Today is the day I begin to change my life for the better.
What does this mean?
I am going to make one major change today. Since I know intermittent fasting works and that at least some of what Natural Hygiene says works, I will begin intermittent fasting in a way that works with the idea of the body having cycles that need to be respected, which comes from Natural Hygiene.
RULES FOR ME:
#1: Implemented on September 21, 2018: I will not eat before noon or after 8 p.m.
Addendum: If, for some reason, I have to (due to emergency or insanity) I will do my best to make it high water content fruit only.
For those who wonder about such things, this does not mean I have to eat at noon or that I must eat up until 8 p.m., or that I have to eat a certain number of meals. It only means exactly what it says. So, even if, for some reason, I have not eaten all day and now it is 8:15 p.m. and I feel like I am starving, I will not eat; nor will I eat before noon on the next day. Even if someone invites me to a pancake breakfast, I will not eat before noon. That is all.
For your information, I went to weigh on September 19, 2018 and found that, once again, I have gained another two lbs. I don't know precisely why I keep gaining weight, but, I do know that my stomach has swollen back up and I've been miserable. And, every time I go weigh, I have gained at least two lbs, for approx. the last couple of months. No, one time, I just hadn't lost anything and it said more of me was fat.
It may be due to stress. Regardless of why, I weigh more than I have in a very long time. The lowest I've gotten was, I believe, 236 lbs. I was maintaining around 242- 248 lbs. Right now, I weigh 257.2 lbs. This will change, for the better, and, soon.
I think I'm going to save this as a draft and add to it for a bit. So, by the time I post it, hopefully, there will be some good news to tell.
Noon: So, I am eating grapes right now, with the Appropriation cycle underway. Do I have news? Yes I do.
First of all, the eating the grapes is not part of the rules, but, I think you might care to know what I do, as I go along, so you can do some of the same good things and/or avoid making some of the same mistakes.
First of all, I should tell you, I wrote the first part of this blog this morning, finishing up around 3:30 a.m. I couldn't sleep. Ended up taking allergy medication. Just the pretend Benadryl from Fry's.
This morning, I had several good pees - much better than the shoddy and painful pees that had been going on, for weeks now. I also had some good (in quantity, not in smell) bowel movements.
My son and I went on a walk, sometime after 9:30 a.m., went down to the Dollar Tree to get some few things and then to Fry's, where I got the grapes. Boy, I was really looking around for something I could justify eating (either for health or for pleasure) , but, there was nothing that would be THAT good, that it would be worth either the price or the pain, but, especially not both. Except for the grapes. Even though they are seedless and therefore highly suspect, they taste good and they definitely got the sugar content for energy that the fruitarian was going on about, plus, the high water content for washing out the body. And, at 77 cents per lb, they were somewhat affordable for us.
I ate several handfuls. I didn't count them or measure them in any way. Probably should have chewed them longer and better. Got to the point where I felt I had mostly enough of them, then, kept a handful to finish up and put the rest away.
don't know if this is something that happens automatically. Does my body sense that it has taken in enough of whatever it needed from the grapes and sent out signals of less palatablility? Or, do grapes just get cloying, regardless? I think the body says it. I think that's why people overeat so much on processed foods. The body is sending out signals, "Eat the part that has nutrition!" and we just never find that part, until we stumble onto a pizza with vegetables on it. Or, something like that.
On the walk, we were talking about gardening. One of the things we have both done is to replant the rooty bits of green onions bought from a store (not Fry's), only to find that the green onions that grew back were softer, smaller, with more aroma and a far stronger taste. So much so that I postulated that perhaps this is the real reason Monsanto goes after farmers who try to grow crops from the seeds that they harvest from the crops grown from seeds they bought from Monsanto.
Because, as I said, something had to have been done to those green onions to make them less tasty and bigger. And, just one natural growing cycle, utilizing the same roots, has reverted some of that. So, maybe that's what happens to second generation Monsanto-affected seeds. Maybe they produce more natural crops and the third generation would be even better.
Anyway, the green onions give me hope, and, they also tell me more about Jehovah God.
So, here I am. It's 12:25 p.m.. I finished the grapes a wee while ago. I'm feeling .. more human? Less achy, more like things are loosening up a bit, less internally heat-stricken, like there is mucous getting ready to flow. I don't think that is particularly about grapes. I think it is particularly about following the bodily cycles.
I mean, I had the bowel movements and went on a walk BEFORE I ate the grapes. Oh, and, my feet were doing that terrible tingle-burn, feeling like bruised meat for having been walked on, but, not as bad as usual. And, they feel less like it, now, than they did then.
My shoulder, which had been aching terribly for weeks - I couldn't move it or even just sit still without terrible pain - feels so much better. I can move it more freely and get it more into proper position.
I will go lay down for a little bit. It's coming up on 10 minutes since I finished the grapes. My son cooked eggs and sausage earlier, which I had the strength (not of appetite,but, of eschewing social politeness of a detrimental type) to avoid eating, at the time. I will probably eat them in a wee while.
2:13 pm: Getting ready to have an egg sandwich with maple sausage links and a salad with poppy seed dressing. Definitely ill-combined. Garlic toast for the bread, mayo, eggs, whatever my son put in the eggs, olive oil on the toast, Roma tomato, Brussels Sprouts, baby kale, lettuce in the salad.
By the way, I have a headache - but, I had no coffee this morning and also I think some of it is movement of mucous - and, I have had a few bouts of diarrhea, but, more the detoxifying kind than the just being ill kind. Some of it was fairly greasy. That's all between the last time I wrote and this time.
8:05 pm : I finished eating around 7:30 p.m. No, I did not eat continuously during the eating window, but, I did have the sandwich, salad, 3 small slices of Pepperidge Farms Coconut Cake, a cup of coffee, Dr. Thunder Diet Soda, distilled water (before eating and after, a bit) and a cup of tea before eating, and, ended on a baked boneless skinless chicken though with Asian barbecue sauce plus a piece of somewhat decent (for store bought) bread.
I am not advocating eating like this. Part of the reason I did it was as an experiment. If I had eaten only super healthy, well combined foods (according to the principals of Natural Hygiene), only one or two modest sized meals that were mostly fruits or vegetables, or both, and like that ... all that it would ultimately tell me (or you, perhaps) is that intermittent fasting and/or eating produce works.
Right now, I am seeing how following the body cycles works on its own.
I will say I peed a lot, had lots of bowel movements - many of them sudden and weird - and I ended up finally taking a short, weird nap around 5 p.m., Not sure when it was, but, definitely after I said I was going to go lay down. And, up until that last piece of cake, I was moving pretty easy and my left leg was not all swollen and stiff feeling.
My left leg is a bit so, now; but, before today, both legs were so swollen I was a little afraid of bumping into things and splitting them open.
So, done with eating tonight. Not done with diet soda. We'll see how things go. Not because I want you to think drinking diet soda is a good thing, but, because, I want to know the extent to which simply not eating hard to digest foods before noon or after 8 p.m. really works.
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