Re: I Know Better

[Guest guest]

I wondered why there were so many medical pieces posing on news these days! I

just hate that - it's so deceptive. Argh.

Yes and, " My body does not

> trust me and I don't trust my body. " that's what i'm struggling with too - no

trust anywhere from having trusted outside sources for too many years.

thanks for the informative post. Sandarah

>

> I know that feeling.

>

>

>

> for me, I find it very disconcerting and disheartening when the 'medical'

> community endorses some new diet on the market. Having worked in the film/TV

> industry myself, I know Dr. Phil was most likely given a big 'incentive' to

> promote the diet. Believe it or not, the same is true of the nutritional or

> medical segments on our local news. It's actually a form of 'paid

> advertising'. There is normally a pharma company, product, or organization

> that pays to have the segment promote whatever it is. Even the 'man on the

> street' is not a man, but normally, a paid actor.

>

>

>

> Furthermore, I find I am attempting to stay away from TV, news, magazines. I

> am too early in my IE journey.and stuff like that will, for an instance,

> give me that 'delusional' thinking of 'hey, it worked for them! May THIS

> TIME it will work'. seeing magazines with photos of skinny clad actresses

> and models makes me feel 'why can't I look that again? " . but, I know the

> weight gain has come from messing up my internal system. My body does not

> trust me and I don't trust my body. But, now I am willing to be in a space

> to have non-judgment and go through this process of discovering what my body

> is needing.

>

>

>

> For example, the past two weeks I have been eating a 'restricted' serving of

> sugar free ice-cream and whip cream EVERY DAY. At first, I was beating

> myself up, then I came to that space of neutrality and non-judgment. Now,

> it turned into a dialogue of 'hmm, what is it in ice cream that my body is

> telling me it needs? What am I missing from my diet? " . I realised, this

> time last year I had critically low levels of Vitamin D that were causing

> lethargy, muscle weakness and depression (on top of the sluggish thyroid).

> So, I realised that milk has a good serving of Vitamin D. for me, I do not

> do well with dairy, but I DO fare quite well with Raw Dairy. I bought my

> raw milk yesterday. This morning I had an organic hot mocha with the raw

> milk ...it was nice.

>

>

>

> Thank you for this forum. It's going to be a great help for me.

>

> I am so glad I found others here.

>

>

>

> Lulu

>