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My personal health journey: a special edition
- 2024/09/27
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I've been doing this for about nine months now. And I think it's time that I shared a little bit more about how I got here, and maybe that'll help you on your own health journey. I'd like to think about where you are now, where you've been and where you want to go. So let me tell you where I've been. I started my OBGYN practice when I was 30 years old. I had a daughter who was just starting kindergarten, and a little boy who was about to turn 2. And my practice ramped up really fast, And back in those days, drug reps often brought lunch to clinic, and they didn't bring healthy stuff. They brought things like pasta with alfredo sauce, and they brought a lot of cheesecake. And I love cheesecake. Especially turtle cheesecake with all that caramel sauce over it. Mmm. It's delicious. And so every time that they brought dessert, I indulged in dessert. And my life was kind of busy. I began to gain weight. And I developed migraine headaches. And I wasn't sleeping very well. And of course you can't sleep well when you're an OB doctor anyway, but that's a different story. And so I really felt terrible. On top of that, every single time it was somebody's birthday at the office, we pot lucked and the potlucks weren't much healthier than the drug rep lunches. And they always included birthday cake because after all we were celebrating. But every celebration isn't my own special occasion. But I didn't realize that. So I just plowed on through and next thing you know, I gained about 15 pounds. Between ages 30 and 35, I felt worse than I had ever felt in my entire life. And I looked it too. I was miserable. My clothes were tight. I didn't have any energy. And I just felt bad. And I discovered a book called, What the Bible Says About Healthy Living, by Dr. Rex Russell, M. D. And so I read this book and it talked about how we should eat things in their natural state. And back then we didn't really use the term whole foods, but eat food in its natural state. And so what Dr. Russell said is that butter is better than margarine, and that vegetables are better than processed foods, and that things that are refined have lost their nutrients, such as white rice, white flour, and sugar. And so I went on a pretty radical diet and I changed my eating habits completely. And the three things I cut out were white rice, white flour, and sugar. And not only did I lose the weight, but my migraine headaches went completely away. Now, I wasn't pure about it. I would obviously indulge every once in a while. And I learned just about how many bites of something I could take before I'd get a headache. So, I would pre decide what I was gonna do if there was a potluck at work. And there was cake, or there was that turtle cheesecake that I could never resist, and I would tell myself, Four bites. That's all you get. Four bites. And most of the time I would stick to that, but every once in a while, I'd just finish the whole piece. And you know what? I'd get a migraine headache. And so, that was a good feedback thing for me to say, You know what? That's a headache on a plate. I don't even want it. Now, I didn't follow what Dr. Russell recommended exactly, He recommended very small intake of meat, but I just kind of ignored that part and the dairy part he recommended butter. So I really lathered the butter on and I did switch to whole wheat. I bought a mill and I started milling my own wheat and making bread. I discovered a lady named Sue Becker that does bread baking and I had a whisper meal. You just put whole wheat in the top of it and, Grind it up and you get fresh whole wheat flour. And I made bread with olive oil and honey and it was delicious. And so I did that for many, many years and taught my kids to eat healthy. And I'm so thankful for those foundations because My kids have pretty good eating habits, and I think those early years of us eating more whole food was good, even though we ate a lot of vegetables out of the can. We did, because we were on the go, go, go. But we ate vegetables, and we didn't eat a lot of junk food. I followed most of the principles from this book. One of the things he said is that God gave us all of these laws for a clean diet. And then Jesus came and set us free from all those laws, but God knows our body. and he knows how they function best. And so I followed this diet for many, many years and felt great. I got really fit in my forties and I started exercising after I lost that weight. I felt so good. I wanted to exercise. And so I started cycling and I rode my bike all the time. And then, when I turned 50, my whole world turned upside down. I developed a rare autoimmune disease called Myasthenia Gravis. And it came on pretty suddenly, and I had a severe case of it. I could walk across the room, but I couldn't walk very far. And I couldn't use my arms very much either. And I was very disabled. And to treat me, they put me on a lot of different medications. I had surgery, I had infusions. And, ...