I had a friend back in Turkey at the English course where I worked. She was an elderly, well eaten Turkish wife with a lot of bread behind her bellybutton. She saw me drinking my own herbal teas every day between the teaching hours. She asked me what is it that I drink and would it help to lose weight since I was in such a good shape. I replied I drink some peppermint teas sometimes to have a healthy digest. One day she came to me proudly showing the peppermint tea she bought and said she’d start a diet. All I could do was to knock my head for her encouragement.
I used to eat a lot of candy with a tv show on the background on a comfortable couch instead of a healthy breakfast with that morning tea. One can imagine that it’ll lead to a lot of problems in years, to a lot of doctor visits who’ll write you a lot of medicine’s to cure your body from flu’s, women problems and allergies you developed. This evening I consciously decided to return to my old habits of eating 100grams of candy. I did not have a craving for the sweets, but I wanted to remember the good old times when we used to sit with my mom on a Saturday evening with a bag full of candy watching tv. What used to be my normal doze of sweets followed by lying down in the couch and drinking coke now seemed like a self torture. After a half bag of candy I felt terrible. Drinking water and lying down in the couch did not take away the bad feeling that I sometimes had after a long bar night. With that amount of sugar at 1am I felt like running around in circle until throwing up.
One can now easily say it’s not that I need any more described or unsubscribed drugs in my body, but a chance of lifestyle. That’s something doctors never tell you. Instead we search help from the world outside, from self help books, and from the therapist office. We develop diets; ways of thinking that if I eat a candy I will get sick, if I eat bread I gain weight; so I should not eat them, but instead eat what they tell us in the guide book. Then one only see things that are forbidden and start graving them even more. One needs to see the whole picture and listen to his or her body. A healthy mind is a healthy body because healthy mind has no addictions to some foods and old styles of living. Changing the way you eat can help you chance yourself, or the other way around.
Before I could not tell the difference between what my body needs and my mind wants. Now it is somewhat obvious that it was my mind eating, watching telly and drinking the way it was. I have no wish to return to the old. And I had to prove my point by doing so. Now one piece of chocolate is more than enough sweets to threat myself sometimes.
I drink my morning tea every morning when I have the chance. But I know it is just a part of my healthy life. I never had diets before nor do I have one now. I just had an incredibly unhealthy way of eating which came from being sort of really disconnected from my body. It is obvious one cannot be cured from all illnesses by a miracle tea or a miracle medicine or a miracle died, but by the miracle of truly discovering what your body and mind needs to be healthy.
I used to eat a lot of candy with a tv show on the background on a comfortable couch instead of a healthy breakfast with that morning tea. One can imagine that it’ll lead to a lot of problems in years, to a lot of doctor visits who’ll write you a lot of medicine’s to cure your body from flu’s, women problems and allergies you developed. This evening I consciously decided to return to my old habits of eating 100grams of candy. I did not have a craving for the sweets, but I wanted to remember the good old times when we used to sit with my mom on a Saturday evening with a bag full of candy watching tv. What used to be my normal doze of sweets followed by lying down in the couch and drinking coke now seemed like a self torture. After a half bag of candy I felt terrible. Drinking water and lying down in the couch did not take away the bad feeling that I sometimes had after a long bar night. With that amount of sugar at 1am I felt like running around in circle until throwing up.
One can now easily say it’s not that I need any more described or unsubscribed drugs in my body, but a chance of lifestyle. That’s something doctors never tell you. Instead we search help from the world outside, from self help books, and from the therapist office. We develop diets; ways of thinking that if I eat a candy I will get sick, if I eat bread I gain weight; so I should not eat them, but instead eat what they tell us in the guide book. Then one only see things that are forbidden and start graving them even more. One needs to see the whole picture and listen to his or her body. A healthy mind is a healthy body because healthy mind has no addictions to some foods and old styles of living. Changing the way you eat can help you chance yourself, or the other way around.
Before I could not tell the difference between what my body needs and my mind wants. Now it is somewhat obvious that it was my mind eating, watching telly and drinking the way it was. I have no wish to return to the old. And I had to prove my point by doing so. Now one piece of chocolate is more than enough sweets to threat myself sometimes.
I drink my morning tea every morning when I have the chance. But I know it is just a part of my healthy life. I never had diets before nor do I have one now. I just had an incredibly unhealthy way of eating which came from being sort of really disconnected from my body. It is obvious one cannot be cured from all illnesses by a miracle tea or a miracle medicine or a miracle died, but by the miracle of truly discovering what your body and mind needs to be healthy.
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