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My heart in a knot
2017-04-08 19:28:39 (UTC)

Food to the rescue

Hello,

Well I'm still feeling a bit sick but the thing is that this time I've successfully identified stress as the cause of my sickness. I guess I never realized before how much and how fast stress effects my health, I actually just watched a video on youtube about how stress effects your body and all the problems it causes. I've watched videos like that before and I knew some of the information that was presented, however it's much more clearer now that I have changed my diet and improved areas of my gut and brain of course I'm still a work in progress, I actually got off course recently and started eating some of the foods that I know I shouldn't be having but I'm going to have to rethink that especially after watching two documentaries today, one was about rheumatic heart disease and the other was about alzheimer's disease, both were very fascinating and presented a lot of information that I wasn't aware of. It just forced me to realize that I need to make sure that I'm caring for my total health, for example, the way I let the stress from last Wednesday get to me really took a toll on my health.... the only difference from now vs. last year is that I'm now armed with a lot more knowledge about my health and what my body needs, I just wish I had this information years ago and I feel like I would be in a much better place right now.


As far as today and what I did to improve the situation is to drink green juices, I had one for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.... the only bad thing I ate was a beagle and two cookies.... which I shouldn't have but I was thinking it would be ok since I took so much vitamin C today... but I will be throwing the rest of the cookies out tomorrow and just eating the rest of all the "bad" foods I still have until I can start back eating clean again.

There are a few things I want to stare to have more regularly and that's coconut oil and omega 3's, it's just that ever since I introduced these things into my diet more regularly I notice that I have less brain fog and more overall mental sharpness.... it's not perfect yet, and if I get stressed things get worst but I believe that I'm making full progress, I actually think I'm changing the chemistry of my brain. It's a slow process though, years of poor nutrition and high stress has caused my brain and gut to be out of sync.


I will continue to eat avocados but I really need to find different ways to eat them that mask the taste...the creamy texture of avocados is what makes me not like them but I'm slowly getting use to it, but more importantly I eat them for my health and I believe that they are having a major positive impact on my health, I can't help but to say that I wish I had eaten more of them as a child during my critical developing years.... but honestly avocados were not something my parents ever had around. I'm not sure but I think my body needs more healthy fats than the average person, it makes me sad because if I'm feeling the improvements I'm feeling now then I can only imagine how this diet would have benefited me as a child.


I'm listening to ASMR right now, I still find it to be very soothing. I didn't end up going to the store to check on the headphones and the reason why is because I was reminded of how my hearing was slightly damaged when I was a teenager by the use of headphones.... I use to always wear them and too much can damage your hearing.... it's not that I can't hear but it could cause me problems when I'm older and that's the last thing I'll need to deal with.


So for right now the staples of my diet will be: avocados, coconut oil, olive oil, green vegetables, fruits, omegas, kefir, and maybe bone broth when I can figure out how to make it. I still haven't found out what the best thing for me to have for meals are, I use to have a lot of starchy foods like pasta, I just really love pasta and it's been hard to stop eating, I've also been craving sandwiches lately. I think next time I'll try some gluten free bread and make a sandwich with avocados.

The entire point of me writing about my diet so much lately is because I really feel like my diet has been the key factor in a majority of the problems I've been writing about ever since I started writing... meaning because I wasn't giving my body the nutrition it needed to fight off the stress I was feeling from the outside world my body wasn't able to heal as quickly and it may have been damaging, but I'm working on reversing that damage and getting to a normal state....


Pretty soon I should be ready to write about this new lesson that I have learned from this very stressful situation, right now though I'm still recovering, but it's going well, much better than it would have gone had this happened last year or anytime in my past when I didn't have the information that I have now. What's even better is that the next few weeks looks like there will be nice beautiful warm weather.... I am going to take a trip to the park and just relax while the weather is nice.


Oh yea, I also signed up for a possible program that will help me get training in a medical job, I had to apply for funding though so I'll have to wait to see if I am approved or not, if so then I'll be able to take the class and if I pass I'll be able to get into the medical field. If not then I'll still be on the look out for other programs. I actually want to get back into school, I could always use some extra training, one of the reasons why my resume isn't competitive is because I don't have all the extra training that other people have, plus I spent too many years in a basic retail job without any growth or advancement. Well, I'm now on a mission to change all that and to improve my situation. Hopefully things will workout.

Well, I think that's all I wanted to write about, I need to get enough rest tonight; all the nutrients that I put into my body today will be hard at work tonight repairing the damage that stress has done, so I'll need to get a good quality rest so I can fully recover.




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