no thanks...did I mention that was her suggestion for PAIN!?!? Sheesh. So, upon watching The Beautiful Truth www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzDHGLEUyw and several other great documentaries about our food system, organic food and just getting back to basics..I ordered "Healing the Gerson way" I decided I was going to take matters into my own hands, and "let my food be my medicine and my medicine be my food." I called and spoke to the clinic and although I am unable to do the full therapy they gave me some tips on where to start. (They can't back what I am doing because I'm not doing the full therapy and I understand why..food combinations, restricting certain foods and products ect..that's how you heal from the inside out)
I set a goal of one month. incorporated as much of the Gerson therapy as I could and set out. I'm not a person with great willpower so...I figure I could do anything for ONE month right!?! So I decided one month without meat, without adding salt to things and without soda, and ADD in coffee enemas. I figured that would be a good place to start. I'm one day away from going the whole month! I will tell you one week in I had energy and actually felt like getting up and exercising! YES I know who "wants" to do that?? Well turns out when you feel good you actually enjoy it. I didn't realize how funky I felt. I feel great these days...I mean I really do!! By the way what I am doing is NOT a diet. I call it "eating with purpose." When you start to feel better and you're eating whole foods, and plant based..you look at that food you ate before as the enemy. It's psychological, but it's effects on your body are very real! Now don't get me wrong I'm tempted by meat sometimes..but what has kept me from caving was how good I feel and my short one month timeline. I'm getting ready to go on vacation and I told myself in the beginning of this as a reward I would allow myself to eat meat. BUT..now being one day away..my view has changed..I tell myself IF I'm craving I'll have fish, chicken or a lean cut of beef and I'll only have beef once! Its mental I KNOW! But the feeling that I NEED meat has been proven wrong! Be careful just because you're not eating meat does NOT mean you're eating healthy. You can be a vegetarian and eat unhealthy.
You know whats great about this "eating with purpose"..my kids are eating so much healthier, and I'm now that Mom that uses sodas (and those tiny cans btw) as an occasional treat! I've lost 7 pounds and am now running just over a mile most everyday. By the way my oldest daughter wants "running clothes" so she can start running two!
I'd like to say this to all of you who think there is NO WAY you could live without meat. Try it for 2 weeks. BUT before you do plan a bit. You'll need to sit down with recipe books or online vegetarian websites and plan you're meals at first or you will cave to the temptation of ease and hit a drive through. Remember at first only buy one weeks worth because fresh food doesn't last long. Also shopping at Whole Foods is a MUCH more pleasant experience than any other grocery store.
Lets start a REVOLUTION!
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