Well here I go, writing my first ever 'blog!' I thought maybe writing a blog might help me stick with my new diet plan, time will tell, and lets face it whenever you start any new eating plan you need all the help you can get to stick to it!!!!
In the area of my health things have just been getting worse and worse. I have suffered from panic attacks for 20 years and they went away for quite a few years but I had a massive panic attack about 4 or 5 years ago that started me off with them again! I have basically been having them on and off ever since, and they suck. I also have major sinus trouble, I cannot remember the last time I could breathe through my nose without one nostil being blocked, a lot of the time my nose being completely blocked, I also get the odd palpitation. I also, even though I get over colds when I get them, I never seem to get completely better after them. I suppose just a general run down, tired kinda feeling most of the time, leaving me with no inclination to do anything. I also have numerous other physical ailments, one being an almost constant sore neck and upper back that I have had for about a year now.
Ive known about the Hallelujah Diet for years now and first tried it when I was about 27, I did great on it but could never stick to it for that long. I also have known about the Eat to Live Diet for quite some time and have tried this before too. The reason Ive never been able to stick to them I think is because Ive never really learnt any new recipes and there is only so long you can last eating a jacket potato and salad!!! I am eating a combination of the 2 diets as I believe both have things the other doesnt that are good ie I love the carrot juicing on the HD, I think it makes a huge difference to helping you heal quicker, and I couldnt imagine not drinking lots of carrot juice when trying to be healthy. Although the Eat to Live does recommend some juice it doesnt recommend more that one or two glasses worth a day which to me just doesnt seem enough. I like that Eat to Live recommends a handful of raw nuts a day aswel as steamed veg and soups, I think having some cooked foods will def help me stay on the diet better...and so far so good :)
This time is a bit different though as I have learnt a few new recipes and Ive ordered some ingredients that can help me make my own salad dressings, just little things like that that I think are really going to make it easier to stick to, that and a real determination within myself to just do it this time no excuses!!!!
Ive been on it since the 19th of October, so about 6 days, although this time I actually started the diet at tea time cos I had just had enough of saying 'Il start tomorrow' and then ofcourse tomorrow comes around and I come up with some feeble excuse as to why it would be better to start it 'tomorrow' and as we all know tomorrow never comes. So there I was hungry at dinner time and I said 'Im starting the diet now' and made myself a green smoothie and had a home made vegetable soup - dr fuhrman style soup so no salt, all vegies, very healthy.
So that was 6 days ago now and how have I been? Well bloody terrible to be exact! Ive had the worst panic attacks ever, had a major palpitation session, last night started with a sore throat and sinuses, and its 3.38am and I cant sleep cos I keep having noctournal panic attacks that wake me as soon as I start to fall asleep.
Now I could say 'sod this' and go back to eating crap but I know that this is all a part of detoxing and Im here to stay the course this time - NO EXCUSES!!! I know that with time I am going to start feeling better and better but I have to be patient as restoring this body temple of mine is gonna take time!
Even though Ive been having major anxiety on and off I have this strange kinda calm feeling at the same time, or feeling of well-being, hard to say what it is, maybe its just my body feeling a bit relaxed cos it isnt dealing with a bombardment of crap food? Who knows? Thing is whatever that feeling is it feels good and it gives me hope.
Then this afternoon I turned around to look at something and I realised that I could actually turn my head really far, something that I havent been able to do for about a year. Then I bent my neck forward and no pain there either, and I havent been able to bend my neck forward more than say 45 degrees without it hurting for a year, and sometimes I havent been able to bend my neck at all. Ofcourse then I was bending my neck all over the place cos I was amazed it wasnt hurting lol so am now hoping that I dont wake up tomorrow morning with a sore neck from all the bending and turning I did!!
Now I did try this diet a few months ago and the same thing happened - my neck stopped hurting - it amazes me that diet could stop your neck from hurting, it makes you wonder doesnt it just what the crap we eat is doing in these bodies of ours!!!
I do have one recipe I love, my stuffed potato. Basically its a baked whole potato with some soy cream cheese - no butter - a massive heap of coleslaw with no dressing, half to a whole avacado instead of sour cream, and then some diced beetroot on top, oh man this is so good to eat, serious!
I also make my 3 days supply of carrot juice all at once and put the juice in mason jars and stick them in the fridge as research at Halleluhah Acres has shown that it stores very well in them jars for 3 days without losing much of its health benefits. And I can tell you from plenty of experience juicing carrots is that doing a 3 days supply all at once makes a huge difference, cos cleaning a juicer every time you have a juice it just not fun!!!!
Well thats enough blogging for tonight. Its now 4.10 am and I have to be up at 7 to get the kiddies off to school, oh I am gonna be soooooo tired but oh well such is life :)
Take care and get juicing y'all :) xx
Then toda
No comments:
Post a Comment