Okay...so I have decided to do this...it has been a journey...a long journey. 26 years. But here I am.
I am committing myself to a 92 Day Juice "Feast". It is called a feast instead of a fast because I will be getting daily a super load of micro-nutrients !! I will be getting enough calories, proteins and all the goodies I will need to not only sustain my body but to purify it, cleanse it and rebuild it to the health I was in my 20's. 92 days will take me back 30 years in health to undo all the bad the SAD (Standard American) Diet has done to my health.
One year ago I was preparing for surgery. I was undergoing a bi-lateral mastectomy for breast cancer. I am 120+ lbs over weight...I am sick...I am scared and I am blessed. The breast cancer in a strange way has been a blessing. It has woken me up to the reality I can not eat like the rest of the world. I am extremely intolerant and have severe food allergies to what most people can eat with normal or minimal reactions. How did my body get to the point where my immune system was so compromised by inflammation, combined with hormonal imbalances was susceptible to the beginnings of a death sentence like cancer.
After my discovery of the "lump" and even before the diagnosis of breast cancer I immediately went to eating a raw diet (which I have experimented with in the past), along with the Budwig Protocol and daily quarts of green smoothies til i went into surgery. I went from being diagnosed with a late stage 2 aggressive form of breast cancer to a zero after all the tissue was tested after being removed from my breasts. Due to this I was blessed not to have to do chemotherapy or radiation which I might have chosen not to do anyways. I already knew the power of healing foods.
For the last year I have slipped back into the way I have been eating for the last 26 years. I am not an over eater. I don't binge eat. I actually eat pretty healthy. Lots of fruits and veggies. I try to avoid processed food. What I can't eat is grains and gluten. I have a sugar sensitivity which makes me extremely insulin, leptin and metabolic resistant. So when I consume even what most would consider healthy foods my body reacts with rushes of insulin being released and calories being stored.
I have spent years going to the doctors trying to figure out why I gained 100 lbs in 4 months when I was pregnant (and no I didn't eat for 2 and let my self go) and could never lose it. I was 27 and up to that point I was always a thin person with no weight issues at all. Then after that no matter what I did I would be steadily gaining. I then got on the yo-yo dieting regime. Lose and regain...lose and regain...which I didn't know at the time was making all my issues worse. I was desperate to lose the weight and hating myself for not being able to do. I always got the typical remarks from doctors...calories in and expenditure out...grrrr. They were rude and looked at me like I was some closet eater in denial sitting on the couch all day watching soap operas and emotionally eating plates of fudge. So did the world. Oh.... the countless advise I got from most well meaning people. I used to cringe inside...did they think I was stupid???...like I didn't already know that???? Like I hadn't already tried that countless time??? I exercised...I did all the right thing to no avail...I do think it kept me in check so I didn't balloon up to 500+ lbs. I really believe if I wasn't always on top of it I easily could have been that person. If I would have ever given in to my plight or to the food...who knows where I would be to this day but I am a fighter and I refused to give in....I still refuse. At times I would feel helpless and stop trying just for a bit but then the weight would start creeping it's way back so I would gather the strength to keep looking for the answers. Keep putting one foot in front of the other...literally...lol.
The internet. What a wonderful thing. Answers and lots of them. I willingly went on the long and lengthy journey. It took me years of research (26 to date) to put it all together. Then to load myself with information about real nutrition and real advice from alternative health sites many by "real" doctors who themselves were frustrated with our health system. To learn about the amazing herbs, plants and foods that were healing for me. To realize there were real answers out there not dictated by the traditional western medical doctrine that almost all physician adhere to and were taught approved by the FDA and backed by the pharmaceutics corporations....which I had learned not to trust because to me they were lies. I have learned about genetically engineered foods (GMO's) and the dangers and contamination of our food supply...oh I could go on but I won't for now...I am very passionate about what our world is doing to get richer to the detriment of our health.
All I know...I didn't fit in the box the world had created for me. And no one in the medical word really seemed to care. They just want to give me pills to mask the problem instead of getting to the root of why my body is different... instead of healing me totally and completely. So this is my goal to reverse the damage that has been done to my body and to my health. To try and rediscover my health. As I am nearing my one year anniversary from the removal of breast cancer from my body and a year before that I had basal skin cancer removed from the tip of my nose...I know my body is still fighting with the same issues and I need to do something dramatic to resolve them. To reboot and re-balance my body.
I hope to begin by August 1rst after getting all my results back from my doctor (yes I still believe in going to doctors even though I don't allow my health to be wholly in their hands)...I will post a daily blog on my progress and at some point share before and after pictures...during and at the end of my journey. I am hoping to share this journey with you to show there are alternative ways to achieve health along side and with your doctors recommendations. This is my journey and I would never recommend doing this with out first consulting your doctor.
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