First day and all...

First day of the rest of my life was actually two weeks ago. It was when my partner and I realized that the Atkins Diet wasn't working for us. Now I'm first to admit we probably weren't doing it strictly or properly. So let's not blame Atkin's. It was a rage for quite awhile. Perhaps it did good for some. But you know what? We aren't all the same. What works for one may not work for another.

We returned to eating 'normally' but added in another thing we'd tried before - green juice. Joe Cross ('Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead'). We bought a new blender that was much easier to use than our big juicer and started having green juice at every meal. We found some fairly decent bottled green juice at the local store to help augment what we made. We watched our meal portion size. Within just a few days I felt so much better. I started to have energy again. Things that seemed so overwhelming began to shrink in size. I realized all the meat had been dragging me down.

Then we watched some videos on candida. I learned that when the food industry decided 'low fat' was in they had to do something to make things taste good. And so sugar became the additive of choice. It's now in almost everything we eat under all kinds of names.

Thinking back, when I was having gall bladder trouble six or seven years ago, I started to eat very low fat. I wonder if the fog began then? Because before that, I remember being energized, busy, excited about life. Then I started staying up too late (sleeplessness), eating too much (gaining weight), not helped by an injury to my foot that stopped me walking for some weeks. I started spending too much time online (lethargy) and not enough time being creative (what was I thinking?). I slipped into a fog that I couldn't shake.

Fast forward. Nothing's simple. But recently, when my weight hit 241 pounds I knew Atkins wasn't working. Since getting back on juice and eating sensibly again I've lost four pounds. And I've watched these videos and I realize that almost everything I eat, unless I make it myself, has sugar in it and that is, in a lot of ways, poison. In particular I realized I really had to stop drinking pop of any kind, diet or otherwise. Those artificial sweetners are toxic to humans.

Two weeks ago, added green juice back in and dropped the Adkins for good.

Today, adding in probiotics to assist in cleansing the body of candida, which feeds on sugar and is the major cause of a lot of our current health problems.

One step at a time.