This is from my first and only book in which I write about the struggles I had in my life with health and food. From Diabeties and being obeastly overweight to re-learning how to eat all over again and my lesson on stopping to listen to people who really have no clue to what they are saying when it comes to healthy eating. My book “3 Hot’s and a Cot” is not a cookbook. It’s about my Journey and how I had to make a life changing decision. It’s about the decision I made with my wife and how we did it. It’s about my doctor who was shocked as much as I was when he told me my diabeties was gone. I am sharing some of it with whoever wants to read about it.
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FROM “3 Hot’s & A Cot”
My wife and I have done a lot of research on what we have been doing. I have never been a conspiracy theorist but I had a thought go through my mind…What if there were cures and the government did not want us to know about it because there is no money in it for big business to cure us?
The money is in prolonging the sickness and controlling it. Take diabetes for an example. Diabetes can be controlled by taking medications but we are told there is no cure by medicine. We have figured out how to control it by using a man made substance we call medicine and the thing about this medicine is that the company that made it needs to sell it to you on a regular basis to make money. It’s not a cure, just a preventive medicine that is pushed by doctors who get lots of money from the pharmaceutical companies.
Think about this…you took a medicine one time and it cured you. Do you need to take that medicine again? The sickness goes away? Why do you need to take the medicine if your cured? Then how does the pharmaceutical company make money?
Okay, then let me ask another question? What is TBHQ? I have no idea what it is but it’s put in our food. Well, you can Google it or look on Naturalnews.com and find the following:
“TBHQ is used in many foods, ranging from crackers to crisps to fast food. It is also found in certain brands of pet foods, as well as in some cosmetics and baby skincare products, varnish, lacquers, and resins. It is used in stabilization process of explosive compounds. The risk and side-effects of this preservative product far outweigh the benefit of it being used as a highly unsafe preservative ingredient.”
Tertiary Butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ as it is more commonly referred to, in fact is a chemical preservative which is the form of butane. It is used in foodstuffs to delay the onset of rancidness and greatly extends the shelf life of food. Its no wonder that certain fast foods and convenient foods seem to last a lifetime on shelf’s these days.
They have figured out a way to sell you old food with it not looking old. That can been seen in crackers, cookies, candies and many items in boxes and packages of products you buy in the store. You open a new box of crackers and they are stale. Why? Maybe because you don’t know how long they were in a warehouse before sitting in a grocery store of months. That must save and make a lot of money for the makers of the company. So that is why the grocers put the old stuff in the front and the new stuff in the back. Let’s pawn off this old stuff to people who are to short to reach in back. How funny!
Yuck, who wants to put that in their body. This stuff is so bad that even countries who have people starving do not want this in the foods they get from America. So let me see if I get this right…this food would normally go rancid but if you put TBHQ in it, you can keep it on the shelf in a store longer and sell it to some customer. Hmm, sell a food that would go rancid to a customer because the expiration date can now be extended with butane in the food. Wouldn’t it be better to give the customer a bag of glue to sniff when they walk in the store? Okay, I maybe exaggerating a little bit…or am I?
Well, this is just an isolated thing right? We can trust our government, they would never lie to us right? Why do health freaks want to sue McD’s and others. Well TBHQ and Trans Fats for one. Look, I am no scientist and I didn’t study medicine but I try to read label’s and learn what’s going in my body.
TBHQ is butane and gives stuff a longer shell life. Trans Fats make you crave more so even if your full your brain is saying go ahead and eat some more. It’s like going to an American Chinese Restaurant and having the all you can eat buffet…your finally full of the sugars & salts & MSG and then you leave, go home, take a nap, wake up and your hungry and want more. Is that an addiction?
Have you ever really listened to the commercials of medicine on T.V.? Listen to these commercials, they are on all of the time now. The side effects are worse than the problem you have. I heard a commercial the other day and they had a guy talking slow and clear about the medicine and getting better in life so you can sit on a mountain with your wife in the tub. Then when the guy talked about the side effects it sounded like he was doing the Speed Reading Course.
“Side effects include swelling of the brain, stroke, heart attack, black-outs while driving, suicide and death. Take this medicine and enjoy colors to improve your eyesight. What? Are You Kidding Me? Well, maybe the eyesight thing is a little exaggerated but listen to those commercials.”
You know, I understand that the word “Hate” is a big word that we use often about non-important things…but it is pretty accurate a word when it comes to negative people. I hate being around negative people. I know people who have nothing good to say about anything. Unfortunately, they are also friends and family members so I want to call it the way I see it. I do not want to be around some of my friends and family due to their negativeness.
During this first 23 days or as us dieters call each other, us “crack heads” noticed that during this first round in our second phase we had so many cravings. The cravings we had was not the “Will Power”, it was the addiction and withdrawals. This is a big reason that most regular diets don’t work. People can not diet for ever. I recognized this addictive withdrawal I was having when it began…it was the same one I had when I quit smoking.
This 23 days was the most important part of everything I was going to do for the next year and a half. It was the Alpha and the Omega. Without it, I would have never realized what was wrong with me. No doctor could have helped me. No medicine could have helped me. I had hit bottom at 286 pounds and I needed to go through this. I only thank God that my wife went through it with me. She was my support and so was my daughter. The withdrawals are real.
So now let me talk about the drug dealers, the enablers, the people in your life that you believe are there to support you. I have a list of those enablers and they are the people who say they love you the most…friends and family just like a drug dealer say things like:
Hey, you look good. Grab some cake, it won’t hurt to have just a tiny piece.
Hey, did you lose some weight. Don’t get to skinny and waist away.
Let’s go out for dinner or order some pizza.
Geez, your one of them now. You use to be cool like us but now you only hang with skinny people.
Just have some tonight and celebrate then you can start your diet again tomorrow.
OMG look at you. You look great, what are you doing? I could never do what you are doing. You gave up all the good stuff.
Look, what you are doing is dangerous. You need to have real food.
Hey, I put real sugar in your coffee okay, I just don’t think that those other sugars are safe for you. What is stevia anyway?
Do you want a soda, I bought you one.
Happy Birthday! Oh, I just wanted you to know that we know your diabetic but everyone here isn’t so we got a regular cake. Just up your insulin and get a little piece…Ok.
These are just a few of the things I heard. I am sure there are many more that could be a chapter unto itself. These enabling drug dealers give you permission to fail. If the urges and cravings are bad, then you fail. So why do you put yourself into a position like that? Why do you go to places where you know people are going to tempt you or you will have to make a tough enticing decision?
I found it funny after this first Round of dieting. Many people noticed my weight loss. It was a total of 38 pounds and it came off with many medical issues that I will discuss later. We started our first Round of diet in September 2010 so by October the winter cold started to come in and I started wearing coats. No one noticed my change in weight.
I went to a meeting one morning and there was a group of women in the meeting. This was the work diet club women, anyway that’s what I call them. They sit around as a club and talk about losing weight. This club has been doing this for years and these women get bigger and bigger. This particular morning they were sitting at the conference table drinking their Sugar Free Mountain Due with their box of Dunkin Donuts and offering jelly filled, Bavarian cream, chocolate covered and sprinkles to everyone. So on the inside, I couldn’t help but smile and laugh.
Here is some of the technical stuff in my layman’s term which much has been taken from the Psychetruth and you can find them on You Tube plus some of my thoughts mixed in…the bottom line is the mighty dollar. Many American companies are not worried about your health, they are worried about the dollar you have in your pocket. So here is a question for you? If you are a politician and you have a company making unhealthy foods that is in your state and they have 1000′s of employees and they give money to the politicians political party and they give money to help that politician with his re-election with millions of dollars, does the politician try to close the company down for giving you unhealthy food? Okay, then why is 70% of American food in our grocery stores ban in Europe?
Look, I just want to be very clear on this…what I have done is not easy, it may not be healthy to start but considering the side effects on my medications it was not worse. What the medical people tried to do in 17 years, this diet did in a few months so when I weigh the results and my medical numbers with what doctors say bad about this diet…I think it was worth it.
I hope you enjoyed a small part of my book in one of the Chapters. I speak of my ethnicity, my heritage and the acceptance of our culture to think what we did and do was okay. It is in my opinion that we accepted that because we grew up poor we had no alternative but to do what we needed to survive. Those decisions and the misleading information that we receive from others is where some of the problems are. You must be your own investigator! You must read lables! If you do not know what is in your food and what it does to the body, look it up. The information is available by Google or some other search engine. It’s up to you to decide to change if you had or have some of the same medical issues as I had. In the words of Michael Jackson “Look in the Mirror and Change”!
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