Okay, since most of you will probably only ever communicate with me here on this blog, I want to tell you now how much your support means to me. Thanks to those of you who have taken the time to read my rantings and not judge what our family has been through. It’s so easy to hear or read part of a story and assume the rest. However, this forum has allowed me the opportunity to meet some amazing people. You have taught me more than I’ve taught you. You have given us hope and support and love and I can’t ever tell you how much it means to me and my family.
Now, I must address an issue that seems to never resolve itself…..Strangeness.
I am a strange ‘girl’. I go against the grain. I swim upstream against the current. I don’t believe everything I read, see or hear. I have to know, I have to try, I have to test the boundaries. So all my life, I’ve been a little different. I see things through a different set of eyes I suppose. I don’t know why, but that’s just me. So what I’m getting at here is that while I’m used to feeling strange and being told I’m strange or different, I’ve come to the conclusion that what most people call ‘strange’ is sometimes exactly what is beneficial for most people…but they choose the easy path. To me, the easy path is ‘strange’.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people in my family complain about health issues after years of abusing their bodies with toxic foods and habits. This to me is in fact ‘strange’. To top it off, when I try to share my views on diet or health or any of it, my opinions are met with borderline hostility, as though I were telling someone to jump off a bridge!
Shouldn’t I be concerned about the foods that my family eats? Shouldn’t I be teaching my kids to put good foods into their bodies….not only that…shouldn’t I teach them WHY they should eat good foods? How those foods break down and how their bodies use those foods for fuel and to rebuild cells? Shouldn’t I? Or should I just go with the flow, give up and stock the pantry with donuts and soda? Should I feed chemically laden grains (treated with known mitochondrial toxins) to my kids who have mitochondrial diseases already? Should I promote things as food that actually have the nutritional value of a rock?
I am not sure why healthy foods provoke people to anger. Perhaps it’s guilt? Perhaps just laziness?
Let me assure you, I do not care what you choose to feed your child. But I care what my own child eats. So those who disagree or have a problem with my blog, might I suggest you continue to eat how you want, listen to whom you chose to listen to, and live your lives how you want to, and let me do the same? I’m all for choices, aren’t you? Thank God we live in a country where I can feed my child how I choose to, and so can you. I’m not judging, I’m just living my chosen path…the one that seems right to me.
So the anger I hear from those who disagree has caught me off guard lately…it’s actually left me feeling a bit, dare I say, strange. But the more I learn about diet and health, the more I realize that the strangest thing I’ve ever encountered is opposition to what’s right and good. I don’t understand the anger. If you don’t want to eat healthy foods, that’s cool. You can do what you want…but don’t push your beliefs on me. And do not complain when you reap the rewards of your actions. Chose your path and live it…and let me live mine.
Sounds familiar to me. I rarely visit the doctor, usually only to get my perscriptions. Figure after almost 30 years of dealing with T1 I seem to know as much, if not more, about it than they do. I am also searching for a cure for this. I don’t mind being my own lab rat. Some may call me crazy, but if I figure this out, then I will be brilliant!;)
Going as much raw and unprocessed has been great for me. I feel better than I have in a long time, my weight is almost to my ideal BMI. Not that I was trying to lose weight, it just falls off with the correct diet. I am so convinced of the importance of diet and like you, when I try and tell people about it I get lots of odd looks and remarks like “I could never give up meat!”. I guess I used to believe the same, but the benefits of this continue to amaze me, which makes it very easy to continue on like this. Even if I am unable to find a cure, I have found a way to be much healthier than I could have imagined!!
Keep up the goodness!!
Dean
Thank you for your comment Dean! I agree, seeing the benefits really is the whole key. I love that there are others out there who are still willing to go against the grain and keep trying to find a way to make their lives better without wholly relying on modern medicines. Thanks for the encouragement!
one thing i learned when i first started homeschooling was “you are the expert in your home”
it was also to trust your God voice, and when you follow His words, you will got get in trouble. we only get in trouble when we get in our own way.
hey I gota nifty experiment going on here and Tyler’s numbers are wild, i think his pancreas my be kicking in more…. oh wait, it is not proven by the experts, should i have even mentioned it here?? tee hee
LOL…Alix…thank you. You are so right on about all of this. This week has been so wild where diabetes is concerned and I’m slowly learning to ignore the negative and focus on the positive. It’s hard, but I can’t fight every battle. So bye bye nay sayers and hello LIFE!! Love ya girl!!
I think we live a society that has been taught that we should not help ourselves but instead rely on people outside of us to dictate what we should do with our mind and body. I think this is the root of the problem. I do not anyway mean to belittle doctors, therapists ( I am a therapist ) and other good services out there that we, without a shadow of a doubt, need. I do think that it is overused though. For example I have always had sinus and allergy issues and mom would take me to the doctor for medicine. It helped but I was not cured. 2 years ago I gave up dairy and I have not had allergy or sinus issues since. I chose to help myself and to see what would happen when I gave up dairy. I’m glad I did as opposed to having chose to listen to well intended experts tell me that I will always have allergy problems throughout my life. My husband is type 1 and is working with Dr. Gabriel Cousens to educate himself on diabetes and how to empower himself through healthy eating and lifestyle. My husband is also doing his own experimentation and guess what..it’s working. 40yrs old and after just 2 short years, he has decreased his insulin from 40 to just 2 to 9 units a day. (type 1 since 4yrs old) ….we know something is definitely working that wasn’t working before. ……….I AM SO PROUD OF YOU for what your family is doing. I believe that continuing down the path you are on is only going to bring more wonderful results and blessings. Healthy eating does that. It’s not rocket science, it’s real life. You have chosen to be proactive with the health of your family and it’s working. Lily is getting healthier. It’s working! This is right in front of your eyes…I’m not sure where folks get that you or others on this forum are in denial. You have proof and I live with proof that our loved ones bodies are working better!! So back to the root cause of people’s anger….it’s scary to think that you are doing the best thing for yourself and your child only to start discovering that there are other ways that may be better. It produces guilt in people. “What if I’ve been doing it wrong by listening to well intended doctors”? I think that is very scary for people. My mother in law went through that too when we changed our diet to a much healthier way. She was skeptical and angry because she then started questioning herself and how she raised my husband. We reassured her that she did a great job, though! She did a great job and now we were just simply moving on to a next level of greatness. My mother in laws anger has been melting away with our love and appreciation for her as well as the obvious changes in my husband’s dramatically decreased need for insulin
!We are taught rely on pills and the “experts” advice but that clearly isn’t always the answer if you look and can see clearly that our country is getting sicker. Both type 2 AND type 1 diabetes are rising in this country. It’s not a “freak accident” that just randomly strikes people like lighting. This is a real epidemic that we can do something about. I live with someone who is doing something about it and you do too. Keep going sister! I admire you and your family to my very core. Keep going!
Thank you Kelly. You make some excellent points. I would love to hear about how your husband is doing with Gabriel Cousens. I am in the process of moving more towards raw foods. It’s difficult for me, but I know that it’s probably best. Atleast mostly raw anyway. In the process of taking care of the kids, we tend to neglect ourselves…so through all of this, it’s truly helping me and my other daughter as well as Lily. I sure wish people would test this way of eating for a while to actually see what happens. It takes time, especially for those who have been used to eating whatever is convenient. I just wish people would see for themselves before criticizing. Thank you for your comment and please keep us all posted on your husband’s progress. I think it’s great that he is searching for better ways to help and hopefully reverse the long term affects of type 1. Take care.
Forgot to mention that I think the way you handled your mother in laws concerns is so great. I’m sure she appreciates it. No one sets out to harm their children, they just do what they’re taught to do. I have to also remember this when responding to certain folks on here!! So thank you!
perfectly stated
Not strange at all – just more intelligent than the rest of the sheeple.
You’re right. And I wish that more doctors would educate themselves about nutrition so they could pass the information on to others. However, this probably would disrupt the process of thinning the herd. Thank you for your comment. Good to know I’m not the only ‘strange’ one here
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