I forgot to check my blood sugars before taking care of everyone else this morning. Oh well, old habits are hard to break. I will try to remember tomorrow.
I am still experiencing a cold/healing crisis and blowing my nose a lot, which is good. The more detox the better.
I think my eyesight is all recovered, the road signs did not seem blurry today. I had Lasik done in 1998 and drank carrot juice a lot during and after the surgery. The scar tissue was reabsorbed and my 20/10,000 and 20/6,000 vision became 20/20. It is now 20/40 - barely legal to drive without glasses. I am waiting for glasses to be required for driving before I buy any. I am also hoping the raw food diet will improve my vision and then I won't ever need glasses.
I am trying to repeat these thoughts during my walk to and from the parking lot at work each day:
- Everyday, in every way, I keep getting better and better.
- I am thankful for everything I have, there is nothing that I want.
I like today's Daily Raw Inspiration from Jinjee of www.TheGardenDiet.com:
Most people try to make things more complicated than they are.
- Johnathan Goodwin, co-founder, SAE Energy
Isn’t that the truth! Storm often says everything you need to know to be healthy you can put in four simple words... Don’t cook your food! That’s assuming you already know not to eat animals and their products. And that you know that you have to move your body vigorously every day. And that you should think positive, creative thoughts. That’s it. Eat right. Exercise. Think happy thoughts. And you can fly! - Jinjee
That really sums it up and they are so right, we try to make things too complicated. Some people who start eating raw food try to cook gourmet meals, dehydrate everything, and buy lots of gadgets when really all we need to do is eat fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds. But, I must admit, some of the extras do help to resist cooked foods and get adequate nutrition in our busy lives - like a nice blender for smoothies which I rely on a lot!
I wanted to mention that our dog, Twinkie, a mixed lab got lymphoma over a year ago and I feel the one of the many alternative therapies I have tried that has helped the most is a zapper from http://www.theultimatezapper.com/. We have been able to get her off the prednisone and her lymphocytes count has stayed barely above normal instead of the previously off the charts high count. Then she recently contracted a gut infection - I gave her the first antibiotic pill last night (she hadn't eaten in a couple of days) and zapped her for the second night in a row. She ate her supper in the middle of the night and was hungrily eating breakfast when I left this morning.
I liked this information from www.jonnybowden.com:
Walter Willet, MD, the chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and arguably the most important nutritional epidemiologist of our time, has said of his own monumental "Nurses Health Study" that the percentage of fat in the diet has shown no relationship to any major health outcome. However, the type of fat (trans fats, for example) and the type of carbohydrate (sugar, processed carbs), does.
There's no doubt that obesity puts you at increased risk for a host of diseases, including some cancers. This may turn out to be because the fat cells are mini-endocrine glands that secrete all kinds of hormones that can be problematic for some cancers (including estrogen). But fat on the body isn't the same as fat in the diet. Once we get over the idea that "fat makes you fat" and realize that insulin makes you fat, and carbohydrates especially processed carbs drive up insulin, we'll begin to concentrate on the real culprits in our diet: Sugar, processed carbs and junk food.
Fat not so much.
Another good one from the same site:
What happens in your head affects your physiology, and what happens in your physiology affects what happens in your head. It's an open loop, and the "division" between mind and body is completely fictional.
- 7:30 am - 267 - 2 units - may have gotten stressed by this morning's routine. My daughter wanted to leave a little early (without any advance notice) and then my husband had hidden the coconut macaroons that I use to feed the dog her medicine. We didn't leave early, but lucked out on the lights and got there a couple of minutes early.
- 11:00 am - 62 - 2 1/2 bananas - 4 units
- 4:00 pm - 55 - I waited too long to test, felt myself crashing a little bit. Ate a salad without taking any insulin to bring my blood sugars up.
- 7:40 pm - 213 - BS went up from salad. - 1 1/2 units - fresh citrus juice (5 oranges, 1 grapefruit, 1 lemon, 1 lime), felt a craving for this with my cold/healing crisis - 5 units
- 9:30 pm - 242 - 1 unit (purposefully playing it safe because I can crash more when sick) & 10 units insulin. Went to bed early. Tired and my body needs rest to help detox.
