Here I am, in my late fifties, and it may be I’m just learning how to eat.

Background: I’m in pretty darn good shape, but I’ve been lacking all the energy I think I’m capable of experiencing. I’ve read before how most of our energy goes to digesting food, and if we lack energy it might be because we’re not eating right. But now, I’ve come across the idea of ‘food combining’ and it seems it just might be the thing I need to do to put things aright, in this matter.

Here is an ad about this. But there is a lot of info regarding the what & why for proper ‘food combining.’

http://www.greattastenopain.net/great.asp

Take a look and see what you think.

Btw, I know of this lady’s husband, Mike Brescia, and he’s got a pretty darn good rep, so I think she’s probably at least worth listening to.

I've been trying her free 4 Day Diet, and it seems to be making a noticeable difference in my energy, digestion and how I feel.

Phil

Hi Phil,

I became a Vegan when I turned 50, 19 years ago.

Most Vegan food is very easy to digest, high water content. In the mornings I don't eat until I get back from the gym and will eat 3 to 4 servings of fruit - which is very easy to digest and has a lot of energy. A couple of hours later I'll have some carbs (cereal or potato) and some soy protein. A couple of hours later I'll have a salad, a couple of hours later I'll have a sandwich with whole grain bread, some vegan protien and greens, my evening meal will have 1/4 of the plate with carbs, 1/4 of the plate with protien and 1/2 of it vegies including salad. I'll have some desert about an hour later.

I've found that I have more energy if I spread my food consumption out rather than three big meals. I also like to eat foods that are easy to digest (high water content) before foods that are harder to digest.

Of the calories that I eat (currently about 2500 calories per day) 60% are carbs (no empty carbs), 20% are protien and 20% fat. Calories are burnt for energy, protien builds muscle and fat is for lubrication.

That works for me!

Tom,

It sounds to me like, whether you planned to or not, you’re already doing the proper ‘food combining’ that maximizes getting the most nutrition from what you eat (besides just eating the right kinds of foods).

One other thing I think I’m learning (because of this lady) is, not to combine fruits with meals, even any time soon after a regular meal.

Like her, I had thought that if one just eats the right foods (vegetables, fruits, etc.) that that would be enough. But it seems, even the right foods combined incorrectly causes most of the nutrients to go undigested (to putrify).

Did you read the ad? If so, what do you think? Does what she say agree with what you know?

Phil

Phil, you must be familiar with the Abraham-Hicks material on "making peace with a Twinkie," right?

What and how we eat is action. There's always the all-important foundation of thought underneath that ...

And on the subject of learning something rather later than might be expected, I recently was surprised to learn that I've been tying my shoes all wrong for, oh, about 50 years!

I so enjoyed finding that out that I'm writing an article about it for The Certain Way, and it actually ties in (no pun intended) beautifully with SOGR.

Hi again Phil; and fellow travelers on the SOGR highway!

I did read the add and agree with it. At the time that I became a Vegan I had heart burn regularly and had Hemorrhoids.

I became a Vegan after reading John Robbins' (son and nephew of the founders of Baskin Robbins) book "Diet For A New America" and for reasons other than health. I later read Harvy and Marilyn Diamond's Book "Fit For Life" and Anthony Robbins' (did you know he was a Vegan?) book "Unlimited Power". The Diamonds and Robbins had been partners at one time. Robbins' book "Unlimited Power" has a chapter on energy and discusses a Vegan diet; he also discusses combining simular to what Sherry Brescia's add suggests.

Rebecca, I do agree that this is action; but for me it was inspired action followed by thought! I also believe that our thinking of ourselves as healthy is the most important element of being healthy.

BTW: My course and certificate as a "Nutritional and Wellness Consultant" doesn't advise on being a vegan, but does advise on eating a lot less protien and fat than most people eat. That is where I got the 60% carbs, 20% protien and 20% fat that I had mentioned in my first reply.

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Phil, you must be familiar with the Abraham-Hicks material on "making peace with a Twinkie," right?

What and how we eat is action. There's always the all-important foundation of thought underneath that ...

Love it Rebecca! I had a conversation with my sister last night about this topic as our mother is a a total health nut and has not made peace with a twinkie at all! For her its all about what you put into your body regardless of how you think and feel about it. You can feel fantastic eating junk food but its still going to kill you! I had told my Mum that I went out on Saturday night with a friend and got a bit drunk (and had a absolutely fabulous time too!) And than proceeded to get a lecture on how my liver and my brain were now damaged in someway! My sister and I had a good laugh about it and my sister summed it up beauifully for me, "you would have felt far worse if you'd stayed at home drinking lemon water to try stay healthy rather than going out and having a great time wiht your friend!"

While I don't think going out and getting drunk all the time is the best way to live, and I do maintain a healthy lifestyle 99% of the time, I think making peace with those 'naughty' things and enjoying them every now and than is far healthier than avoiding them all together.

Can't wait to read about the correct way to tie your shoelaces Rebecca!
(According to a lot of people who've seen me tie mine, I don't use the 'correct' technique either!)

Shannon

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Originally posted by Rebecca:
Phil, you must be familiar with the Abraham-Hicks material on "making peace with a Twinkie," right?

What and how we eat is action. There's always the all-important foundation of thought underneath that ...

Hi Rebecca,

I think I’ve read or heard of the ‘twinkie’ idea, which, if I remember right, gave the idea that a person could eat practically whatever they like and it would not affect them adversely,.. IF they were vibrationally in alignment with Source or their Best Idea of their Self.

But, my question to you is, do you eat whatever and however you like and are you in your ideal shape and health and absolutely love being in your body?

Phil

ps: Tom, thanks for your reply. Was also helpful.

I received great benefit from Wally's other wonderful book, "The Science of Being Well," Chapter 10, titled, "What to Eat."

You may find some helpful guidance there too.

Chapter 11 covers how to eat and Chapter 12 covers hunger and appetites.

Enjoy!

Hi to all,

One good thing about being so stressed lately - like extremely rather than the usual agitation from running around - is that I stopped eating temporarily. I just couldn't digest anything and when I looked at food I had no interest. This has given me the opportunity to reset my habits. I am enjoying experimenting. I eat at the moment according to feel. If I go for something I think will be great like a cake, I am quickly feeling the adverse effects and know not to go that way in future. I am desiring more fruit and veg naturally, and really benefitting from this mindful eating, rather than the unconscious shovelling it in from before.

Whatever I choose to eat I try to really enjoy it, irrespective of whether it is a good choice or not.

Hope this lasts - at least I am getting some benefit from my recent trials and tribulations.

cheers
Pauline

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But, my question to you is, do you eat whatever and however you like and are you in your ideal shape and health and absolutely love being in your body?

I eat pretty much whatever appeals to me and my health is remarkable. Today I took a long walk and on the way back to the boat I was just grinning and thinking how good it felt to be out moving -- even though it was raining.

For the past year or so I've been quite intrigued by the body. When you're 57 and female, there are lots of changes and nothing really prepares you for them. Some of them take a bit of getting used to! But it's all part of the journey.

Seems to me that the thing about food or health in general is just like our relationship to money and prosperity. If you're in dire poverty, it isn't going to help for someone to tell you to change your thinking because you're creating your reality. First, you've got to have food and shelter and get on your feet.

If you're sick and in pain, the same is true. So if eating a particular way helps get you to the place where you can feel more stable, it makes perfect sense.

In both cases, though, treating only "symptoms" won't effect a cure, although it can sure be helpful. If change doesn't happen at the levelof cause, then the problem will just pop back up somewhere else, in another way. If we think about that, we've all experienced it in some form.

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Originally posted by Rebecca:

In both cases, though, treating only "symptoms" won't effect a cure, although it can sure be helpful. If change doesn't happen at the levelof cause, then the problem will just pop back up somewhere else, in another way. If we think about that, we've all experienced it in some form.

Interesting topic. End of last year I had an ear infection that took a few months to clear up. I worked a lot on the physical symptons and it eventually went away. Than last night I came down with another ear infection only on the other side!! I think this shows that there isn't something physical I need to fix but rather an internal belief that is trying to tell me something. Did a lot of tapping on it today and work sent me home early which was great and it seems to be clearing up a lot quicker than the last one.

Shannon

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Originally posted by Rebecca:
And on the subject of learning something rather later than might be expected, I recently was surprised to learn that I've been tying my shoes all wrong for, oh, about 50 years!

Well, that just makes me chuckle. Apparently your shoes stayed on? So, maybe it was just a different way and I am assuming just as successful. :-)

An interesting topic. I have been interested in health and wellness most of my life. I have done the Fit For Life thing a few times. "Proper food combining." Those times, I never felt more energy and emotional wellness. I think total wellness comes from a variety of sources, all that raise our vibration. Food has a vibration, and the more foods we eat with a higher vibration, the better we MAY feel. But our thoughts have a vibration, our emotions have vibrations, and so on.

But it all has to be taken as a whole. Wally says:

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It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body, and it is wrong to live for the intellect and
deny body or soul.

So if you are completely at peace mind and soul and you eat cheeseburgers all day and they make you truly happy, will you be worse off than someone who eats a perfect diet (whatever that is) and resents every mouthful? Who knows.

We all know people who have horrible health habits and yet have a great mind and spirit and appear to be completely healthy?

I like the idea of making peace with a twinkie. Haha. A couple of weeks ago, another EFT consultant and I traded sessions. I have noticed since then, that my food cravings are significantly less than they were. We did not tap on anything related to food. And I find a whole day goes by and I have not had a need for a snack. Hmmm. Interesting.

Last night, I had four warm oatmeal butterscotch cookies. I wanted them. I ate them. They were wonderful, and until now I was feeling guilty about it, but I think I'll make peace with it instead.

All that to say, I think it is good to try to create balance in every area of our lives. I think a desire for healthier food is a natural side product of wanting healthier thoughts, emotions, and attitudes. Try it out Phil and let us know how it makes you FEEL. :-)

I think every person is different and maybe mental hangups cause indigestion more than which food is eaten with what. Or maybe not.

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All that to say, I think it is good to try to create balance in every area of our lives. I think a desire for healthier food is a natural side product of wanting healthier thoughts, emotions, and attitudes. Try it out Phil and let us know how it makes you FEEL. :-)

I absolutely agree with Dawn! Just as thoughts create our relationship with money and the meaning we attach to it, so too do thoughts create our relationship with our health.

and just as you wouldn't go out and spend every dime in your pocket and max out all your credit lines, you wouldn't go out and binge on all the foods that are known to have an adverse effect on your body!

I would just pick a sensible diet and one that works for me. The rest is all in my mind

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and just as you wouldn't go out and spend every dime in your pocket and max out all your credit lines, you wouldn't go out and binge on all the foods that are known to have an adverse effect on your body!

Unfortunately, Kevsky, I have done both - but now instead of mindlessly repeating these things I can use these times to change direction, and it happens much more rarely now. Well, the money side I never do anymore because fortunately the meltdown was so devastating - perhaps I needed that to wake up. The food has become very specific i.e. I ate a caramel slice yesterday even though I suspected it would result in me feeling sick. Well, I did get an allergic reaction and I am glad because it will steer me in a better direction in future.

Shannon,

Sorry to hear about your ears. A few years ago I got shingles in my ear, which in the end I put down to working at a domestic violence telephone service - my ear was just saying no to listening to all those tales of violence - just as you don't get rich by focussing on poverty, you don't experience peace by focussing on this stuff. Anyway - just a thought. Hope you are better soon.

cheers
Pauline

The most beneficial thing for me I found was giving up on dairy produce. Okay I still partake of the odd chocolate bar and I'm partial to a cappuccino a couple of times a month but I haven't consumed milk on a daily basis for well over a year and the benefit to digestion has been immense. That said I do think I am most likely lactose intolerant to some extent so that may well be a factor. I also avoid artificial additives to a very great extent.

I do think though that nature formulated cows milk to make calves grow into big cows and therefore did not intend it for the consumption of adult humans.

Don't think I could do vegan though, I love chicken and fish too much and am very partial to sushi.

Now seaweed (especially kelp and laver) is a great source of essential and detoxifying minerals and so underrated as a food. It is thought also to be one of the main reasons many Japanese men have such thick dark hair well into old age while so many in the west are receding and turning grey - because they eat so much of it in Japan.

In keeping with Dawn's comments, I've been tapping for a few weeks, taking the Lessons from the Tapping Summit and some protocols I'd downloaded from Jessica and Nick's site earlier, and although I've never addressed food, nutrition or eating, or set a specific intention related to any of those, I haven't touched chocolate for almost 10 days.

I've been allergic to chocolate for over 40 years and have eaten it almost daily the entire time. Rashes and steriod creams have been fixtures in my life.

Could it be that being more in emotional peace, my body is not seeking things that create disturbance? Not only have I not once craved chocolate, but my skin has calmed significantly.

This is a fascinating experience.

By Jedimaster

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Don't think I could do vegan though

Interesting on my becoming a Vegan; a month after I became one I went to Scotland on business with an expense account. Nights at the Hilton in Edenborugh, days working in Dunfermlen (I may have mispelled the cities). I found a lot of great Vegan food including a lot of great Indian food. At that time being Vegan in England and Scotland seemed to be fairly popular, Mad Cow Disease was in the news at the time.

What does "Slàinte Mhath" mean?

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I would just pick a sensible diet and one that works for me. The rest is all in my mind

Isn't it "ALL" in our minds? If everything we experience and feel is a direct result of our thoughts then, in my opinion, the body has absolutely no power over us. It's just a shell that reacts to our thoughts.

Now if we all were 100 percent present with our thoughts then it wouldn't matter what foods we ate. It wouldn't matter if the foods were processed, natural, etc. I wonder if we would even have to exercise to have a strong lean body.

Just a thought.

Appreciation from the Heart,

Richard De Haven