I Don't Know How Much I Weigh!
All I Care About Is My Health and I Can Fit Into My 501 Jeans!
I was born in 1960 and I think my health issues started with my first vaccinations. My mom said I had violent reactions to my MMR shots. My Dad died from cancer when I was almost 5 years old and my Mom married dysfunctional men who liked to drink and one of my step-fathers also like to molest little girls. For as long as I can remember I've had immune dysfunction from asthma to sensitivity to medications and foods. Over the years trying to work with our medical system I gave up trying the prescribed method of finding health and balance in my life. I almost died and went crazy trying to find health taking pills and drugs to find my health and a stable amount of energy to be able to function in this society. One of the symptoms of Fibro is extreme fatigue and I had 4 young children to raise, a job, and a 100 acre farm to care for along with a very demanding husband.
Back in 1997, I was suffering from panic attacks, compulsive eating habits, physical pain, overwhelming fatigue, migraines, bladder and kidney infections, night terrors, and dysfunctional relationships with my family and now ex husband.
I realized no one was going to help me find peace and happiness except me. First I started cleaning up my diet. I was at that time very allergic to grass pollen. I wondered if I was also allergic to grass related products like wheat and sugar. I dropped both and within two weeks felt better and dropped 5lbs, started long distance running and my asthma disappeared within the year.
I continued eliminating refined and fast foods and anything with sugar, watching how my body reacted and ended up eating a organic plant based diet with small portions of starched based food and red meat. I've saved a ton of money dropping my medications along the way.
Over the years I started eating refined wheat and sugar again, culminating in my organic wine making experiment. I ended up getting very sick including gallbladder attacks and going through menopause I was in hell. I was eating organic, mostly food I grew myself and I was sicker than ever. Then I remembered way back in 1997 dropping sugar and wheat, over the years I had slowly forgotten my insight. So I gave away my wine making kit and stopped eating sugar and wheat. I lost 50lbs and my body has found balance after going through pre-menopause, which can be hellish for many women. I think it's hard because our Western Diet is so screwed up! I don't need to eat a lot of food and even with the high price of organic food and free range beef, on a limited income I eat very well. My calorie intake is around 1200-1600 calories a day. I am 5'6 in height and medium framed body.My diet is easy, eat in moderation, eat organic whole foods, and drink clean water.
I Walk 4 Miles Every Day Ran Or Shine!
The only time I don't walk is when thunderstorms roll in here in Oklahoma. I try and walk around nature, rest my eyes on green plants and distant horizons. After working on details all day, letting my eyes rest feels really good! I found moderate exercise stabilizes my bodies ability to burn calories and eliminate waste efficiently. I also found walking lifts my mood, I have less pain and more energy if I walk in the morning and sleep better if I walk in the evening. My husband walks with me in the evening. He is a evening person and I am a morning person. Somehow we've learned to get along even though we are as different as night and day.
I walked away from negative dysfunctional relationships. Back in the early 1990s I was diagnosed with PTSD from childhood abuse and living with my husband an abusive blackout alcoholic ex-Vietnam Vet. I stayed with him for 15 years but left after he stopped drinking but didn't stop with his abusive behavior towards me. I also left my family because the reason I was struggling with dysfunctional relationships was most of my family had been raised to socialize with abusive authority and scapegoating others for relief and hiding their dysfunction.
Meditation and the practice of Buddhist morals taught me how to be a decent human being with good boundaries. I found that being raised by people who enable abuse for the benefit of themselves are not healthy to be around. No matter how hard I tried to practice compassion and patience I felt my energy being drained as if I was living with vampires sucking on my blood a little bit a day, day in day out until I was anemic and listless. When I left my family I felt so much relief, no more subtle put-downs or cutting remarks to make them feel better and make me feel like crap.
my wife also has PTSD and FM i wrote how we helped with he FM
https://steemit.com/health/@mytips/how-i-helped-my-wife-s-fibromyalgia
I will check out your link 🙏
The correlation of stressful life and hard times with that of bad food choice is always strong and it easily turns into a vicious cycle. I can relate to this a lot. What is interesting is that usually when we solve our eating habits we get the energy to take care of other problems that are keeping us down.
I think most humans can relate, we all suffer from self harm when we over react to negativity. Thank you @dandesign86!
you did great thing and one main thing for your health success is you keeping away from negative vibes and stay with positive thinking. meditation is really good for everyone, its learn lot of thing for stay happy and calm in life. for weight its really important thing is what you eat because most of person dont know what nutritious we need and how much but with all this you did great and made success. as you mention you are born in 1960 so according to it you should now 57 but from photo you not look that kind of all. very wonderful success story.
Thank you @birjudanak, I am glad everything worked out well with your account and I will help you build back your reputation!
Thank you so much my friend
proud to have so powerful mom like u 😍 you are soo brave that u eliminated all your deseases without anyones helps with all your own and without your main father not step and a very demanding husband omg seriously your name should be written with gold you are inspiration for all other woman struggling in many countries alll over the world again soo proud of you such a difficult past you got and u changed it with your braveness willpower 😍😍😍😍
Thank you @hassanabid, I think this is why we are all here on earth. This place is like a giant school, we all need to learn how to be good human beings, to grow up and take responsibility for our lives. I hope you can come with me on our life journey towards good health!
sure :) <3 welcome :)
you are absolutely right we all are here for that on earth we are students in a school and we all need to learn ! like you have done that :) and you graduated with great efforts and healthy life :)
You have the same age of my mom red hehehe, wow you change is really awesome and i like it when you are fat your health is poor. Regards dear red
Yes I know @dim753, you are the age of my youngest child. I feel very protective towards all you young ones. Right now the world is incredibly dysfunctional, a small class of people cause us chaos so they can profit from our suffering. We need to start getting along with our selves and with others so these abusive power stuctures starve to death!
You have so much to be proud of @reddust, from a healthy lovely self to a strong happy heart and life - all that you've created! meditation is some powerful medicine for sure as is a courageous human spirt such as yours.
Thank you @natureofbeing, one of my main practice whilst living in Chicago was Medicine Buddha, the teaching was given to me by Khenpo Sonam of the Riwoche. Depending on the intention of practitioner the methods given can be used as medicine or it can be poison .... sigh
I'm hoping that what you were taught served as medicine?!!!
Sonam is a traditional teacher and tests his prospective students by putting them in difficult situations and watches them jump. He looks like such a kind loving grandpa, but his kindness is like a surgeon's knife...
I learned a lot and working with this humble man, learned a lot about myself and the world around me....he humbled me ;-) <3
I took the medicine, it was bitter but good for me.
ah ok, I understand ;-)
Hey @reddust mam...
I really like and respect your ideas...
Wow...I think you are one of better and tallentaed lady in this platform...
Wel done...
Upvoted...
Cheers~~~~
You are what you eat.
Wonderful post @reddust nice health updates,good health and healthy food need for everybody ,its very important of us .thanks for good share
Without our health the world is a very sad place. If we take responsibility for our choices the world will become healthy!
Good post @khammar
Thank you @khammar!
thank you for sharing this @reddust. the world can be a messed up place, toxic relationships, toxic food, toxic environment messes up our health and our life.
you are fortunate to have found a path out of the darkness and back to living. thanks for sharing your story so that others can see a way out too.
The world has always been toxic when individuals make toxic choices. The world will start healing when we start healing ourselves and our relationships, leaving abuse and manipulation behind and walking free of fear and dysfunction. Thank you @watertoncafe.
so sad story, it's very hard to survive when someone's father passed away at the age of 5 but you did it bravely the way you fights your way out is truly a inspiration to many womens, well i really like your walking and running routine it is no doubt a great way to remove stress and anxiety and it's also great that you do it every day, wish you a very happy and cheerful life ahead, stay blessed and thanks for sharing
Life is full of ups and downs, we will all suffer from sickness, death, and old age, I needed some training to be able to surf the waves of samsara without falling in...I learned how to surf samsara...hahaha
Thank you @adnanrabbani
wow 4 miles.. little bit jaleous on that :)
ahhh, @brothermic, walking 4 miles is easy...I map out my walk just to make sure. You can do it!
@reddust,
"Meditation and the practice of Buddhist morals taught me how to be a decent human being with good boundaries."
Foods, exercises are very useful to have a good health! But if we have no inner peace (I mean without a clear mindset, nothing will work) no more good health! So, you balanced everything! That would be the greatest thing!
Great work and wish healthiness life for you!
(This is not an article, this is a great life experience for anyone)
Cheers~
I think the most important part is finding health and a balanced mind through diet, exercise, and healthy relationships. Without that balance, walking the Eight-Fold-Path will be very difficult. Meditation is almost impossible without good mental and physical health. I did a year of PTSD therapy before I went to my first retreat and I wasn't on any type of psychiatric drugs.
Also one needs good teachers and guides, the mind has no edges, no limits, exploring it can be dangerous without proper instruction and good mental health.
I had to say that just in case someone decides to take a vipassana retreat...sitting in the mind, riding the subtle breath and you can't move to distract yourself when boredom or old conditioning rears it's ugly head...it can be dangerous.
But then again, life is pretty dangerous and insane too!
I wish health and happiness to your and yours @theguruasia <3
I feel sorry to hear about your childhood and what you had gone through. You are very strong women and i admire you. God Bless you and take care of yourself like you are doing :)
I want everyone to know they can leave their past conditioning and build a new healthy life. Thank you @danzy!
It's nice to read some of your personal story.
Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you @canadian-coconut, I have had to learn how to write about my life. It's really hard to do!
Very sad story of your life @reddust but you are brave to fight a lot of difficulties in life.Your diet plan is awesome Thank for sharing about health look smart now :)
I always tell my story so people understand no matter how hard their life is, they can change it for the better just by eating well, exercise, disciplining the mind, and keeping good company.
This is a very good health update post. Thank you for sharing @reddust
Have a good day...
beside your allergic and asthama, you could enough fine just dropping refined wheet and sugar from your diet to live healthy, some physical exercise lead to discipline life, thanks for sharing
and nice explanatiom about your life.
@reddust - Sometimes I feel sad, sometimes I feel happy while reading your article ma'm. After all, you are happy now... that's the ultimate outcome of our lives. Love it & thank you ma'm you decided to share your experience <3
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it was great reading you are a strong woman and you are a inspiration for many of us :)
Nice Post
Its really great post and narrative....Thanks for sharing,,,
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That is quite the journey! You have persevered through so much and it inspiring to read your story. Thank you for being genuine and sharing so we may find our own courage.
That is a great Transformation
and your health seems perfect by the time
and keep it good :)
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I do not understand how to join it.
Good luck and the best, diet programs
and your health seems perfect by the time
and keep it good :)
Good idea.
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You are welcome @barca.