"Specialists
had told me that full flexibility could not be restored to the spine, but after
five days of fruit and veggies fasting I
could bend from my waist."
I
was carnivorous in my eating; my diet was mostly fried or grilled meats. My
favorite delicacy was the beef fat around the steak after it is fried crispy.
This diet continued with its monthly cold, anemia, and various related health
problems that are considered "normal"such as a hysterectomy at the
age of 24. Fortunately, I began reducing my milk drinking, heavy salt use,
white bread consumption, and began eating a few vegetables. At first I could
only tolerate a very small token piece of green pepper or broccoli. Eventually,
the pieces kept getting bigger until I was eating a whole piece.
One
of the most pernicious habits I had was always keeping a bowl of candy within
10 feet of hand to mouth. As my diet improved, I discovered I did not need the
lift from sugar. Together with my husband, we searched for a better diet and
experimented with the Rotation Diet, Pritikin Diet, and Macrobiotics. None of
these diets worked for us. Then we read Fit for Life in 1988. By adhering
fairly strictly to Fit for Life principles, I lost 40 lbs. in eight months.
The
improved diet increased overall energy, and led me to engage in a 12-day water
fast. On the third day of the fast, I stopped sleeping for five days and
nights. This was the body correcting an industrial accident that injured my
tailbone ten years earlier. Specialists had told me that " full flexibility
could not be restored to the spine," but after five days of fasting I
could bend from my waist. Since I broke that fast, I have lived a
hygienic-vegetarian diet for the last five years. I just water fasted for 13
days without any noticeable negative symptoms, a good indication of my healthy
diet.
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