So, I am embarrassed to admit, I took a day off of Whole30 and...it turned into a month. 🙁 And I have slowly put on nearly all I took off in terms of weight. I still obsess about food because I want pastas and perogies and dammit, I want convenience!!!
I started a bunch of research too. Granted, it heavily leaned against the dairy, grains and sugars. But a lot of what I read wasn't just the food per sei; it is the processing and separating of the nutrients and adding of substitutes and fats n' shit. And pesticides and hybrids and oh my gosh it hurts my brain. And then I drew my own conclusion because in not one of the research pieces I read/watched did the term "Big Pharma " come up. And yet, everyone is always posting shit about how "Big Pharma" wants us to stay ill because healthy doesn't fund pharmaceuticals and health agencies. My conclusion was why isn't anyone looking at the huge, billion dollar food industries who load the shelves with "convenience" foods and how everything has added sugars masked as something like agave syrup or palm sugar leading us to believe that this is a healthier version of garbage? The food industry is in bed with the agricultural industry and somewhere along the lines it was insisted that grains are good for you. You know what grains are good for? Filler. Keep pumping out more garbage to sustain this gluttonous race of rabidly hungry beings who will never be satisfied until they have raped and pillaged the last corners of the earth. And do you know why we have to do this? Because in our Western society we work 50 hours a week, 50 weeks of the year with 3 kids in 3 activities a week and two incomes to have a bigger house, a nicer car and a little money in the bank. We don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen cooking wholesome food and eating until we're sustained; no, we gouge ourselves on crap because likely we haven't had time to eat all day and now we can make up for 3 meals in one.
And the Active industry feeds off this perfectly. Gyms, supplements, vitamins, gadgets to make you healthier, gear to sustain a healthy lifestyle; it all plays in. Do you think our ancestors jogged 5 miles a day? No. They were active I suppose, working in fields, tracking a deer, looking for food, daily chores; but none of that tells you a solid 5 mile run is a cure all. Maybe not sitting in front of the TV/computer is a good idea; maybe getting some fresh air is a better idea; maybe 4 hours of homework was a terrible thing to introduce to grade 7 students and maybe we need to get away from the desk every couple hours and walk around the building at least. Our corporate world is killing us. Do more, downsize, work longer, take a pay cut, eat a sandwich at your desk between conference calls. If OH&S were so concerned they might realize this is horrible for the long term health and wellbeing of the workers.
The real reason we are an unhealthy, obease, disease and syndrome laden society is because we move too fast! We stopped caring where the food came from, why we eat it or what it is fed. We care too much about humane treatment of animals, but we stuff them full of grain and by-products and by comparison, there isn't much more to a cow from a feed lot than fatty pseudo-meat. Let animals eat grass! And then allow us to nurture our bodies on a little bit of animal protein. It has served our kind for tens of thousands of years! Give a shit about your vegetables. If a carrot came out of the ground at a foot long and you buy bags of baby carrots that have had all the nutrients removed and that were washed in bleach, ask yourself if there is any nutritional value there. I bet there is very little if any. And flavour? Gone. Tasteless. When did we become robots, just shoving crap inside of us for filler, boredom or habit!
There is so much out there that can fuel us. We just need to be smarter. We need to slow down . We cannot sustain our lives as they are. We are in pain physically and mentally and we've forgotten about how good we can feel, before inflammatory disease, before IBS, before depression, before behavioural disorders that weren't around fifty, a hundred years ago. The right fuel for your body can do wonders to ailments. I'm not a doctor and do not claim this to be a magic cure-all, but don't we owe it to ourselves to consider that the very fuel that fuels us could also be killing us if we run on diesel but fill ourselves with gas?
I pulled something in my back 2 days after being off Whole30. It has manifested into a bad case of sciatica. Today, I decided to get back on Whole30 and see if it helps. Because I had more energy on that, than I have had all this past month and my health plan isn't good enough for me to see a physiotherapist. Plus, I need to take off some pounds again. So, as I endeavour to relive this , I urge you to consider what you're putting in your body too. Isn't your life worth more than garbage?
#whole30
I started a bunch of research too. Granted, it heavily leaned against the dairy, grains and sugars. But a lot of what I read wasn't just the food per sei; it is the processing and separating of the nutrients and adding of substitutes and fats n' shit. And pesticides and hybrids and oh my gosh it hurts my brain. And then I drew my own conclusion because in not one of the research pieces I read/watched did the term "Big Pharma " come up. And yet, everyone is always posting shit about how "Big Pharma" wants us to stay ill because healthy doesn't fund pharmaceuticals and health agencies. My conclusion was why isn't anyone looking at the huge, billion dollar food industries who load the shelves with "convenience" foods and how everything has added sugars masked as something like agave syrup or palm sugar leading us to believe that this is a healthier version of garbage? The food industry is in bed with the agricultural industry and somewhere along the lines it was insisted that grains are good for you. You know what grains are good for? Filler. Keep pumping out more garbage to sustain this gluttonous race of rabidly hungry beings who will never be satisfied until they have raped and pillaged the last corners of the earth. And do you know why we have to do this? Because in our Western society we work 50 hours a week, 50 weeks of the year with 3 kids in 3 activities a week and two incomes to have a bigger house, a nicer car and a little money in the bank. We don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen cooking wholesome food and eating until we're sustained; no, we gouge ourselves on crap because likely we haven't had time to eat all day and now we can make up for 3 meals in one.
And the Active industry feeds off this perfectly. Gyms, supplements, vitamins, gadgets to make you healthier, gear to sustain a healthy lifestyle; it all plays in. Do you think our ancestors jogged 5 miles a day? No. They were active I suppose, working in fields, tracking a deer, looking for food, daily chores; but none of that tells you a solid 5 mile run is a cure all. Maybe not sitting in front of the TV/computer is a good idea; maybe getting some fresh air is a better idea; maybe 4 hours of homework was a terrible thing to introduce to grade 7 students and maybe we need to get away from the desk every couple hours and walk around the building at least. Our corporate world is killing us. Do more, downsize, work longer, take a pay cut, eat a sandwich at your desk between conference calls. If OH&S were so concerned they might realize this is horrible for the long term health and wellbeing of the workers.
The real reason we are an unhealthy, obease, disease and syndrome laden society is because we move too fast! We stopped caring where the food came from, why we eat it or what it is fed. We care too much about humane treatment of animals, but we stuff them full of grain and by-products and by comparison, there isn't much more to a cow from a feed lot than fatty pseudo-meat. Let animals eat grass! And then allow us to nurture our bodies on a little bit of animal protein. It has served our kind for tens of thousands of years! Give a shit about your vegetables. If a carrot came out of the ground at a foot long and you buy bags of baby carrots that have had all the nutrients removed and that were washed in bleach, ask yourself if there is any nutritional value there. I bet there is very little if any. And flavour? Gone. Tasteless. When did we become robots, just shoving crap inside of us for filler, boredom or habit!
There is so much out there that can fuel us. We just need to be smarter. We need to slow down . We cannot sustain our lives as they are. We are in pain physically and mentally and we've forgotten about how good we can feel, before inflammatory disease, before IBS, before depression, before behavioural disorders that weren't around fifty, a hundred years ago. The right fuel for your body can do wonders to ailments. I'm not a doctor and do not claim this to be a magic cure-all, but don't we owe it to ourselves to consider that the very fuel that fuels us could also be killing us if we run on diesel but fill ourselves with gas?
I pulled something in my back 2 days after being off Whole30. It has manifested into a bad case of sciatica. Today, I decided to get back on Whole30 and see if it helps. Because I had more energy on that, than I have had all this past month and my health plan isn't good enough for me to see a physiotherapist. Plus, I need to take off some pounds again. So, as I endeavour to relive this , I urge you to consider what you're putting in your body too. Isn't your life worth more than garbage?
#whole30
Awesome girl!!! You are absolutely right. Our lives are worth so much more. It's how to get yourself to believe it!!!
ReplyDeleteI personally have removed 90%wheat from my diet, and snacking at night ( unless it's nuts!! Wish me luck!!! Baby steps