Whole Food Living

I am an all or nothing kinda girl.  I  get an idea into my head that excites me and I want to only do that RIGHT NOW!!  This way of thinking has caused me to spend money on lots of things I didn't really know what to do with such as a new sewing machine, sewing table, patterns, thread, sewing videos and fabric.  3 years later, I still don't know how to thread my bobbin :)  This is just one of many examples

Mostly, I do it with food .  My heart longs for the way that we people ate about a hundred years ago.  All natural, with no fillers or preservatives.  No cancer causing chemicals or hardly recognizable man made junk that make our food "taste good" and last for months on the pantry shelf.  I have read too many Little House on the Prairie books in my homeschooling lifetime and I totally idealized this in my head.  It's hard work eating this way but nevertheless, my heart always goes back to wanting to feed my family foods that are closest to nature.  I think so many of the health problems today go back to what we eat.  We eat chemicals, our bodies are toxic.  I think about my sweet little Granny who was 94 when she died.  She didn't have cancer or diabetes, heart problems or was overweight.  She ate fried bacon every day of her life and didn't have high cholesterol. There has to be something there, Right ?!?

I have done so much research on food over the past year.  There are so many trendy food fads that it's almost too much to wade through.  There is the Paleo, gluten free,  macrobotic , low sugar, no sugar, vegetarian, vegan, cabbage diet, fruit diet, green smoothies, Isarealian army diet ?? and so on and so on at nausea.  Trudging through all of them was exhausting and although there are elements to all of them that seem healthy and right, they all made you cut something completely out of your diet.  That didn't seem right to me either.  God gave us an abundance of amazing food.  There had to be a formula in how to prepare these foods, all of them, in a way that was most beneficial.

I am a believer in moderation when it comes to food.  I think I would have to curl up in a ball and die if someone told me that I couldn't eat bread anymore.  I mean real bread with gluten and sugar in it!  So what I wanted was a way of life not the diet of the month.

That is when I discovered "whole foods".  I first learned about them from a book called "Natural Traditions".  This book is great but way too intense for me.  As an overview, it made sense that eating closest to nature was healthiest.  Eating in season and  things with few ingredients that had a very short shelf life.  Fermenting, sprouting and soaking in order to help ease in digestion and overall health.  Choosing raw dairy products and organic fruits and vegetables. That varying sections of foods can be beneficial in different ways.  Eating the flesh of a fruit and the seed both can aid in health in different but amazing ways.  Pairing foods  that work together to boost your energy, metabolism, immunities and more.  All of this was so new to me and frankly quite scary.

I took slow and small steps to change.  I was overwhelmed with the prospect of doing this every day , all day. And to be honest, I loved fast food!  I knew I had to wean myself or this food experiment, life style change would be a failure.  It's still a journey but 10 months , 24 lbs less and a fully healthy 5 yr old that had perpetual sinus and gastrointestinal  problems later, I'm all in.  I'm a believer in the adage "You are what you eat!" and whole foods in my answer.

I plan to share more of this journey., recipes and healthy and natural alternatives to medicines.  I'm passionate about it.  I want to help others that are interested in changing their and their family's life.