Today as I was driving home from the vet with my poor little sick bunny I noticed that the Wendy's near my house has a big sign for some new coke float type thing. The sign made it look really inviting and made me think back to the days when I first started considering the idea of giving up sugar and wheat. I remember thinking "But I'll never be able to eat apple pie again?" Kathy said (wisely) that it didn't mean I had to give it up forever; I should get clean and then see if I still wanted apple pie. Well, I was sure that I would still want apple pie!
I don't. I don't even want that coke float thing at Wendy's. If you don't understand it or can't fathom it, then just try it. Try it for a few months. Set up a time frame of a few months at least. Tell yourself that when its over you can eat (fill in the name of a treat here). Then see how good it feels to be completely free of the foods that make you want to eat more--the foods that you can't eat just one. When you're done, if you go back and eat those trigger foods, you'll kick yourself. You'll be grouchy and irritable, probably a little bloated, and probably experiencing some other physical symptoms.
Most of us haven't had the experience of being fantastically rich, but we'd like to try it out, right? Well, I've never been rich but I have to think being clean from trigger foods is even better.
Exercise 2.75/1.25 by April 8
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Marjorie, I am so glad you trusted me on this and gave it a try. I know it sounds crazy when so many people have bought into the belief that we can't live without sugar or flour or wheat or aspartame or whatever our triggers are.
And in addition to trying life without your triggers--I think it helps to understand what you may experience during the first 28 days of withdrawal so that you don't go right back into ingesting them to avoid these symptoms.
"Living Happy, Joyous and Free on The Road Less Traveled with Food" definitely gives you a firm foundation of education and support if you want to give this "being clean" thing a try.
It's most important to nourish our bodies with healthy, whole, non-addictive, delicious foods--but our eating is usually tied into other things as well and it helps to sort through some of those things with someone who understands food addiction or groups that do--so that you are not going it alone, at first.
You are so rich, Marjorie, in so many ways!
With Love,
Kathy
www.kathybowesonline.com
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