Mark's rant

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Hello Mark..

 

I'm Silver DD (but my given name is Melissa - you choose which you

want to use). I read your post and something dawned on me. if

diabetes and heart disease can be reversed by a change in diet, why

the hell didn't anyone ever tell my dad this?? he died almost a year

ago this coming April, and he had had diabetes since I was roughly 20

years old - and I'm 40 now. I'll tell you something else too.. I

don't pretend to have any answers.. in fact, I know next to nothing

about eating healthy, which is why I am here, because the medical

system has also failed me.

 

I have had an eating disorder my entire life mainly due to abuse in

my youth. it has caused me to overeat for my entire life. the problem

here is that most people think that those of us who are in this

condition, got this way because we gorged on candies, cookies, chips,

ice cream, etc etc. this isn't true at all. my problem is that

I " comfort ate " . the only thing with comfort eating is, you feel

uncomfoprtable afterwards, and even worse than you did before you

began eating. so then you eat more because you feel miserable, which

in turn causes even more misery.

 

well, I have come to the point that I am TIRED of feeling miserable.

I have been to the doctor I don't know how many times, and outright

begged them for help. and when I was told " try going on a diet..try

weightwatchers " , I screamed back that I have tried damn near every

diet known to man.. if the problem were simply going on a diet,

wouldn't just any of them work? and then they wanted to put me on

fluoxetine (prozac) to counteract the feelings of misery and low self

worth, but also put a lid on suppressing the appetite. doctors don't

seem to be very bright, even considering how many years they had to

study to get where they are today. doctors, in my humble opinion, are

simply nothing more than glorified drug pushers.

 

I am going to be very honest here on several points. A). I weigh

currently over 400 pounds. I'm not happy with this and it makes me

feel ashamed of myself and extremely miserable, not to mention unsexy

and just plain ugly..now, I'd be lying if I said the reason I want to

lose weight is so people would find me attractive - I don't want this

kind of attention to be very honest. I've had 3 children and they are

mostly grown, so things like that don't figure high on my list of

important things to accomplish in this life. however, I would love to

be able to look in the mirror and say YEAHHHHHHHHH! B). a couple of

months ago, I decided I was going to make certain promises to God and

myself. 2 of those promises included becoming a vegetarian, and

stopping smoking. I achieved both of those things.

 

I gave myself until the end of 2006 to fully cease meat eating, and

totally stop smoking. the smoking I stopped as of Nov 2nd, so it's

been a full 9 weeks today (Friday, Jan 5th), and as for meat eating,

well, I had some chicken on several occasions last year, but once we

got into December, I think I had it maybe once or twice, and then

have not had any meat at all ever since. so these are 2 goals I have

successfully achieved. I am seeing my issue here as having an

addiction. I had a cigarette addiction, and I gave it up. it wasn't

easy and sometimes it still isn't, but I figure if I can quit the

most difficult drug in the world, I can somehow manage to not be

addicted to food anymore.

 

the main problem I am seeing here is variety, and not knowing what to

make. I think it would be seriously helpful if anyone here could

maybe compile recipes and make menus, this way, people can go in

there, have a look around, especially when they are stuck for ideas

as to what to make, because being honest, this is a prioblem for me.

I am very new to being a vegetarian, and ideas are what is needed.

yes there are a bazillion recipes out there. but going through a

million before you decide what sounds good and what doesn't is alot

of effort to put into something, and is no good in the short term.

 

being a vegetarian is not my end goal, but until I can research and

refine things, I don't know every little detail of every product sold

on the store shelves, as far as what might have eggs or animal

products in it and what might not. and I'm not just looking for

animal ingredients - I'm also looking into what brands/stores use GM

foods and what brands/stores do not. according to Marks and Spencers,

they are the first and only store nationwide who do not have ANY GM

products. great stuff.

 

anyway, to get back to the original reason for this post, you

mentioned having been thrown off diabetic boards for telling them

that their disease could be reversed.. it sounds to me like they are

set in their ways and almost would rather jab themselves twice a day

with 90 units and still be able to eat cake and ice cream or drink

beer etc etc than to contemplate doing something a little different

and give up all the garbage that made them sick in the first place!

you know, one thing REALLY comes to mind here.. the war in Iraq has

NOTHING on the war on foods.. if you ask me, the government and the

FDA have been responsible for addictions, disease, and death than

just about any war out there.

 

that's just my 2 pence worth..and I believe I have rambled on far

long enough, so I will end here and wait to hear from any and all

interested folks. for what it's worth Mark, I take my hat off to you

(if I were wearing one that is) for making the effort. you've done

alot more than alot of people have, so hats off to you for caring..

 

have a great day everyone

 

YS

Silver DD (who is well known for her epic posts)

 

 

((Erica,

 

I too was long ago booted from the ADA boards, the AHA boards, the

AARP

health boards, etc. reason was I am a " spammer " for providing a few

links to Dr's Fuhrman, McDougal, Essylstyn, Cousins, Oz, you know,

basically ANYONE that has an ACTUAL track record of helping people

actually get rid of the diseases being discussed. Also, offering to

give RAVE away for FREE, is considered spamming. How I profit from

this elludes me. Seems all these board moderators want is to

endlessly

keep people in victim mode, discussing dangerous, nasty side effect,

life long treatments that don't work.

 

Obviously, none of these people pay me to send folks their way, I'm

just enthusiastic after being personally cured of diabetes and heart

disease this simple way and I'm pissed off at how simple it is and

want

to spread the info to those willing to do a little work and take

personal responsibility for their health. Many are willing but need a

start.

 

Just doing my part (maybe a bit more) to help the inevitable avalance

of people rejecting the food industry poisons and adopting healthy

organic, non-GMO, plant based diets.

 

Mark))