1. Why is going on a Paleo diet like childbirth?
Why is going Paleo like childbirth? Because we forget how bad it was to do the change over!
Maybe not for a 20 or 30 year old but once you get to be 40 or 50 and onwards then the change
over from a glucose burning body to fat burning body so be a bit hard. The older body finds
the adaptation much harder.
I was reading my old diaries from exactly 2 years and 7 months ago and I gotta tell you at the
beginning of this diet, I felt bad. I was pretty darned depressed. I had started the program only
because I wanted to deal with my thrush, and I hadn’t figured it would be useful for any other
disease. The thrush was awful and wouldn’t go away so I knew I had to do whatever it took to
get rid of it.
I decided I would do the program for 6 months and around about the four week mark I was
thinking of would only last for 6 weeks.
Llooking back I just didn’t remember how bad it was. There I was bargaining and arguing and
basically in emotional turmoil as my body and my mind started to shift into a new way of being.
It really was CHANGE on a big scale. This program is nothing to scoff at. It will challenge
everything you believe in. Your friends will challenge you and say you must be mad. Don’t
underestimate how you will feel and how you will deal with or not deal with what gets thrown at
you.
And I was UNCERTAIN that this was really going to be the answer. All this change and
upheaval from changing the way I eat might not even help me!
I didn’t have my husband on board at the beginning, but he really tried to be supportive. He
was scared for me though, as he had watched me as I had tried so many different ways to get
well. For 15 years I had done everything I could think of and he had watched me. I now realise
that all this hope and disappointment I went through was excruciating for him.
When he would express his doubt and concern to me and I would feel angry and felt he should
be supportive of my endeavours to get well. He was supportive of course, but sometimes it was
all too much for him and he would tell me that he didn’t think what I was doing was helping.
Two years and 7 months later we are both really happy I st
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