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Oct. 13th, 2008
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Oct. 13th, 2008 10:41 amI can't believe it, but we had a really good weekend. We didn't go anywhere or really do anything, just random stuff around the house, and it was really nice. I finished canning the cranberry apple butter, ripped old plants out of the garden, did wool crafts with Topaz, spent time outside, made an entirely new hat for Nevin, did lots of laundry, made banana muffins and vegetable soup and Jake made 6 loaves of bread. Probably more stuff but I can't remember.
Ithaca on Friday night was sort of a waste, since all the stuff I wanted to go for was already closed. No farmers market, no yarn store, no toy store, oh well. I'm actually thinking of going with the kids today but that's crazy because I really don't care about any of that stuff today, and the farmers market is only on the weekend. I fee antsy to do SOMETHING today, though.
i've felt so profoundly restored lately. It's really a shocking and noticeable difference. I have so much more energy, I feel more clear-headed, a little less irritable, just overall better. My digestion is not perfect, but better than it has been. The only changes I've made in the past week:
no coffee/tea
no chocolate
matcha 2-3 times a day
L-glutamate twice a day
Colon Care supps 2-3 times a day
Really, that's it, and it doesn't seem like that should make that much difference. I think if I got myself off wheat and dairy and refined sugars I'd be a LOT better off.
Been thinking about the raw thing. And after the initial gung ho thoughts, I've sort of gone through the motions of my life thinking about how this and that would be different if we went raw. I've been reading about transitioning too. Altogether, I've decided not to be crazy, and that I don't think ALL raw is the right path for us, nor is ALL OR NOTHING in general. We have a really hard time being moderate about anything around here, and I want to stop that. Certainly we will incorporate a LOT more raw foods into our diet, and see how that goes. But I can't help but feel like the raw foods community is more overzealous than any other diet-related crowd I've ever seen, and it's almost a religion to a lot of them. That immediately turns me off, and I just want to feel healthy. Whatever way that happens is what we'll do. I completely get the whole killed nutrients and enzymes thing, but if you look at any diet too closely you'll start to see flaws and unanswerable questions that make me not want to be a strict adherent to any one eating philosophy. In general I think we're going in a good direction, and looking back our progress is very clear, so I have high hopes that we'll end up where we should be as a matter of course.
Ithaca on Friday night was sort of a waste, since all the stuff I wanted to go for was already closed. No farmers market, no yarn store, no toy store, oh well. I'm actually thinking of going with the kids today but that's crazy because I really don't care about any of that stuff today, and the farmers market is only on the weekend. I fee antsy to do SOMETHING today, though.
i've felt so profoundly restored lately. It's really a shocking and noticeable difference. I have so much more energy, I feel more clear-headed, a little less irritable, just overall better. My digestion is not perfect, but better than it has been. The only changes I've made in the past week:
no coffee/tea
no chocolate
matcha 2-3 times a day
L-glutamate twice a day
Colon Care supps 2-3 times a day
Really, that's it, and it doesn't seem like that should make that much difference. I think if I got myself off wheat and dairy and refined sugars I'd be a LOT better off.
Been thinking about the raw thing. And after the initial gung ho thoughts, I've sort of gone through the motions of my life thinking about how this and that would be different if we went raw. I've been reading about transitioning too. Altogether, I've decided not to be crazy, and that I don't think ALL raw is the right path for us, nor is ALL OR NOTHING in general. We have a really hard time being moderate about anything around here, and I want to stop that. Certainly we will incorporate a LOT more raw foods into our diet, and see how that goes. But I can't help but feel like the raw foods community is more overzealous than any other diet-related crowd I've ever seen, and it's almost a religion to a lot of them. That immediately turns me off, and I just want to feel healthy. Whatever way that happens is what we'll do. I completely get the whole killed nutrients and enzymes thing, but if you look at any diet too closely you'll start to see flaws and unanswerable questions that make me not want to be a strict adherent to any one eating philosophy. In general I think we're going in a good direction, and looking back our progress is very clear, so I have high hopes that we'll end up where we should be as a matter of course.