The Night Before Day One

Hi,




This is the night before I start my journey into becoming a 100% raw vegan. I want to look at it in baby steps, so I decided on  perceiving it as a 90 day cleanse first. The 90 day cleanse is based on a totally alkalized raw vegan diet. I want to start off by saying that I have never done this before. That is, I have attempted but never finished a full 90 days. I am feeling scared and anxious of the whole thing. I know it’s difficult. I have tried countless times to do it. I have reached up to three weeks. It was a life changing experience. I am so curious to know what 90 days would be like. But there are so many challenges along the way to doing this. I hope to document all those in this blog. I hope that if anyone else tries to do this, they can get something out of my own challenging moments.



I thought it would be relevant to give you some background on how I came to this point and why I am doing this. It started about four years ago. My father called me and told me that in his attempt to get life insurance coverage; his doctor discovered he had all the symptoms and test results indicating that he had prostate cancer. The life insurance company rejected him. My father was a paramedic for 15 years. He had seen plenty of what becomes of cancer patients. He was stubborn in the fact that he refused to go through the conventional treatments of radiation, medication, and or amputation. This stubbornness would soon prove to be a blessing. So with no other option that we knew of, we decided to seek alternative treatments for him. In the process, I was led to an institute in Florida that many people I had spoken to had claimed that the program there cured them of cancer. My father, at the time was skeptical, but open to anything. I told him that I would go first to the institute, since anyone could go, and than I would let him know if it was legitimate. After spending three weeks there I was convinced. I called my father and he went. It was true. People were curing themselves of cancer. My father became one of the cured. The main aspect of the program at this institute is the diet they enforce. It is based strictly on raw alkalizing food. I went to this place to seek help for my father, not only did it save him but it opened a door for me that would lead to some amazing insights.



Since than, I have and continue to discover more about raw foods. It’s not just for cancer. It is for anything. It can cure diabetes, heart issues, Lyme disease, chron’s disease....etc... I have heard it directly from those that have been able to accomplish it. And let me say that it is not easy....even when facing life or death conditions such as cancer.



How is it that not everyone who is faced with the possibility of dying or having a serious life debilitating illness, has the ability to succeed with this diet? Well I can attest to why....IT IS VERY DIFFICULT.



It’s difficult because eating the way that we know as eating changes completely. It is difficult because when you body starts to cleanse, it gets rid of some pretty ugly toxins and that process can be painful and excessively challenging. It is difficult because it is not a totally accepted or understood means of dealing with disease. Your loved ones may not want to support you. You may not want to support you. Its difficult because society and all its norms are so far removed from this type of lifestyle. But if you can overcome all this, including and most importantly the obstacles of your own mind, IT WILL REJUVINATE AND HEAL YOU.



I say this, and though I have been fortunate to witness it many times first hand, I have not yet accomplished it myself. That is what this blog is about. I will document all the challenges that come with this and what happens at the end of the road. I have my own healing that needs to be done.



First, I have what is known as fibroids. About 70% to 80% of women have them by the time they are 50. I am 35 years old. There are over 300,000 hysterectomies performed each year. This is the medical industry's one and only "cure all" for fibroids. I refuse to undergo the amputation. I currently have four fibroid tumors and depending on the time of the month, they can reach the size of grapefruits. They cause me to bleed excessively. They have given me a severe case of anemia. This is the first thing I aim to cure.



The other thing I hope to control is my addiction to food. YES I AM A FOOD ADDICT. And I must say I haven't met many who aren't. It is such a socially acceptable thing to be. Not only is it acceptable it is almost demanded. You can't watch TV for more than 15 minutes with out seeing countless attempts to get you to eat something either full of fat, salt, and/or sugar. I can't leave my home without passing a dozen fatty, salty, sugary food offering venues. My friends and family revolve all their social functions around these kinds of foods. And when you refuse to eat it, you are looked at or scolded at with disapproval. Sometimes you are revered as completely insane. We, as a society, are bred to be addicts. Yes, you have your drug, alcohol, nicotine, etc addicts. But at least these addicts can somewhat get the recognition from the public that they are addicts. But as far as food is concern, this is the only one addictive substance that most are totally oblivious to the severity of their addiction, especially if they are not obese. If you were to see a average weighted man (and mind you in this country average is overweight), you would not consider him engaging in addictive behavior, but he is as addicted to a substance as much as a  meth head. He as well as the rest of the world just isn’t quite aware of it. I realize this is a pretty bold statement to make. But I challenge anyone to this cleanse, and if they have the ability to stay on it for 90 days without any struggles with withdrawal or cravings of non alkalizing foods, I will be more than happy to take the statement back. I have found the most profound as well as the most difficult aspect of eating like this is the awareness of the addiction to non alkalizing food. Take me for instance. No one would consider me a food addict. I am not fat, at least not in society’s eyes, and I eat what most people would consider very healthy. But I know from trying to stay away from cooked foods that I am a true addict through and through. I have withdrawals, I have cravings that are all mind consuming, and when I am upset my thought of relief is associated with food. These are all signs of any addict, whether its crack cocaine or a slice of pizza, it still spells addiction. Anything, that you struggle to live without, even though you know it is not helpful to your body, is an addiction.

So this blog is not only about a 90 day cleanse but its also about controlling an addiction. This is challenging…It is my intention that my attempt to help others by writing this, gives me the strength to accomplish what I need to in the next 90 days.

Isabelle