A Weighty Issue

"I don't mean to brag....but I can still fit into the same earrings I wore in high school..."

Sadly, not long ago that was the ONLY thing I could still fit into from high school.  I have been reading a ton of information about the Standard American Diet, a.k.a. Western Diet.  Our foods are over processed!!  They have far too much salt (and not the good kind, like sea salt or Himalayan pink salt), far too much sugar, and it seems pretty much everything contains high fructose corn syrup!  Why?  I have some theories, but let's stick to what can be done about it.

I switched to eating mostly whole, mostly raw foods back in January.  I do eat some meat, but only if it's HUMANELY raised and fed a diet it was designed to eat!  My beef needs to be GRASS FED AND FINISHED, my chicken needs to be FREE RANGE, my eggs need to be PASTURED, and my fish needs to be WILD CAUGHT.  Believe me, you will instantly taste the difference.  That alone makes the extra cost worth it.  But the benefits are nearly ten fold.  Animals that are raised as they were designed to be raised will be full of nutrients and free of antibiotics and hormones.  The antibiotics are used to treat illnesses caused by extremely poor living conditions and equally poor diet, and the hormones are to force them to grown bigger faster so they can sell them sooner.

I try to eat very little meat.  I was raised on it since I lived on a farm and also come from a family of hunters, but I'm still on the fence about just how healthy it is for our bodies.

I actually prefer vegetables and some fruits over meat, dairy, eggs, legumes, and grains.  I do very much enjoy snacking on healthy nuts and other healthy foods that do not spike my blood sugar.  Since I started eating a mostly plant based diet I have dropped 25 pounds, my blood pressure has regulated itself to 120/70 with NO MEDICATION, my pain level has decreased, my anxiety is nearly gone, I sleep the entire night (I used to have INSANE insomnia), and my most recent labs showed that my liver enzymes were cut in half!  It was the first test in 30 years that showed normal liver enzymes.  I don't drink, so I looked to see what else causes elevated liver enzymes and was surprised to see malnutrition.  After doing so much research on nutrition, I now am convinced my poor eating habits were inhibiting my body's ability to property absorb the correct amount of vitamins and minerals, etc., that it needed to be healthy.

In a previous post I listed the vitamins and supplements I take daily that I know have helped me to regain my health and get my life back on track.

I hope this helps.  :)