Aloha,
My name is Amanda. I'm 37 and I live in Hawaii.
This last month ( July 2013 ) I had a health scare. I literally thought I had cancer. I won't bore you with all the gory details but let me tell you, it scared the shit out of me. After 5 visits to my primary doctor, blood tests, swab tests, 2 rounds of antibiotics, calls offs from work, and a much delayed ( because I was too scared to look! ) Google search on my symptoms, I think I'm going to be okay.
Well, wait...I'm not completely out of the clear. I have yet to see a specialist. One of the few drawbacks of living on an "outer" Hawaiian island is lack of health specialist out here apparently. There is one specialist I can see on island and he's booked until mid-November. Yup! Over three months away..,unless I fly to Honolulu or California of course.
You see, the issue I'm dealing with is in my tonsil. I've been plagued with my tonsil problems since college but I've never had the balls to have them removed. I've also lived on Maui since college so that might be another excuse. Anyway, looks like I might be dealing with a tonsil cyst and from what I'm gathering they are pretty harmless. Gross but harmless. Blood tests are perfectly normal, energy is great, nothing hurts. So unless something drastic happens I'm going stay on the waiting list with the only ENT on island.
So whats my point?
I don't want to get cancer. Period. Cancer has completely ravaged my family and I don't want it too. My feelings about cancer has always been, "It's not if I get it, it's WHEN". Well, eff that kind of thinking, I've decided to take control and do everything in my power to stop this from becoming a reality.
These are the things I have going for me...
Guess whats NOT going for me?
So, about a month ago when I was convinced I had the big C, I decided to take action and pull out all of my books by Dr.Weil M.D., Kris Carr, and Natalia Rose. I read The China Study, scanned The Okinawan Diet and now I'm cracking "Clean" by Alejandro Junger M.D. And for the first time I REALLY took them in. I've been interested in disease prevention, the raw vegan diet, yoga and meditation for a long long time but I've never had anything to really keep me on track until now. Almost immediately, I stopped having my daily 2 glasses of sauvignon blanc ( I mean I WAS on antibiotics after all jeez ) and I stopped eating dairy ( again ) because it's so mucus forming. But this time I went even further...I also stopped eating soy, sugar, and gluten. I also added B12 ( in the form of methnyicobaiamin ), B6, pro-biotics, Chlorella and Chlorophyll. I started dry brushing, using a neti pot and drinking a ton of water! Whoa! And then after about 2 weeks of this the strangest thing happened...
My name is Amanda. I'm 37 and I live in Hawaii.
This last month ( July 2013 ) I had a health scare. I literally thought I had cancer. I won't bore you with all the gory details but let me tell you, it scared the shit out of me. After 5 visits to my primary doctor, blood tests, swab tests, 2 rounds of antibiotics, calls offs from work, and a much delayed ( because I was too scared to look! ) Google search on my symptoms, I think I'm going to be okay.
Well, wait...I'm not completely out of the clear. I have yet to see a specialist. One of the few drawbacks of living on an "outer" Hawaiian island is lack of health specialist out here apparently. There is one specialist I can see on island and he's booked until mid-November. Yup! Over three months away..,unless I fly to Honolulu or California of course.
You see, the issue I'm dealing with is in my tonsil. I've been plagued with my tonsil problems since college but I've never had the balls to have them removed. I've also lived on Maui since college so that might be another excuse. Anyway, looks like I might be dealing with a tonsil cyst and from what I'm gathering they are pretty harmless. Gross but harmless. Blood tests are perfectly normal, energy is great, nothing hurts. So unless something drastic happens I'm going stay on the waiting list with the only ENT on island.
So whats my point?
I don't want to get cancer. Period. Cancer has completely ravaged my family and I don't want it too. My feelings about cancer has always been, "It's not if I get it, it's WHEN". Well, eff that kind of thinking, I've decided to take control and do everything in my power to stop this from becoming a reality.
These are the things I have going for me...
- I've been a vegetarian for over 20+ yrs
- I'm pretty lean
- I've never drank soda ( or fried my food )
- I've always been very active.
Guess whats NOT going for me?
- I live in the sun ( duh, I'm a surfer whose been living on Maui for the past 15 years )
- I'm a massive stress case, like totally out of control "worry wart". I can't even imagine if I lived on the Mainland how completely nuts I would be?
- I hate drinking water ( WTF right? )
- And for many years I was a very unhealthy vegetarian ( like sugar, sugar, sugar, tons of dairy, processed foods, loads of coffee, I had a 15 year Excedrin addiction and I like wine, like a lot ). However I'm no longer a "junk food" vegetarian, I eat a tons of healthy grains and vegetables but I've attempted to quit dairy countless times and I've always failed. I finally gave up Excedrin when there was a recall on it 2 yrs ago. And wine? well, I still like it.
So, about a month ago when I was convinced I had the big C, I decided to take action and pull out all of my books by Dr.Weil M.D., Kris Carr, and Natalia Rose. I read The China Study, scanned The Okinawan Diet and now I'm cracking "Clean" by Alejandro Junger M.D. And for the first time I REALLY took them in. I've been interested in disease prevention, the raw vegan diet, yoga and meditation for a long long time but I've never had anything to really keep me on track until now. Almost immediately, I stopped having my daily 2 glasses of sauvignon blanc ( I mean I WAS on antibiotics after all jeez ) and I stopped eating dairy ( again ) because it's so mucus forming. But this time I went even further...I also stopped eating soy, sugar, and gluten. I also added B12 ( in the form of methnyicobaiamin ), B6, pro-biotics, Chlorella and Chlorophyll. I started dry brushing, using a neti pot and drinking a ton of water! Whoa! And then after about 2 weeks of this the strangest thing happened...
I started feeling amazing!!! I'm totally addicted to this!
My energy has shot through the roof! I've lost 5 lbs of bloat ( I'm 5'5" and went from 111 lbs to about 106 lbs ), my skin looks so much better, my belly is crazy flat, my sinuses are clear, I'm super regular and I'm eating a ton of food!!! Yummies like green juices, smoothies, massive salads, soups, healthy carbs like quinoa, rice, hominy and potatoes. Everything has been so delicious.
So this brings me to the point of this new blog ( I have another blog if your interested that I've been writing for 4+yrs, ( www.thegrainsofparadise.blogspot.com ). I wanted to document this journey so by doing that I plan on posting a "What I ate today" and "How I moved my body today" journal right here. I also plan on writing about the difficulties I'll eventually face ( cravings, social pressures, and travel ) and about new discoveries.
Thanks for stopping by. Wish me luck!
Aloha,
Amanda
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