Tony

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Too much dicipline lol. No one is taking my tater chips, butter or half can of

Coke away from me hehehehe. Now the cigarettes I never thought I could stop and

I did years ago. That was a real challenge.

Donna

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" tony sears " <tonysears

 

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:02:41

 

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Jill - I think you will find wonderful advice and support within this group.

Hang in there. I

can tell you it may require a great deal of discipline.

I personally had a hard time giving up a LOT of the things I now know were bad

for my

body. I took the pressure off by saying to myself, " if I really want something,

I'll just have

it. " Now, I am eating 95% No Wheat (except sprouted), No Dairy, No Sugar, LOW

Sodium,

No meat, No Alcohol, No caffeine. What I did at first was to try going Cold

Turkey. That

worked with the caffeine for example, but then I was slipping with the cheese,

or the salty

chips. So I decided NOT to give up everything at once. I did one thing at a

time. AND I

gave myself permission to have anything I wanted on Saturdays - a cheeseburger

- ice

cream - a beer - ANYTHING. After working so hard to eat healthy during the

week. I went

crazy the first Saturday - and then felt like shit, physically. Now when

Saturday rolls

around I hardly even WANT to eat anything I don't eat during the week. As my

friend said,

your body starts to crave what's in it.

I have never done a DETOX or FAST. Low Blood sugar makes fasting difficult for

me. I

can tell you that completely overhauling your diet to a Vegan - even mostly

Vegan diet will

do the detoxing for you. Once you are eating SO healthy - then an OCCASIONAL

slice of

pizza when out with friends or scoop of ice cream isn't going to kill you -

just don't overdo

it and try to make those treats organic.

Once last thing that helps me tremendously: I have a very close friend who is

also on

this same journey. We talk about things nearly every day -share new discoveries

at the

market, go to a Vegan restaurant together, buy each other cookbooks. It helps

to have a

friend to validate what you are doing and your progress. You can find some of

that here

on this blog - but try and find a person around you, or make a new friend, who

will

support and encourage what you are doing. all the best, Tony