Thursday, September 18, 2014

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2

I went to a fathomevents.com event at my local theater tonight which likely was the same night all across the U.S. the way these things often work. However, the sound didn't work at first for the first 15 minutes or so. After about 5 minutes I asked someone to fix it. By the time 15 minutes went by almost every person in the theater had asked them to fix the sound. 20 minutes into it they decided they were going to start over which they did. However, then at the end (not really at the end) they turned on the lights like they wanted us all to leave but the movie wasn't over. However, everyone there likely had paid 12 dollars or more (much  more than a standard theater ticket where I live) to see this thing and so were kind of pissed off. So, everyone but my wife and I asked for their money back because of this. The reason we didn't do this is it was going to be a half an hour waiting for everyone else and my wife had a knee replacement surgery and standing that long wouldn't be good for her.

However, the movie was well worth seeing. If you have seen the first "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" movie, Joe Cross from Australia, who did the first movie also did the 2nd one. He has learned a whole lot and changed his whole life a lot since making the first movie about juicing his way across America then (about 6 years ago).

About 2 years ago now I went quite a while on his organic juices and I bought a Breville Juicer for about $300 I believe it was. It was the stainless steel one I bought online and had it shipped right to my door.

My father often said if people would go on an organic food diet and give up processed foods that they could prevent many heart attacks, strokes, early deaths etc. He was right. The people that have gone on Joe Cross' diet have done just that. However, how to stay in a weight range ongoing the rest of your life while staying healthy he talks about in his second movie.

Some people do it by doing a veggie and fruit juice they make from organic fruits and veggies themselves from one to two meals a day and then eat a somewhat normal meal at night. Other people do other things. He speaks about how having a family or group of friends encouraging you is important.

Here are some online resources:
  • Juicing for Weight Loss | Reboot With Joe | Fat Sick & Nearly ...

    www.rebootwithjoe.com/
    The online community for the film Fat Sick & Nearly Dead by Joe Cross. Find juice recipes, diet plans, and healthy inspiration to get you started today.
    Recipes - ‎Juicing - ‎Reboot - ‎Rebooting Checklist
  • Reboot with Joe: Fat Sick & Nearly Dead Community

    community.rebootwithjoe.com/
    7374. 1 day ago in the TRACKER by rachel d. Reboot Newbies. A forum for reboot beginners. 6711. 48112. 1 hour ago in Day 4 still headache by Silvanus ...
    Reboot Newbies - ‎Sign In - ‎FAQ - ‎Group Reboots
  • Juicing or Reboot (Fat Sick and Nearly Dead) | SparkPeople

    www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/messageboard.asp?...7...
    SparkPeople
    Sep 3, 2014 - Discussion and Talk about Juicing or Reboot (Fat Sick and Nearly Dead) ... Message Boards; FORUM: Diet and Nutrition; TOPIC:  ...
  • Fat Sick and Nearly Dead | a Joe Cross Film

    www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
    Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
    The official site of the documentary Fat Sick & Nearly Dead. Watch Joe Cross, 100 lbs overweight, regain his health by juicing and inspire others along the way.
    Missing: forum
  • FatSick and Nearly Dead: Joe Cross Juice Diet | MyFitnessPal.com

    www.myfitnesspal.com/.../288757-fat-sick-and-nearly-dead...
    MyFitnessPal
    Jul 13, 2011 - 25 posts - ‎18 authors
    There is another thread here on MFP called "FatSick, and Nearly Dead" ... Not to be the negative one here, but since it's a public forum and  ...

  • Here are what I found here at my  site when I put "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead into my search area at my site. I lost about 30 pounds within the first week or so on this diet. However, like he says in the 2nd movie, "Taking it off is the easy part, keeping it off is another story" or something like this.

    Here is what I found here at my site from past blogs:

    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2013

    Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead?

    I was going through my Amazon Prime account through my roku in my bedroom. I recently installed a 2nd Roku there because the TV in the living room gets used a lot by my wife and daughter now. They are really flying through all the episodes of "Bones" and "Vampire Diaries". I think there are about 200 episodes of each or so at this point.

    Anyway, I noticed the documentary, "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" there to rent or I think was was free fro me as a subscriber of Amazon Prime.

    I found this article about the diet which is sort of extreme but also might save your life if you are under a doctors care while you are on it. The gentleman from Australia used this diet to get read of an Auto-immune disease which is very impressive if you think about it. After having to take several medications at once for a long time, after this diet for several months he lost about 100 pounds and threw away all his auto-immune medicines.

    Around the time I first wrote and quoted stuff for this article I went on this diet for 7 days and lost 30 pounds the first week. But, I am 6 foot 5 inches tall and was then 64 years old. I would say the best time for this kind of diet is when the weather is warmer rather than colder because of trying to keep warm enough on this kind of diet. But if you live in Hawaii anytime of year might be okay for this diet. But, everyone need to find their own way and their own balance. I'm reprinting this article because it might save your life.

    NDAY, JUNE 18, 2012


    Why the Nation is Getting Fat

    Stossel's plan to fight obesity

    Why We’re Fat: Is it the Government and Wall Street’s Fault?

     

    Why We’re Fat: It’s the Government and Wall Street’s Fault, Marion Nestle Says

    Forty years ago, obesity was a small concern -- if one at all -- to governments, health care professionals and individuals. Today, obesity rates have skyrocketed around the globe and present one of the single biggest challenges, both nutritionally and economically, in recent history.
    Nearly 14 percent of women in the world are considered obese, up from 7.9 percent in 1980. Among men, 10 percent are obese, up from 5 percent in 1980. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts the obesity rate will jump from 36 percent in 2012 to 42 percent by 2030. Around the world, 10 percent of adults are obese, and an estimated 3 million deaths worldwide are caused every year by obesity-related illnesses. In the U.S., 70 percent of adults and 17 percent of teens and children are either overweight or obese.
    The cost of treating obesity-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes in the U.S. equals $147 billion every year -- that's almost one-fifth of the country's total health expenditures. The CDC defines adult obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. The CDC considers adults with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 a "healthy weight."
    Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public policy at New York University, and one of the leading nutritional experts in the nation, has been trying to change how people eat for years. She's written many books on the food industry, detailing how government policy has become intertwined with food choice and obesity. One of the arguments she makes in her latest book, "Why Calories Count," focuses on the impact Wall Street has made on food companies and ultimately what people consume. Obesity rates started to rise in the 1980s, she says in the accompanying video, largely because of demands Wall Street placed on food makers.
    Wall Street "forced food companies to try and sell food in an extremely competitive environment," she says. Food manufacturers "had to look for ways to get people to buy more food. And they were really good at it. I blame Wall Street for insisting that corporations have to grow their profits every 90 days."
    Traders and analysts may have shifted food companies' focus to producing profits over health, but changes to government policy also contributed to people's relationship with food, she notes. Large government subsidizes given to the corn, wheat, soybean and sugar industries allowed farmers to reap high returns on their crops. Farmers could grow these commodities cheaply and were encouraged by the food industry "to plant as much as they could. Food production increased, and so did calories in the food supply," Nestle writes in her book.
    Inexpensive food encouraged more eating, and more eating led to bigger waistlines. "Today, in contrast to the early 1980s, it is socially acceptable to eat in more places, more frequently and in larger amounts, and for children to regularly consume fast foods, snacks and sodas," she writes.
    Obesity may be on the rise, but some government officials and private business are trying to stop the upward trend. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed banning large sugary sodas and drinks sold at fast-food restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. A Reuters investigation found that the food and beverage industry has spent $1.5 trillion to defeat soda taxes and marketing restrictions in cities and states and has "mounted referendums to overturn the taxes in the two states" that passed soda taxes. The Walt Disney Company recently announced it would stop airing junk-food TV advertisements on children's programming by 2015.
    Nestle supports both initiatives but says individuals will not make healthier food decisions until the government does certain things.
    "People perceive fruits and vegetables as being very expensive," she says. "And in fact they are relatively because since 1980 the index cost of fruits and vegetables has gone up by 40 percent. Whereas the index price of sodas and snack foods have gone down by 20 to 30 percent. So there's something wrong with the way we're pricing foods, and that has a lot to do with government policies. I think we need to create a society that makes it easier for people to eat more healthfully."

    end quote from:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-fat-government-wall-street-fault-marion-nestle-175708490.html
    Also, if you paste the above web address there is a video that goes along with this article.

    I personally think that the single biggest cause of obesity is High Fructose Corn Syrup, lack of enough sleep from struggling to keep jobs while not taking vacations because of worry about keeping one's job. And on top of this people tend to not go to National Parks and beautiful places as much as people used to for a variety of reasons. The "Hiking, swimming, out of doors culture that existed from the 1930s through the 1980s and into the 1990s doesn't exist the way it once did. Our indoor video game culture where one can literally lie in bed and telecommute to work and never leave their home also contributes to obesity. Until people move back to better diets consciously and to fun exercise doing fun things like swimming and hiking beautiful places and riding bicycles and figuring out how to have fun getting exercise things will just tend to get worse where people often die by 25 or 30 from bad diets and lifestyles. During the 1960s and 1970s people died a lot from war, racing cars, suicide from relationships that didn't work out and from drug overdoses. Now people are dying more from ages 20 to 30 from bad diets, no exercise and no sleep and generally bad lifestyles than from the causes of the 1930s to the 1990s.

    If you are interested in losing weight one possibility is the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" method with Joe Cross from Australia. You might want to watch his documentary of drinking only fruit and vegetable juices for 60 days while traveling across the U.S. He says it costs about 35 or 40 dollars a day to do this diet but I believe he lost 60 pounds in 60 days and eventually lost about 90 pounds. There is also a truck driver  named Phil who was I believe 428 pounds and over time using this diet went down to 200 pounds or below. You watch his progression during the documentary also. here are some of the youtube results of Joe Cross's "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" experiences across America.

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    MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012

    Why the Nation is Getting Fat

    Stossel's plan to fight obesity

    Why We’re Fat: Is it the Government and Wall Street’s Fault?

     

    Why We’re Fat: It’s the Government and Wall Street’s Fault, Marion Nestle Says

    Forty years ago, obesity was a small concern -- if one at all -- to governments, health care professionals and individuals. Today, obesity rates have skyrocketed around the globe and present one of the single biggest challenges, both nutritionally and economically, in recent history.
    Nearly 14 percent of women in the world are considered obese, up from 7.9 percent in 1980. Among men, 10 percent are obese, up from 5 percent in 1980. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts the obesity rate will jump from 36 percent in 2012 to 42 percent by 2030. Around the world, 10 percent of adults are obese, and an estimated 3 million deaths worldwide are caused every year by obesity-related illnesses. In the U.S., 70 percent of adults and 17 percent of teens and children are either overweight or obese.
    The cost of treating obesity-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes in the U.S. equals $147 billion every year -- that's almost one-fifth of the country's total health expenditures. The CDC defines adult obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. The CDC considers adults with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 a "healthy weight."
    Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public policy at New York University, and one of the leading nutritional experts in the nation, has been trying to change how people eat for years. She's written many books on the food industry, detailing how government policy has become intertwined with food choice and obesity. One of the arguments she makes in her latest book, "Why Calories Count," focuses on the impact Wall Street has made on food companies and ultimately what people consume. Obesity rates started to rise in the 1980s, she says in the accompanying video, largely because of demands Wall Street placed on food makers.
    Wall Street "forced food companies to try and sell food in an extremely competitive environment," she says. Food manufacturers "had to look for ways to get people to buy more food. And they were really good at it. I blame Wall Street for insisting that corporations have to grow their profits every 90 days."
    Traders and analysts may have shifted food companies' focus to producing profits over health, but changes to government policy also contributed to people's relationship with food, she notes. Large government subsidizes given to the corn, wheat, soybean and sugar industries allowed farmers to reap high returns on their crops. Farmers could grow these commodities cheaply and were encouraged by the food industry "to plant as much as they could. Food production increased, and so did calories in the food supply," Nestle writes in her book.
    Inexpensive food encouraged more eating, and more eating led to bigger waistlines. "Today, in contrast to the early 1980s, it is socially acceptable to eat in more places, more frequently and in larger amounts, and for children to regularly consume fast foods, snacks and sodas," she writes.
    Obesity may be on the rise, but some government officials and private business are trying to stop the upward trend. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed banning large sugary sodas and drinks sold at fast-food restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. A Reuters investigation found that the food and beverage industry has spent $1.5 trillion to defeat soda taxes and marketing restrictions in cities and states and has "mounted referendums to overturn the taxes in the two states" that passed soda taxes. The Walt Disney Company recently announced it would stop airing junk-food TV advertisements on children's programming by 2015.
    Nestle supports both initiatives but says individuals will not make healthier food decisions until the government does certain things.
    "People perceive fruits and vegetables as being very expensive," she says. "And in fact they are relatively because since 1980 the index cost of fruits and vegetables has gone up by 40 percent. Whereas the index price of sodas and snack foods have gone down by 20 to 30 percent. So there's something wrong with the way we're pricing foods, and that has a lot to do with government policies. I think we need to create a society that makes it easier for people to eat more healthfully."

    end quote from:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-fat-government-wall-street-fault-marion-nestle-175708490.html
    Also, if you paste the above web address there is a video that goes along with this article.

    I personally think that the single biggest cause of obesity is High Fructose Corn Syrup, lack of enough sleep from struggling to keep jobs while not taking vacations because of worry about keeping one's job. And on top of this people tend to not go to National Parks and beautiful places as much as people used to for a variety of reasons. The "Hiking, swimming, out of doors culture that existed from the 1930s through the 1980s and into the 1990s doesn't exist the way it once did. Our indoor video game culture where one can literally lie in bed and telecommute to work and never leave their home also contributes to obesity. Until people move back to better diets consciously and to fun exercise doing fun things like swimming and hiking beautiful places and riding bicycles and figuring out how to have fun getting exercise things will just tend to get worse where people often die by 25 or 30 from bad diets and lifestyles. During the 1960s and 1970s people died a lot from war, racing cars, suicide from relationships that didn't work out and from drug overdoses. Now people are dying more from ages 20 to 30 from bad diets, no exercise and no sleep and generally bad lifestyles than from the causes of the 1930s to the 1990s.

    If you are interested in losing weight one possibility is the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" method with Joe Cross from Australia. You might want to watch his documentary of drinking only fruit and vegetable juices for 60 days while traveling across the U.S. He says it costs about 35 or 40 dollars a day to do this diet but I believe he lost 60 pounds in 60 days and eventually lost about 90 pounds. There is also a truck driver  named Phil who was I believe 428 pounds and over time using this diet went down to 200 pounds or below. You watch his progression during the documentary also. here are some of the youtube results of Joe Cross's "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" experiences across America.

    About 874 results

    SEARCH RESULTS FOR FAT SICK AND NEARLY DEAD FULL MOVIE WATCH FREE


    Sort by:
    1. FatSick & Nearly Dead Extended Trailer

      100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end ...
      by FatSickandNearlyDead  1 year ago  464,850 views
    2. FatSick & Nearly Dead

      Overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross was at the end of his rope and the end of his ...
      by warnervod  2011
    3. FATSICK & NEARLY DEAD - JUICE RECIPE - FITLIFE.TV

      www.juiceupyourlife.tv http www.fatsickandnearlydead.com www.einnews.com www.amazon.com The Juicing Documentary, Fat Sick And Nearly Dead has ...
      by fitlifetv  10 months ago  157,237 views
    4. 'FatSick and Nearly Dead' [FOX: 5-28-2011]

      Subscribe for daily health news. Like/Dislike, Favorite, Comment, Embed on Blog, Facebook Share, and Tweet this video. Get the word out on this ...
      by LatestNutrition  1 year ago  85,976 views
    5. FatSick & Nearly Dead - Joe Cross appears on The Doctors

      Joe Cross' appearance on The Doctors 05/25.
      by FatSickandNearlyDead  1 year ago  111,147 views
    6. Thumbnail

      Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

      100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debili...

     

    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

    A Modified Organic Vegan Juice Diet

    In June I did a modified organic vegan Juice diet based upon the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet championed by Joe Cross of Australia who studied with Dr. Fuhrman before losing about 100 pounds in around 80 days and ending his auto-immune disease by so doing.

    So, as I started out with a mostly stainless steel Breville Elite juicer I went about 7 days before I saw a couple of danger signs and stopped my diet because of my age which is 64 temporarily. But, in the process of this diet I realized I had finally found a diet that could work for me ongoing and the surprising thing was I no longer felt 64 years of age. Instead I felt like I was between 15 and 25 years of age after this diet which I really did not ever expect to feel again. I found myself walking 1.5 to 3 miles a day with my dogs and my son who is a nurse and in one weeks time I lost 30 pounds which is about 10% of my body weight at 6 foot 5 inches in height. This summer I have kept off 20 of those pounds and today I am attempting a second 7 to 10 day modified organic vegan juice fast.

    Here is how I modified the diet to fit my age and needs. First of all many people can't deal with nothing but organic fruit juice and organic vegetable juice in their intestines. So, I added organic avocados, papayas, mangoes and young coconuts to the diet. And, if I really need to be focused for driving a car or something important I eat either an avocado or I will go to Jamba juice and order a large juice (your choice) and get 1 or 2 soy protein shots (depending upon how spaced out I feel and what I have to do that requires focus). So, in this way you stay on your diet and are still able to mentally focus to accomplish whatever you need to do like driving a car and making important decisions in your life. However, if you can schedule time (like on a vacation or something) to not have to make decisions or drive much this also could be helpful in losing weight more quickly.

    If you are a man and do this diet for 1 week likely you can lose about 10% of your body weight if you exercise every day. However, if you are a woman over 40 losing weight is more difficult. If you are a woman over 40 try going to youtube and search for women doing the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet and see how they are doing it. They likely have some good tips for you regarding this the healthiest diet I have ever seen regarding detoxifying your body while losing weight and bringing back youthful health and vigor back into your lives.

    Here are some of the blogs about my 7 day 30 pound weight loss diet. If you are a man likely you can lose 10% of your body weight in 7 days of doing this if you also have a workout regimen or walk like I did briskly 1.5 to 3 miles every day while doing this organic vegan juice fast.  If you look later in June and July you might find more blogs I wrote on this subject as well that might be helpful to you in going on this diet. Good Luck! Also, the first things I wrote are likely at the bottom of these word buttons and they progress upward from that.

    More on Juicing

    Raw organic Vegan juicing recipes

     

    The Full Time Diet

    FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012

    Beet Power with Rainbow Chard

    My favorite organic vegetable and fruit Juice made by me and consumed by me and my family is what my son named:

    Beet Power   which is:

    1  raw organic beet
    1 slice of pineapple from a whole organic pineapple
    And today I tried replacing Kale with chard because I bought some rainbow chard
    so 1 really big chard leaf
    I used about 8 large organic carrots today
    3 organic apples
    1 small handful of peppermint
    1 little piece of organic ginger

    This combination made about 3 large glasses to the brim which we then split 4 ways between all the people here today and we all loved it because it made us feel so alive and full of energy.

    And since we have staying with us someone who doesn't care for the whole lemon in it we left that out today even though I prefer it because I really love organic vitamin C straight from the sun through photosynthesis in the form of organic lemons or organic oranges.

    My diet has changed a lot ever since I did 7 days with only organic vegetable and fruit juice juiced on the spot and consumed on the spot (so you get all the micro-nutrients that cooking or processing often destroys). So, I found I liked the fact that 7 days of this made me lose 30 pounds and allowed my body to dump any poisons collected in the last 20 years or so through food additives, insecticides, herbicides, lead or mercury from eating fish and all sorts of miscellaneous stuff. I feel like an entirely different person since then and all my tastes for food have changed a lot. So, as long as 1, 2 or  3 of my meals of any given day are organic raw fruits and veggies I feel every day about 40 years younger than my 64 year self. So, if you want to stop feeling your age (especially over 40) then this is a diet for you as well. It appears most cancers and most ill health actually is coming from processed foods that people started to consume more in the U.S. since about the 1920s or so. So, going back to organic foods that give you life rather than steal your life away I believe is a really good thing for everyone who wants to stay alive and be healthy and feel good and young and alive at any age.

    By the way the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" organic vegetable and fruit juice if you do it for 7 to 10 days and you are a man you can generally expect to lose about 10% of your body weight. However, on the other side of this everyone might be different. I'm around 6 feet 5 inches and I lost around 30 pounds in the first 7 days. I was amazed and realized I had found a diet that I can lose weight on and  and stay a weight I want to be. For me, the only thing is to set aside the time to do this diet long enough to drop any weight I want to. Because what I notice is that at age 64 I have to be careful of getting a little spaced out after about 3 or 4 days on this diet. Also, your dreams change a lot. But, for me the most amazing thing is when I'm walking 1.5 to 3 miles a day. Because what happens is first you sort of hit a wall where you lose power but then the body decides what fat layer to burn and you can actually feel that fat layer burning out of your body. This is amazing about this diet. You are actually getting all the nutrients your body needs to be healthy but you are simultaneously losing weight down to a good and healthy weight. Wonderful! So, at any age you probably should get a blood test about every 10 days because (if you are a man you are going to be losing a whole lot of weight fast at first). I'm not sure how it is for women of different ages. But youtube.com has a lot of testimonials regarding the "Fat, Sick and nearly Dead" diet.

    SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2013

    The Fat ,Sick and Nearly Dead diet

    A year ago last June I went on the Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead Diet. The Australian Gentleman who recommends this diet and has many videos on Youtube as well as one or more you can buy along with diet aids lost around 100 pounds on it by wanting to get over his auto-immune disease which he succeeded in doing. He was around 40 to 45 years of age when he did this. However, I think it took him several months to do this.

    Though I didn't have problems with an auto-immune disease I did have problems with having been hypothyroid for at least 20 years without being diagnosed. So, this had caused me to gain weight for the first time in my life. When I tried fasting and walking long distances this didn't work anymore for me beyond 5 or 10 pounds so since around age 40 to 45 I have been very frustrated in trying to lose weight to get back to a fully healthy me. I have been lifting weights over my head of at least 50 pounds ongoing however, so I wouldn't lose the use of my rotator cuff muscles. I want to be able to still do that because I have older friends who can't lift their hands above their heads from this problem who are men. I also walk at least a mile every day with my dogs either in the forest in the woods or along the beach where I live in Northern California.

    When I first embarked on the Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead Diet I bought a Breville Elite juicer which is all stainless steel for easy cleaning. For me, it seemed to be the best way for me to go on this diet. This has been a good investment as the first week I lost 30 pounds.

    However, that is not the end of my story. As time went on I found I really liked things like Papayas and Mangoes and coconuts as a part of my diet. So, I began to modify the diet a lot and for me, at least this turned out to be a mistake. I realized now that even though I did lose 30 pounds the first week on this diet that because I went off the initial regimen by adding more exotic fruits it spaced me out too much to be successful long term at that time. So, even though I kept the 30 pounds off I didn't continue to lose weight after that because I added in too much fructose. A few weeks later I got discouraged because I wasn't continuing to lose weight and decided to stop doing the diet a while to figure out what I was doing wrong on it.

    Some of the things I learned about my own body in this were that I couldn't add in quite so much fructose no matter how good those papayas, mangoes and berries and other things tasted.

    The other thing I learned is that if you think you have to go off the diet for one reason or another I found eating an avocado for me usually gave my body what it needed to go on with the diet.

    The biggest thing likely you will miss is protein so at that time what I did was go to a Jamba Juice near where I live and get a fruit smoothie like a Mango smoothie made from fruit and add Soy Protein to it (usually two shots of soy protein) and so this allowed me to continue on the diet if I did this once every day or two.

    However, later I realized that about 85% to 90% of all soy grown in the U.S. is genetically modified soy so it isn't entirely safe to eat which made me very sad. So, I won't use soy protein again after this. However, I also realized I'm allergic to Whey Protein as well so this was kind of a minor disaster for me as well in regard to dieting.

    I'm considering going back on this diet soon again because I lost 30 pounds on it last year and I find it is a diet that I can stand to do because my father loved to juice fruits and vegetables and had the same teacher as Jack LaLane which was Paul Bragg who was a student at the turn of the 1900s of a teacher named Bernard McFaddin.


    Also, if you like coconuts I got into buying young coconuts from Whole Foods as long as you know how to open one without injuring yourself. It is great for a breakfast in itself at only 70 to 125 calories. Or you could use it as a meal replacement during the day if you were at home so you could open it.

    I think succeeding on this diet one might have to modify it slightly to your personal needs. However, my experiment so far failed so this next time I'll try to do the diet as the doctors set it up originally. However, I find I like to have something in my intestines even if it is only fruit or coconuts or both. But, try not to get too much fruit or it will begin to space you out beyond what is useful for driving a car or other things you might be doing. So, being able to monitor what is happening to you an in what ways it is modifying you mentally, physically and emotionally is important on this diet. Because of the relatively extreme nature of this diet things can move very fast so you need to be on top of the changes. It works but you must be vigilant too watching all your changes for best results. Also, it might be helpful

    Paul Bragg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bragg
    Paul Bragg (February 6, 1895 – December 7, 1976), nutritionist, was a pioneer in America's wellness movement. Contents. 1 Early life; 2 1915; 3 1921; 4 1926 ...
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    Here are some of the juicing recipes:

    Raw organic Vegan juicing recipes
    Here are two other blogs I wrote about my experiences last June and July 2012.
    4th day on Vegan Juice diet

    In regard to safely opening a young coconut my daughter's boyfriend showed me how to do this safely with a good knife. If you start with a young coconut from Whole Foods or somewhere else these are usually from some place like Thailand, Malasia or Mexico or someplace like that. They have been ground down with machines and tools to look like they do. The point on the top is to let you know this is the part you need to cut off. So, with something like either a folding lock blade Buck knife or other locking blade knife I find I prefer because you aren't going to break the blade and injure yourself as easily with a knife like this. Then shave off the part with the top point carefully. Once you get down to the brown hard top of the nut you take the knife and with a hammer or whatever you want to use, (I use the cover so I don't injure the palm of my hand when I hit the back of the knife into the top of the coconut. Then drive it vertically down into the top about 2 inches or more. Then pry down to pop out about a 2 to 3 inch circle of the top of the nut. Next, with the 2 to 3 inch diameter piece out pour the coconut water out into a pitcher or other container. Then if your nut is young enough you can scoop out the coconut a lot like custard.

    Sometimes, I like to open up a coconut and open up a papaya lengthwise, then scoop out the seeds from the papaya and then pour in Coconut milk or maybe squeeze in a little lime too if you prefer. This combination is for me a healthy dessert. So, by experimenting you can have fun with your diet while your body is eliminating toxins from the last 20 to 30 years on this vegetable and juice fast to make you younger and healthier once again. But, it might be important to talk to a doctor before beginning something like this if your health is frail to begin with to see if your body can handle this extreme of a diet and still be functional after you finish the diet. If your health is good enough to do this diet you might feel 20 to 30 years younger both during and after this diet because what is possible on this diet is truly amazing health wise. It can be a completely regenerative diet when done properly.

    FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012

    2nd day on detox weight loss diet

    Since I haven't eaten anything really solid for 2 days now other than a soy protein shake, milk and fruit yesterday morning I sort of expected to be more spaced out from this diet than I am. But instead I woke up very clear headed and aware of all the toxins eliminating from my body in droves now through urination, defecation and sweat. I even had dreams about a gray substance being cleared out of my body during this vegetable and fruit juice fast of however many days I can stand to do this.

    My goal (because I am almost 6 foot 5 inches tall) and because I am Scottish big boned which means my bones are so big and strong that I have never broken anything in my very active life but my nose and my little toe and minor fractures in my feet. And once I fractured my wrist from a motorcycle accident but it didn't even need a cast and hurt for about a year or two after that. But mostly, I have been too big boned to break anything even during falls of up to 40 feet off of ladders and rock climbing. But I did always know how to roll to absorb shocks like a gymnast as well.

    So, there are really at least 2 major benefits from the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet which is a variation of the Fuhrman Diet by Dr. Fuhrman.

    The first is fairly quick weight loss even though for women over 40 the weight loss isn't as quick for them as men in general. But it still works quicker and healthier than any other diet I know about.

    But it is important likely to remember to either do this diet once in a while to keep the weight off or to make this diet one of your meals during the day after you take the weight off or both.

    Either way detoxifying can help your health in a variety of ways. Here is a quote from the "Reboot your life" guide that came with my book "Research shows that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can decrease the risk for things like cancers, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and mental illness. Fruits and vegetables have also been credited with alleviating the day-to-day effects of painful chronic conditions such as constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, headaches and migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Nice work fruits and veggies." end quote.

    online I was able to buy "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" the book, the DVD, the plastic guide all in one package. Then I bought a Breville 1000 watt juicer that can juice a whole lot at once that is mostly stainless steel for easier cleaning. One trick I have learned already is to put a plastic bag where most of the fruit and veggie grindings wind up for easy cleaning. But the hardest thing to clean is the stainless steel sieve built into the grinder wheel but a brush is provided for that. My best technique so far is to run water backwards through the sieve while trying to brush the fruit and veggie particles out the other side. This so far works the best so far. As I go along I'll try to share any other useful things I have learned.

    But, what I would like to share the most is I realized waking up this morning that this is probably the single best thing I have done for my body doing this diet other than exercising regularly during the last 20 years of my life. I also realized this could seriously add 30 years to my life (theoretically) if I continue to do this diet for at least one meal a day ongoing after I finish at the weight I want to be.

    It also is wonderful for me because my father passed away in 1985 and he loved diets like this and swore by them. So, doing this diet is also a way to honor all my father's wisdom and knowledge.












    SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012

    Dr. Fuhman- Reversing Illnesses through diet

    Luckily, I went into my bedroom because my wife and my daughter's boyfriend were watching the equestrian part of the Olympics but this really isn't my thing. So, I walked into the bedroom with my Organic Mango that I have really gotten into since my "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet from Joe Cross from Australia. Well, the Doctor that Joe Cross went to and who inspired him was Dr. Fuhrman. And when I put my bedroom flatscreen on there was Dr. Fuhrman speaking on  pbs in HD on TV. Outside of a few minutes on Joe Cross' Fat, Sick and nearly dead" DVD video that you can see at either youtube or at Joe Cross' Rebootyourlife.com I had never seen Dr. Fuhrman speak before. So, it was wonderful to have a real medical doctor championing the same things my father and Jack Lallane did with lots of research on patients to back it up.

    His point of view is that many illnesses can be cured permanently by changing your diet to organic foods and vegetables and fruits and nuts. My father was really into this stuff in the 1950s through the 1980s when he passed on. Bernard McFaddin was a teacher of this sort of stuff around 1900. Then Paul Bragg was a teacher of this sort of stuff and a student of Bernard McFaddin. Then my father and Jack LaLanne were students of Paul Bragg. Right now, as I write this I'm listening to Dr. Fuhrman on a one hour special on PBS in northern California in HD right now.

    Here is Joe Cross' Reboot your life site:

    Reboot Your Life

    www.jointhereboot.com/
    Reboot Your Life is a socially conscious health and wellness company that offers support, encouragement, community, media and tools to everyday people (like ...


    Once you train your palette to truly healthy organic food, vegetables and berries and nuts you will feel young again and your illnesses may go away depending upon what they are. Losing Weight (I lost 30 pounds in 7 days) and feeling young like you did at age 20 to 25 are possible right now. After 7 days of organic Vegetable and  Fruit Juice fasting I felt great and was completely amazed to feel this young once again.

    They are talking on the PBS station about something called "The Fuhrman Solution"

    TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2012

    More on Dieting

    About a month ago now I spent 7 days on the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet which is a raw organic vegan vegetable and fruit juice diet that actually works! I had tried all sorts of other diets but nothing was working for me, simply because I am a man and I couldn't get results fast enough now at age 64 to have ANY other diet be meaningful to me. But, in the first week I lost 10% of my body weight which was about 30 pounds because I am about 6 feet 5 inches tall. So, like I said before I'm trying to go from a football lineman's weight to the weight of a quarterback in real life. When I was 17 years old I weighed 172 pounds but I was very skinny then and at that weight when I climbed San Gorgonia mountain in Southern California which is the highest mountain there I got altitude sickness at 10,000 feet when I spent the night there and had to run down to about 9,000 feet so I could breathe and to stop throwing up. To me, this meant I was just too thin for my height at age 17. So now, a good weight would be anywhere between 200 to 225 pounds. I originally gained this weight when I divorced my 2nd wife and was in a child custody battle and then married again and had another daughter and I was worried I might lose both my new daughter and my new life during child birth. After the successful birth of my new daughter I wasn't able to get full custody of my then 7 year old daughter from my 2nd wife and I was angry. At that point I got a Heart Virus and almost died (I believe from my anger at not being able to better protect my by that time 10 year old daughter) even though after about $75,000 in legal fees I did finally get Joint legal custody but not primary physical custody of my older daughter and was able to see her 10 weeks a year on holidays and vacations and no important decision could be made for her without my input. So, at least that was something. So, last week I was skiing with my older daughter who is now 23 and living with her boyfriend near Portland. And since she is now completely on her own I don't have to worry about her mother interfering with my relationship with my daughter anymore.

    So, this is one reason I can lose the weight because the problems of the past are over and gone and I'm not haunted by the past like I once was. So, remember actually losing weight is often as much psychological as it is physical when you attempt to lose weight.

    Given all that, I successfully lost 30 pounds on the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet that Joe Cross from Australia recommends because he did this diet over about 3 or 4 months and lost 100 pounds when he was about 40 in 2007. He came to the U.S. and started his diet in New York and then after he adapted traveled across the country to California as he juiced his way here. He bought a juicer and an electrical converter and juiced right in the back of his SUV as he traveled with his documentary film crew. You can see this film on youtube.com for free. It is very worthwhile to watch if you are serious about both losing weight and being healthy. By doing this diet he cured himself of an auto-immune disease that he might have died from by now otherwise. Also, this diet since it is a vegetable juice and fruit juice fast also detoxifies the body and because the body doesn't have to spend 90% of it's energy digesting foods, it can eliminate almost all toxins that you have taken into it like lead, mercury, dioxin and all the other many many toxins that shorten human life on earth when these kinds of toxins stay in the body long term.

    So, after I lost 30 pounds the first 7 days of this diet I realized that for me the best way was to integrate this diet permanently into 1 to 3 meals of my everyday diet ongoing. The first reason is that I feel incredibly better than I have since my 20s eating this way.

    For example, I haven't eaten yet this morning and it is about 10 am. I plan to eat organic celery stalks with peanut butter in the grooves and then eat an organic nectarine for breakfast. The peanut butter will ground me so I don't get too spacey, the celery will put ruffage into my intestines, and the nectarine I am going to eat because I love organic fruit in the morning. So, this fruit juicing diet has really changed what I actually desire to eat on a daily basis. For lunch I know I'm probably going to use my Breville stainless steel juicer and make organic carrot juice fresh and I think I'm going to also juice 3 apples because I really like carrots and apples together.

    Here is an article I wrote on the Juicer I bought through amazon.com
    Breville Juice Fountain Elite Juicer

    Joe Cross now lets you watch his documentary for free. However, now I think he wants your name and address to watch it for free. Whereas I think I paid about 39 dollars or so for his DVD, book and a plastic foldout chart of all the juices he created along with Dr. Fuhrman. It is a medically well thought out diet and it might be important to note that even  President Bill Clinton became a Vegan vegetarian to keep help healthy and fit after his heart bi-pass surgery.

    Here is the site to watch the documentary by Joe Cross for free:

    Reboot Your Life

    THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012

    The Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead diet

    When I first heard about this diet and saw the documentary of how Joe Cross from Australia lost 100 pounds through his diet by traveling across America for 60 days ( I think he actually lost about 80 pounds during the 60 days and about 30 pounds the first 30 days or so) and eventually lost 100 pounds and was able to stop taking Prednazone for his autoimmune disease which this diet basically cured I knew likely I had found a diet I could actually do.

    My father was a student of Paul Bragg who was Jack Lalane's teacher in regard to diet. So, when I heard about Joe Cross using Dr. Fuhrman's techniques in dieting I immediately recognized what my father was teaching me about in the 1950s when I was growing up. Since he got me to enjoy fasting on fruit juice and I even did a lemon juice, water and maple syrup fast for 7 days once, I immediately understood what Joe Cross and Dr. Fuhrman were talking about because I had heard all this same stuff before from Dad who had learned it from Paul Bragg who had learned it from Bernard McFaddin at the turn of the 20th Century. So, even though it is much more refined and more fully developed by doctors testing on patients for 100 years and stuff like that it is still basically what my father taught me about in the 1950s when I was a boy.

    And as an adult I used to regularly do organic watermelon fasts of 4 days or more to keep my veins and arteries clear. So when I went to get an angiogram at Stanford Medical they had never seen anyone with as clear arteries and veins as I had. This helped save my life when I had a heart virus which most people that I knew of died of around 1998 and 1999 when I had this ailment and survived.

    But recently, my doctor told me that I really needed to lose weight because I am 64 years old and even though I am very strong and lift weights and walk almost every day with my dogs at a certain point if you want to live a long life you have to lose the weight or you likely won't. So, for me since about age 40 to 45 it has been very depressing because all the things like walking 25 miles in a weekend or jogging every day wasn't working for me like it did before I was 45. And part of the reason is my feet don't like to run or walk over about 5 miles and they prefer not to run at all. So, my podiatrist says I have all sorts of microfractures from my youth in my feet that have long healed up now but as I age they cause more pain in my feet. But walking still seems to be fine.

    So, finding the right diet has been a very frustrating chore for me. So, when I found "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet my older daughter called me one day and made sure that I bought the book and chart and DVD package online for a good deal. So, I bought the book and DVD and watched the video and then more than ever realized I could do this diet to lose the weight my doctor recommended.

    So, I went to Whole foods and bought a lot of organic 2 whole pineapples, strawberries, spearmint, apples, Celery, Cucumbers, lemons, ginger, Kale, Mangoes, etc.

    This past week I also bought a Breville 1000 watt juicer which is mostly stainless steel and can make quite a bit of juice at once. Now, right away I have to say this diet isn't for everyone. You have to be able to be comfortable juicing all this stuff together. But here are the first two recipe's I tried:

    Joe Cross Starting Juice
    Pineapple
    Strawberry
    Spearmint
    pear

    Mean Green Juice
    4 stalks of celery
    1 cucumber
    1 thumb sized ginger
    1/2 lemon including peel
    2 apples
    6 leaves of kale

    The foundation of this diet is the mean green juice which gives you enough micro-nutrients to feel full of energy while still losing weight and detoxifying. There are many other recipes. For example I just created my own which is:

    Carrots
    Kale
    Spearmint
    1/2 lemon

    I let my son taste this and he couldn't handle it but I thought it was great. The other thing I have been doing is I greatly enjoyed the pineapple and I had about 2 mangoes which I ate. Now, the whole idea with this diet is to juice everything because there is no way your stomach could eat how much you would have to eat otherwise. Since you are trying to drink about 6 mean green juices a day (or some variation of this) the amount of veggies and fruits is amazing. In fact, I have thought about starting a compost pile in my back yard because of just how much veggies and fruits you go through even in one day. And the other thing is just the juicer and the veggies and the fruits can take up most of the kitchen until you figure they whole thing out.

    For example, since I don't like the idea of refrigerating most of the things I'm going to juice and since I likely will have to restock about every 2 days or so with new fruits and veggies I decided to put many of the veggies in a salad bowl like they grow in the ground with some water so they can soak up more water for when they are juiced. Since everything I have now will likely be juiced by tomorrow night. Remember, the whole point is eating completely LIVE foods because of all the alive nutrients.

    Today for example was my first day so I first started out with a protein, milk and stawberry and orange juice. (I use soy protein because I found I'm allergic to Whey protein). But I'm not allergic to milk at all. So I found this strange when I found it out.

    Then I went to Whole Foods with my son and bought about 100 dollars worth of fruits and vegetables all organically grown. So I think Joe Cross says that this diet costs about 30 or more dollars a day if you do it right. However, it is amazing because you feel very healthy once you adapt to it.

    And one man who was a weight lifter talked in a video that after about 15 to 30 days on this diet your bowel movements odor and body odor goes completely away on this diet (at least while you are on it). So, it is a completely detoxifying diet in addition to being very energizing.

    However, it might be good to consult a physician regarding regular blood tests while you are on it to make sure you aren't having any undiagnosed problems. I think Joe Cross did blood tests about once a week because of his auto-immune disease that went away through this diet.

    Even after I get down to the weight I want likely I will use these recipes for one of my meals a day. I likely will have a protein shake of milk and soy protein and fruit in a blender and then do a mean green drink in the afternoon so I can then have a regular meal at night unless I am trying to lose more weight or detoxify in the future.

    So, I'm very hopeful that this can work for me because nothing else has worked for my personality and body type. However, if Joe Cross can lose 30 pounds the first 14 days or so of this diet then maybe I can to.

    The one caveat is that men tend to have an easier time than women losing weight after age 40. So, even if it goes off slower girls this still works. So, I'm very hopeful to see some results within a week or two for myself. This also tends to cure migraines, helps people sleep better, etc.

    However, I did watch one Youtube video of a teenage girl and her Mom that had stomach problems about 4 days into the vegetable and juice fast. And almost everyone has trouble adjusting to doing this the first 3 to 5 days.

    Note: some of my thoughts on the stomach problems were that possibly because this was a new experience the veggies or the juicer wasn't cleaned properly or they used non-organic produce. So, any of these things could give stomach problems including someone catching a flu from someone else in the course of their day out and about.

    Doing this for 10 days is called a reboot of your system and many people attempt this and if successful go longer. So, if it works for you go for it. Here is the website run by Joe Cross:

    Reboot Your Life


    The other thing I noticed today was that I felt a little spacey in the initial adjustment to it. But when I went and walked a couple of miles in the forest with my adult son and dogs my mind cleared up. I think this diet is one where exercise will keep your mind clear. So, likely it is very important to be exercising while doing this diet, preferably in a beautiful place like along the Ocean or River, or walking or running out in nature somewhere. As I walked today I felt the fat in my stomach melting away as I walked. I don't remember experiencing anything quite like that before. So, this diet is an extreme fat burner when you exercise.

    The other thing that I noticed is that my senses beyond the 5 started opening up more while I was walking in the forest and I felt much more a part of nature than I ordinarily would while walking. This diet can put a person in a very spiritual place. But I think it is important to do this diet if possible in some place you feel relatively safe because you might be more emotionally vulnerable while doing a diet like this sometimes. So, try to pick a good place around people you trust to do this diet if possible.


    FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012

    The advantages of a raw vegan Juice fast

    Many people try to lose weight in relatively unhealthy ways. But, at least for me, Organic vegetables and fruits juiced the moment before you drink them keeps all the vitality in them that they often lose once they are pasteurized or bottled. So, by juicing yourself moments before you drink them you get the full dose of micro-nutrients that will allow your body to naturally lose weight while exercising very quickly. Whereas if you were to fast on water for a month in trying to lose weight your body might not let the pounds go because it goes into emergency starvation mode. With a vegan juice fast using all organic produce your body doesn't go into a starvation mode but it does have to transfer itself into a different mode than it is used to to do this. So, you have to allow your body and yourself a few days to get used to this.

    For example, if you are working or going to school I would recommend starting this diet on a Friday after school or work. That way you have until Monday morning to get used to it. Also, you might want to watch yourself to see if you can drive and do normal things while on this type of juice fast because everyone is different in their metabolism. Another thing I noticed after 2 days of this juice fast is that as I walked the trails with my son today I noticed that so much fat is burning away so quickly that my balance is off a little from my body burning it up so quickly now. So, you will notice your balance might be affected some as you walk, run or do normal things in your life because of just how fast you will be losing weight on this diet especially if you are a man. It reminds me a lot of how I felt at ages 12 to 15 when I grew from 5 foot 2 to 6 foot 3. Even though I became 6 feet 4 and 3/4 by 21 or 22 it was 13 to 15 when I sprained my ankle mostly playing basketball about 20 times. I learned to fold up whenever I came down from a jump shot or a layup soon so I stopped spraining my right ankle. To this day I crumple if I feel my ankle spraining so I won't sprain it again. So, as the fat comes off fast from all parts of your body you will have to regain a new sense of balance about your body. And walking is one of the ways to help you do that and to burn even more fat and to reduce your weight.

    Here are the last two blogs I wrote about this diet:

    WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012

    Raw organic Vegan juicing recipes

    The first two are from Joe Cross and the "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" diet

    Joe Cross starting juice (a wake up drink)
    pineapple
    strawberry
    spearmint
    pear (or apple)

    The Mean Green Juice
    4 stalks of celery
    1 cucumber
    1 thumb size ginger
    1/2 lemon including peel
    2 apples
    6 leaves of kale

    The following two drinks are my son's successful drinks

    1/2 beet
    1 whole lemon including peel
    1 slice of pineapple
    1 large handful of spinach
    3 leaves of kale
    5 carrots
    2 apples
    1 small handful of mint

    Green Drink
    6 leaves of kale
    6 carrots
    1 small handful of mint
    3 apples

    Fred's variation drink

    small handful of mint
    4 celery stalks
    thimble sized piece of ginger
    2 apples
    3 carrots
    6 kale leaves

    The more recipes that you actually enjoy drinking the longer you will be able to keep on this diet. This is my 7th day (4th of July) and I went off a little for the 4th with two pieces of sour dough toast with butter and cheese but I'm back on now after that little diversion. However, up until now I made with only organic juice and the occasional avocado, mango, blueberries, papayas etc, in the fruit realm. I find it is good to have at least something relatively solid like fruit going through your intestines during this kind of fast. But by juicing you are giving your stomach a rest because it doesn't have to work very hard digesting vegetable and fruit juices. Also, if someone didn't have any teeth they could drink an organic raw vegan juice diet for life if they had to for some reason and stay alive and healthy as long as they could afford or grow the veggies and fruits themselves and afford to buy a juicer and had access to electricity anywhere on earth.

    also, if you want to know more about this diet here is one article that will key you into the rest through word buttons there:


    Note added:  August 19th 2013.
    The trick seems to be with this diet is to not get too much fructose (fruit sugar) in relation to the vegetable juices. Though the vegetable juices are less tasty than the fruits they are what are mostly sustaining you in this diet. So, if you get the fruit level (fructose) to high in relation to the overall diet it will tend to space you out more and affect your decisions more. So, keeping all this in mind is important to get a good result with your diet. It is literally a vegetable and fruit juice fast and literally everything toxic will come out in your urine and feces from the last 10 or 20 years (or since you last did something like this). I personally found exercise to be really important on this diet both for burning fat and also for peace of mind and a better sense of well being. Sometimes when I was on long hikes during this diet I could literally feel belly fat burning off me. I lost 30 pounds the first week but I am 6 foot 5 inches tall so I often lost almost this much weight (20 to 25 pounds)  in my 20s and 30s when I did a 25 mile hike or more on a weekend then.

      THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012

      The Question

      8th day of organic raw vegan juice fast- or should I say the first of a new fast.

      The question is: "Should I want to go back to being in pain all the time and eating anything I want or should I want to stay not in pain and feeling like I'm about 15 to 25 again?"

      Basically, there is no contest, I want to continue to feel like I'm 15 to 25 again like I do now. However, the only problem is that if I subconsciously (like I did today) actually believe at some level that I actually still am 15 to 25 I might hurt myself (like I also did today). It was something really simple. I had just unloaded my dogs out of the my pickup truck bed from a walk in the forest nearby where I live. And I thought, "Instead of pulling out the bed step from out from under the bumper of my Toyota Tundra why don't I just back off the gate like I used to? The only problem with this was that where I thought the ground was was about 1 foot lower than it was. So, I landed wrong on the ground and knew I had likely injured my back. But, since I'm a very intuitive and practical person I just went inside and got my bathing suit on and hopped into my hot Tub Spa and turned the temperature up from 98 degrees Fahrenheit where I usually keep it and ran it up to 100 degrees to heal my back and back muscles. Then I opened up the most powerful jet in the hot tub to full force and went over my back many many times with the most powerful jet until I was satisfied that I had done all I could to prevent my back injury really becoming a problem. As I sit her writing this I can still feel it in my back but as long as I am careful the next few days I think I'm going to be just fine.

      But without the 1 hour working on my back in the hot tub I would not be fine or I would not be going to be fine. It would be bad. But, I'm going to be okay and I know this because that is how I am.

      So, basically yesterday (the 7th day) I had a dream which kind of scared me into eating two pieces of toast with cheese to get more grounded in the morning. And then I decided that since my son is a really great cook and my favorite dish of his is his Enchiladas that I was going to have some of these for 4th of July evening dinner along with family and friends and so I did. Also, I coveted 1 or 2 more but had to give way to my wife who had them both tonight for dinner.  So, in some ways I'm trying to get back into my diet again and today ate only a breakfast drink of pineapple, carrots, apples and then later today I had a 16 ounce drink or more of carrots, apples, kale, celery, 1 whole lemon. And then later I decided to have leftover guacamole (Avocado mashed with spices and sometimes tomatoes and other stuff) by dipping celery stalks into it. This was really good.

      What I noticed the most about today was that I felt more integrated like on some sort of new plateau concerning both my life and my diet. I felt really good about the 30 pounds I had lost and how great I felt about this. There is nothing like saying to family and friends (and having it be true), "Hey. I just lost 30 pounds this past week" (when I haven't been able to for the last 20 years or so). So, obviously, to find a diet that actually works for me is a literal "Life Saver".

      to learn more about this diet that actually works for me and thousands and more others either go to Youtube and watch the videos there on the "Fat, Sick and nearly Dead" diet or you can read of what my experience has been the last now 8 days at the articles with word buttons below:

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