Before I met Dr. Jack, I seriously had no idea how badly I was affected by food additives and preservatives. How would I know? I had no idea the role they played in my symptoms, no clue as to how they just kept making my disease worse and worse and worse. I look back now and I know that there’s so much that I did, things I did to myself believing they were good, that just contributed to my situation. I didn’t know, that s my only consolation. I thought that I was doing all the right things. What I have come to understand is that I am a toxic magnet. The icky stuff seems to just be attracted to me like bees to honey, pardon the sugar reference, and my body’s tolerance of them is minimal.
Like I have said a million times, Dr. Jack is great at education. He has taught me things I never knew before. And once you learn what he is teaching, and understand it, you can’t unlearn it. If you didn’t know and did it, that was not your fault, but what I have been taught and learned, and then choose to ignore? That is completely my fault! It’s like I am inviting disease and everything that goes with it.
When I started his program, Dr. Jack stressed that there would be absolutely no preserved foods. I was okay with that, I grew up in a family that made homemade everything, We weren’t raised on much that was found on the inside part of the grocery store. So when he said I would mainly have to prepare my own food, I was okay with it, except for the time factor. Working two jobs is not for the faint of heart. Lol…
What I learned from him, was that the substances they use to preserve food actually cause cellular inflammation and that once you eliminate that inflammation the most wonderful things happen. Your symptoms begin to subside and you actually start losing excess weight. You feel good because nutrition ends of going where it needs to go, right to your cells. More good stuff goes in, and out goes the waste and suddenly your little cells are jumping for joy!! And the better you feel, the more you want to do it! Suddenly you look better because inflammation goes down everywhere. I can’t count the number of people who tell me that I look different, that facially I appear different.
Now that I live this cleaned up lifestyle, I can actually tell when something is not good for me, the preservative monster makes himself well know. Like bottled salad dressing, loaded with sugar and preservatives….wow….. After a little bit, my fingers tingle. My lips feel funny, and then I start getting symptomatic. So I really have to be careful. I do not want to do anything that disrupts the great thing I have going on right now.
Prepacked foods are so convenient! Yeah…. they are covnveniemtly killing us.
So, knowing that, lots of things had to go, and then I had to start being really careful to read labels. I have a great example. I love Wegmans olive bar and a few olives on salad make it super yummy. So while I was in there one day, I was looking at the other offerings and there were these beautiful grilled artichokes. I thought how great those would taste on top of a salad. I got the little container, had the spoon in my hand, and then I started reading the label…. artichokes. Cane sugar…. cane sugar??! What the heck did you need to ruin it with cane sugar for? Another cancer additive…. (insert cat hissing….I don’t eat sugar anymore.). And then a few ingredients that ended in oxide…..preservative…. down went the spoon and my excitement. I used to love banana pepper rings on salad, until I read that they contain yellow dye number 5. Ughhhhhhhhh….why?! All because we need them to look more yellow?? Who cares??
I got excited because I bought a few all natural dip spices. Thought I would mix them with some organic avacado mayo and make a little veggie dip until I read another oxide in them used to prevent the spices from clumping together, ughhhhhhhhhh……
I am serious about never having symptoms again. I lived a long time feeling awful, and I have no desire to ever, ever, ever visit there again. If you are serious about managing your disease, serious about remission? The preservatives have to go. A friend told me, “The food is killing us.” Actually it isn’t the food, it’s the food like stuff that is killing us. Lose the preservatives and watch the game change.