Every time I find myself describing my journey to someone new, I realize just how much I sound like an infomercial or like I'm just caught up in the pink fluffy honeymoon cloud of a "new diet" but I've never in my life stuck to a diet for this long much less been in the "honeymoon" phase of it for several months and going strong. This has most definitely settled into lifestyle mode.
So that begs the question, how can a simple change of diet create the incredible changes I've experienced. Well, lets look at a few things. First, getting the disgusting mess the local grocer passes off as meat and animal products that I was eating - hormones, puss in the milk etc - out of my body. Just removing those has to help. If I had changed to homegrown, grass fed, lean cuts and healthy prep and still ate the meat, I would be better off but still not as good as just getting the animal protein out of my diet. (If you aren't following me here, read the China Study and/or watch Forks Over Knives.) I'm 90% animal protein free. I still eat a serving of fish 2 or 3 times a month, have a bit of organic chicken or turkey in the crockpot soup once or twice a month and I have an organic, cage-free, hormone free, preferably locally grown boiled egg a couple times a week. I don't know if I will eventually eliminate those or not. Even the China Study noted that the cancer growth and other bad effects weren't triggered with a low intake of animal protein. So I'm good with this for now.
Next, let's note that my diet went from very near zero fresh fruit and veggies to a good 75% freggies. That alone had to be a huge shock (of the good variety) to my system. At this point, every system and cell in my body has to be singing for joy. It's like, "Halleleujah! She's finally giving us something to work with!"
Now let's add the fact that I juice and blend a lot of freggies and add really nutrient dense, natural additives like ground flax etc. Now you are taking the great nutrients that your average healthy eater would consume in a day and putting all those nutrients into one serving. You are literally just FLOODING your system with nutrients it's been deprived of for decades.
Our bodies are amazing self-healing machines but we take a machine that has the ability to repair itself and even regenerate on its own but we deny it the building blocks it require to do that. And then we wonder why we fall apart. So what do we do? Instead of handing it those high-quality, sound and solid building blocks that God gave us in abundance, we give it man made imitations made of cardboard and chemicals. And then we wonder why we fall apart!
One last thing to consider that really just makes our body sing is that even when I was eating a salad or drinking juice before, it was made and packaged and stored and shipped and stored again before I ate it. If I had ever gotten ground flax in something, it had probably lost most of it's nutritional value before it got to me. Now, I grind my flax seeds, throw that into the soup or smoothie and consume it. No nutrional loss there. Again, tons more nutrients hitting my body than it is used to. And next year is really going to take it up a notch as I will be able to just go to my own garden and pick the veggies as fresh as fresh gets:)
So if I sound like a crazy infomercial sometimes; if it sounds crazy to say that I went from depressed, barely able to walk across a room, in constant pain and a mental fog every day of my life and then literally became pain free, regained my energy, improved health conditions dramatically, started losing weight at a steady pace and regained a much higher degree of mental clarity all within days of starting a juice fast and now I'm still feeling fantastic just as much after 4 months of a clean, plant-based diet, you can understand that I'm not promoting the latest fad or a magic bullet or even a "diet." I'm just saying to eat the way God meant you to. Eat the abundance of things he gave us to thrive on. If that includes meat for you then at least make that a smaller ratio of your calories and make it fresh, untainted by a disgusting industry and prepare it in a healthy way.
It's not a miracle... and yet it is the biggest miracle of all. How miraculous that those plants include all those crazy nutrients that really can heal, regrow, vitalize and maximize the potential of every cell in your body. The things your doctor throws his hands in the air over and just writes another script for? Your creator gave you the cure. When the few doctors who have actually studied the topic of healing through nutrition say, "Sure, a plant based diet would help my patients but they won't follow it so I just give them a pill instead." You can shout, "I'll do it! I'll heal myself with nutrition!" Maybe more doctors will seek out that information and share it with their other patients if they have patients coming in with dramatic improvements and telling them, "I don't need those pills, doc. I stopped taking those months ago." I am praying that by the time my grandkids are grown, they will defy all those predictions about the newest generation of children dying younger than their parents did.
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