I remember struggling desperately when it was time to declare my major. If only I'd known what I know now!
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Monday, November 19, 2007
hCG Phase 3 Legal Thanksgiving Dressing/Stuffing Recipe
Hallelujah! My raw stuffing recipe is awesome AND safe in Phase 3!!! 2 cups raw almonds (soak >8 hours, drain & rinse)
(You may want to substitute 1/4 cup of this as Protein Powder as I did...YUM!)
1 Granny Smith Apple
2 cloves garlic
1/2 sweet onion
4 Stalks Celery
2 T ground flax seed
1 T olive oil
1/2 t celtic sea salt
1/8 t cayenne pepper
2 t each: sage, thyme, marjoram
Put apple, onion & celery into food processor & pulse just until chunky. Set aside.
Put drained almonds in food processor & process until well chopped. It will be not quite a paste. Fluff & add apple/onion/celery mixture and remaining ingredients. Pulse gently only to mix & not to chop chunkies much more.
You may make into pones or simply serve as is. Also optional: dehydrate for 5 hours @ 105 F by crumbling on mesh (not teflex) sheets.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Simeons Protocol - hCG Diet
Well, folks, I have finally found The Cure ... 'The Weight Loss Cure' that is. I am currently on the Simeons Protocol recommended by Kevin Trudeau in his latest book. I am keeping a VLOG on YouTube about my experience. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
I believe the reason the raw food diet wasn't working for me was that my hypothalamus is not functioning properly due to several factors:
I believe the reason the raw food diet wasn't working for me was that my hypothalamus is not functioning properly due to several factors:
- Antidepressant drugs taken in the past
- Weight gained until obesity reached
- Former excessive alcohol consumption
The result of all this appears to be a hypothalamus that doesn't function properly for metabolizing foods efficiently and that also inspires insatiable hunger. Dr. Simeons, the author of the protocol referenced in Trudeau's book, theorized that the obese aren't really responsible for their situation after a certain point and that the hunger and poor metabolism make it nearly impossible for them to release weight like someone whose hypothalamus is functioning normally.
The greatest thing about this whole experience thus far has been the disappearance of the ravening hunger. It helps immensely to have the encouragement of rapid weight release as well.
I pray that this will help you out if you are one of the many in need of a way out of your bondage to food addiction.
B'Shem Yeshua,
Shalom!
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Shalom's Raw Fudge
At last, as promised, the incredible Raw Fudge Recipe!!!
Let me know what you think. I developed it by modifying a number of other raw fudge recipes I tried and tweaking. I finally have perfected it to my taste. Hope you all like it as much as I do!
Shalom's Raw Fudge
1 Cup Coconut Butter/organic virgin oil melted (tip: place in dehydrator for a few minutes)
8 Droppers full Stevia
1 Cup Coconut Butter/organic virgin oil melted (tip: place in dehydrator for a few minutes)
8 Droppers full Stevia
1/2 Vanilla Bean (or 4 teaspoon organic vanilla extract)
1.75 Cups powdered RAW Carob
1.75 Cups powdered RAW Carob
1/4 Cup Protein Powder (You may sub more Carob if you don't want the Protein hit)
Add to Cuisinart or Food Processor in order listed. Pulse until just mixed. Then add:
3 Cups Almond Butter (preferably home made)
Blend in Food Processor until begins to clump. Then add:
1 Cup chopped Walnuts (or pecans or almonds) OPTIONAL
Pulse just until blended in.
Use an 8 inch square pyrex baking dish to pour mixture into. Mash in until level. Cover and chill in refrigerator for 4 hours minimum. Cut into pieces and serve. I have read that this type of fudge will keep for up to a year in the freezer! Careful when serving to keep cool by setting serving tray on ice pack or this fudge will melt fairly quickly.
Add to Cuisinart or Food Processor in order listed. Pulse until just mixed. Then add:
3 Cups Almond Butter (preferably home made)
Blend in Food Processor until begins to clump. Then add:
1 Cup chopped Walnuts (or pecans or almonds) OPTIONAL
Pulse just until blended in.
Use an 8 inch square pyrex baking dish to pour mixture into. Mash in until level. Cover and chill in refrigerator for 4 hours minimum. Cut into pieces and serve. I have read that this type of fudge will keep for up to a year in the freezer! Careful when serving to keep cool by setting serving tray on ice pack or this fudge will melt fairly quickly.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Healing through Yeshua!
Loads of catching up to do, but will try to give brief synopsis.
I have been attending Shomair Yisrael, a local Messianic Congregation, since a week or so before Yom Kippur. That has been so wonderful for me. Yahweh definitely led me to this new and deeply insightful path. I feel I am getting so much closer to Him now. It all makes so much sense logically. After all, our Messiah was Jewish; He led His Life as an observant Jew. We are supposed to follow His Example, hence, seems to me, we should observe the Laws that He observed. Now, He did preach against those man-made additions to the Law that became an encumbrance. That was what was 'nailed to the stake' along with the sacrificial law. But I now believe, after much research and prayer, that we are to be obedient to Mosaic Law as much as possible. I believe we are blessed for it, not saved by it. And, I believe we please our Abba when we celebrate His Feasts. That is why I spent several nights during Sukkot camping on my air mattress in my sleeping bag with my dogs, cold as it was! However, when it got too cold to sleep, I did move back in. I think under the current circumstances that is what Yahweh wanted from me. Just my prayerful opinion.
Attempted to fight off Christmas as well, since it is my understanding that the pagan based holidays (including Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween) are a big problem to our God. I received an analogy as I contemplated this. It is as if I, playing devil's advocate here, put together a batch of cookies and used a tiny amount of horse excrement in the ingredients. Not enough to taste it, just enough that I know that whoever I get to eat them is eating poop. Okay, those in ignorance that I seduce into eating them may get a break from the guilt associated with it, although they really should have checked out the ingredients first to be true to staying pure. Due diligence and all that. I still get the 'pleasure' of knowing that I got them to defile themselves. But those who know, aha, I really have them, because they are going to want to 'fit in' with all those who are enjoying what really are delicious cookies, so they will say it is not there intent to eat poop, but to remain in fellowship with all those who do. I have really got them, you see. They will rationalize their decision to please their friends and themselves, although the poop in their systems will not please their bodies and will foul them, albeit to a small degree. But they have chosen for poop and against purity.
We are to be set apart, not conforming to this world. That pleases Yahweh. When we choose to succumb to the materialistic, paganistic ways of the world, He is not pleased at all. Especially when we rationalize it to say we are doing it for Him.
Okay, so I have had a couple of miracles of late. The first began early December at a Shabbat meeting when we were asked to come forward to be anointed for healing. I didn't get healed at that moment, but soon after I was led to investigate symptoms of hypothyroid on the web. The more I researched, the more I felt this could be the answer to why all the other attempts at getting well were only halfway helping. (See www.StoptheThyroidMadness.com) You see, the thyroid hormones are intrinsically involved in brain function. I have over 15 different symptoms of hypothyroid, and was actually tested first thing by my psychiatrist 13 years ago when I began to break down. But, back then, and even now, quite frequently, though not as severely, the lab limits were far too wide to catch folks who actually needed thyroid therapy. So, I tested normal, and the psychopharm psyrcus began. I have been looking for relief diligently all these years to very little avail.
Now, I have seen my GP and convinced him to let me try Armour thyroid medication. I have begun on 30 mg per day in 2 doses, (7:30 A & 4:00 P), and almost immediately I began to have more energy, clearer thinking and a more positive, happier outlook. I am on day 10, and really looking forward to futher alleviation of symptoms as well as continuing to enjoy my already better mental state. I am appalled at the possibility that there are many, many others out there being misdiagnosed and, worse yet, misprescribed. When I think that I came near to trying Electroconvulsive Therapy at my psych's behest, oooh, I really shudder. It is bad enough all the other junk I took that I didn't need in my body.
So, it seems that I am finally on to the healing of this horror that has been my life for so long. It is, indeed, the answer to prayers: mine, my dear mother's, and my husband's as well.
If you think you may have been misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder when you actually are hypothyroid, here is my advice:
There are many symptoms, and I have over 15 of them. You may want to look here and see how many apply to your situation.
SYMPTOMS of HYPO
If they are numerous, you may find help in having the following tests performed.
* TSH* Free T4 (note the word “free”)
* Thyroid Antibodies (TPO, which is Thyroid Peroxidase, and Antithyroglobulin. YOU NEED BOTH.)
* Ferritin (and do stress FERRITIN, not just RBC)
* Adrenals Cortisol levels (but we strongly recommend saliva tests, not the one time blood test your doctor will do)
* B-12, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA
You will want to educate yourself on the subject somewhat as it seems that few doctors are really with it on this, largely due to the interference of the pharmaceutical companies pushing the more lucrative products.
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/thyroid-depression-mental-health/
And
http://www.thyroid-info.com/
Here is what I did. I read up on a number of web sites and then used the attached letter, which is a revised version of
DEAR DOCTOR...
Then, I faxed it to my doctor. He called me in to meet with him and agreed to prescribe the Armour Thyroid, which I insisted upon. All the evidence points to this being the superior medication for this illness, although most docs want to give the synthetics. Armour is all natural, which appeals to me in spite of the fact that it is derived from pigs. As you know, being vegan and Messianic, this doesn't sit well, but I have come to believe that what makes my body/brain/temple perform optimally takes precedence over the desire to exclude all animal products from my diet as well as the mitzvah against pork. It is a very tiny amount and I am already feeling incredibly better: my thinking is clearer, I feel more in control of my emotions, and I am actually having frequent moments of real joy! So I am certain that Yahweh has led me to this discovery.
Anyway, make sure that you insist on the tests described and emphasize that you want the FREE Ts. Also, I ended up with a bunch of bogus iron tests that were NOT the ferritin test I had requested. It is important to find a doctor that is willing to recognize the new limits for 'normal' and who will go primarily by symptoms until you are free.
Note: from http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/cohendepression.htm
"Many patients seem to need replacement hormone sufficient to get the TSH down around 1.0 or less, even below .50 (although the lower TSH levels often generate fear, panic, or worse in some MD's who use the TSH values as absolute strict limitations. I've had a few scrapes with MD's who would stop my treatment of patients that were feeling fine for once in many years simply because the #S, TSH levels, were too low (e.G. 0.05) for the Doctors comfort!!) . It would be a good research project to correlate TSH levels with psychiatric symptoms. I haven't done that yet, my impression is that most patients with fatigue, anergia and depression need TSH levels in the lower zone <1.0.>
Also, many will not prescribe Armour as there are no perks in it for them, so you may want to check that out first.
You may have to send off for a saliva test of your adrenals, but you can do that for a relatively excellent price here:
http://thecanaryclub.org/content/view/196/52/
I pray that you will find the relief that I have. I really am looking forward to getting better and better myself as I find my proper dosage. Be sure to read these testimonials...you may find yourself getting as excited about your potential healing as I did.
***Click here to read inspiring stories from patients whose depression and other mental health went away on desiccated thyroid…and in some cases, when they added cortisol due to diagnosed low-functioning adrenals.
I have been attending Shomair Yisrael, a local Messianic Congregation, since a week or so before Yom Kippur. That has been so wonderful for me. Yahweh definitely led me to this new and deeply insightful path. I feel I am getting so much closer to Him now. It all makes so much sense logically. After all, our Messiah was Jewish; He led His Life as an observant Jew. We are supposed to follow His Example, hence, seems to me, we should observe the Laws that He observed. Now, He did preach against those man-made additions to the Law that became an encumbrance. That was what was 'nailed to the stake' along with the sacrificial law. But I now believe, after much research and prayer, that we are to be obedient to Mosaic Law as much as possible. I believe we are blessed for it, not saved by it. And, I believe we please our Abba when we celebrate His Feasts. That is why I spent several nights during Sukkot camping on my air mattress in my sleeping bag with my dogs, cold as it was! However, when it got too cold to sleep, I did move back in. I think under the current circumstances that is what Yahweh wanted from me. Just my prayerful opinion.
Attempted to fight off Christmas as well, since it is my understanding that the pagan based holidays (including Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween) are a big problem to our God. I received an analogy as I contemplated this. It is as if I, playing devil's advocate here, put together a batch of cookies and used a tiny amount of horse excrement in the ingredients. Not enough to taste it, just enough that I know that whoever I get to eat them is eating poop. Okay, those in ignorance that I seduce into eating them may get a break from the guilt associated with it, although they really should have checked out the ingredients first to be true to staying pure. Due diligence and all that. I still get the 'pleasure' of knowing that I got them to defile themselves. But those who know, aha, I really have them, because they are going to want to 'fit in' with all those who are enjoying what really are delicious cookies, so they will say it is not there intent to eat poop, but to remain in fellowship with all those who do. I have really got them, you see. They will rationalize their decision to please their friends and themselves, although the poop in their systems will not please their bodies and will foul them, albeit to a small degree. But they have chosen for poop and against purity.
We are to be set apart, not conforming to this world. That pleases Yahweh. When we choose to succumb to the materialistic, paganistic ways of the world, He is not pleased at all. Especially when we rationalize it to say we are doing it for Him.
Okay, so I have had a couple of miracles of late. The first began early December at a Shabbat meeting when we were asked to come forward to be anointed for healing. I didn't get healed at that moment, but soon after I was led to investigate symptoms of hypothyroid on the web. The more I researched, the more I felt this could be the answer to why all the other attempts at getting well were only halfway helping. (See www.StoptheThyroidMadness.com) You see, the thyroid hormones are intrinsically involved in brain function. I have over 15 different symptoms of hypothyroid, and was actually tested first thing by my psychiatrist 13 years ago when I began to break down. But, back then, and even now, quite frequently, though not as severely, the lab limits were far too wide to catch folks who actually needed thyroid therapy. So, I tested normal, and the psychopharm psyrcus began. I have been looking for relief diligently all these years to very little avail.
Now, I have seen my GP and convinced him to let me try Armour thyroid medication. I have begun on 30 mg per day in 2 doses, (7:30 A & 4:00 P), and almost immediately I began to have more energy, clearer thinking and a more positive, happier outlook. I am on day 10, and really looking forward to futher alleviation of symptoms as well as continuing to enjoy my already better mental state. I am appalled at the possibility that there are many, many others out there being misdiagnosed and, worse yet, misprescribed. When I think that I came near to trying Electroconvulsive Therapy at my psych's behest, oooh, I really shudder. It is bad enough all the other junk I took that I didn't need in my body.
So, it seems that I am finally on to the healing of this horror that has been my life for so long. It is, indeed, the answer to prayers: mine, my dear mother's, and my husband's as well.
If you think you may have been misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder when you actually are hypothyroid, here is my advice:
There are many symptoms, and I have over 15 of them. You may want to look here and see how many apply to your situation.
SYMPTOMS of HYPO
If they are numerous, you may find help in having the following tests performed.
* TSH* Free T4 (note the word “free”)
* Thyroid Antibodies (TPO, which is Thyroid Peroxidase, and Antithyroglobulin. YOU NEED BOTH.)
* Ferritin (and do stress FERRITIN, not just RBC)
* Adrenals Cortisol levels (but we strongly recommend saliva tests, not the one time blood test your doctor will do)
* B-12, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA
You will want to educate yourself on the subject somewhat as it seems that few doctors are really with it on this, largely due to the interference of the pharmaceutical companies pushing the more lucrative products.
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/thyroid-depression-mental-health/
And
http://www.thyroid-info.com/
Here is what I did. I read up on a number of web sites and then used the attached letter, which is a revised version of
DEAR DOCTOR...
Then, I faxed it to my doctor. He called me in to meet with him and agreed to prescribe the Armour Thyroid, which I insisted upon. All the evidence points to this being the superior medication for this illness, although most docs want to give the synthetics. Armour is all natural, which appeals to me in spite of the fact that it is derived from pigs. As you know, being vegan and Messianic, this doesn't sit well, but I have come to believe that what makes my body/brain/temple perform optimally takes precedence over the desire to exclude all animal products from my diet as well as the mitzvah against pork. It is a very tiny amount and I am already feeling incredibly better: my thinking is clearer, I feel more in control of my emotions, and I am actually having frequent moments of real joy! So I am certain that Yahweh has led me to this discovery.
Anyway, make sure that you insist on the tests described and emphasize that you want the FREE Ts. Also, I ended up with a bunch of bogus iron tests that were NOT the ferritin test I had requested. It is important to find a doctor that is willing to recognize the new limits for 'normal' and who will go primarily by symptoms until you are free.
Note: from http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/cohendepression.htm
"Many patients seem to need replacement hormone sufficient to get the TSH down around 1.0 or less, even below .50 (although the lower TSH levels often generate fear, panic, or worse in some MD's who use the TSH values as absolute strict limitations. I've had a few scrapes with MD's who would stop my treatment of patients that were feeling fine for once in many years simply because the #S, TSH levels, were too low (e.G. 0.05) for the Doctors comfort!!) . It would be a good research project to correlate TSH levels with psychiatric symptoms. I haven't done that yet, my impression is that most patients with fatigue, anergia and depression need TSH levels in the lower zone <1.0.>
Also, many will not prescribe Armour as there are no perks in it for them, so you may want to check that out first.
You may have to send off for a saliva test of your adrenals, but you can do that for a relatively excellent price here:
http://thecanaryclub.org/content/view/196/52/
I pray that you will find the relief that I have. I really am looking forward to getting better and better myself as I find my proper dosage. Be sure to read these testimonials...you may find yourself getting as excited about your potential healing as I did.
***Click here to read inspiring stories from patients whose depression and other mental health went away on desiccated thyroid…and in some cases, when they added cortisol due to diagnosed low-functioning adrenals.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Current Efforts
The journey continues. I have temporarily abandoned The Healing Codes as I became disillusioned with their ever expanding merchandising efforts and, I must admit, I just don't seem to have the self-discipline. I do think the technique has some validity, but it is difficult just now to perform it with these negative impressions in mind and my continued lack of energy.
Consequently, I am ramping up the diet...after multiple binges beginning Easter Sunday. So now I am further behind than when the year began:(
Victoria Boutenko is making Green Smoothies famous. Her concept crops up regularly in my internet research lately. So I am now throwing all kinds of stuff in the KTech and whirring it up for lunch. It's easy and quite delicious. Tonya Zavasta was instrumental in convincing me this was a good idea when my friend, also a 'Tonya', and I went to her seminar a few months ago and she served us all Swiss Chard and Mango Smoothies...superYum! So I am actually mixing up stuff like today: pear, nectarine, ground flax seed, grapes, clementines, pink apple, chinese broccoli, baby bok choy, mixed greens, celery. Superlicious! and Supertritious! Takes little time, fills me wayyy up, and stuffs me with the good stuff.
Weight is still dropping, slowly but surely. Yeah, I still do organic popcorn/nutritional yeast/celtic sea salt/asafoetida for a snack. And I found a fabulous recipe that I continue to tweak for raw fudge that will actually set up.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Still working The Healing Codes
I have been working with my introductory freebie coach and now have my own 'custom codes' for anxiety, but mostly I have had to use it for healing responses that showed up after a euphoric phase that had developed ended abruptly with a blowout over finances with husband. Hard to fall from such a great height...makes me think I'd rather not get so high again! Then again, if I could only maintain it...
Before the crash, I had a lovely breakthrough: I was waiting for my husband & daughters to meet me in exercise class where I had saved them spaces. The class began without them and I got really peeved, especially since it was packed and people seemed slightly annoyed at those empty spaces saved for latecomers...or maybe I just thought they did. Anyway, as I considered my growing anger, I thought to myself, "Well, I have the right to be angry in this situation!" Then it came to me: a small but gently chiding voice, "And you also have the right to have peace in this situation, even more!" I realized: Too true!
Ah, but easier said than done when a sensitive issue arises. Lord, help me develop the ability to be the 'silent witness' to my emotions, rather than being swept away by them to become their unwilling slave!
Only today I have begun implementing ujayii breathing into my code sessions. It seems to be helpful, but I wonder if there is stress induced by focusing on super deep, slow breathing like that. There is some small effort involved in counting the breath, pushing all the air out while engaging the glottis for the yogic "ocean sound", and breathing in fully and in a controlled fashion. But could that just replace the effort in focusing on Truth Statement, which sometimes gets me into trouble as my mind is still skilled at finding fine points to have problems with in even a simple statement that starts off feeling true enough, given time to ponder!
I have posted a request for help with this issue with the site. I still have great hopes for this modality.
Also looking into the possibility of conflict between Holosync and The Healing Codes being practice concurrently.
Lord, please heal me!
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