My main goal for my diet is to eat foods that are easily digested and that provide me with ongoing energy so I can do whatever thing I decide to do in a given day.
How I got started on a raw food diet?
Since I was a child, I had pollen allergies and if I went outside I had to lay down with a cold cloth over my eyes for hours during pollen season.
In my 20s, I developed allergies to other things, including foods. I got allergy shots for years and realized that nothing was changing and I had a few reactions to the shots. I felt like I should just walk around with an IV, that’s how limited my diet was.
In my 30s, I continued to get sicker and more tired.
All of a sudden one year I found myself with severe allergies, hemorrhoids, a hernia and an inflamed thyroid with no health insurance. I did my research online to see what the treatment for each of these things were.
hemorrhoids – medication and removal
hernia – surgery
thyroid – a lifetime of medication
no health insurance – lifelong debt
The one thing that I thought I could solve was the health insurance issue. I was working full time, but at a company with no health benefits.
I applied for health insurance just to find out that I was too fat to be insured. Okay, what now? I needed to lose 20 pounds at the time in order to get insured.
This wasn’t as hard as you may think since, by this point I was on a liquid diet due to the numerous issues I was having.
I dropped the weight and got insured, but in the process of that I went to a health fair and did some online checking. Now I know that I was putting out the energy of being sick and tired and wanting some alternative to surgery and medication.
Around this time, I found out about organic foods and genetically modified foods. I immediately went all organic.
My big organic revelation was that for years, eating bananas made me nauseous and eating organic bananas did not. I was sold on the bananas and some other things. Besides they were easily liquefied and have a significant amount of calories.
My answer came in the form of a raw food diet. Not so much of a stretch when you are already all liquid.
After about 1 month, I went into a doctor anyway and he told me that I was the sickest patient that he had.
This was not acceptable for me and I was determined to fix the problems, by any means necessary.
I did the raw food diet for 3 consecutive months. At the end of those 3 months, I was another 30 pounds lighter, hernia, hemorrhoids and thyroid cured. No surgery, no medications.
My thoughts and my determination was that I was going to feel better.
This was the beginning of the story, because unfortunately as soon as I got well I went back to eating foods from my pre-healthy diet and over a 2 year period regained the weight and began to feel sick and tired all over again.
Had I really not learned anything from my previous experience? I was eating organic, but I was still eating a lot of junk food.
Off and on for 5 years I tried and failed to eat a raw food diet. I convinced myself that I deserved to eat whatever I wanted.
I have realized that in order to look and feel that way I truly want to that I must make a huge sacrifice.
So part of this blog is about me getting back to the diet that changed my body and my life. This time I am looking for a more permanent fix.
