Like I have stated in previous posts that I have struggled with weight for a VERY long time! I hit a chubby stage as a kid from 3rd-7th grade and then evened out in high school. During college, the "freshman fifteen" turned into the "freshman thirty" and the weight kept piling on from there. By the time that I was married, 4 years later, I had gained 90 pounds total since graduating high school. My schedule had become my own and unfortunately fast food had settled its way into my life comfortably.
After being married for several years, my husband and I decided to have a child. We struggled with this for 2 years before I finally conceived our precious daughter! Six months before conceiving, I had decided to pursue weight loss once again and lost a healthy 30 pounds over the course of five months through moderation of food intake and meeting weekly with a personal trainer. I was able to keep this weight off for those six months, my entire pregnancy, and several months post birth (total about 1.5 years). During the course of my weight loss, this was the only time where I consistently lost weight and kept it off for any amount of time!
Over the ten years that I have been overweight, I have tried many things: diet pills, food journals, journal apps, low carb, vegan (very short amount of time!), just eating no processed food, Dr. Oz diets, and a slew of many other fads and "tricks". Nothing ever seemed to be the "perfect fit" for me to maintain or really make me feel that great. I always really questioned "What WAS actually healthy for me?" and "How would I know?" There is so much research to comb through and try to analyze. There are some health professionals that are more into medicine than food for healing and so it was hard to be sure.
Okay, so you know that I have tried everything and I really don't WANT to be overweight (this is another blog post), so what works? What FINALLY makes sense? A ph balanced body is what finally makes sense! One summer I tried a detox program hosted by my friend, Cara, who uses Arbonne to teach others about health. Am I saying that you have to use Arbonne products to complete this diet? Not at all, but I will post a blog about some of my favorite products! What I am saying is that a diet that balances your internal ph is the diet that finally works! This diet will not only help you lose weight but can cure ailments that you got used to living with! Oh, I did not realize that I could FEEL this great until I began this diet!
So, what really is a ph balanced diet? Well, I am NO expert but the basis of it is that you are trying to get your body to an alkaline environment that is oxygenated. When your body is properly oxygenated, then it can release toxic fat (great for weight loss!). In addition to releasing this dangerous fat, some of the ways that your body is "acting out" will be cured, because you are no longer irritating your body.
Okay, so how do you have a ph balanced diet? Well, the simplest way to put it is that you try to eat foods that will alkanize your body. You would also avoid certain categories of foods altogether because they are toxic to your body.
Here is a list of the categories to be avoided:
*Gluten
*Dairy
*Sugar
*Artificial Sweetener
*Corn
*Soy
*Pork
*Caffeine
I am also posting this chart from airwaterlife.com* to model alkaline and acidic foods. This chart has helped me to understand what food to eat and how it will be helping or hurting my body. I try to eat food mostly on the alkaline side, but if I choose an acidic food, I compliment it with an alkaline food. I have never had anything make so much sense to me as understanding what I am doing to my body with food!
So for my diet, I avoid the following foods above, eat organic as much as possible, and try to choose alkaline foods as much as I can. I am definitely still a long way from my goal, but taking it a day and decision at a time!
Giving it my all,
Jess
*airwaterlife.com is a company that creates water ionizers. I referenced them simply because they have created this wonderful graphic that models food so beautifully. I personally have not researched ionizers.
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