Hi
I was surfing this site to see if the juice is better then the Raw..after reading most of the posts..
I thought I'd share what I have found out works well for me...
Two months ago I was 325lbs and getting sick a lot. Couldn’t do my job and couldn’t stop eating the SAD diet .. (Just to mention I was once a prime athlete running and 20miles was not uncommon for me 5 to 7 a day was normal and light weights and stir climbing was in the mix.., so you might guess that at age 49 I wad bummed out to have become one of those people who " I once couldn’t understand how they could let that happen to themselves")
There I was 325lbs and gaining.. My only motivation to lose the weight and get healthy was the pain in my knees and sickness over taking me. I was fully developing asthma and many other symptoms of the poor diet , I was just tired all the time, and tired of being known as the Fat Guy.
When you see 325lbs on the scale, it is overwhelming. So what to do?.. I had no idea because when i was healthy I could eat what i wanted because I was so active. I meet regularly with a friend of mine who is in the same physical work industry (a carpenter) was the same age and looked like once did. Years ago _
My wife and I are close with him and his wife and we invited them and thier children to the lake with us for a long week-end, We all have kids and it was going to be a good retreat for us from work. At the lake early in the summer ,..my friend "Victor" and his family and ours were all out on the pontoon as watched him in the water swim and play with my kids I was humbled.. But there was no way I could get back in the boat if I got in the lake. It was really clear to me and I knew I was missing more then good health. I was not doing the playing , because I was to unhealthy I needed to do something soon .. I knew I was ether going too loose the weight or loose my life, and not only would my friend be playing with my kids but possibly the new dad that would eventually come along.
If you have never been this heavy, you cannot understand it, its kinda like a woman that has never had children .. no matter what once you have your own children you see things a little differently. And this 325lbs was something I had never though i would have to deal with, it was killing me, and I felt hopeless...
Well,.. I asked my friend Victor what he was doing to stay so very healthy. He said just watch what I eat and you'll get it..
The Next morning at the lake, everyone was getting hungry for the pancakes and eggs and bacon,,etc,, The glopp I love to eat. As I sat down to the table with my share of glopp (as I call it),.. And I saw Victor open his cooler and pull out a medley of shredded cabbage and veggies, There was what looked like that shredded salad that you get a small scoop of a your typical pot luck. Only victor had enough to feed the whole get-together,.. and he seemed eat it all.. After my four pancakes and equal amount of eggs bacon and a few glasses of milk I was still hungry .. so I finished off the kids left-overs.. But the veggie seed was planted. And having once been fit I know what I needed to get my mind around.
Now rather then detail the whole long struggle to kill of the seed of the "veggie option" I will just say this ,, Victors veggie seed grew in my mind and I knew that I needed to get healed of this desire to eat glopp.
So a month later while out of town on a large construction project I stopped at the store for the stuff victor would eat, and I started to change my taste buds, (which I have since leaned actually does happen from eating the veggies)
Today is three months later and the winter season is coming, my worst glopp eating time of the year. I weighed in at 7:30 am my favorite time because the am weight is lower.. . I now weigh 274lbs . for the first time in five years I am under 275lbs, and I have lost 50 lbs of fat .. So pile up fifty lbs of butter in your mind and you’ll get the idea.. My wife and I were very happy to see the change.
I will only say this much more,.. and thank you for your investment of time in reading this, "Eat the raw .. drink the juice" , and if your like me and your looking for a way to become healthy again,... do it today!.
Best wishes to all you who are in the midst of the same fight in your lives and I encourage you to ,, with the power of the, vegs, and healthy options you can regain your health. I am no longer sick all the time and I am gaining my dignity and self-respect back. Although this is a very physical and external thing to deal with in my life it has also impacted my spiritual life and walk with God.
thanks
