MARINE7
12-15-2010, 10:15 PM
All my life I have been eating what the body building magazines have been telling me to eat for muscle and health. I take many vitamins and try to eat healthy most days. I feel the so called body building life style of eating has done me wrong. I have been having very bad digestive problems over the past few years. At 40 years old I thought I was having a lactose problem, but I believe I have narrowed it down the problem to starch and some types of dairy. Potato's or any other kind of starch make my insides a mess and cause me to bloat and head straight for the toilet. Doctors have said it could be IBS, but I believe it to be just due to my diet. Most days I am so bloated that I feel 10 lbs heavier and others I feel great. I cannot find a system of easy daily diet intake that can agree with my body. I work out 4-5 days a week and still feel lethargic most days. I try to eat right based on what body builders eat, but all has failed. I look somewhat healthy and in shape, but internally I am a mess. I just want to get my insides right not to mention lose at least 10lbs, which is probably just 10lbs of waste inside my body.
Over the past two weeks I have been eating a salad once a day at lunch. It consists of greens, Kale, cut almonds and small pieces of chicken. I have been using basalmic and oil for dressing. This is the starting point for me. I will be getting rid of the chicken next week, but feel the salad will taste worse. Now I just have to figure out what to eat for breakfast and dinner. This is really going to be a tough process for me. Basically trying to break a forty year habit of eating the wrong way. The so called "manly way of eating", which I feel is a commercial lie. I believe that way of eating has filled my body with toxins and parasites, which cause me to be tired all the time. I am going into this life style for the long haul and feel it will be a very tough journey. This journey; however, will pay off more than I can imagine based on what I have seen and read over the past month if I can stick to it.
I haven't look into all of the forums yet, but is there a slow process that worked for you? Basic food changes that motivated you to change your diet to fully raw. At this point I will explore the forms for a possible answer to this question. Thank you. I am very glad to be here and to learn.
Over the past two weeks I have been eating a salad once a day at lunch. It consists of greens, Kale, cut almonds and small pieces of chicken. I have been using basalmic and oil for dressing. This is the starting point for me. I will be getting rid of the chicken next week, but feel the salad will taste worse. Now I just have to figure out what to eat for breakfast and dinner. This is really going to be a tough process for me. Basically trying to break a forty year habit of eating the wrong way. The so called "manly way of eating", which I feel is a commercial lie. I believe that way of eating has filled my body with toxins and parasites, which cause me to be tired all the time. I am going into this life style for the long haul and feel it will be a very tough journey. This journey; however, will pay off more than I can imagine based on what I have seen and read over the past month if I can stick to it.
I haven't look into all of the forums yet, but is there a slow process that worked for you? Basic food changes that motivated you to change your diet to fully raw. At this point I will explore the forms for a possible answer to this question. Thank you. I am very glad to be here and to learn.