say no to chemicals!! !

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So, usually when I live on my own I have a chemical freee house, and get in shape fast and feel great, well when your love loves junkfood, it is hard to keep it out of the house, so it can be badddd!

Long story short, I threw out every single chemical containing food in my house the other day, and am back on my whole foods only kick, and I feel AMAZING already!

I step on my wii fit and it isn't making a rude disappointing sounds already, etc, and it's only been a few days! lol

I think it is important too for people to realize how many hidden chemicals are out their that mess with your brain and your energy.

Things like, juice, and pop, and icecream, and salad dressings...seeemingly innocent things, COMPLETELY mess with your brain chemistry and toxify your body.

Also, they screw up your sleep, and if anyone is trying to lose weight and hasn't figured it out yet, SLEEP, is one of the biggest factors in weight loss... (or if you wanna build muscle and bulk up in a healthy way too) When I get uninterrupted sleep, it is like a weight loss pill and anti age serum in one, it is just crazy!

Also, getting rid of those toxins makes you retain less water and shed pounds etc......

Well, just listen to me even..... lol, the other day I was a picture of depression, misery, and despair, and within a few days of giving my body fresh fruits and veggies to clean out the gunk I sound like one of those overly hyper health guru guys! lol...

Hope this can help someone!

Were the world my way, you wouldn't see brand names at a supermarket aisle.
Products would be marketed and sell based on the INGREDIENT LIST and nutrition, which would be the FRONT of the product.

I was at the grocery store today, and it always amazes me that people just chuck this or that into their buggy without even looking at what's in it. I do that, though, with the staples I buy and am familiar with, but still. 90% of my time in a grocery is spent reading labels, sometimes turning all the products around in a row so I can compare. I don't think I've ever observed another person doing that.

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but when you get some resolve to fix your life and make a change, you will always get a few days of placebo effect, no matter what your solution was. If there is a permanent difference after a few months, then you can start claiming that it was the lack of chemicals that caused it.

Well DEbbie, it's not like this is some new thing...lol....

I have done it for years, just when someone else lives in the house they buy junk and I fall off the wagon and notice a decline in my energy that last until I smarten back up...

It's not like I am all zealous about something I just started for the first time! lol

I hear ya sister! I try to buy nothing that even comes in a package, unless it is rice or pasta or something.... then I dont even need to read....

"what is this, a learning center for ants!" lol..

Fair enough! It's good advice anyway. I think you might be spreading your definition of "harmful chemical" a bit too wide, but it's definitely a better policy than not paying any attention to what you eat and drink.

Word.

It was a struggle to get over cravings and all that when I first started trying to eat right. I was raised on bread and cheesy junk food. So hard to quit when those things are tied to your childhood and engrained in our culture.

I'm on my second year grain free... I've fallen off the wagon a couple times and every time it always leads to a bloated gut, chronic fatigue and depression.

Once I'm back on track... Its only takes a couple weeks before I am bounding with energy and less stressed... just overall everything improves.

I'm grain free. Lots of green leafs, cooked and juiced. Egg yolks for fats and vitamins, whites for protein and occasionally meat. Love the broccoli family and brussle sprouts/cabbage. I try to avoid eating too many starchy veggies to keep gut bacteria under control.

Oh, that is my slowest thing I am tapering is the bread....

It is the WORST..... I have a breadmaker to make my own for my son and stuff, but yeah, I am the same, when I get in the habit, it is awful!

You may have given me a good reminder of something I have let linger that needs t go still!

Ditto. Just finished my first year, although there's been a bit of cheating since summer. I'll have to pull my socks up and get serious again. My only advice to you is to up your meat/fat intake.

What changes and benefots have you noticed so far???

I think this might be the missing key for me,

Last night I was dumb enough to order pizza, and I passed out as soon as I finished 2 pieces, then I woke up and had another piece and passed right out again.

I was at the Kroger's where I buy most of my groceries a few nights ago and this guy stood by me sighing while I was reading a label on some detergent... even after I stepped back. As if grocery store etiquette dictates that sighing loudly and eye rolling is appropriate but reaching in front of someone or asking them to move is inappropriate.

Then later a lady made a joke while she was standing next to me(I almost hadn't noticed her) that "there are plenty of bookstores in town..." and laughed, instead of just saying pardon me or excuse me... it's not like I won't step back.

But people really seem to dislike it there when I stand and compare ingredients and stuff.

I KNOW! Whatever, just roll your eyes right back at 'em. Sorry I care about what I fill my body with.

To ASDsmom: Yes. I eat quite a high fat/protien diet and its a huge part of keeping fit without feeling starved. Its amazing how long I can go on a couple "greasy" eggs before I feel hungry. I rarely eat raw veggies unless they are juiced. I like to cook them with coconut oil, and ghee, sometimes topped with EV olive oil after its done to get even more fats. Oh and I love uncured bacon from happy pigs.

Its all this BS "low fat" marketing that gets on my nerves. People don't realize when fat is removed from a product the food manufacturers have to add sugar and flavoring chemicals like MSG to make it taste halfway decent. Excitotoxins in these flavoring agents cause brain cell death and are addictive drugs- the industry knows this and they are "rolling in the dough." Thanks in part to our culture of immediate gratification and gimme gimme now attitudes with an absence of thought about long term health and no food culture. People love the way fake food makes them feel right after they eat it and will just take an OTC like pepto-bismol a couple hours later with no second thought about why their bodies aren't working right.

Your body is a great fat burning engine. Either you are burning fat (dietary or body) or you are trying to store extra carbs and stressing your pancreas for insulin to process those sugars. A high fat diet keeps blood sugar stable throughout the day and is easy to maintain once your body flips that switch from its "carb-load mode" to "fat burning mode."

Refined carbs are high residue foods that get stuck in your GI tract and often lead to bacterial overgrowths, hyper-permeability, inflammation and later cause other problems that doctors will label with one of the hundreds of "incurable auto-immune" diseases. Of course, these "incurable" diseases can only be treated symptomatically with pharmaceuticals that you have to take for the rest of your life for relief. Docs know what the root causes are but they laugh all the way to the bank. They think they are doing the world a service by "treating" a high quantity of patients but they are not focusing on HEALING any of them, instead just writing RX notes and sending them back out the door. f**k big Pharma and their pushers.

Soooo true! when I stick to fats and protiens I get fit fast, then someone comes along and sabatoges me everytime, telling me what I "need" and "don't need" and I get all flabby again...

This time around I am keeping as anti social as possible until I get right back on track, because it only takes a week or so until all the water retention goes away and the slim feeling from that alone keeps me super motivated.

I was diagnosed by a GI specialist with celiac, an autoimmune disease of the lower intestine and so far I've been told the only treatment is removing gluten from my diet. It's not a cure, it's just the only way to reduce and eliminate symptoms. I eat a diet pretty high in carbs and low in fat and protein but that's mostly from fruits and vegetables. A little rice some days, beans some days, but mostly raw vegetables and fruit.

I finally feel like I'm not about to collapse constantly.

I can't eat cake or cookies or pasta or bread or whatever pretty much ever again. Even the gluten free stuff is just... horrible and makes me feel icky.

I would agree with you, but the other day I got some tortillas (pretty simple, right?) and then had to throw them out after I tasted them and they were *sweet*... full of brown sugar. Who would have thought to put sugar in tortillas? Yuck.

Docs don't make money when they prescribe drugs; they make money when they get you out of the office with a script and get someone else in and then out, too, during the time that they might have spent sitting down with you to explain what you could do other than take the drug. Less time per patient = more patients = more copays from the insurance company.
Lots of patients like it this way, too - taking a pill is easier than cooking for oneself and exercising.