Greetings

[LightSeeker]

Hello: I found this forum after doing a search. It will be nice to correspond with others who eat healthy. I eat a modified macrobiotic diet so coming here will help keep me plugged in.

LightSeeker

[AgentX]

LightSeeker, I have been reading a excellent book The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health. In this book I have selected Diet Number #3. I have lived a life that was too Yang (Meat) and too Yin (Sugar based goods) at same time. I am now learning to live a much more moderate life away from the two extremes of processed sugar and meat. I have been 100% Macrobiotic and vegetarian since the 13th of this month.

While I dabbled with macrobitics before and saw short term results I now seek wellness in the highest level that macrobiotics may produce. To date I have lost 25 pounds, slimmed down, have more energy, I now sleep through the night where for the last two years I could not remember a full nights sleep and I think much more clearly.

I realize my condition of health didnt happen over night and all elements of dis-ease will take some time to recover from. As I understand it takes 120 days for the blood (our building blocks for our bodies) to renew itself and from their seven years to replace the body completely with new stuff.

I have only been real serious for less than a month, I can only imagine how well I will feel in seven years. I see macrobitics as a series of choices you make to care for the body you live within. If you had a choice between a coke and tap water (choose the tap water), if you had a choice between tap water and spring water (choose the spring water) always be informed and make the wiser choices to improve your health.

Some of the "hidden" qualities you might find when thinking of what to buy to make your meals would be "standard produce" compared to "organic" While they both look a lot the same, inside the organic will always be pesticide free and better for you. Always use spring water over tap water, the food will taste better and you wont be placing chlorine in your body. There are farmers that are learning a way of farming called vermiculture. It is the practice of using worms and feeding them in your soil so they will remain and create castings (their waste) to produce a higher quality of food.

I used to eat pizza, ice cream, burgers, onion rings and fries, potato soup, drink cokes (tons of them) and always wondered why I felt so foggy headed, so heavy, so swelled up. The more varied you make your menu, the less you will miss your old eating habits. Hope my two cents helps you...

AgentX out.........