The Movies "Fat, Sick and Dead" & "Forks Over Knives" has changed my life for the better. We all know what is good for us... we don't need people to tell us what we should be doing... "go to school", "eat better", "exercize" and so forth. But I think that we do what is Good for us when it is something we want for ourselves and not because people say we should be doing it.
For a long long time i've been trying to lose weight. Yea, I have a gym membership. Evident by the mini membership card hanging off my key ring. Yea I try to making bethttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3274755562320229396ter food choices when it comes to eating. Yea, I talk about my youth when I was super fit and healthy. But it's all talk.
Now, after watching these two mentioned movies, something clicked!
It all made sense finally. My brain finally got it!
i'm a good 30 pounds over an ideal weight. My cholesterol is out of control as is my blood pressure and i'm not one for taking pills. Funny thing about pills.... when it comes to supplements, I don't mind taking pills but for some reason taking medication for health problems bothers me. I quit taking them. I finally figured out why.... taking medication is a sign of ill health and of getting older. Two things we don't want to be a constant reminder to us.
So, back to the movies....
I started Juicing! Took it easy at first. I've learned over my years that anything done "cold turkey" (drastic changes) isn't good for me and i'm sure for most people. For a new habit to stick, it needs to be started gradually so it can last long enough to make it a habit. The first week of my Juicing Experience I just introduce a Mean Green vegetable juice to my everyday meals. As the days went by, I increased the quantity of my juice and lowering the quantity of my solid foods. By the Second week, I started a Juice Fast! That lasted 2 days.
I realized that I needed some solid food.
Funny thing was that I was full off the juicing by what I craved was chewing! And gum wouldn't cut it.
The body has a habit of smelling food as it approaches the mouth. Then tasting it as it chews it. This is what i was missing. So i started eating solid foods but I made a good choice by sticking with veggies. I would take a bell pepper, some mushrooms, some onion and grill that up and eat it with some flaxseed corn chips. I would only allow myself a few scoops of my veggie meal at a time through out the day and this made all the difference in the world.
Since then, about 9 weeks now, i've been down 20 pounds. And this is without exercise.
More than the weight loss, the Amazing feelings of energy and inner health has been more than I expected.
I have been meaning to write about this from the beginning but never got around to it but here I am finally.
I recently did a pure 5 day juice fast and it was great! I didn't think i would be able to do it but with the support of family and friends and fellow friend and co-worker who did it as well, it made it easier and possible. I'm already looking forward to another 5 day juice fast. The mental and physical awareness is more than i thought it would be and it has been and amazing experience so far.
So here I am now.... wishing I had done this a long time ago. But one thing is for sure....this new way of eating seems to be a habit now and will continue for a long time to come.
#FatSickAndNearlyDead, #Juicing, #MeanGreen, #ForksOverKnives
