I didn’t realize until I started this journey how bad my food addictions had become. I knew they were bad, but I had no idea of the full extent food had been controlling me. I had an addiction to Pepsi and plain chips. I used to panic if we were down to our last few bottles of Pepsi… I used to send Andrew out to the bar at 10:30 at night for a bag of chips. I don’t mean a small bag. A big bag. It would take me two days to eat a big bag of chips. I would buy the kids their own bag so they would stay away from mine. Told you it was bad. I needed the sugar, fat, and carbs. After I ate anything, I had such a pain in my whole abdomen I had to lay down for a while. I thought I might have had a gall stone. I have arthritis in my neck that makes the muscles in my back constrict so bad that I had to be on pain medication. The doctor told me that I had the neck of a 70 yr old. The pain medication that the doctor put me on is usually prescribed to 70yr olds, actually. It had gotten to a point that the doctor told me to take two a day even though as he said one should work. It didn’t. The pain was immobilizing at times. I also have high cholesterol. The doctor told me to change my diet and go for a walk but I didn’t have the energy and if I did I would be winded after a short stroll.
What was I going to replace those chips with? I went to the store and bought veggie chips. I thought they were dehydrated… Turns out I think they are deep fried. Even so, after a few days of eating those and dehydrated fruit, I was off the chips for good. I don’t eat either veggie chips at all anymore and eat dehydrated fruit only rarely.
Pepsi… I filled up an old Pepsi bottle with water and closed my eyes and imagined that it was Pepsi. I drank so much water I really got sick of drinking water. So, I made myself some herbal tea with honey in it or I would drink water with lemon juice and honey. I went to the store and bought so many different kinds of teas. There are a lot of nice herbal teas out there actually.
S.A.D. What’s that? It stands for Standard American Diet. It really is sad lol. We just shove anything into our mouths that tastes good, or the TV tells us tastes good. Greasy bacon, chicken, deep fried somethings, carbs, sugar… We eat a lot of sugar in our day on the SAD diet. It’s unbelievable. You don’t even realize how much sugar you eat until you quit eating it. Unhealthy fat. Cholesterol!! I’ve learned that oils from plant sources (vegetable and nut oils) do not contain any cholesterol. In fact, no foods from plant sources contain cholesterol.
What happens with your body when you jump onto the raw vegan diet cold turkey? You go through Raw Food Detox… Holy cow. That is not nice. I thought I was going to die. Death by fruit and veggie. I can imagine the headlines now. Woman dies from overloading on nutrients. Lol. What are the symptoms?
Cravings - You will most likely crave the most toxic foods for your body. Everybody is different. It's similar to a smoker trying to quit smoking or an alcoholic trying to stop drinking. That's all your body wants both physically and mentally. It's the same with food!
Fatigue - When your body is fighting the toxins, all your energy goes into healing. This can leave you feeling exhausted.
Irritability - This is mostly mental. You're not hungry, but may be used to eating something out of boredom. This causes stress and irritability.
Physical pains - These include aches and pains, nausea, headaches, runny nose, gastrointestinal disturbances, and sleep problems.
Cravings. Let me tell you. Andrew had to stop drinking Pepsi at home. I might have ripped his arm off to get some of it at this point. I was shoving dehydrated fruit and veggie chips into my mouth like it was going out of style. Fatigue. All I did was eat and sleep lol. Oh and snap at people… Irritability. Oh and sit on the toilet… Physical pains (gastrointestinal disturbances is a nice way of saying it). I had a headache like you would not believe. I was the picture of new found health lol. I knew that this was coming so I figured I would just ride it out. After about 24 hours it had completely passed.
Yay, I had gone through detox!! Now I should feel great, right?
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