DRINK TO GOOD HEALTH
Sitting at my desk, I hear my co-workers calling me to the kitchen. I opened the door and there it was... a moist yellow cake with luscious whip cream and chocolate frosting. I saw the cake before I heard them scream Happy 30th birthday. Then it dawned on me, I am thirty years old today starting at 8:45pm, it was only 12:00pm so I was still 29 years of age.
As everyone were giving me hugs, I smiled, but I couldn’t stop thinking, I will never be called twenty something ever again! Death to my twenties?!? Immediately I went into a temporary depression, I ate three helpings of cake and loaded my plate with chile con queso, chip and salsa, chicken fajitas and guacamole.
My body was devastated, by my emotions and taste buds were oh so s-a-t-i-s-f-i-e-d. Unfortunately, I was an emotional eater, whether happy, sad or lonely I would eat every greasy, salty, sweet food I could get my hands on. Then I would feel guilty and put myself on a diet. It was an endless cycle of satisfying craving to guilt link-diets. Sad to say, I would justify my bad habits, with the friends I hung out with, we called ourselves foodie scavengers!!
However, that all changed, two weeks after my thirtieth birthday, I started to see floaters in my vision. At first I paid it no mind, I thought maybe I need a new sunglasses. So I brought the most expensive pair I could find. But, the floaters did not go away,it got worse. I set up an appointment for an eye exam, the optometrist stated I had beginning stages of dry eye and gave me a new prescriptions for eye drops. I used the eye drops once, and i temporary relief for two to three hours, then it came back.
I woke up the next morning, put eye drops in my eyes and off to work I went. My client came early, so I started discussing with her what was going on my vision, while I was setting up for the day. She stopped me in mid-sentence and said, I used to work for an Optometrist back in Barbados, he taught me the reason people see floaters and develop dry eyes,because they're lacking minerals in their diet. You need to drink fruit/vegetable juice in the morning and coconut water at night. Really? it's that easy, I replied. Yes ma'am! she said. All day at work, I meditated on what she said. As soon as I clocked out of work, I went to the grocery store, purchase fruits, veggies and a juicer machine. I juiced carrot, kale, celery, spinach, apple together in the morning and drank coconut water at night. After five days, I was shock!! The floaters went away, my vision was clearer, colors were so bright and vibrant. It was amazing. Never in my life was my eyes sight so clear.
Drinking fruit/veggies, eliminated floater, and enhance my eye sight! Can the body really heal itself by the food we eat? I had issues with constipation, stomach spasm, I used to get sick all the time. So I went on a total food cleanse, and strip my diet to only fruits, vegetables and water, for three days. I made vegetable smoothies, three times a day with 16 oz of water in between. After the first day I was very busy in the bathroom, TMI, sorry! I’m glad I did this over the weekend. The taste was horrible, but I was convinced myself i rather drink this then take medicine.
On the third day, I felt so clean inside. I don’t know how to explain it. I had so much energy! I slept well and I woke up refreshed. Slowly in the week I reintroduced foods I used to eat to see how my body responds to it. By doing this I learned I had a sensitivity to certain foods, sugar and dairy. When I rid those food out of my diet, no more stomach spasms, headaches or constipation! I used to get sick with colds and strep throat, every year. Since I started eating more veggies and fruit, lean meat such chicken, tuna and salmon. My digestive tract loves me, I rarely get sick, I will sneeze here and there but then it goes away. In the past, I sneezed once and the next three days here comes a cold. But not anymore! I am now 32 years old, I can count on my hand how many times I've been sick!
I am a believer!!