Well, it's almost the new year and time to start. We spent the week of Christmas at my parents. I've never eaten so much in my life! I said I wanted to indulge and indulge we did. The nice thing was that we never ate out and I actually didn't drink any pop the entire week even tho it was around. So the indulging was at least with homemade foods. I think I didn't eat too terribly except I just ate too much of everything and ate all the unclean foods I could get my hands on. Ham, bacon, sausage, shrimp, crab...yummy...
But it turned out to be a nice distraction from our usual bad eating habits and I came home feeling more ready for this than ever. We stopped at McDonalds on the way home and it didn't taste so great. We couldn't stomach fast food again for dinner so stopped at a sit-down place.
So are there any suggestions for getting kids to take cod-liver oil? How does that work????
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Indulgences
Well, my plan was to indulge in all the forbidden foods from now until January so I could enjoy them before they are banned forever. But I don't think I will survive my own cravings!
YUCK!
We feel yucky eating out a few times a week, drinking pop a couple times a week, and making pancakes for breakfast. Justin is lethargic and I've just caught another cold after eating fast food and going to a Christmas party and indulging in wine coolers, fatty appetizers and sweets.
It's funny how you still don't learn from this. Usually food and health seem like a far-off link. Like, if I eat some junk food today, maybe in 20 years I may be fat or get cancer. But lately the link is getting closer and closer. Like if I eat junk today, tomorrow I pay for it. Or how you feel really crappy after eating a double-cheeseburger but the next day you want another one!
I guess it goes to show that it's all addictive.
I've heard that fast food companies add things to their meats to distinguish it for your taste buds to get addicted to their type of food. I've also heard that sugar can be as addictive as some drugs.
So here I am, sick of being sick, but still postpone healthy eating until my deadline. No thoughts to, "if i eat better starting now, I will start feeling better now." Insanity...
YUCK!
We feel yucky eating out a few times a week, drinking pop a couple times a week, and making pancakes for breakfast. Justin is lethargic and I've just caught another cold after eating fast food and going to a Christmas party and indulging in wine coolers, fatty appetizers and sweets.
It's funny how you still don't learn from this. Usually food and health seem like a far-off link. Like, if I eat some junk food today, maybe in 20 years I may be fat or get cancer. But lately the link is getting closer and closer. Like if I eat junk today, tomorrow I pay for it. Or how you feel really crappy after eating a double-cheeseburger but the next day you want another one!
I guess it goes to show that it's all addictive.
I've heard that fast food companies add things to their meats to distinguish it for your taste buds to get addicted to their type of food. I've also heard that sugar can be as addictive as some drugs.
So here I am, sick of being sick, but still postpone healthy eating until my deadline. No thoughts to, "if i eat better starting now, I will start feeling better now." Insanity...
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Energy Levels
So our biggest challenge will be coming up with the energy to cook food every meal to eat to get more energy!
Granted, I am probably so low energy because my 10 month old has never slept thru the night, or more than 3 hrs at a time. Not good for the old mama. So I have very low energy or enthusiasm as of late and will struggle to be able to provide healthy food for each meal for the next 40 days.
Also, it is full-blown winter now, and, being in Michigan, we receive very little sun from Nov-March. It's a long time to be without sunshine. We also live above the 42nd latitude, so even if the sun is out, doesn't provide enough vitamin-D anyway.
It's already been a brutal month of December, when we usually have mild temps this time of year. So we are already cooped up most of the time. We may take Jordan Rubin's advice and replace at least our kitchen lights with full-spectrum lighting. Apparently this will actually allow your body to make Vitamin D indoors!!
This will help, and maybe during this 40day adventure, Willa will learn to sleep thru the night!
Sometimes (ok, most times lately) I don't even have the energy to cook or clean or play with the kids. All I want to do is sleep.
Justin is pretty pessimistic about this challenge as well. He doubts we can do it, and doesn't want to try for fear of failure. So we are really encouraging each other, ha ha!
Granted, I am probably so low energy because my 10 month old has never slept thru the night, or more than 3 hrs at a time. Not good for the old mama. So I have very low energy or enthusiasm as of late and will struggle to be able to provide healthy food for each meal for the next 40 days.
Also, it is full-blown winter now, and, being in Michigan, we receive very little sun from Nov-March. It's a long time to be without sunshine. We also live above the 42nd latitude, so even if the sun is out, doesn't provide enough vitamin-D anyway.
It's already been a brutal month of December, when we usually have mild temps this time of year. So we are already cooped up most of the time. We may take Jordan Rubin's advice and replace at least our kitchen lights with full-spectrum lighting. Apparently this will actually allow your body to make Vitamin D indoors!!
This will help, and maybe during this 40day adventure, Willa will learn to sleep thru the night!
Sometimes (ok, most times lately) I don't even have the energy to cook or clean or play with the kids. All I want to do is sleep.
Justin is pretty pessimistic about this challenge as well. He doubts we can do it, and doesn't want to try for fear of failure. So we are really encouraging each other, ha ha!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Here's What Ails Us
Here is a list of what we hope to see change while we begin our whole foods eating:
Decrease in Colds and Flu bugs
Increase in energy for mom and dad
Disappearance of skin bumps on the boys' arms
Disappearance of depression for mom and dad
Healthy weight for dad
Disappearance of behavior issues for boys
Decrease in Colds and Flu bugs
Increase in energy for mom and dad
Disappearance of skin bumps on the boys' arms
Disappearance of depression for mom and dad
Healthy weight for dad
Disappearance of behavior issues for boys
The Set-Up
Hi!
This is the Pruis family journal of our experience trying the 40-day "maker's Diet" from Jordan Rubin.
I decided to start this blog/journal to chronicle our experience.
We are going to start our "diet" sometime during the first week of January. While we could begin with the mainenence foods, we decided to try the entire diet to detoxify. Also this will give us the experience of the diet so we can better help others who would like to do this.
WHY?
Justin and I believe in food to live and believe that God provided all foods needed to live a healthy life on earth. The American Diet is severely lacking in healthy foods and most of the standard beliefs about food and nutrition are false and propagated by whatever industry is trying to sell us something.
WHAT?
What is the Maker's Diet? It's eating foods in the form God created them in. Not just meats, veggies, fruits, eggs and dairy, but in their most natural form, as well. For instance, most meat at the store is corn-fed, and full of unhealthy fats and not many nutrients. But organic, grass-fed meats are closer to the form God intended us to have.
Other ideas about the Maker's Diet are about eating "live" foods, cultured, fermented, sprouted.
The main purpose of this journal for me is to write about our experience and hurdles of doing this, and also to stick with it better.
Here are some things that I think will be the hardest for us to accomplish:
1. Our Sugar Addiction. I think I am addicted to sugar! It will be hard to give up pop the most.
2. Our fast-food (or convenience) Addiction: I am not sure if we are addicted to the food itself or just the convenience factor. One of my biggest problems is not planning well for meals, and falling into the convenience trap.
3. Our kids' resistance: Some of the Maker's diet we can skip for the kids. (Some days involve fasting). But we will have to make some drastic changes for them and that won't be easy for us to stick with.
Why the Pruis? While our family is generally healthy, we still want to achieve optimal health for us and especially for our kids. We get lots of colds, and are easily fatigued and depressed. Hopefully this will change for us. We will soon find out! We also believe in this whole foods thing so much we want to help others but we need to practice what we preach.
So, follow along and learn with us!!!
This is the Pruis family journal of our experience trying the 40-day "maker's Diet" from Jordan Rubin.
I decided to start this blog/journal to chronicle our experience.
We are going to start our "diet" sometime during the first week of January. While we could begin with the mainenence foods, we decided to try the entire diet to detoxify. Also this will give us the experience of the diet so we can better help others who would like to do this.
WHY?
Justin and I believe in food to live and believe that God provided all foods needed to live a healthy life on earth. The American Diet is severely lacking in healthy foods and most of the standard beliefs about food and nutrition are false and propagated by whatever industry is trying to sell us something.
WHAT?
What is the Maker's Diet? It's eating foods in the form God created them in. Not just meats, veggies, fruits, eggs and dairy, but in their most natural form, as well. For instance, most meat at the store is corn-fed, and full of unhealthy fats and not many nutrients. But organic, grass-fed meats are closer to the form God intended us to have.
Other ideas about the Maker's Diet are about eating "live" foods, cultured, fermented, sprouted.
The main purpose of this journal for me is to write about our experience and hurdles of doing this, and also to stick with it better.
Here are some things that I think will be the hardest for us to accomplish:
1. Our Sugar Addiction. I think I am addicted to sugar! It will be hard to give up pop the most.
2. Our fast-food (or convenience) Addiction: I am not sure if we are addicted to the food itself or just the convenience factor. One of my biggest problems is not planning well for meals, and falling into the convenience trap.
3. Our kids' resistance: Some of the Maker's diet we can skip for the kids. (Some days involve fasting). But we will have to make some drastic changes for them and that won't be easy for us to stick with.
Why the Pruis? While our family is generally healthy, we still want to achieve optimal health for us and especially for our kids. We get lots of colds, and are easily fatigued and depressed. Hopefully this will change for us. We will soon find out! We also believe in this whole foods thing so much we want to help others but we need to practice what we preach.
So, follow along and learn with us!!!
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