Hi Chris,
This is the interview I was telling you about. He is an award winning life coach and has some good information. Just trying to give you everything I can to help you achieve “our” goal!
Dr. Jack
I decided to listen before work….it was interesting. It helped me to see so much of what I keep hearing you say about how it is a matter of inner healing and the weight will follow. I had the weight as the front runner but I need to move that in priority to the side a bit. It is an added benefit, but so much more attention should be on the healing.
It was interesting. I will listen again, and take better notes.
Thanks!
Chris
When we started this journey, I had one objective, get smaller. but the further we went, I realized that there was a lot to be fixed. Dr. Jack is never someone who tells you, “YOU need to do this.” He gives suggestions, and ideas and then you start thinking about things. He never drags you kicking and screaming down a path, he just points to the path and steps back waiting for you to decide.
He had sent me a recording of an interview with a life coach. It was interesting and it planted little seeds in my head that have found a way to grow into full bloom, fruit bearing TREES. I learned through this experience that you have to have a certain mindset. And if you want the objective, REALLY want it, you have to do as much head work as you do what you are eating. Real weight loss for me, the idea of healing my Hashimoto’s had to come with a total mind makeover.
Weight loss is what I wanted but is it more important to me than good health? ummmm…… I don’t think so. Dr. Jack kept telling me, this is about getting healthy. The weight will go as a side effect of that. But all I could see was the number on the scale. That was what I wanted. After listening to the recording, I wasn’t so sure. I realized that I needed to see that if I was healthy, then I had the tools needed to sustain my life for many years. I would be free from disease, free from the constant worries of things I might get like heart disease. Is that more important than a few pounds? YEAH!!!! So I learned that I need to think things through in a different way.
There are foods that are bad for me. And they can be really bad. I always think about it this way. If I was allergic to strawberries and every time they went into my mouth, I broke out into hives or rashes, would I eat them? No way! But I never stopped to consider what all kinds of preservatives or things were doing to the INSIDE of my body because I didn’t see the reaction. Now that I understood how my poor little cells were inflamed all the time and how they were reacting, I am willing to eat that stuff again? Putting toxic stuff inside, preventing nutrition from healing me? No……
Through the interview I also learned how important it was to make goals. The goals had to be achievable. Example, I guess that being five foot ten thing is out. It had to be measurable, like losing weight, or coming off of unneeded medication. I learned that it is okay to dream of things that seem out of my reach but might still be achievable with some work. That was where I needed my head to go. Stop measuring your whole day by a number on a scale!
Honestly, that was a lot harder than changing what I eat every day. But did I do it? Not perfectly, not completely there, but heck, I am a work in progress and if I look back now to where I started?? I am 100% better. I don’t avoid sweets because Dr. Jack told me to, and I don’t avoid them because that would be cheating. I avoid them because now I understand what they do to me, how my cells are puffing up and not getting in the nourishment they need. My body is counting on me. I can’t let me down.
Is it easy? Who has ever made a big change that was easy. But I look at it this way…… the things in life I had to fight hard for, where I feel like I crawled across the finish line, dirty, beat up and worn out. Those are the things that have mattered the most to me. Those are the things I am most proud of. And this is going to be one of those. I am determined to get this disease into remission….. achievable and measurable…. not without a fight… but I am going for it!!