Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
my new passion- a lifestyle I can live with
I have a new passion..... my determination be healthy, like really healthy. It's not just about weight loss either, although that is one of my goals, but with the weight loss I want to achieve whole body health. I don't just wanna loose weight only to gain it back at some point. I've thought alot about this my entire adult life and haven't come up with the solution for me....yet.
My life has taken a huge turn in this respect. Mostly by the fact I understand what it takes to loose weight and prevent sickness and disease to live well naturally. It's overwhelming, there is alot to learn. It's actually science, and that helps because I love science, I like to know the whys. In science there is alot of whys. I have learned that alot of my questions and the why's are being answered through relearning nutrition and how our body digests food and elminates waste. The body is so complex.
It all starts out with my car accident...... Sept 11, 2010. --
I was in a car accident last fall, and ended up with limited mobility for 3-4 months. The day after the accident, I literally could not move, everything hurt. I had soft tissue knee damage, back and neck pain besides that every single muscle hurt. Within a week, I was into a chiropractor for the first time in my life, because my lower back hurt so bad.
I decided to go to Litchfield, a chiropractic center, right next door to where I work at the hotel.
I met the most wonderful chiropractor ever, and from that first day on, he really made an impression on me. This chiropractic stuff was all new to me. He basicly improved my back that very first day. I went home in half the pain, and a few days later extremely improved after a few more adjustments. He adjusted my back, hips, knees, and neck every few days and then it went to every week, then every 2 weeks, then every month...for about 3-4 months. Starting in January I was feeling better as far as the accident goes, and was released from accident treatments...... but had gained even more weight, and knew from being in his office so often, that he also specialized in nutrition and weight loss. I was nervous to reach out to him, we had been so focused on my injuries, but finally brought it up around the New Year.
He was excited to help, and I set up the first nutrition appt. Insurance dosn't cover any nutrition work, so I was bummed to hear that, but I had my mind and my heart in this, I wasn't gonna back out. I knew this was my chance to get healthy, and that somehow I believed that this terrible accident happened for a reason, to bring about something good.
My starting weight was the highest it has ever been, in January 2011. I was disgusted with myself and ready to learn. I had a plan and the additional support I thought I needed. I just couldn't do it on my own.
The diet:
The diet is called the "Cellular Healing Diet". It's called a diet because that's what it focuses on, it's all aspects of nutrition. It's a lifestyle change, not just something I will follow for now to get the weight off and fix my body, it's something I will follow forever. It's very strict at first, and it was a whole body detox from the way I was used to eating. The detox involved elminating all sugar, and everything that turns into sugar in the body ( ie: grains and fruits). It involves including the "good fats" in my diet which includes things like butter, oils, nuts, fish, lean grass fed meats, etc. I was mainly eating vegatables and protein in the beginning along with learning how to add in the good fats. It was so hard, and I really didn't have any family support, nobody to confide in , nobody that understood how I understood it....my support to get me through the beginning stages was my monthly visits to see Dr Chris. He was a huge support. In fact I got alot of negative thinking, questions as how this is possible to continue on in, questions about the chiropractic-natural thinking, the expense was high and was wondering how I would continue to afford everything and a frustrated husband because of the money issues involved. It was the hardest thing both mentally and physically but I pushed though it trying to remain positive despite all the negativity surrounding me. I always felt I had something to prove. That this was really the way, the way that would lead me to weight loss like never before.
The change in eating on this plan, is geared towards all natural, organic, raw foods. It's what the body craves and uses to heal the cells. No more processed, quick fixes, and sugar. I have learned that when you remove the interference, the body can heal itself. I was on my way to being on medication for high blood pressure very soon, low energy levels, sore knees and back from the extra weight and digestive and intestinal issues that had developed over the last 2-3 years. Not to mention the possiblility of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and disease in my future solely because of my weight and poor eating habits. We really are what we eat.
The Cellular Healing Diet was created by Dr Dan Pompa, and my chiropractor, Dr Chris Patten, has been to his seminars to learn from him in person. He has an interest in teaching and helping others achieve health. To me it's all facinating, it may just be my love of science again, but as I follow what I'm being told, I know how this can and does work for my benefit.
I know now I am not gonna be given medication to treat my high blood pressure, when diet and exercise has brought it down into nearly normal levels., my energy has sky rocketed, my knees and back are not near as sore, my digestive/intestinal issues are being resloved with enzymes, and supplements for the time being with the hope that soon I will be off all digestive enzymes. It's been taking a long time for my body to adjust, and still am experiencing intestinal problems that we are still trying to figure out.
I feel fine, healthy, and never felt better since loosing almost 60 lbs in 9 months, but there is just the occassional stomach upset, and almost constant diarrhea/soft stools that still linger on. I have already cut out most white grains, caffine, soda, milk, and most dairy, although I do eat some of them on occassion, there may be products with gluten in them or dairy that may be affecting me. Also just recently I can't eat a salad without getting a stomach ache afterwards. Lettuce is hard to digest. I have never had a problem with eating salads in the past so this is a recent change to figure out as well. He is also taking another route and treating me for parasites, just in case.
I have also had some kidney detox "issues", as I call them, as my body is adjusting. For the most part I have seen positive changes. However, I did have 2 occassions where I felt the frequency and painful urge to urinate. In April, my medical doctor told me since I had protein and blood in my urine it must be a bladder infecion, and gave me antibiotics. I ironiclly had a chiropractor appt the next day and never did take the antibiotics and after my discussion with him we decided it probably wasnt a bladder infection, but more of a kidney issue in relation to my diet change. My symptoms dissapeared within a week, only to resurface 3 months later, more severe. There were about 3-4 days that I was peeing or felt like I had to pee all the time with very little volume. At one point I was in tears and thinking I needed to go to the ER, but it only lasted about 30 minutes and it got better. I made it through the next few days and it started to resolve again. This time my chiropractor was sure it wasn't a bladder infection, and was leaning more towards kidney's adjusting to diet changes. I haven't had any of these symptoms since that first week in July. I have never had a bladder infection, so why start now. Antibiotics just screw up the gut by killing the bad bacteria, but also the good bacteria needed for proper digestion and gut health so I am glad I never took any antibiotics for a problem I never had.
All in all this diet is there to regulate and heal the cells of my body, regulate hormones, and decrease inflammation. I have seen positve effects in the ability to loose the weight I haven't ever before been able to do, decrease my blood pressure , and increase my energy and mood.
''How cool is that?''(a phrase my chiropractor always says)
I know by some initial urine tests that inside my body has made improvements as well. Not everyone I talk to is sold on chiropractic and this diet I am on, but it's too frustrating to explain in detail, I will leave that to the professionals. All I know is from what I have been taught over the last year that it has worked, if applied. Its a lifestyle, a change I was willing to make. It has brought me to a place I love, and thrive on. I have never felt better.
I have recently ran my first few 5K's ( 3.1 miles) and I enjoy running short distances now. Exercise is a passion for me now, an important part of my week. It clears my mind, releases stress, prevents sickness, and keeps me fit. I still struggle with stress and my blood pressure still needs to come down about 20 points on the top number to be more in the optimal range==another goal.
Ideally I am still about 12 lbs overweight, according to an online assesment of ideal weights. I would love to reach my weight loss goal and loose about 10- 15 more pounds....it really is more about health and prevention to me though, and if I stay at the weight I am at now, I know I will have prevented alot already. So please dont call me skinny or thin...hopefully people will look at me and see healthy....that's my goal anyway, I am not skinny or thin nor will I ever see myself that way, I have always been the fat girl. But to be fit and healthy, well that I can live with.
My life has taken a huge turn in this respect. Mostly by the fact I understand what it takes to loose weight and prevent sickness and disease to live well naturally. It's overwhelming, there is alot to learn. It's actually science, and that helps because I love science, I like to know the whys. In science there is alot of whys. I have learned that alot of my questions and the why's are being answered through relearning nutrition and how our body digests food and elminates waste. The body is so complex.
It all starts out with my car accident...... Sept 11, 2010. --
I was in a car accident last fall, and ended up with limited mobility for 3-4 months. The day after the accident, I literally could not move, everything hurt. I had soft tissue knee damage, back and neck pain besides that every single muscle hurt. Within a week, I was into a chiropractor for the first time in my life, because my lower back hurt so bad.
I decided to go to Litchfield, a chiropractic center, right next door to where I work at the hotel.
I met the most wonderful chiropractor ever, and from that first day on, he really made an impression on me. This chiropractic stuff was all new to me. He basicly improved my back that very first day. I went home in half the pain, and a few days later extremely improved after a few more adjustments. He adjusted my back, hips, knees, and neck every few days and then it went to every week, then every 2 weeks, then every month...for about 3-4 months. Starting in January I was feeling better as far as the accident goes, and was released from accident treatments...... but had gained even more weight, and knew from being in his office so often, that he also specialized in nutrition and weight loss. I was nervous to reach out to him, we had been so focused on my injuries, but finally brought it up around the New Year.
He was excited to help, and I set up the first nutrition appt. Insurance dosn't cover any nutrition work, so I was bummed to hear that, but I had my mind and my heart in this, I wasn't gonna back out. I knew this was my chance to get healthy, and that somehow I believed that this terrible accident happened for a reason, to bring about something good.
My starting weight was the highest it has ever been, in January 2011. I was disgusted with myself and ready to learn. I had a plan and the additional support I thought I needed. I just couldn't do it on my own.
The diet:
The diet is called the "Cellular Healing Diet". It's called a diet because that's what it focuses on, it's all aspects of nutrition. It's a lifestyle change, not just something I will follow for now to get the weight off and fix my body, it's something I will follow forever. It's very strict at first, and it was a whole body detox from the way I was used to eating. The detox involved elminating all sugar, and everything that turns into sugar in the body ( ie: grains and fruits). It involves including the "good fats" in my diet which includes things like butter, oils, nuts, fish, lean grass fed meats, etc. I was mainly eating vegatables and protein in the beginning along with learning how to add in the good fats. It was so hard, and I really didn't have any family support, nobody to confide in , nobody that understood how I understood it....my support to get me through the beginning stages was my monthly visits to see Dr Chris. He was a huge support. In fact I got alot of negative thinking, questions as how this is possible to continue on in, questions about the chiropractic-natural thinking, the expense was high and was wondering how I would continue to afford everything and a frustrated husband because of the money issues involved. It was the hardest thing both mentally and physically but I pushed though it trying to remain positive despite all the negativity surrounding me. I always felt I had something to prove. That this was really the way, the way that would lead me to weight loss like never before.
The change in eating on this plan, is geared towards all natural, organic, raw foods. It's what the body craves and uses to heal the cells. No more processed, quick fixes, and sugar. I have learned that when you remove the interference, the body can heal itself. I was on my way to being on medication for high blood pressure very soon, low energy levels, sore knees and back from the extra weight and digestive and intestinal issues that had developed over the last 2-3 years. Not to mention the possiblility of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and disease in my future solely because of my weight and poor eating habits. We really are what we eat.
The Cellular Healing Diet was created by Dr Dan Pompa, and my chiropractor, Dr Chris Patten, has been to his seminars to learn from him in person. He has an interest in teaching and helping others achieve health. To me it's all facinating, it may just be my love of science again, but as I follow what I'm being told, I know how this can and does work for my benefit.
I know now I am not gonna be given medication to treat my high blood pressure, when diet and exercise has brought it down into nearly normal levels., my energy has sky rocketed, my knees and back are not near as sore, my digestive/intestinal issues are being resloved with enzymes, and supplements for the time being with the hope that soon I will be off all digestive enzymes. It's been taking a long time for my body to adjust, and still am experiencing intestinal problems that we are still trying to figure out.
I feel fine, healthy, and never felt better since loosing almost 60 lbs in 9 months, but there is just the occassional stomach upset, and almost constant diarrhea/soft stools that still linger on. I have already cut out most white grains, caffine, soda, milk, and most dairy, although I do eat some of them on occassion, there may be products with gluten in them or dairy that may be affecting me. Also just recently I can't eat a salad without getting a stomach ache afterwards. Lettuce is hard to digest. I have never had a problem with eating salads in the past so this is a recent change to figure out as well. He is also taking another route and treating me for parasites, just in case.
I have also had some kidney detox "issues", as I call them, as my body is adjusting. For the most part I have seen positive changes. However, I did have 2 occassions where I felt the frequency and painful urge to urinate. In April, my medical doctor told me since I had protein and blood in my urine it must be a bladder infecion, and gave me antibiotics. I ironiclly had a chiropractor appt the next day and never did take the antibiotics and after my discussion with him we decided it probably wasnt a bladder infection, but more of a kidney issue in relation to my diet change. My symptoms dissapeared within a week, only to resurface 3 months later, more severe. There were about 3-4 days that I was peeing or felt like I had to pee all the time with very little volume. At one point I was in tears and thinking I needed to go to the ER, but it only lasted about 30 minutes and it got better. I made it through the next few days and it started to resolve again. This time my chiropractor was sure it wasn't a bladder infection, and was leaning more towards kidney's adjusting to diet changes. I haven't had any of these symptoms since that first week in July. I have never had a bladder infection, so why start now. Antibiotics just screw up the gut by killing the bad bacteria, but also the good bacteria needed for proper digestion and gut health so I am glad I never took any antibiotics for a problem I never had.
All in all this diet is there to regulate and heal the cells of my body, regulate hormones, and decrease inflammation. I have seen positve effects in the ability to loose the weight I haven't ever before been able to do, decrease my blood pressure , and increase my energy and mood.
''How cool is that?''(a phrase my chiropractor always says)
I know by some initial urine tests that inside my body has made improvements as well. Not everyone I talk to is sold on chiropractic and this diet I am on, but it's too frustrating to explain in detail, I will leave that to the professionals. All I know is from what I have been taught over the last year that it has worked, if applied. Its a lifestyle, a change I was willing to make. It has brought me to a place I love, and thrive on. I have never felt better.
I have recently ran my first few 5K's ( 3.1 miles) and I enjoy running short distances now. Exercise is a passion for me now, an important part of my week. It clears my mind, releases stress, prevents sickness, and keeps me fit. I still struggle with stress and my blood pressure still needs to come down about 20 points on the top number to be more in the optimal range==another goal.
Ideally I am still about 12 lbs overweight, according to an online assesment of ideal weights. I would love to reach my weight loss goal and loose about 10- 15 more pounds....it really is more about health and prevention to me though, and if I stay at the weight I am at now, I know I will have prevented alot already. So please dont call me skinny or thin...hopefully people will look at me and see healthy....that's my goal anyway, I am not skinny or thin nor will I ever see myself that way, I have always been the fat girl. But to be fit and healthy, well that I can live with.
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