Another One Bites The Dust: 1 More Of My Favorite Foods I’m Cutting Out, For Now

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Feel Good Project day 10

Lately I resemble a human sponge.

No other time if life before this, have I been a person who seriously cannot get enough information.

I find myself becoming an avid reader for the first time in my entire life, reading any and everything I can get my hand on, the topics and interests so broad. Every time I get in the car now, I immerse myself in a world of lectures, self help and discovery tool and sessions, and can say without a doubt that in the past two years, the quality of my conversations have jumped to a whole new level of depth and meaning.

I am officially a self development junkie.

Part of this journey and growth is being reminded (seems like almost daily, and through many different sources) just HOW important it is to listen to my body.

I think I should know this by now, as I have experienced enough positive outcomes when I do that very act, however sometimes I feel I get too wrapped up in strictly going through the motions of following a particular diet or lifestyle.

This can be quite an interesting process, as I would think it would be intuition that if I don’t feel well on a particular day-to assess the food I have fed myself and ask my body if there be any particular offenders that could be causing me problems.

This proves hard, as someone who eats an amazing diet these days of organic, whole and nutritious foods. Gluten free, milk free, egg free, soy and nut free, pesticide free-even sulfur free! No thiols for me right now, thank you very much!

One would think that this diet would be officially healing. Most of it is. However I have realized that I should never get too comfortable in any one way/ways of treating my health.

The truth is that sometimes (unfortunately) even the most living, healing and nutritious foods just might not be working for ME at a particular time.

I have had a bit more digestive issues within the past week than usual that seem to be lingering, where as in the months prior these conditions were not the case. Pretty much same diet.

So WHY?

Not sure if my body gets too used to something and then begins to reject it, asking me to mix things up a bit and introduce different foods? I know that can happen. Does it have to do with the times of day I am eating them versus what time I USED to eat them? Am I stressed more than normal? Did I take enough digestive enzymes or supplements?

The list goes on and on.

Case in point: I’ve been having this ‘feeling’ that possibly this discomfort could have something to do with the raw, grass fed whey protein I have been eating. AGAIN-great, nutritious food that even aids in detoxification, but maybe this is not what I need right now?

The only thing I can put together is that I had jumped from making one protein smoothie a day to either two or three, thus increasing the amount of whey by quite a bit.

This really SADDENS me if this is the case, as that is my most favorite meal/taste of the entire day. I am seriously feeling sorry for myself asking WHY this TOO???? What is there left to eat anymore?

I was grieving my possible loss in the kitchen today and Justin made a really good point. He likened the situation to this: if you get a cut, injury or inflammation on the OUTSIDE of your body, you will need to lay off that area and REST it for a bit, so it can heal and properly and then you can move forward again.

Made sense. If you burn yourself for example, you don’t go to the hot stove and throw that body part on it and re-burn it again. It wants to heal. It NEEDS to heal. When there is no down time for that to take place, that’s when problems arise.

That is true with my digestive system for certain. Whether it happens to turn out the whey or not (and I am determined to find out by process of elimination), I am just going to go with my gut (no pun intended) and give it a proper rest so that I can really feel into what makes a difference in the day to day healing process.

I am having to work through being okay and not attached to anything so much-no matter how much I love it, or no matter how healthy it is. My body is the decider, not my mind and my addictions or habits.

FEEL GOOD MOMENT OF THE DAY: Went grocery shopping and forgot the ONE item needed to make our favorite half raw pumpkin pie for dessert tonight-the raw, organic honey! Was grumbling about that, as I would have to go back out after just returning home from a long shopping outing. To shorten the story, miracle of miracles, rummaged through the cabinet like I have done so many times before only to find a brand new container of raw and organic honey. The cool part is that I didn’t expect that would even be a possibility, while Justin had gotten the hit that it would be in there, just waiting, to show us both that everyday miracles that keep us going. 🙂