What Ails Us

Little ills create bigger ills if you let them.

I have been feeling not so great this week. It started with a tickle in my throat, which caused coughing fits that would pop my eyeballs out of my head and leave me feeling dizzy and exhausted. Then, many hours later, the congestion set in. As I lay sleepless in my big dark bed, awakened by the coughing, now so intense it made my stomach muscles ache, sleep was impossible. I gave in and tried to read a book, because I am limiting my screen time by virtue signaling, even in my alone-ness. I like to think this extreme coughing will lead to some kind of sickness fitness ab work out, because, what passes for abs in the area where abs are supposed to be, are killing me. I have coughed so hard it has turned on my bedside lamp, which is controlled by The Clapper.

I have spent over 2 years researching and reading about supplements and food. I started on a journey to get rid of my excess baggage and find a healthier me in January 2020. I was inspired by my friend Kim, who had shed 100 pounds. I wanted that! Little did I know that The Code Red Lifestyle would change everything about my life. Forever. There is no going back. I went cold turkey detox. By myself. I literally thought I was going to die for 2 weeks.

I bought the book for $9.99 and followed it. No coach. There were no pills, shakes or expensive programs to buy, it was about eating real food and drinking a lot of water. I only supplemented with magnesium and vitamin D, because you want to keep your electrolytes up when you are drinking one gallon of water a day. It was not a diet I went on…it was a lifestyle change. I quit eating processed food. I quit eating bread, pasta, donuts, sugar…I quit drinking diet soda, alcohol or anything that pretty much wasn’t water. Except my coffee. I even got to jack that up and add full fat whipping cream and still managed to lose 60 pounds and keep it off. I did it by shopping the outside aisles of the grocery store and sheer will power. It was one of the hardest and most gratifying things I have ever done. For me. Food had become a reward, a consolation, an excuse, an idol and I know in my heart the good Lord gave me the will to make that change at that exact moment. Hubs got on board as well. We both lost that excess weight caused by an upside down food pyramid. The way the USDA indoctrinates us to eat is all wrong. Betcha didn’t know that?? They are owned by big AGRA, just like our healthcare system is owned by big PHARMA. I stopped eating anything that man had added gobbledeygook ingredients to and my fat melted off and the arthritis disappeared. My aches and pains went away because I was not a hog on legs anymore.

Did any doctor during my whole entire life ever suggest that the food I was eating was causing my health issues? Ummm, no. Not once. Ever. Their MO was to send me to a “specialist” or put me on drugs. When I was Super Fat my cholesterol was 204 and doc still wanted to put me on statins. Now, my good cholesterol is great, triglycerides are wonderful, but the cholesterol is still very high. But, I can look at my body and my diet and know it is “how I am created” that is making my cholesterol high. I have longevity in my genes. When I was a kid I was pretty sure my grandma lived on toast and bacon. She lived to be 91 and my mom is well as can be at aged 94. She had a great aunt that lived to 110. They had no idea about cholesterol and made it. They even ate bread. I miss bread. Their bread must have been different. It was probably organic.

Anyway, the point I am taking quite a while to make here is that the decision to begin living a healthy life coincided with the unpleasant arrival of covid-19. Little did I know studies would eventually show that co-morbidities, weight, food and lifestyle choices would greatly impact the severity of the emerging virus. We will not even mention that hospitals probably killed more people than the virus with their mandated protocols and medieval draconian dungeon approach to the very lives they were meant to be saving.

So, stolen along with our medical freedom, is the right to just not feel good. We have supplemented the crap out of ourselves. Every little twinge, headache, allergy, weird looking poop or anything suspicious, has us second guessing what we used to take as a fact. “Oh, I just don’t feel good” is no longer an acceptable conclusion. Can we pop a pill to make it go away? Should we hightail it to the feed store and stock up on horse paste? Did we take our supplements today?? Yes, a good quality supplement is important, because our natural, soil grown food is no longer as nutrient dense as its grandparents. Man is even ruining the good stuff. Eaten a tomato lately? Yeah, I agree. Why bother? But, chances are that if you google your ailment, you will find it as one of the symptoms of the big C-virus. One could go crazy in the waiting room of Dr. Google. Probably a symptom of covid.

So, as I sit here writing this I have decided to allow myself to not feel good. Yes, I am sick. Probably with a cold. Remember those? I am doing everything right. I am eating healthy foods and drinking lots of water. I caught myself filling my hand with supplements and remedies this morning and thought to myself “This is ridiculous!”. So, I stopped. I am going to take it easy these next few days, but I am identifying with someone who is “a little under the weather”. That’s it. My body is performing and creating immunity to whatever this is. My NK (free-agent Natural Killer) cells are working hard and I am going to let them, because that is how God designed us. We are created in His image and fearfully and wonderfully made. Who could ask for anything more?