April 26, 2008 — Fatboy?
I officially gained one pound this week, at least by the way that I weigh myself. I went from 209 pounds to 210 pounds.
The world has ended! ARGH! I’m getting FAT again!
Not really; I have a solution for the issue. I’m going to exercise more so that I burn more calories.
Yup, I’ve gone completely off the deep end.
I like to eat and always have — except now I’m eating stuff that’s good for me. I like what I’m eating and it’s doing wonders for me. Just this week my hands have finally stopped being quite so dry (although they are still drier than normal) and I could swear that my eyesight is getting better. I’ve been wearing progressive lens glasses for some time now (for the uninitiated, “progressive lens” is a nice way of saying “bifocals”!) and just this week the reading part of the lens has gotten blurry, forcing me to try to find a new focal point for the stuff I’m reading — while the regular part is working fine. Coincidence? Who knows — and I’m certainly not about to make any claims about a raw food diet being able to cure vision problems. At least not yet.
But getting back to the food: I still enjoy the smell of cooked food, but now that I’m 43 days into an all raw food diet, I’m not really tempted to eat any cooked food. The desire to even try a small bite or a small taste just doesn’t seem to be there any more. I do admit that I sometimes look at a couple of things and may want it for a moment, but the mere thought of putting that into my body is like the reaction you’d get from your mechanic if you tried to pour a pound of sugar into your car’s gas tank. Absolutely not! Perhaps the desire to eat cooked and processed food is finally passing for good!
But as I read more in Dr. Graham’s “The 80/10/10 Diet” book, the more I realize just how good this diet is for me. I can almost picture my body taking the simple sugars that I’m providing it as it quickly and efficiently — with the least possible amount of effort — sends that nutrition directly to the rest of my body, where the cells can easily take it and use it. No longer do I lose energy in trying to digest, process, and eliminate cooked chemical cocktails composed of cruddy content (don’t you love alliteration?). Instead, I have good energy and get to eat great food all day long.
Even the weird pains in my back seem to be subsiding. I’ve had “discomfort” about half way between my neck and waist on both sides of my spine for the last few weeks. While I’ve had back problems in the past, they have always been in my lower back — nothing has ever bothered me in this spot before. It’s been weird, but I’ve read in a couple of places that back “discomfort” can be a sign of detoxification. Therefore I’ve pretty much ignored it (except for doing some exercises to stretch and use those muscles) — and sure enough, it gets less intense with each passing day.
So this “fatboy” — who gained a pound this week — has more work to do. The desire to be more active seems to increase with each passing day, and that’s a good thing, because I have no intention to cut back on my eating. If anything, I want to eat more.
I’d write more, but it’s time to take a walk to the store to buy more bananas…
Smacznego,
Tom