Hello Friends,
With a bit of delay, but here I am as I promised on the next
episode from my blog. Let me give you a little bit of introduction or behind-the-scenes
of this post before I barge into the topic.
I have always been proud of my immune system and overall
health since when I was a kid. As a kid growing up till marriage (23 ½ years),
I have been to doctor for health reasons may be 5 times total (that too mostly
severe cold or cough and may be once for prolonged fever, nothing too serious).
I did go to doctor a couple of other times with some injuries driving my
bicycle or moped, but that was extent of it. Since marriage, I have had 2 prolonged
doctor visits (I have been married 11 years, OK, now you all know how old I am,
he he he) – one for UTI and one for some kind of viral fever, which due to
negligence converted into a 3 day hospital stay, but nothing otherwise. So, you
got the picture of my health.
But, in last 8 months of my life, I have been sick at least
5 times and have been to the doctor and had antibiotics to cure whatever I had, viral fever, toothache (first time in my life), wisdom tooth removal, a few colds, constant migraine
attacks, a bacterial throat infection and now the final nail in the coffin was severe
throat infection 2 weeks ago.
All this made me think as to what changed in my life in last
8 months or couple of years ago that has been attacking my immune system badly
in last couple of months. I knew there was something wrong. On further
analysis, I found that for last couple of months/years, due to busy life
schedule, work, school, home, other activities, we have been putting almost “anything”
in our body in terms of food and beverages. And, it is all just coming back to
me and @ some extent my family too. My hubby has high BP, Cholesterol
Triglycerides and other related issues that come as a package.
While I was doing this self-analysis from the sick bed, I
stumbled upon, these 2 wonderful videos: “Hungry for Change” and “Fat, Sick
and Nearly Dead” that kind of jolted me eyes open and showed me what was
going on in my family and may be in many of your families too. I will recommend
all my blog readers to watch these 2 videos at least once. These videos showed me how almost everything we eat are
loaded with hormones or pesticides or other chemicals that we don’t want to
eat/drink. How much processed food, we are getting used to just because they
are “easy” to get by. Our bodies are not getting what they need in this entire
process and we pop ourselves with external vitamins and what not. And, it is a
complete circle of eating a lot of processed food (it even includes overcooked
food sometimes), not getting enough nutrients in the body, body craving for
more food and us being overfed in turn and becomes over weight and obese and
finally getting the diseases in a package deal at some point in our life.
I know it all sounds like “oh yeah, we know about it and we
really eat healthy”. But, do you? really? Analyze your daily and weekly food habits and then maybe it is time to make some change.
Do you know that if we complete adapt “plant-based” foods
and food products (unprocessed for most of it), we will be soon in a great
shape and free of any medical issues? They have shown a lot of medical
conditions getting reversed as well in this new life style.
Sorry for a lot of rambling, but I wanted to put forward
what I came to know and realized and working towards for all of you and hoping
some or all of you will be tempted, watch the videos, research more and make
some lifestyle changes, as needed and suited to yourself and your family.
I am really happy and proud of my hubby too @ this point, as
he was initially skeptical, but after watching the videos, he was totally with
me and to begin our process we did a 3-day Reboot. You can get a lot of info
and guidelines on Reboot with
Joe website, but in nutshell what we did was 3 days, all 5-6 meals in the
day, we had only veggie/fruit juices (without fiber), which gave our digestive
tract some well deserved rest and time to settle down. Do you want to know a
great side-effect of this? We lost 4 pounds each, isn't that great for
something that we didn't even try).
After rebooting our systems, we are doing a 5 day eating/drinking
only veggies, fruits and legumes. After completion of these 5 days, we will
slowly introduce whole grains in our diet and try to stick to whole grains most
of the time. We have also decided to do a 3-day reboot once every month.
Another very important thing which we miss most of the time
is “moving” our body. All we need to do and I strongly encourage you to do is
do a 30 minute brisk walk a day. It doesn't have to be one 30 minute walk. You
can do three 10 min. walks and may be most of you do already – walking the dog,
walking the kids to school and back, walking stairs in your apartment complex
or in office and many such small things.
We are really happy with this change in our eating habits
and hope to help you all do the same. I am sincerely expecting most of you to
say that after reading this and going through the videos, you have decided to
convert at least one or 2 meals (specially breakfast and afternoon snack or
dessert) to just fruits and veggies. So, who is on-board?
Now, keeping this process and change in mind, I would like
to introduce a new event that I am starting on my blog from March 1st.
It will be called “Healthy Me and
Healthy Us”.
Wait for more details on this. I can bet it will be fun and
yes, I will be looking for me fellow bloggers to guest host this in future.
On this note, I sign off. Take care everyone and stay
healthy.
Priya
