When I turned 21 years old I watched all of what I consumed in foods growing up catch up to my health and take a turn for the worst. Since I was young I always had problems with cyst in my ovaries. Like most young women you think you are super human and nothing can go wrong. I began working for Holistic Endocrinologist doing medical billing, she decide to do a hormone blood work on me……I was informed I had high cholesterol and PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) which is when you build too much testosterone levels. Average testosterone level for a women is 25, my levels were at 95. Yes 95…..the effects of not treating it is I can grow facial hair, chances of diabetes are high, infertility and a bunch of other complications. She advised me if I let her treat me the natural holistic way she can cure me in a matter of months. She did not believe in the western medicine practices as they fix one problem and causes another problem. Also their focus is more on treating the problem, rather than curing it. She placed me on a strict diet, so juice, soda, fried foods, red meat etc was all taken out of my diet. I watched her cure many people throughout the years I worked for her so I trusted her. My diet consisted of veggies, water, brown rice, fruits. She provided me with natural vitamins. And she also introduced me to Chinese meditation CD. I followed all her instructions and within 3 months my levels were at a 25. As hard as the transition was I realized all I was use to eating was why I was always anemic, why I was always so tired, why I had all these health problems. I watched my mind body and soul transform by just my diet. I was convinced it was time to continue to on this journey. But I was young so of course I fell off track MANY times. I wasn't strong enough mentally to stay disciplined. As I got older I realized the more I fell off the more I was gonna pay for later with my health. It ALL catches up to you. I began to watch loved ones pass away in theirs 30's, 40's, 50's, from heart attacks, cancer, diabetes. It was a wake up call. People dying so young didn't sit right with me. I began to do more research on foods and how it affects our body. I realized how can I be so careless or worry about not having enough money to eat healthy when I live inside this body. This machine that if I don't maintain it at some point it will shut down. I made a concious decision to stop making excuses and change my eating habits. I decided one day at a time I'd make a change. My first thing I gave up was red meat and pork, and juice. Then a friend of my husbands challenged us to a 30 day no processed or refined sugar diet……That challenge changed my life…….My husband and I were forced to find alternatives, it showed us how as much as we thought we were doing "good" we had this addiction to sugar we were unaware of. So yeah we may have had great healthy breakfast lunch and dinner but then tear up a whole bag of airheads, jolly ranchers etc. etc. I went through intense withdrawals, headaches, irritable you name it. I would have to take naps throughout the day because the headaches were unbearable at times. After the 1st week things became easier, I began to see the change in my mind body and soul. Suddenly my taste buds started changing…..I remember cutting up chicken one day and I felt like I was ripping human flesh, it brought me to the point of gagging. I wasn't sure what was happening. I thought if anything I can still do chicken so I was shocked I had this weird feeling about chicken…..I would cook it and couldn't eat it. All we drank was water with lemon, we juiced a lot, and we ate a lot of vegetables and fruits. Once the 30 days were over we felt like new people. I knew I wanted to continue doing this, I loved the way I felt, I felt light, more clarity, I wouldn't feel sleepy after eating anymore, I had more energy. I knew right there that I wanted to transition to becoming a vegan. So I bought vegan cookbooks and 90% of my meals were vegan and the 10% consisted of my addition to cheese and I would eat chicken 2x a month only. The challenge also brought me back to meditating. I began to have intense breakthroughs in my meditations. I felt the closest Ive ever been to God. I felt a one on one connection to him. God created all we needed to live in this world, our body is a temple, its pure and we must respect and treat it as such if we truly say we love our God. We must eat to live. I realized eating healthier actually costs me less in the bigger scheme of things. The quality of food was better and the price was less. You can go ahead and spend $8 on a mc donalds meal or spend $8 and buy a bunch of veggies and fruits. If you don't pay the price now you will pay it for your health later. Each day I learn more, I research more, I read ALL my labels in all my foods and study all the ingrediants so I am aware of what I am putting in my body. I know I still have a lot to learn and I'm excited to learn it and be more conscious of my body and the right things to make it work better. I would love to start a family soon and what better way to start then by cleaning and detoxing my body of all the waste so my future baby has a clean place to live in for 9 months. I'm a firm believer all these problems our kids have start from parents not eating properly so they already infect the baby with chemicals and waste. I refuse to fall victim to what they set up for my people the majority. At some point we must break the cycle and do better. These corporations continue to infect our foods with chemicals and inject them with hormones. I advise buy organic and research all the companies and foods. I feel the most amazing I have ever felt in my life :)
