Healing and cleansing

For a while I have been feeling a bit stressed out. We're moving soon, and there is so much involved.

Also we had a friend stay for a week in the middle of all this, and he is single, and works, and spends most  of his free time drinking alcohol, and computing/texting etc.

It was really eye opening to see a different way of life so close up. He was really easy to live with, and the children love him, so we were all very happy for that week. But it took its toll.

As a family we normally wait until Edward gets home, then we have dinner together. So we all sat round and ate together as normal, with the one addition of red wine. I wanted to join in. I would also have a small glass with my meal, and at the start that was a great novelty. Our friend would finish the bottle as the evening progressed.

I started to feel quite stressed as the week wore on. I craved foods like sweets, chocolate, tea and coffee.

I gave in to those cravings as the week progressed, and I began to feel unwell.

I became very sensitive to pain, and emotional stressors.

Towards the end of the week I actually started to feel poisoned - very tired and ill, and strung out.

How glad I was when the week was over!

I know that what we eat affects us. I really do know that, but still I went along with this diet of not so healthy stuff for a week!!

Anyhow. I realized why I felt the way I did eventually, so decided to sort myself out.

Stopping the alcohol was easy - but I missed it after just one week!

Next I decided to remove caffeine from my diet.

I stopped having tea, and coffee. The first day was fine, although the whole world looked grey, not colored.

The next day I got the anticipated headache. Horrible, all day. And fatigue.

Next day I got the headache, and hypersensitivity to light, sound and pain. Crashing fatigue.

The next day was easier. Colour started to return to my world!

Now the world I live in is just the same as it was when I was on coffee and tea! I feel great, and I don't need a caffeine kick to feel that way!

I'm not tired either.

Next I've tried to removed sugar, or refined carbs from my diet.

For breakfast I have oatmeal with a banana, walnuts, and cinnamon on top and milk. The cinnamon really makes you feel you're eating something much sweeter than it is. And I drink water, or a herb tea.

Lunch could be anything, maybe eggs from our happy hens - but I like toast with that, so not completely refined carb free.

Or quinoa with garlic and tomato and oil and goat feta. I love that one. Supposedly quinoa is actually quite high in sugar. Not so good.

Really don't know what to do about lunch.

Anyway, dinner is easier, as we all eat good food together. Lots of veg, maybe some fish, or once a week we have nice meat, maybe a quiche. With potatoes from the garden usually.

So after a week of the above change I feel back to normal.

I think this is why I couldn't smoke. I'd be so addicted. I feel quite easily addicted to foods and drinks, so smoking no way!!

I even exercised on Friday, and I felt good!

I must continue now.

Its so nice to read other bloggers food journeys, or healing stories and know I'm not alone on this one. We get so caught up in daily life and don't stop to properly evaluate how our bodies are behaving on the diet we follow.

It only takes a minute to properly look at ourselves, and our behavior, and change those not so healthy things. Why didn't I do it before?

Silly!