My Oddyssey

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--- On Mon, 11/23/09, Celia B <lady_celia wrote:

Celia B <lady_celia[RFSL] My Oddessey Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 10:01 AM

Cyndi!So much to say, so little time. I'm at work but really excited so had to take a quick break and drop a line. <giggles>Weston A. Price. I've been on quite an Odyssey the last few years and my life has changed so much. Oddly, the farther my life has strayed from its original path, the closer it has brought me "home." I no longer have the house, garden, make my own compost and recycle everything (I live in a small apartment in the country and there *is* no recycling out here!), yet I've reduced and downsized; I eat less, use less, consume less, waste less and use resources wisely, thereby reducing my carbon impact on this planet. I was originally distressed not to be able to garden and what-not, but I truly love my more minimalistic, low pressure lifestyle (which also has a lot to do with my current occupation). And since I'm in the country, I have access to local farm produce and fresh eggs, so not so bad.

When we first met online years ago, I ate mostly a vegetarian diet with a lot of soy products. Wow! Was I ever duped by the ADA, USDA and the agenda of (probably well-meaning) animal rights activists into thinking I was doing right by my body. How wrong I was! Not only do I now believe soy NOT be good for your body but soy products are processed and refined into junk food to nake things worse. (If your grandma wouldn't recognize it, don't eat it, LOL!) I've long had a desire to get "back to basics" with my diet, but meat and fat continued to be a stumbling block for me, as the "low fat is good/meat is bad" message was so deeply ingrained. You encouraged me to check out Weston A. Price and I did, but wasn't ready to totally buy into it...yet. I still believed in "good" carbs as the ADA calls them and included LOTS of them in my diet. (Hey, if a little is good, a lot is better, right??? Wrong.) I continued to search my soul, read books,

listen to friends and research online, and I read Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. A light bulb lit up in my head! I ended up on a low-carb Atkins style diet and found myself feeling better, looking better, feeling satiated when I ate and no longer gassy, bloated and tired from my "good carb" diet. The increased fat in my diet actually made me LOSE weight, haha, and I felt full between meals. The more I researched and inquired about this way of eating, the more everything (and everybody) kept pointing me back to Weston A. Price...End of story. I'm back where I started but healthier, happier and much, much wiser. As Dorothy said as she clicked her ruby slippers together, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home..."Just want to thank you, Cyndi, for being my guiding light in all things (nutritionally speaking). *wink*(((HUGS)))--Cee--