Introduce new dietary habits and and successfully put these into practice

For the past week and a half, I’ve been drinking three glasses of homemade vegetable juice daily. I make enough for the entire family in fact. The usual ingredients are: ginger, beet, celery, tomato, cucumber, watercress, kale, spinach, carrot, pomegranate, blueberries, parsley…all with a shot of wheatgrass! I dilute the juice with 50% purified, filtered water to ease digestion.

Tres healthy, n’est pas? Yes, my skin is improving dramatically and has a radiant, luminescent glow I haven’t seen in over a year! I feel more alive, energetic and pure. Coupled with chiropractic care which I commenced a week ago, daily walks with the dog and a healthy frame of mind, I feel I’m on the path to becoming a healther, happier Rebecca!

After the formal, I gorged on the worst foods. In huge amounts too. I’m not exaggerating, my current diet is so unhealthy. I’m talking..eating Korean instant noodles (ramen) every single day unhealthy. Ramen contains huge quantities of saturated fat and sodium. It also contains MSG and an abundance of other health-crippling additives.
Regrettably, the revolting-ness that is Rebecca doesn’t stop there. I ate over 200 grams of salami yesterday along with ten slices of bread. TEN! I also indulged on a whole 1L tub of icecream today, and I’ve eaten KFC chicken and McDonalds chips three times this week. Prior to this week, I hadn’t touched chain-store fast food in years! I don’t know what prompted this drastic change in diet. I’ve always been health-conscious but over the past couple of weeks, I didn’t feel the need to take care of my body, my skin, my health..
Although I have not failed to consume the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables daily, I wouldn’t be surprised if the negative effects that accompany consumption of mucous forming foods negate the benefits of eating foods rich in vitamins and minerals.
Despite my disgusting eating habits of late, I cannot stop my mind from straying to the plethora of diseases that may befall me should I continue to eat this poorly. Atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction, thrombosis, obesity, diabetes…the list is endless.

Why, why oh why does ramen have to taste so good? And why do I have to be so poor at cooking? I inherited the woeful culinary skills from my mother, which brings me to another point. My mother rarely makes dinner as she has a tendency to arrive after 8-9pm. My father cooks instead but he doesn’t seem to know what to make other than pasta, a vegetable salad and steak. It’s no wonder I depend on junk food to satiate me. I’m thankful for his efforts, I know I shouldn’t complain but if there’s any one thing I wish my parents could do, it’d be knowing how to cook nutritious, scrumptious meals. Yes, I’m 17, I can learn to do it myself and I will in due time but not right now. For the time being, I will focus on cutting down on the ramen.

Funnily enough, I haven’t gained a single kilo.

Upon Rising-
1 tbsp of Braggs Organic ACV diluted with 30mls of Evian water.
1 tbsp of freshly squeezed organic lemon juice (with pulp) mixed with 250mls of filtered water.

Breakfast-
Wholegrain cereal with oats, untoasted muesli, sunflower kernels, and occasionally, blueberries or sliced banana with organic rice milk. No soy milk! (Refer to note below.)

Morning Tea-
1 cup of Barley Tea.
1 serving of fruit.

Lunch-
1 cup of Green Tea w/o sugar.
1 cup of water.
Varies. I make it a habit of eating two slices of Burgen Wholemeal & Seeds bread each day for insoluble fibre. I frequently buy an avocado and salmon sushi roll for lunch.
1 serving of fruit.
I have a habit of skipping lunch. That needs to be addressed.

Throughout the rest of the day-
2 cup of Barley Tea
2 cups of water

Dinner-
Varies, generally a portion of food that is a source of protein [fish (salmon, bream, mackerel, tuna, largehead hairtail), seafood (prawns, crab, various), meat (steak, beef, pork, chicken, lamb chops etc), poached organic eggs], a source of vitamins such a vegetable salad and a source of carbohydrates like pasta or white rice. I’d really like to switch to brown rice.

On the odd occasion, we have Korean or other Asian dishes. One of my favourites being a Vietnamese dish called Wollamssam (Koreans call it Wollamssam, I don’t know what Vietnamese people call it). It contains an assortment of vegetables, avocado and meat which are placed into a rice paper wrap along with rice noodles and then topped with a spicy sauce. I usually consume 5-10 wraps.

I sometimes skip dinner which is rather bad on my part because this leads to late night snacking.

After Dinner-
1 cup of Barley Tea with 1 tsp of Carlson Very Finest Fish Oil.
1 cup of water with 1 tsp of Qsilica Gel.

• Calcium, Vitamin D, Manganese, Chromium and Zinc deficiencies.

I don’t like cows’ milk and soy milk is unhealthy hence the rice milk. The only time I consume milk is during breakfast. I need to get more sun exposure and perhaps introduce brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts and pecan nuts into my diet. I cannot eat peanuts or cashews as I am allergic to the aforementioned nuts. Regrettably, I am allergic to oysters also, which happens to be a rich source of zinc. I should probably ingest a good multivitamin daily.

NOTE: The notion that soy milk is a healthy food is a fallacy!! Soy milk is made from unfermented soy which has adverse long-term effects on the body. Fermented soy products, on the other hand, are very beneficial to one’s health.