Brain full, need cloud storage.

byBantingRose

132 followers

7 years ago

Hiya, how are you all doing? It's glorious here. Yes, that's the view from my desk. I'll enjoy it for the next 2 months, till we leave.

A week ago, we were going to Mexico when we leave here, now we're off to Canada. Hubby was really ambivalent about Mexico, and good friends stepped in and told us to come to them till we decided. So, (at the moment) we plan on staying in their basement for a couple or three months. I won't have a view at all there, so will enjoy my view here till then.

Life is all change for me at the moment.

In the last 10 days, I have been learning online tech, working on my website, sporadically packing, and doing my Banting coaching course work. I have so many new passwords and websites I cannot keep track. My brain is so full,and my indexing system is getting very confused.

For my Banting LCHF diet coaching, I have had to watch about 30 videos about the impact the modern diet has had on humans and the changes you can make eating LCHF and cutting out processed food. That has confused me even more.

You have a well-respected doctor siting how his particular version of LCHF has helped his thousands of overweight paediatric patients lose weight and exactly why. With all the scientific, chemical, hormonal and physical changes detailed.

Seriously, who knew there were 8 different hormones effecting hunger, never mind, all those chemical processes driving my poor fat cells into growing?

Then the next doctor would explain why HIS (or her) LCHF diet helped his patient's become pregnant and exactly what the process was.

Then there was the corruption in the food industry, the effect of seed oils on our cell membranes, how gluten is causing Alzheimers and dementia, insulin, how to cut down or even stop diabetes drugs within weeks, sugar addiction, the evolution of human diet, the cholesterol myth and why more people die of heart attacks with low cholesterol...

Add ketogenic diets, non-ketogenic diets, fasting, whether to eat starchy vegetables, become vegetarian, pasture-fed vs feedlot, organic vs sprayed, chemicals in food...

Then there is the role stress, sleep, exercise, a toxic environment, plastics, water quality, antibiotics play in weight gain and ill health.

To top it all, corruption in medical trials, doctors paid by big-pharma, governing bodies paid by food companies, new advances not being publicised...

Grrr. In fact GRRRRRRRR! I had a wellness coach who asked me, 'Are you angry yet?' Yes, I am. We have been lied to, time and time again, by people we are supposed to trust.

Did you know, over 100 000 people in the USA alone died of the wrong medication for cardiac symptoms? Oops. Seriously?

So, if you're interested, I can point you at any one of the videos, and you can watch for yourself. Or I can tell you what I got out of this, and what everybody on those videos agreed on.

First off, cut all sugary drinks. Cut all processed foods.

Your body was not meant to eat stuff made in a laboratory. If food has a label with ingredients and words you can barely pronounce, don't eat it.

Get rid of all vegetable oils. Vegetables don't have oil, so seeds are used to produce oils using chemical processes.

Read labels because even if it says in big letters one thing, they could still try and sneak something else in. Chicken with water injected, Olive oil and butter with vegetable oil, fish coated with vegetable oil.

Buy the best quality ingredients you can afford such as organic vegetables, grass-fed meat, free range organic eggs, wild fish, venison. If you can't afford it, just buy the best you can afford. Grow your own.

This is not supposed to make your life more complicated, but a lot easier.

Cook from scratch in your own kitchen so you know exactly what is going into your food. You will be amazed at the taste difference. You will also be amazed at the cost. If you think you don't have the time, think again.

How about a meal for 10 with about 20 minutes prep and 40 minutes cooking time, using frozen supermarket food for under £13 or US$16.50? That is £1.30 or US$1.65 per person!

It would take longer than that to go to a restaurant and probably cost at least 5 to 10 times more. You'd be amazed at how little washing up there is too. Check out my website for more ideas and even a grocery list.

This is not a deprivation diet, it's eating good food, simply prepared. No complicated ingredients, just real food. Try it once and you and your family will be convinced.

My brain is a bit more organised just telling you all about it and realising I have to look at what I can change in my own life to improve my health and well-being. I cannot take everything on board, but can only do the best I can at this stage in my life. Thanks for helping and listening.

So, off my soap box. Going to make steak with garlic butter, brussels sprouts and cauliflower for lunch. Still amazing to think I am losing about a kilogram a week on this yummy food.

Take care,

Rose