Sunday, April 5, 2009

Disappointment Has Set In

I was doing so great on eating right, keeping myself on the correct track to keep my health and well being good. Well the last 4 weeks I can say that I fell off the wagon big time! I have gained a ton of weight and my clothes just dont fit right, its that buggy feeling that they just dont set right on my body.
Today, I get up and do my usual, because I am a YT (YouTube) fan and surf certain channels, I also seem to kadable in health reasoning and things of that nature. Not just your general nutriotionist crap, but the stuff that push eating raw pure foods that have not been refined nor have been processed. It talks about the way our bodies are genetically built to break down certain foods. A great example would be for me, milk(2%), we are taught that milk is the way to get calcium and it does the body good. Well for many it does, but my metabolic type does not do good with milk(2%) and so when i drink it, my body reacts and creates more mucus and bi products of waste becase it does not do well with that product. It is trying to do what it can to get rid of it and it is also creating that chemical reaction in my body. So becuase i know this, I do not drink milk, I get my protien and calcium in other ways.
Like I said earlier, I was watching a video made about sugar and how it IS a drug! I have always thought that and no one would ever g along with me when I brought it up. For me, sugar in any form, sucrose, frucrose, and gluclose, give me a high. When I was doing wieght watchers I was able to still eat these in certain forms and maintain that high which led to slowed redcution in weight. After finding the current school which I follow for health, I find that everything that I have thought, everything that never worked for me before that was great for others is now being talked about by people who have studied it, they have advanced degrees and deal with physical health and vitality daily and see the effects this stuff has on people.
We all know sugar is not good for you! We all know when you are "dieting" you dont eat very much of it, and you portion control all pasts and comfort foods.
I am here to submit to you that it is very posible to cut out sugar in any form 100% out of your life! That when you do so, you will feel the greatest benefits of being able to eat healthy, never have the highs and lows related to eating certain foods. I say this because I have done it, I am about to do it again! I do it with full confidence knowing that I am going to have withdrawls, go through mood swings, crave the foods that give me that good feeling. But I know the wonderfull feeling after finishing the battle, yea I will always have to keep myself on guard and not allow any of those things back in, why? Well, because sugar is a drug and its addicting, when you do take it, it hits you hard. As a matter of fact, I have had sugar hang-overs, you laugh, it is funny, but its true! You wake up the next morning in a bad mood, no energy, very lethargic, and this will last all day! You will then even have a stronger urge to eat the bad foods, your body will crave all those foods again that you worked through ridding of. But there is hope! Sean posted some information for when you are trying to curb the sweet cravings, he says that if you use L-Glutamine 500 mg capsules, it will help rid the craving. What you do it break a capsule in half, put it under your tougne and allow it to desolve for 2-3 minutes, then swish it in your mouth and swallow. You should not have the craving any longer.
I think many people thing this will be a magic drug, I think not! I say this is an extra resource to use when you are trying to cut sugar OUT of your diet all together, not just curb appetite for it, then later eat the stuff. While doing all this you will be on a high fiber low starch diet, its part of a natural detox. Weight will eventually come around, but health is the first priority and feeling good. I think everyone should try this, I admit I fell of the wagon, but my eating habits are still the same on for my metabolic type, its just I allowed myself sugar in the form of cookies, which is no longer a problem. Detox is a bitch but so helpful.
Now I have a rant about my presentation Thursday night, so we get to evaluate others, well I was reading through my stack of them and was disappointed in two of them, one lady critiqued my knowledge of the subject I was presenting, which really annoyed me because we are not there to show off how much we know about something, but our ability to convey the message and present information in a fasion that keeps people engaged. Then another person said I did not answer thier question of how yoga and meditation go hand in hand and how meditation can reduce stress..... that one annoyed me because no one asked that question directly! That should of been one they asked when I allowed for questions, but oh well, that is thier problem, but did tell me I should of answered more questions in my presentation. Thats enough of complaining.
Its a nice day and I am going to go enjoy it and the sunny weather.