Comments on: More Testimonials – Nutrition Resolves Bulimia http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/97 An uplifting journey to recovery from bulimia - with tips and coaching for your own recovery. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Heather http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/97/comment-page-1#comment-272 Heather Wed, 17 May 2006 20:30:38 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=97#comment-272 Hi Emily, You are so lucky to have grown up with such great varieties of health foods! I had always heard that Germany was the place for healthy foods and supplements -- my husband even exclaims about the German rules for purity of beer making! It must have been a bit of a shock to see the changes in the States -- although I bet there's a great network of health food stores and alternatives in CA. Thanks for sharing the <a href="http://www.nourished.org/"target="new">Nourished</a> website -- it's great! The salmon recipe looks excellent and I plan to try it after a trip to the store for some salmon! I also hope to take some cooking classes. Not much in my area in the boonies of New Hampshire -- so I'll probably wait until I can go to one of the Body Ecology cooking retreats in Florida once they get going. They are creating a training center in Jupiter Florida and have hired a couple of great chefs to get the program going. With love, Heather Hi Emily, You are so lucky to have grown up with such great varieties of health foods! I had always heard that Germany was the place for healthy foods and supplements — my husband even exclaims about the German rules for purity of beer making! It must have been a bit of a shock to see the changes in the States — although I bet there’s a great network of health food stores and alternatives in CA.

Thanks for sharing the Nourished website — it’s great! The salmon recipe looks excellent and I plan to try it after a trip to the store for some salmon! I also hope to take some cooking classes. Not much in my area in the boonies of New Hampshire — so I’ll probably wait until I can go to one of the Body Ecology cooking retreats in Florida once they get going. They are creating a training center in Jupiter Florida and have hired a couple of great chefs to get the program going.

With love,
Heather

]]> By: Emily http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/97/comment-page-1#comment-256 Emily Wed, 17 May 2006 04:51:53 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=97#comment-256 Heather, I know what you mean about processed foods not being satisfying. I consider myself very lucky that, throughout my life, processed foods have made up a rather small fraction of my diet. I was spoiled to have two parents who were both excellent cooks (with a mom who was very health-conscious) and prepared two homemade meals for our family almost daily with lots of fresh, vibrant ingredients. I do believe that the quality of food (meats, fruits and vegetables) availabe in my hometown in Germany was superior to the mass-produced, indrustrialized food that the majority of Americans buy and consume. Of course, it is still a matter of choice and consciousness. Fresh, nutritious foods can be found most anywhere in the United States, and Germany offers plenty of nutrient-poor, empty-calorie processed foods as well. Still, I do think the overall health-consciousness is higher in Europe than in the U.S. I have American friends who grew up on fast-food, industrially raised meat and canned vegetables. One of my friends had never had a fresh vegetable until she met her husband, who introduced her to a whole new way of eating! I am very appreciative of having been raised on a well-rounded diet based on fresh ingredients, a minimum amount of candy, and antibiotics only on a few rare occasions when it was absolutely necessary. I thank my mom for that! I know it wasn't easy for her to go against the mainstream all these years, stand her own, and live and raise a family according to her convictions! As far as the candy, I believe that the reason I never crave store candy is BECAUSE I didn't have it as a child. It's way too sugary and artificial-tasting for me. However, this doesn't mean I do not crave other sweet things. My mom always made all kinds of homemade goodies (cakes, tarts, pastries...) which were so delicious it was very difficult to hold back! Or even just fresh bread with cold butter and homemade jam on it... Those are MY sweet indulgences. By the way, I have a friend who studied nutrition before going to school for Chinese Medicine. He has taught some cooking classes at which I've learned some wonderful recipes that have become staples of my diet. I plan to share some of them on my blog in one of my upcoming posts. He has a website you might enjoy taking a look at. He has a couple of recipes on there. Unfortunately, he doesn't update it very often. One of the featured recipes is one of J's and mine alltime favorites, and it's very easy to make. It is a nori-wrapped, baked miso salmon. You can take a look at it at <a href="http://www.nourished.org/" target="new">nourished.org </a> It is a shame he has moved out of the area, as I would have loved to take more of his enlightening and taste-bud-stimulating cooking classes! Anyways... this was another long one! Once I get going... love, Emily Heather, I know what you mean about processed foods not being satisfying. I consider myself very lucky that, throughout my life, processed foods have made up a rather small fraction of my diet. I was spoiled to have two parents who were both excellent cooks (with a mom who was very health-conscious) and prepared two homemade meals for our family almost daily with lots of fresh, vibrant ingredients. I do believe that the quality of food (meats, fruits and vegetables) availabe in my hometown in Germany was superior to the mass-produced, indrustrialized food that the majority of Americans buy and consume. Of course, it is still a matter of choice and consciousness. Fresh, nutritious foods can be found most anywhere in the United States, and Germany offers plenty of nutrient-poor, empty-calorie processed foods as well. Still, I do think the overall health-consciousness is higher in Europe than in the U.S.

I have American friends who grew up on fast-food, industrially raised meat and canned vegetables. One of my friends had never had a fresh vegetable until she met her husband, who introduced her to a whole new way of eating!

I am very appreciative of having been raised on a well-rounded diet based on fresh ingredients, a minimum amount of candy, and antibiotics only on a few rare occasions when it was absolutely necessary. I thank my mom for that! I know it wasn’t easy for her to go against the mainstream all these years, stand her own, and live and raise a family according to her convictions!

As far as the candy, I believe that the reason I never crave store candy is BECAUSE I didn’t have it as a child. It’s way too sugary and artificial-tasting for me. However, this doesn’t mean I do not crave other sweet things. My mom always made all kinds of homemade goodies (cakes, tarts, pastries…) which were so delicious it was very difficult to hold back! Or even just fresh bread with cold butter and homemade jam on it… Those are MY sweet indulgences.

By the way, I have a friend who studied nutrition before going to school for Chinese Medicine. He has taught some cooking classes at which I’ve learned some wonderful recipes that have become staples of my diet. I plan to share some of them on my blog in one of my upcoming posts. He has a website you might enjoy taking a look at. He has a couple of recipes on there. Unfortunately, he doesn’t update it very often. One of the featured recipes is one of J’s and mine alltime favorites, and it’s very easy to make. It is a nori-wrapped, baked miso salmon. You can take a look at it at nourished.org
It is a shame he has moved out of the area, as I would have loved to take more of his enlightening and taste-bud-stimulating cooking classes!

Anyways… this was another long one! Once I get going…

love,
Emily

]]> By: Heather http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/97/comment-page-1#comment-251 Heather Wed, 17 May 2006 04:11:37 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=97#comment-251 Hi Emily, The diet she switched to is just like the Body Ecology Diet. Westin A. Price Foundation believes in the same traditional, healing diet -- that nurtures our system and keeps it in natural homeostasis. Most of us have destroyed our healthy bacteria (microflora) through taking antibiotics, eating too much sugar, stress, constipation, the Standard American Diet, etc. Once the good microflora get overpowered by the bad, leaky gut and candida can happen. Also, over time, we may end up not having the proper enzymes to digest our foods. This can happen with bulimia too. Then we can't break down proteins to get L-tryptophan, which makes serotonin. And we can't break down proteins to get the B12 that we need to balance our moods. Our immunity gets weak. I have to say that I've never enjoyed food so much as when I started the BED. Processed foods and foods that set off cravings for me -- they never deeply satisfied me. They set off a raging need inside of me. The foods on the BED feel deeply nourishing, are delicious and are satisfying. I've never felt such a grounded sense of peace and joy during and after eating. There is no sense of deprivation -- it's actually kind of fun to try all of these foods and know that they are doing good things for my body. They keep me even -- there is no longer a roller coaster ride. Donna Gates supports Westin A. Price and Sally Fallon, who wrote Nourishing Traditions. All of them believe the same things -- although they aren't the only ones. So any of these sources will point to similar nutritional information. With love, Heather Hi Emily, The diet she switched to is just like the Body Ecology Diet. Westin A. Price Foundation believes in the same traditional, healing diet — that nurtures our system and keeps it in natural homeostasis. Most of us have destroyed our healthy bacteria (microflora) through taking antibiotics, eating too much sugar, stress, constipation, the Standard American Diet, etc.

Once the good microflora get overpowered by the bad, leaky gut and candida can happen. Also, over time, we may end up not having the proper enzymes to digest our foods. This can happen with bulimia too. Then we can’t break down proteins to get L-tryptophan, which makes serotonin. And we can’t break down proteins to get the B12 that we need to balance our moods. Our immunity gets weak.

I have to say that I’ve never enjoyed food so much as when I started the BED. Processed foods and foods that set off cravings for me — they never deeply satisfied me. They set off a raging need inside of me. The foods on the BED feel deeply nourishing, are delicious and are satisfying. I’ve never felt such a grounded sense of peace and joy during and after eating. There is no sense of deprivation — it’s actually kind of fun to try all of these foods and know that they are doing good things for my body. They keep me even — there is no longer a roller coaster ride.

Donna Gates supports Westin A. Price and Sally Fallon, who wrote Nourishing Traditions. All of them believe the same things — although they aren’t the only ones. So any of these sources will point to similar nutritional information.

With love,
Heather

]]> By: Emily http://transcendbulimia.com/archives/97/comment-page-1#comment-244 Emily Wed, 17 May 2006 01:34:36 +0000 http://transcendbulimia.com/?p=97#comment-244 This probably explains why I can go for a week without b/p, and then relapse. My body probably can go for so long with only certain nutrients before it starts craving them so intensely that I feel an uncontrollable need to binge again. Ok, so maybe I need to seriously reconsider my diet. I do have to admit it has been far from varied lately. Salad for lunch, salad for dinner. A little bit of chicken in it, a couple of almonds, and sometimes some other veggies... but, I'm going to have to face it, my body is going to need a broader range of nutrition than that! And moccha frappucchinos aren't going to fill that hole in my diet..!! :-/ Whatever happened? I used to have such a well-rounded diet with lots of whole grains, legumes, some fish and lean meats, and different kinds of veggies. Now it is rare I ever eat anything but salad anymore (except when I'm bingeing and purging). And I am the one telling my patients that too much cold and raw food is bad on their digestion! Hmm. I'm curious, is there more info on what kind of diet this woman switched to? Was it the BED or a similar diet? love, Emily This probably explains why I can go for a week without b/p, and then relapse. My body probably can go for so long with only certain nutrients before it starts craving them so intensely that I feel an uncontrollable need to binge again. Ok, so maybe I need to seriously reconsider my diet. I do have to admit it has been far from varied lately. Salad for lunch, salad for dinner. A little bit of chicken in it, a couple of almonds, and sometimes some other veggies… but, I’m going to have to face it, my body is going to need a broader range of nutrition than that! And moccha frappucchinos aren’t going to fill that hole in my diet..!! :-/
Whatever happened? I used to have such a well-rounded diet with lots of whole grains, legumes, some fish and lean meats, and different kinds of veggies. Now it is rare I ever eat anything but salad anymore (except when I’m bingeing and purging). And I am the one telling my patients that too much cold and raw food is bad on their digestion! Hmm.

I’m curious, is there more info on what kind of diet this woman switched to? Was it the BED or a similar diet?

love,
Emily

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