To Balance My Love and Hate for Food

I am Dylann.

This is my first blog post. The balance of my healthy living and balance of mind has fallen these past few months, and has only become more destructive towards myself mentally and physically. My Scorpio intense waters have not helped with balancing my diet, though it will help to ground myself and see the truth behind my aspects of eating to purify and demolish my harmful approaches to indulging food. It started years ago, though I let it get very bad when my self-confidence was eaten up. When I chose to start a raw juice detox my mind and body entered a vicious cycle. I began to go in and out of juice cleanses, then overeating with unhealthy foods I have not eaten in years. I never gained too much weight since I kept up with having juices every morning, though it was terrible at night, and now I finally have the will power and tactics to balance this. My food wants calories and all I want to do is fill it with the natural gifts of the Universe.

I have found what my soul and body truly wants (I have since the first time I tried a low fat raw diet), I just need to own the tools to get there.

What I want to create more than anything is to have glowing beautiful eyes that reflect the divine and healthy nature of my inner soul. I know it is in there. :)

If anyone has any tips to getting back on track with a healthy diet, please, please let me know.

Have a lovely week, everyone!

Tags: balance, food, help., raw

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Comment by Dylann Stein on October 21, 2012 at 12:34pm: Oh, that all makes so much since. Thank you so much. Tonight when I went out everything seemed so much easier. I have less and less of a desire to eat the way I was. And I have noticed the more fruit I eat, the happier and less gravitated I feel towards cooked foods.

Thank you so much.

:)

Comment by Jon Fergus on October 21, 2012 at 8:06am: Often our emotions arise the way you describe due to being undercarbed. Many don't make this connection and come up with all kinds of unnecessary "solutions" to how to fix their emotions. Carb up with fruits and veggies and our emotions will automatically begin to become more easily manageable.

Never feel guilty for eating too much. We're built to eat A LOT (2500cals/day MINIMUM for women). The main thing is just to make sure those cals are coming from healthy sources. Your body will force you to get the cals one way or another, which is why binging is near impossible to control, so the best way is to give it what it truly wants/needs, which is fruits and veggies in abundance :D

And ya, environment is a huge challenge in our society. You're not alone there! Do your best.

Have fun at the wedding. :)

Comment by Dylann Stein on October 21, 2012 at 7:49am: Thank you, Jon. That helps a lot. It releases a lot of guilt I had for eating so much. I am going to a wedding today o I think I will begin tomorrow, since I am far from home with my parents and cannot get my hands on much fruit. I am going to eat as healthy as I possibly can while still getting my calories. I do not want to throw off my body more than I already have. I still have a small desire to keep eating how I am. That is when my mind is clouded and my emotions need to be released, things will look dark at those points. I want to break through that because I know in my heart and my soul exactly where I want to be with food, it is just the emotional waves within me that make it hard, as well as my environment. Environment is a semi-large part of it.

Comment by Jon Fergus on October 21, 2012 at 3:45am: Hi Dylann. Sounds like you're ready to begin the 80/10/10 lifestyle in earnest, which is great! :)

When I chose to start a raw juice detox my mind and body entered a vicious cycle. I began to go in and out of juice cleanses, then overeating with unhealthy foods I have not eaten in years.

This is very common. The problem is, people go on juice fasts and fail to get enough nutrition/calories, and so they create this cycle of binging on crappy foods (they can also create all kinds of unforeseen health issues). The resulting binge cycle is natural in a sense; it's just your body's natural reaction to starving - it needs fuel and it knows where to get high-density fuels, which means it'll go for the calorically-dense phoods before it'll go for the less calorically-dense fruits and veggies.

To get back on track: just follow the core program of 80/10/10. Read all you can in our FAQs, FADs, Welcome Wagon, etc., and just start the lifestyle as fully and completely as possible and stick with it. It'll take some commitment and energy, but it'll be worth it.

Just remember that health is holistic, inner and outer, mind and body. Focus your thoughts on optimal health and allow your body to follow :)

For some practical tips and tools, see My Page.