Meeting With a Naturopath
So I looked online and found a medical center loaded with nothing but Naturopaths. I still did not know what this was all about, but I walked into their office on October 25, 2013, to see if I could talk to someone and get some information. I wanted to see if they really had any answers. All of them were out except one lady named Dr. C. After my conversation with her, I made an appointment with her for October 28, 2013. We had a two hour meeting in which she basically educated me on what was happening to me with the diet I was eating. To reiterate, this information is well documented in the film Forks Over Knives found on NetFlix. My veins and arteries were slowly closing and all kinds of problems related to my diet were coming down. I did not know this at the time I spoke with her, but she has been what we call a "Vegan" for 40 years. Although there were three other Naturopaths in her office, she was the only one who directed her patients to a radical change of diet as her main course of prescription. She told me, beginning on October 29, to stop eating and start eating the following:
STOP
All dairy (which includes cheese, yogurt, butter, milk, sour cream, margarine)
Oils (palm oil, coconut oil, canola oil, all hydrogenated oils)
Eggs
Anything that has a face or a mother (including poultry and fish)
No salt or sugar other than what is naturally in foods
All processed foods
START
All vegetables
All fruits
All whole grain products (rye, wheat, oats, etc.)
Tons of legumes and beans of all types
The above is described as a plant-based whole foods diet.
I knew this was going to be tough. But I wanted off of those medications more than I wanted a pepperoni pizza slice from Costco for $1.50.
So what did I do? Linda's birthday was the next day, and mine was three days later. We decided to go out that night and swallow down as much butter, salt, sugar, nuts, oil, sour cream, gravy, and cheese as we could possibly pack in because on October 29, we were leaving behind all civilization.
I walked from the restaurant bloated. But at the midnight hour, the silver slipper came off my foot and the pumpkin coach changed into Dracula's black carriage driven by the Death Specter.
On the next day Linda got ticked real fast. Here we were on October 29, 2013, with this new way of eating, and we had no idea where to begin or how to do it. We had no recipes. We had no food like we were supposed to eat. And we were having withdrawal symptoms like a heroin addict. My stomach was screaming for a pizza, a hamburger, a stick of butter, and a gallon of Pepsi. It was a rough go for the first couple of weeks. We had to learn some new habits. We also had to stop eating out because there wasn't a restaurant I could think of that had the vegan diet unless it had a hearty salad bar. But we have now gotten in the groove and discovered some things to make this a lot easier. We have already developed some new habits in the place of the old ones that were doing us in.
STOP
All dairy (which includes cheese, yogurt, butter, milk, sour cream, margarine)
Oils (palm oil, coconut oil, canola oil, all hydrogenated oils)
Eggs
Anything that has a face or a mother (including poultry and fish)
No salt or sugar other than what is naturally in foods
All processed foods
START
All vegetables
All fruits
All whole grain products (rye, wheat, oats, etc.)
Tons of legumes and beans of all types
The above is described as a plant-based whole foods diet.
I knew this was going to be tough. But I wanted off of those medications more than I wanted a pepperoni pizza slice from Costco for $1.50.
So what did I do? Linda's birthday was the next day, and mine was three days later. We decided to go out that night and swallow down as much butter, salt, sugar, nuts, oil, sour cream, gravy, and cheese as we could possibly pack in because on October 29, we were leaving behind all civilization.
I walked from the restaurant bloated. But at the midnight hour, the silver slipper came off my foot and the pumpkin coach changed into Dracula's black carriage driven by the Death Specter.
On the next day Linda got ticked real fast. Here we were on October 29, 2013, with this new way of eating, and we had no idea where to begin or how to do it. We had no recipes. We had no food like we were supposed to eat. And we were having withdrawal symptoms like a heroin addict. My stomach was screaming for a pizza, a hamburger, a stick of butter, and a gallon of Pepsi. It was a rough go for the first couple of weeks. We had to learn some new habits. We also had to stop eating out because there wasn't a restaurant I could think of that had the vegan diet unless it had a hearty salad bar. But we have now gotten in the groove and discovered some things to make this a lot easier. We have already developed some new habits in the place of the old ones that were doing us in.