Today I'm watching "Forks over Knives". It is a documentary about exactly the problems I am dealing with. I'm hoping that hearing and seeing the facts over and over again will help me to take the steps I need to take to improve my health. Hippocrates said "Let food be thy medicine" over two thousand years ago, so this isn't new. What's new, to me, is how bad and unnecessary animal based foods are to humans.
One quote from this show, from a man at risk for heart attack, stroke and other issues, hit home with me... " I don't eat to live, I live to eat." When I think of NOT having the processed foods, high in sugar and fat, I feel panicky and depressed all at once. When I give in and eat those things I feel a calm come over me. It is like drugs or alcohol. I need my "fix."
Knowing all these things and acting on them are two very different things. As I try to come off of sugar, fat, processed foods, I know I will be bitchy, tired, depressed and anti-social. If I was coming off drugs or alcohol people would understand this, but to say, "I'm being a bitch because I didn't have a donut and diet pepsi for breakfast," well, people just don't get that. I haven't started yet. I hope to start soon. My diet is killing me slowly.
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