No Grain

After my naturopath appointment yesterday where I got the results of my last lot of hormone tests, I asked Queen Naturo about the seminar she went to last weekend which was on weight loss.

She didn’t go for the information.  In her words “weight loss is weight loss”.  She went for the speaker!  She said he was a funny man, very insightful and inspiring and she simply wanted to go hear him speak. 

I asked her if she did happen to learn anything new in regards to weight loss.  She said no, but told me some really funny things he had to say and how she was laughing the whole way through.  What she said really impacted on me.

For the last few weeks, I have been reading up about food addictions and how to overcome it.  Many years ago, when I first started trying to overcome this problem, I used to get irate about the problems associated with overcoming this addiction.  I used to say, knowing how very hard all addictions are to deal with, that alcoholics and drug addicts when they get to a point of being able to recover, can stop taking their drug of choice and move into recovery.  But food addicts – well, we still have to eat.  How the hell do you recover from food addiction when you can’t just stop eating!  I used to get so irate about this.

Yet, in the last  few weeks, I have realised that I was wrong.  You do stop eating.  You stop eating the foods that bring on the addictive behaviours.  How many times have I overeaten on fruit and veg?  Rarely.  When the addictive voice is strong and screaming at me, is it screaming for fruit and veg?  No.

 

 

The key is knowing what foods are the triggers.  And as it turns out, for me and I get a feeling that this is the case for most as well, it is grains as well as sugar.

One book on food addiction that I was reading, spoke about the need to remove bread and pasta from your diet – these are the addiction foods, like alcohol to an alcoholic and make you crave more and more of other foods as well. 

This was my first call from “beyond” about what I had to do.  Then it came again from another source.  And yesterday, from Queen Naturo.  And the knowledge was there.  Just like the unveiling of my fear, this was an unveiling, a knowing, a complete and utter acceptance and gratefulness on what I need to do.

The key thing she said was this - “when your body eats grains, it doesn’t break it down into protein or anything else the body needs.  Grains are only broken down into sugars”

And that was when it hit home. 

And today I started.  Happily started.  With great relief started.  With such a sense of peace and rightfulness.  A high protein, no grains way of life.  She gave me a book as a guide and it has been good.

I’m amazed at how easy it has been today.  Completely and utterly amazed!  I have found my place.

D came home from being away today.  Being the Italian he is, I didn’t expect him to want to join me and I already brainstormed how I could do this and still have him eating his pasta!  But he wants to do it as well – for the majority anyway.  He sees how it will be good for him also.  So, there you go!  It’s meant to be!

I feel great right now.  I feel right with the world.  I feel a sense of conclusion to my years of struggles.  I feel Peaceful!!  I pray that it continues…