Day 3-4

I am excited about what I am doing, I invite you to sign up as a follower so you can be excited with me.

The last two days have been very positive. When you change your diet from a standard American diet to a mainly raw food diet you can expect to experience all kinds of detox and withdrawal symptoms, as your body clears out all the old junk. Some of the symptoms that I am experiencing are, running nose, headaches, earaches, soft stool. My liver is hurting a little more than usual, it to must be detoxing. On the other hand there has been very positive things that have been going on. Dani is a massage therapist and gave me a massage, which was great! Not very painful atleast compared to normal. Normally even clothes can’t touch my skin and muscles; everything hurts (the fibromyalgia). The thing that I am so excited about is; my bladder stinging is less painful! Because of my interstitial cystitis my bladder is in constant pain; pressure, bleeding, puss and stinging. I have to go to the bathroom every twenty minutes durning the day, just to stop the horrible stinging. But now in the last two days I can wait for up to an hour, much progress and I am excited!

My body must be changing from an acidic state to more of an alkaline one. People who are on a typical American diet usually have a PH of around 3-5 but when you start to eat foods with their enzymes in them you become more alkaline. In case you don’t know about the Ph scale, it is where you measure your acidic/alkaline levels. Another way to say it is how much oxygen you have in you cells. All disease thrives in the acidic state 0-7. When you start to move closer to the alkaline state 7.2-14, your body starts to heal and become disease free. For instance they first discovered it when they took some cancer cells and healthy cells in a laboratory dish and flooded it with oxygen, the cancer cells died immediately and the healthy ones got stronger.

Yesterday I had a very healthy Kale salad with lemon, garlic and salt. It was hard to get down at first, but I was brave and at the end I was happy I tried and ate it. We also had some raw pizza and it was amazing. I didn’t realize that raw gourmet food was so yummy. Later when I get home I will post some pictures of the food we ate.

All this is amazing to me, All my doctors, (I have had many) have told me that for all my diseases there was no cure or much they could do. Except to give me drugs and advice on how to deal/live with the pain. They said that my case was one of the worst they have seen with every disease I was at the top of the charts with symptoms and pain level. Not just one Doctor but also all of them said this, but not one said anything about an extreme diet change would heal me. I was told that I would have to stop eating certain foods or do the fibromyalgia diet or the Atkins diet for help. I did do it for two years with no relief. I know so many people who have gone that route for years and are still are so sick and suffering from the pain. It doesn’t seem to be the answer to me. On the other hand I have met just as many people and read hundreds more testimonies of people who went on the raw food diet and were healed in such a short time of all the diseases that I have. I guess the doctors didn’t know about the raw food diet for healing. I didn't know either, The Lord had to speak to my heart to let me know there was another way. I am not mad at them and I have learned so much about myself and things of the Lord that I would not change it for the world. But on the other hand I could have been living a normal life and done so many things. I had to stay at home for four years and couldn’t leave my couch because of the pain of the fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis and lupus. You know I must have not been ready to make such a drastic change as this one.

Up until three years ago I solely listened to my doctors and did everything in my power to honor their advice. Took all the medications (14) (I didn’t start to take to meds until 2008 (except the diabetic meds)until my doctors gave me five years to live and they said that the meds might prolong my life a few years but not much better quality), did the exercises, ate the high protein low carb diets, went to the chiropractor, massage therapist twice a week, did the physical therapy, had the many surgeries (5), and stayed in the hospital for weeks at a time. Then in January of 2007 I was praying for Gods will, and what to do about my illnesses. He spoke to me clear as day to “GO RAW” What does that mean I asked. He started to lead me on the journey of my life. From then on every day he would instruct me to do things different. I met a wonderful woman named Jayne by chance who started me on the right road. She told me about what meat really does to the body and how it makes you acidic and that you can’t heal in an acidic state. From there God spoke to me to do different things and look outside of the box of what I had learned so far. To trust him and what he was pointing me to do and trust Him alone. He also lead me to a Christian website called Hallelujah aches at www.haches.com I learned so much and read so many testimonies of healing. Healing in such a short time, amazing. Now three years later I know so many things about the body and what causes disease. It has truly changed my life. God told me to go on the raw diet years ago but I wasn’t ready to I guess. The whole thing of hating my fruit and veggies thing. Although, in those 3 years I have learned so much to prepare me for this. I have come so far though. I was told that this was so extreme, but to me...extreme is doing the same thing, time and again...and expecting a different outcome.

Until tomorrow

Amberlea