I lost count of diets I have tried. First one beginning around middle school,maybe grade 6. I remember few of my classmates commenting on my tummy. I can still see the picture of it in my mind. In those days I thought,I was above fat jokes. Most of “funny”tummy comments were met with a smile and a brushed of with a joke. Looking back,I can see that my relationship with food started that early,when I tried to eat crackers for a day. Needless to say,that didn’t work. With all my GERD problems,dieting wasn’t for me.
Only twenty some years later did I realize that everything that was making me sick,was actually bad for me. And the minute that I gave up occasional fried foods,meat,milk,juice,white bread and bleached flour,I felt amazing. Not preaching vegetarianism here,but if you have sensitive stomach like me,try it.
My own food philosophy
To succeed with my health and to end the fight with my body,I had to find my own nutrition philosophy. I began LONG time ago by reading nutritional books (to the point where I wanted to become an R.D.),fitness magazines,searching through the web and trying every subscription diet possible. Along the way,my food philosophy has formed and morphed into different levels every day. New studies and research comes out monthly. Just take coffee for example. Few years ago it was enemy number one:was thought to dehydrate you,causing ulcers,etc. Then we hear that 3 cups per day may dwarf off certain cancers,that it doesn’t dehydrate you and you could even drink one or two cups when pregnant. Hellooo? Didn’t we just hear the opposite a year ago? All these changing things can make a person crazy. It is important to analyze the news,making sure it makes sense to me. I am smart and logical being.
And when medics said stay away from coffee,I trimmed it down. When they allowed three cups daily,I allowed myself two (not every day.)
Trends will come and go;fads will die and my food philosophy will always be changing. It lives with me and it allows me to experience life at its fullest. I really believe that when everything I put inside my mouth is healing and nutritional,my day will be better and my mind will be ready for any life challenge.
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