We are officially done with the 40 day Maker's diet. I didn't think i could do it, but we stuck to it pretty good.
So now what? I wanted to wait until we completed it to decide how I wanted to eat the rest of my life. I didn't want to ban junk food for life because that would just make me want it more! 40 days i could do.
So here we are, 3 days past the end of the diet...what are we eating, might you ask?
Whole foods!
Strange. Something strange happened. While we did indulge in some small amounts of "processed food", (like today me and the boys made homemade soft pretzels), we are continuing on the same path of biblical eating! We are definitely in the habit now. We are leaving tomorrow for vacation and as our fridge emptied out, I was definitely tempted tonight to just have J and the kids go get something to night to eat. But then I thought, no, for about 15 minutes of work, I can make a really simple meal which is free, rather than pile everyone in to a fast food place and spend 25$. So I made a really easy pot of stew in the crockpot. And it's so good. We continued to munch on fruit and had our eggs and Ezekiel bread breakfast and lunch.
While I can't claim a miraculous healing from the diet (mostly because we were pretty healthy), I can state that I like to eat whole foods better than processed crap. I just feel better and it tastes better. Once I got past the addiction where McD's taints your taste buds, I just love the fresh foods. I am not a vegetable lover, nor will I ever be, but I make sure to eat them a few times a day. But you really don't have to eat veggies all day to eat whole foods. While fruits and veggies are great for you, we were created to eat mostly meats and grains and small amounts of green matter. And now I am addicted to fruit. And coconut water. And deviled eggs. And grapefruit. And tea.
And I had some chocolate the other day. First I had a bar of %70 cocoa and while it was OK, I didn't like how I felt after. It was sweet but not as satisfying as it used to be. I found myself eating it even though I didn't really enjoy it. Then I had some chocolate chips and peanut butter. The next day I realized that I had completely broken out in acne! And the week before I was just thinking how clear my skin had gotten and it had to be the diet. So I don't know if it was the chocolate or the PB, but I am stearing clear of both. Funny how i have a clear link to those and I still wanted to eat more last night!
The funniest thing is that when I am eating all this fresh stuff, I feel like I am eating like royalty! As if I am eating foods that only rich people eat, when in reality we are all supposed to be eating this way, and it's better and cheaper!
So if you don't hear from me for the next 10 days, it's because I am in Florida, getting Vitamin D. Which brings me to one more soapbox I would like to stand on for a moment. My whole life I have been opposed to the whole "sunscreen" mission. It makes no sense to me. Sure, you should never burn your skin, but to ban and curse the sun which is so great? weird. So NOW, all of a sudden, mainstream is saying, hey, wait, sun is maybe good for you? Thanks. After they've hurt and killed so many people by making sure no one ever was in the sun? There are at least 17 cancers that the sun can actually prevent... Sorry, but mark my words. In a few years drs will be prescribing sun. No, I take that back, we will just be inventing fake sun and supplements to mimic sun that will cause a lot more problems.
(OK I am finished now!)
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