I lost another pound and weigh 102 pounds now. I always feel my best when I weight 100 pounds. But I am not trying to lose weight, just to gain health.
My eyesight is better today, the road signs are only slightly blurry and my sores are starting to heal. I feel more energetic and light. When I went up and downstairs this weekend, I felt like running up and down them.
I am in a full blown healing crisis now - lots of drainage, sneezing, blowing my nose. I think it's great that my body is healthy enough to dump toxins!
I like this quote emphasizing one reason why we need to consume greens:
The modern food diet of cooked, de-mineralized, devitaminized food
accompanied by poor elimination, produces a great deal of acid poisons which
bathe the cells of the body causing pain, swelling, and inflammation. When
accompanied by a lack of organic sodium, calcium tends to settle in the
various parts of the system, for sodium is the mineral which helps to keep
calcium in proper solution so the body can utilize it. When this calcium
settles in the joints, we have the condition known as arthritis. When it
settles in the gall bladder or the kidneys, then we have gall stones or
kidney stones. And when it settles in the walls of the arteries, then we
have high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries. So in light of these
facts you can see how important it is for us to consume green leafy
vegetables which are abundant in organic sodium.
- from Healing with Raw Foods, by Storm of www.thegardendiet.com
I am trying to make a concerted effort to check my blood sugars more often. First thing when I go downstairs in the morning (I used to do everything else first like fix my kids' breakfast & feed the dog & cat, now I check my bs and THEN fix their bowls of fruit & boiled eggs & feed the animals) and every 2 hours after that during my waking hours.
- 6:40 am - 106
- 8:45 am - 95
- 10:20 am - 80
- 11:20 am - 2 1/2 bananas - 5 units
- 1:10 pm - 219 - it can take 3 hours for the insulin to take care of the food I ate, so I decided to not take any insulin and see if it goes down on its own
- 2:30 pm - 136 - yep, it did. - salad I made at home with mushrooms, tomatoes, red cabbage, cucumbers, red & yellow bell peppers, raw green olives, corn, celery, yellow squash, mushrooms, almonds, red leaf lettuce - 2 units
- 5:10 pm - 70 - this is good as long as it doesn't drop anymore. I have a banana with me in case I feel my blood sugar crashing.
- 6:00 pm - started sweating & feeling like I was crashing, so I ate a handful of peanuts and a banana.
- 7:15 pm - 187 - green smoothie & 1 square of raw chocolate - 3 units
- 11:30 pm - 277 - 2 units & 10 units of lantus
