Satya, I think we may operate in a parallel physiology.  The times I feel best and lose weight are with meat/veg/and non-sweet fruit ONLY in the past I have done this and included 2 TBS of flax oil a day and a GLA supplement for healthy fats.  I think I may have to be going back to this total structure.

for meat i eat 4-6 ounces but for cheese i have been eating 4-6 ounces on top of that!

i know i am eating waaaaaay too much fat for ANY body and damn I can see it hanging there.  I have started bikram yoga and that mirror hides nothing.  I have been resisting dieting again because I don't want to get so mental about food anymore....I want to evolve to naturally to doing what is best for my body.  As I have found with drinking/smoking/etc when I change....the behavior changes.

I can see that this has happened to some degree with food but nuts and seeds and fat seem to still get me greedy

congratulations on your dedication to the martial arts!  that is for real. 

the supplements are helping for sure and i notice that my strong inclination for lemon juice is also subsiding when i take the C

in terms of oral health in general....I have been oil pulling since raw and all of my receding gum line on my lower jaw is pretty much healed....i found out about oil pulling when helping a patient who was scheduled to have her last 2 remaining teeth on one side removed d/t pain and rotting and she has been 8 months and has not needed the surgery


just google oil pulling..........in my experience, sesame or sunflower oil only!!!!  coconut will strip your teeth

also, I remembered a an organ mapping system related to the teeth and checked it out and the tooth that is bothering me is related to the colon........makes sense as that is the target of infection right now

thanks

hi,

i love the comments on gratitude that came up
I am a long time meditator and i tell you that after going raw again for the last 2 months and having a strong 2 hour day meditation practice one of the first things to surface was neediness i was storing in my subconscious....(pretty soon that clarified even further into greediness)  yikes!

i feel it is important to add that all negative and positive emotions are UNIVERSAL......don't punish yourself for having them or over identify with them


Metallica,  on the physical level I am also a holistic health physician and candida and gut flora imbalances are a huge part of such a pattern and can be diagnosed with a stool analysis.  but you may also be dealing with something called "insulin resistance"  which means that your body can not uptake the insulin produced by the pancreas after glucose hits your blood stream.....the reason you keep eating is that you are trying to get that insulin to regulate the blood glucose and so you keep giving the input but never actually complete the loop

***if there is diabetes or alcoholism in your family this may be a genetic disposition that you will have to work at correcting***

psychologically, I am also looking at the possibility in these cases of the "reward center" of the brain having some off wiring or being funked out....if we are punishing ourselves for something due to masochistic tendency or dealing with supressed anxiety and we cease to receive pleasure from life research shows that the brain will respond by finding pleasure in deprivation......starvation/monasticism.....

(something else for any type of "purist" to think about)
in this scenario i think of addiction as like the pressure of the dam breaking, we have punished ourselves for so long and then we break and over indulge........then we REALLY have something to punish ourselves for and the cycle begins again!

anyway, there you have it my current ideas ........SPIRIT BODY AND MIND

much luck and blessings to you!  be empowered

hi all

i have one tooth that has been troubling me consistently, (it is upper R side /between my front and canine)

bleeds so easily
can't pin it down....any ideas??

i've been there too and I will tell you straight up:

It is not the food

the food behavior is an outcry/expression/expulsion of something else in the subconscious that needs feeding/attention/ or AVOIDANCE

something maybe trying to get your attention and you maybe trying to stay separated from that reality

food slows out consciousness way down like any other addiction and we use it to blot out our experiences that are too painful or we have want to be less responsible for.

I do better with more protein and then i don't crash and experience the emptiness that makes me want to feel "full"

this is exciting!  I can't believe I found you all

i am striving to be an all raw omnivore.  began dabbling in raw one year ago and I am a believer for sure.

I have been diagnosed with about 6 different gut bugs including staph and one fungal infection. and was living on meat, greens and flax oil just to stay alert and functioning before trying raw

for the first few weeks of raw vegan I felt amazing but as soon as I added in fruit I lost all motivation to exercise, gained about 10 lbs and got all of my symptoms of gut issues back

I have dabbled with raw meats (and again my body says yes) and mostly have had done well with lamb and ground bison.  I have not eaten beef or pork in 30 years. In fact I was a vegetarian for about 15 years....15 fat and tired years

anyway I wanted to get back to all raw and have been raw vege for the last 2 (fat and tired months!!)

the only animal product I have been having is 3-6 ounces of raw kefir in the morning

finally today I was so sick of being tired and not wanting to exercise or even go to work.....I had a HUGE CHUNK like 5-6 ounces of raw cheese and got such a great rush of energy.....tomorrow it's BUFFALO BABY!

I would love some input on how to structure this diet.  what advice you have to someone getting into it and all that good stuff

thanks, looking forward to this