So I made some very important steps today..!
My First Juicer..!!
We bought a nice cheap little juicer from Wal-Mart for only $39 .. and so far it works GREAT .. !! Some oranges, an apple, a peach, a banana (yeah not so smart hubby!!) and out come 2 glasses of fresh, healthy, and yummy juice.. ! He also made some carrot juice with an orange and apple added as well. It wasn't so bad like that..! I can see myself drinking it too. This is such a huge step for me..! It's going to be a struggle getting my daily vegetables though..
Where I'm Headed
I think the staples of my diet are going to be eggs, potatoes, wheat breads & peanut butter, fruits, veggies, and milk. Pretty pathetic I know. Other things are really hard for me because of some eating issues I have had since I was a child. But I am going to try adding as many things as I can..!!
Where I've Come From
Let's just say that "picky eating" sounds like such a wrong term for it because it's not something that I do by choice. Certain foods are just impossible for me due to their flavor (leafy veggies, chicken), or texture (chicken, nuts), or even the thought of it (beef, leafy veggies). I didn't even eat pizza until I was 18 years old.. I never liked cake, never liked sodas, never liked meat. Until I was about 12 years old my daily diet consisted of orange juice, pudding, yogurt, peanut butter, some vitamins my mom gave me, and sometimes french fries or biscuits. So I have come a LONG way. I am trying to try new things all the time but the thing is that most of them were not healthy. I have become very dependent on processed foods over the last 6 - 10 years. Cheerios, Goldfish, Hershey's chocolate bars, Cheese Nips, frozen pizzas, frozen french fries, frozen cheesy bread, frozen pretzels, etc. etc. Nachos and pizza and loaded baked potatoes at work (we get catered lunch) everything fried, cheesy, with gops of sour cream..!! Some days I would not eat if they did not have anything that I liked..!!
First Supplements Ever..!!
I still need to research more if Royal Jelly & Maca are O.K. for someone with amalgams still in place..
So we also just went to Whole Foods and this is what we got:
- Royal Jelly (supposedly prolongs the life of the queen bee from 2 months to 6 years.. supposed to greatly increase fertility, egg health, decrease the risk of a miscarriage, etc.)
- Selenium (supposed to bind with the mercury to make it less harmful)
- Zinc (also supposed to mitigate the negative affects of the mercury)
- Maca powder (supposed to help with fertility and energy among other things like benefits to the skin, hair & nails. Both hubby and I will be taking this one!)
Hubby kept teasing me about my "weird" Peruvian powder and bee jelly..! lol..!
But I pulled up some articles on my Droid and showed it to him..
We made some other changes that we ( well mostly I..! ) have been meaning to make for a while or at least started but never fully followed through..
"Pure" Things We Just Bought
- Got another, smaller cast-iron pan for things like eggs & pancakes - going to throw out the last of the non-stick coated pans
- Got some glass Pyrex containers to replace the plastic tupperware we previously used..! By this point hubby was just like "Are you sure this matters...?? Well ok..."
- Got 2 spray bottles to make my vinegar + water solution.. this is something I did before but using a rinsed out 409 bottle.. Hubby hates using vinegar and prefers 409 so this one took some convincing.. I mean who decided a bunch of chemicals = clean..?? To me fresh & natural = clean..! It took me a while to see it that way but now that I do it's like.. DUH..!!
- Got some regular old-fashioned light-bulbs to replace the CFL ones that we have after reading a horror story of a mercury-sensitive woman who had one break in her home.. 3 years later she is still not back to normal and even just walking down the street makes her sick from the car exhaust fumes.. it took her almost 1 year to be in her own house without a mask.. she couldn't go within 1 block of her home without feeling sick.. when the bulb broke her hand turned GREEN and veins popped out and when she called an ambulance they would not help her because they did not take her seriously. This just goes to show how dangerous mercury is for those who are "toxic" or who do not process toxins well, whichever way you want to view it. They are 2 sides of the same coin in my mind.. Anyway this story tripped hubby out more than it did me..! He was afraid of the CFL light-bulbs and was checking all of the boxes to make sure they weren't CFL and kept asking me "but how do you know if it has mercury or not..??"
And a random rant =)
Then we were reading the labels of the CFL bulbs and despite all other kinds of "WARNINGS" and "CAUTIONS" nope there was nothing about mercury or even the risk that it could break and release it.. *sigh* I do not understand why more people are not taking mercury seriously. It is one of the most highly deadliest toxins known on earth.. that and the fluoride that is in our water but that is a story for another day.. You wouldn't believe how much everything is connected..!! How much almost every single thing around us or that we consume has some kind of "conspiracy" story behind it. It sounds crazy at first but once you believe 1 or 2 you see that the others are true as well (after doing the adequate research of course..!!). It's hard because you can't just start off immediately with "evil dentists and plots to make everyone sick and food companies trying to kill off the crops of the entire world and vaccine companies causing AIDS and Leukemia" see what I mean..? I sound like a crazy person.. but the sad thing is I am not.. most of these things are probably 90-100% true.. and the really sad thing is that most people have NO idea. They just believe everything a person in a position of political or intellectual authority tells them..!! Honestly - this just means they have more of a motivation to lie..!!
