Mike/ no fear of fasting

November 18, 2005

Hi Mike ~ Thanks for sharing; you are an inspiration to me as I am in the early stages of my journey to being thin and healthy! JoJoviolinmike2002 <violinmike2002 wrote: ---> BTW, Mike violinmike2002 what other lists do you sub to?> I really like your posts on both this and hygiene lists. js>Thanks- I don't to many lists. I would like to take this opportunity to speak about motivation to leave this info I do. I was a youngteen when my father bought a pizza store and worked there.he was about 270lbs. By the time I was 16 I was over 200 and I hit a40 waistline. Both parents were overweight. No one at school, although I took physed, had any real help for me although I could barely

run around the track. I had painful cysticacne on my face chest and back , the kind that are like littlevolcanoes with more under the skin than on top. ,A dermatoligistprescribed an antibiotic and ultraviolet rays. I would continueto have problems with these cysts until my early 40's.Allergies to grass ragweed and pollen meant allergy shots and a constant reliance on decongestant sprays and allergy pills. By the time I was 18 I got off the weight and down to 180 by myselfbut since I hadn't modified my eating behavior I often gained it back.By my late 20's I was back to 240.I discovered fasting when I was 40 but not the raw food and stillhooked on fast food as I had been a delivery courier on the roadoften long distance and developed that habit. I was hooked on coffeeas well .After Fasting one needs raw food and natural foods after to make itwork.And exercise at least walking a lot. Took me a

couple of yearsto walk that walk. The internet wasnt a source of info when I started fasting. By following natural hygiene my skin cleared up , I stoppedall allergy pills, I've kept about 25 of the weight I should keep off. Recently someone who hasn't seen me in a long timesaid I looked ten years younger. Just following natural hygienein a non fanatic way. I still should get some more weight off soI'm no Jack LaLanneI had a muffin today- I had some frozen yoghurt and some tea.I ate a cookie. But I had a raw salad for lunch and fruit for breakfast. I'm off dairy products since they are mucus producingfor me but I still drink soy milk something the hygienists wouldn't.I don't eat red meat or chicken but will eat some salmon and if I wassomewhereand meat was all I could have in a dinner I'd have a little butnot very often. Food combining from hygiene helps to digest foods better.But

I also honor my family. Both parents got adult diabetes.My father who just wanted to drive his taxi around during his golden years suddenly stopped at 68 with a heart attack and quad bypass that left him weakened in the legs. He'd still sneak a cigarette and some junk food although he dropped some weight and got bowel cancer and died at 71 after chemo and radiation. They wouldn't listen to me. They trusted their doctorsalthough they've both received shitty health care all their lives.Soon I'll post more about how disease starts. What I mostwant the younger people to know is just because they can eat whatever they want at 25 like I did doesn't mean its goingto be like that 20 years later. And God help you 40 years on.You'll probably live for some doctor to torment with toxic proceduresand toxic drugs.Fasting isn't some toy to play with .There is wrong and right information on the internet, if I can point a few people to

consider changing their ways even in a moderate way its worthit to me. The golden years have not been golden for either parent. Our digestive system is not really different then 5000 yearsago when we ate some grapes and simple fare but now we loadchemical compounds in flavor enhancers, preservatives, antibioticsin factory beef and chicken from animals that never run free oreat their natural diets into our bodies and expect to be healthy.But if theres air pollution in our town we don't miss a chanceto say what THEY should do about it. I still like cheezies. But fasting helped to wean me off caffeine and fries and pepperoni slices, and I know that thereare certain foods I cannot start because I will gobble til they arefinished.So I know I can't eat the cheezies and over time my body feels good when I put raw food or lightly cooked foodinto me and sick and tired when I don't. There werent many diets

I could stick to for very long. I like what Harvey Diamond saidin his 2003 book Fit for Life not Fat for Life the sequel to the original Fit for Life. If you eat more living food then dead food then you will stayliving."The plain fact is that everything is set up to addict us to cooked food"" Walk into an average grocery store and what do you see? Yousee thirty aisles of cooked processed ( thereby dead ) food and a produce section shoved over on the side with the only livingfood in the entire store "" Kill not the food that goes into your mouth. For if you eat living food the same will quicken you, but if you killyour food the dead food will kill you also. For life comesonly from life, and from death comes always death. For everything which kills your food kills your bodies also...Therefore eat not anything which fire has destroyed...for your body is that which you eat

" Essene Gospel of Peace Dead Sea ScrollsThis is proported to have been said by Jesus, but whoever said it had something important to say.Start today. Its takes at least 30 days to modify behavior.Small successes are still good successes. Little fasts stillhave good benefits and give confidence for longer

ones. Mike