Recently on a post-holiday stint to try to get healthy again my sister and I took on a diet that we could not really afford and half killed us. Or should I say half killed me because I was actually faithful to it until the last 2 weeks. Let's note that one night I almost passed out because I guess I was just not getting enough calories. Let me tell you, when you cut out carbohydrates you are always hungry. Which was also when I decided that the diet did not fit me. You can't just totally cut things out of your diet and totally deny yourself them. Well at least I can't.
The diet we tried is the Maker's diet. Basically you try to eat mostly organic foods (but it is not required to be organic) so that you get all the nutrients minus the pesticides. But you start out by eating really limited foods such as no carbs or beans and only goat or sheep dairy products. Then two weeks later you add a few more things cow's dairy and some beans and then the last 2 weeks you add limited carbs and that is then supposed to be a lifestyle change. The idea is that hunter gatherer people's are a ton more healthy than we are and they reason that is because of the way they eat and live. Also some of the Levitical food laws were there for good reason. I do not argue that later Peter was shown that all foods have now been made clean.
Acts 10:10-15
But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance; and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!" But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."
But at the same times there are foods out there that are not good for you such as pork. Just to touch on the subject they have terrible digestive tracts so it takes forever for them to digest so their meat soaks up a lot of toxins because they are not picky eaters either, they eat anything they see. I will not get into specifics, just think really nasty and you probably hit the nail on the head. Also bottom feeders the clean up, be eating the muck that settles on the bottom of oceans, lakes etc. So when you eat them you are eating that too. Now I do love my lobster, crab, clams, oysters and STEAMERS so I will indulge sometimes but not too much or too often.
Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
I liked many of the concepts and would keep them accordingly with my budget but use a twist to fit my personal needs. Such as I really do need chocolate a few times a month, and I can't afford organic chocolate.
It seems I can only be tried and true on a diet if it is really strict. Like I try the whole eating portions but the rest of the portions of ice cream stare me in the face and cry like the sirens dragging my helpless body behind and I have to surrender to its call and fill myself with another portion or 2. The thing is they have it all wrong when it comes to ice cream's portion size. There just can't be 210 calories in that bite size bit of ice cream, there should be a law against that or a way around it.
The real issue it seems is a struggle with self-control. I could just eat a portion of things but I don't want to why eat 18 chips when I could clear off half the bag easily? I love to eat, that is some of my problem not so much that I crave the food but I love the taste and I love having it over and over again, until the bag seems to have just disappeared. One of the fruits of the Spirit. I battle the flesh. My goal in life is to please the Lord and my eating habits are not glorifying Him. If I do not desire and crave Him that much then I have no right to desire food that much. That makes it an idol now doesn't it. Oh the things I have to work on. Not to mention our body is a temple and filling it with junk foods is not a way to preserve a temple of God.
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You could easily do the Maker's Diet here in Berkeley. Organic food is the norm and it's not all that expensive either. They have tons of goat products too - even goat's milk ice cream. About the ice cream thing, what about frozen yogurt? I know, not that good, but it does cut the calories. I eat too many sweets. Perhaps that's why I had to pay the dentist $700 to fix my teeth. Yep, that's right $700 whoppin' bucks! I don't even think my wisdom teeth extraction cost that much when I was on my parents insurance!
im so glad you finally gave up the cult diet.
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