Diet is everything
For the past week I did an experiment so to speak, where I ate till I was full and ate mostly veggies with some protein and fruits. But I avoided most other things. With the occasional slice of home made bread I felt great. Then lets back track to yesterday where I ate pizza, (dairy free) and today a bunch of sushi and other things. I feel awful. Like legit I feel like a bag of shit. Now some of you might think sushi is great but for me having too much fat in my diet makes me lethargic and slow, along with bloated, and fish especially what I ate was mostly carbs and fat and some protein. But it wasn’t even that, it was the amount I ate. I over indulged like a baboon.
What my goal was was to see the difference in energy, mentality, and mood. When I ate 2+ bell peppers a day and other veggies I felt amazing. Firing on all cylinders. But the past 2 days eating larger quantities and mostly carbs of the slow kind made me get a headache. Even with the same quantities of water intake which was anywhere from 1/2 a gallon to a full gallon depending on what I was doing, it didn’t help. Plus when I ate those slow carbs I noticed how I craved sugar after. Must of gained back the 3 extra lbs I lost. I was down a total of 8.8 lbs 2 days ago which is super exciting. I have a goal and will obtain it!
But why do I bring this up? Because I want you to try this experiment. Eat totally clean for a week, then for 2 days introduce all the stuff you had before. I want you to understand how food affects everything. Not just weight. Food is not weight!!! Food is life. If you eat something and are like ohh that is going to my hips stop. You need to make a better connection with it and understand what it’s true purpose is.
Food is life. It provides you with energy and sustenance. What you eat affects your chemistry, whether you become more acidic (which creates disease) or stays at a more basic level. It messes with hormones, and not just those “female things.” I am talking about any hormone in the body, this can be from your thyroid, to pancreas, to spleen, to any organ in your body. Hormones don’t just refer to female anatomy. So when you eat that sugary cinnamon bun then you should see a huge spike in insulin and glucose and other like hormones like glucagon and such. Eating that daily multiple times a day will erode your entire system until you develop diabetes. (Sugar creates acidity in the body that is how diseases thrive especially cancers.) But understanding how food works is going to help you to change what you do.
Say you eat a pizza like me. It’s delicious and sooo good! But is that going to provide my body what it needs? Probably not, it may give me some things but the likelihood is not. I have been getting to know what works for me and what doesn’t. I no longer do dairy. I tried once in a while but it leaves me feeling so bad that my depression takes over. Did you know that in Chinese medicine the Large Intestine is associated with the emotion grief. When out of balance it creates grief. HUH maybe my depression is a sign of my gut health? Wow maybe we are on to something here. But seriously food is more then just Taco Bell and Doritos. Food can destroy your bodies balance or it can help heal you.
Once you try this experiment I want you to take stock of not just your body and how that feels, I want you to look at your mood. Your energy levels. I want you to really take the whole system in to account. Not just the vanity part of it. Yes we all want to be babes but if what will that matter if you are constantly depressed or sick. So I dare you to try it. Eat clean for one week. Lots of veggies! Get so many veggies, and eat them raw or steam them. Don’t go and ruin it with dressings or butter. Put in the work. Get some chicken breasts or ground bison and really focus on your health. Just one week!! It’s going to pass anyways why not try something different. What’s the worst that can happen? You feel amazing? PSssshhhh.
Today I felt like a bag of shit because of my diet. But I was still at a 7. I’m going back to eating clean again. Fuck that shit.