Nutritional Overlaod

Well, lets see if I can put all this stuff swimming around in my head, into real words.

There are a LOT of different schools of thought on nutrition out there. There are plenty of things that 'work'. Make us thin, and feel in control. And there are things that clean us out and heal our bodies. There never seems to be something that does BOTH.

I have long adhered to the Eating For Life lifestyle. You eat pretty clean meals 6 times a day. There were a few things that really bothered me about it though. I never felt like there were enough veggies, or fruits for that matter. And they suggest that you eat a lot of fake sugars and lots of over processed fat free things. All things that I knew my body was not fond of, but I did it anyway just so that I could be lean and mean.

Then I had my sweet son, and his skin issues popped up. Along the same time, I started having issues with what the Dr.s assume to be my gall bladder. Ok, we HAVE to do something about that! So, while I was looking for a solution to my own ails (I had not yet discovered the extent of The Boy's nutritional restrictions yet) I found green smoothies. Life changing is one term for it! Immediately I felt better. Odd things like my allergies, started to disappear all together. And my cellulite.. shocker of all shockers... started to really disappear! What?

Then I found out about my son's extensive food sensitivities. Oh boy. That is another life changer for sure. Pretty much he cannot have any grains or citrus fruits, or root veggies. How do you make a meal without rice, tomatoes, or garlic??? Yeah, that is totally where we are!

Then add to it, my mom went Vegan about this time. All kinds of weird to me, but she was losing weight right and left and looking so lean and healthy and YOUNG! Happy too, and not just because she was skinny. She looked amazing.

So here we are, vegan mom that looks amazing, son that cannot eat most of the foods we 'rely' on, my body not able to handle all the 'healthy' precessed foods. What am I supposed to do?

The whole Raw Food thing weirds me out to be honest. Yet, at the same time, it intrigues me. I still think that we should cook some food... I mean, here I am a Bible believer and God DEFINITELY told His people to cook some meat! But the health benefits of raw greens and other veggies is too great to be ignored or dismissed. This is the thing I felt was missing in my Eating For Life meals. All the glorious bounty of God's earth!

So, how in the world am I going to keep working towards a lean muscular (THAT is the part that I am afraid I will not be able to get) healthy inside and out body? Somehow I need to find a way to meld some of the Raw ideals with some animal protein (though I am learning that greens have a LOT of protein.. shocking actually) and make my insides so healthy that it comes pouring out the outsides!

While I was SOOO sick, I was in so much pain and I did a lot of half rational/irrational talking with God. I kept feeling lead to deal with our family and food. How it is my job to feed my beautiful family healthy live foods. I cried and cried about how much pain I was in, and I got this little nudge that if I do not take care of our eating NOW, that my late life will be full of pain. I already have arthritis in my knees. I already know that eating has the MOST effect and that exercise just helps that much more. It all seems to boil down to feeding our bodies what God intended.

Of course, there is SO much more than this... but this can just be installation one. haha!