tall, dark and handsome?
cute, bubbly and chatty?
whoooaaaa wait a minute here! im not talkin about your type of date...*teehee*
i'm talkin about your blood type ;)
i know, i know, how mean was that?? super CHEESEY, guh!! well dangit, i had to get your attention somehow! LOL!!! you know all i do is yap about food and health, so how could you possibly believe i was going to yap about something as exciting as your date type?? hehe!!
i'm reading Eat Right For Your Type by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo. both naturopaths i've seen this year follow this theory of diet personalization. back in april when i saw my first naturopath, i checked the book out from the library and turned to the type A section, read it, and promptly dropped it in the return bin saying, "I DON'T THINK SO!"
i read that A types are best suited as vegetarians!?!?! :-O hello, i was raised in small town Indiana--meat and potatoes, please! TOFURKEY?? BLECH!
so there i was, thinkin i'd never have to go there and read that again. hehe. this time around, i'm a little more desperate to find what foods really do work best for me. since i have endometriosis to throw in and change it all up, it's been that much harder to decide what i should follow.
to educate myself on what sort of diet i should adopt for the best healing, this year i've also read:
in some ways, all of these books have something in common. in other ways, the last two (maybe even three) books are much different than the rest. this is where im having some brain clutter. the biggest difference is that the blood typing diet steers type A away from saturated fats. the last two books (written by Sally Fallon) say that high quality saturated fats are what we are lacking and that vegetariansim is unhealthy! im torn!
i know what you're thinkin--just keep trying until you find what works for you! well, i've been doing that for like, oh, 5 years now. LOL. obviously i havent found it yet!
hubby and i were chatting about the "eat right for your type" diet during breakfast this morning. i was getting discouraged because for type A, there's some things i should try to avoid eating AT ALL. foods that're staples in my daily grub--like butter, tomatoes or any tomato product, black pepper, oranges, bananas, anything coconut, peppers, potatoes, wheat, and any meat except chicken or turkey.
there's good reason to avoid these foods, explained in logical scientific detail in the book. and it does makes sense--i will even admit to being a bit sensitive to many of those foods! but they TASTE good...so duh, i wanna eat em!! :P
anyhoo, i told hubby that this time i just have to buckle down and follow this dietary change. too many times in the past i just throw in the towel if i cant believe in a nutritional plan 100%. but who can?? well, at least i can't!! i'm just notta one-size-fits-all kinda gal when it comes to my food!!
so, in order to find some continuity in my health and healing of endo, im gonna try to stick with this. BUT, im not going to jump in head first, either. the book itself even recommends NOT doing that. i think that's smart!
since right now my supplement program is focusing on detoxing me--that's including removing all the crap that's built up in my liver, gall bladder, and digestive system to start with--it's important that i eat foods that wont upset that delicate procedure. hehe.
now mind you, my detox is not one of those, "scuse me, i gotta use the lil girls' room!" kinda detoxes. LOL. its a slow process, gradually integrating nutrients (via supplement) that my body needs to rid itself of heavy metals, gunk and more gunk, in addition to giving my body lots of chances to be able to utilize nutrients that support my endocrine system. cause right now, my endocrine system is saying NO WAY to uptaking any sort of nutrient it needs. i am so TOXIC that my body rejects some of what it needs. man, that really sucks!
i feel that Eat Right For Your Type is closely related to Endometriosis: A Key To Healing Through Nutrition, so that makes me feel a little better. when i read the latter, i felt like i had found all my answers. that book is a MUST READ for anyone with endo...it not only educates you, but comforts you as well.
but i also want to follow what my naturopath suggests for now, so when i go back in a few months for a re-balancing they can get a good picture of my progress. so, im hoping as i reread the former i can somehow integrate it into the latter and satisfy that need of not following just one single program ;) LOL! am i pathetic or what! HAHA!
yikes, okay this post has been a lot of randomized rambling! i'm sorry if you're lost and confused! LOL! i suppose i am just trying to reason with myself and tell myself that IT'S OKAY to question these things, and that it's not going to kill me (hopefully. LOL.) to follow a plan for a while and see how i feel.
before i know it, it will be a year since my diagnosis, and it has been my goal to see a marked change in my health by then. so ive gotta get my bum in gear!!
thanks for attempting to follow along my very disorganized train of thought tonite!! teehee :)
ttys!
~josey~
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