Day 6

Day 6 Friday, December 18, 2010

Okay, anyone uncomfortable with the discussed of monthly cycles should just skip to Day 7.  I woke up this morning & mine had started.  I sit down for my latte & can only take two sips.  I can’t eat breakfast either.  Usually I would have shoved it down, but today-I just can’t eat it.  Usually I know when my period is coming because the day before I have cramps.: not today.  It turns out that the reason I has cramps is because with all the food I was shoving down there was no room for monthly cycles.  Who would have thought that eating less would cure PMS.   It is still a little tight down there, but it’s not-cramped, if you know what I mean.  Eventually, at 11:00, I eat breakfast.  Dinner is at five, and there is no lunch.  It’s just too much today.

Around 10:30, I start to question whether it is okay that I’m not eating.  Aren’t I lowering my metabolism?  Aren’t I starving myself?  Am I going to eat today?  Is it okay if I don’t?  Then, at 11:00, a little bit of hunger was present.  Once again, my body knew what it needed better than I did, better then the nutritionists telling me to eat five small meals a day.  It knew.  It also understands food better than we do.  We are still discovering new nutrients and changing our minds about which ones are bad for you.  Apparently, a study came out showing that our glorified fiber is not so good for you after all.  Saturated fat is making a come back.  Some claim the medium-chain fatty acids are the “healthy” type of saturated fat.  Others claim that all saturated fats have been given a bad name all together.  Apparently the research on saturated fat and heart disease is not as strong as the public has been lead to believe.  They find correlations between saturated fat and high cholesterol and high cholesterol and heart disease but not saturated fat and heart disease.  Some believe, that high cholesterol is present during heart disease to heal the damage, not cause it.   I am not promoting a high saturated fat diet.  I’m not promoting any diet.  I’m just saying the nutritionists don’t really know yet, what the diet we should be eating is.  My body does.  It takes all those chemicals, breaks them down, and puts them exactly where they are supposed to go.  They travel through the body moving in and out of our cells doing exactly what they are supposed to do.  I don’t know every process that occurs, the scientists don’t know yet either.  My body does.  This means I do not have to worry about what or how much I eat; I just have to listen, pay attention, the answer is already there.

Today, my body is saying not to eat a lot-there is already enough inside me.  I listen.