Feminine issues and the joys of modern medicine

"The white pills aren't kind"

So, you ask, who are these ugly little guys? Well my friends, it's a long painful story all beginning back in high school when I had horribly messed up periods. I'll spare you the gory details but irregular doesn't even begin to describe the pain. And of course my uninformed teenage self decides that I NEED hormones to fix my body because that's what everyone else is doing and it's the "ONLY SOLUTION". So basically last summer I finally decided that I was though messing with my body. I got a little more info on the SIDE EFFECTS of these pills and wanted to go all naturale. Well, now it's been almost a year since my last period and my roommates reinforce what I already know and tell me I need to go get it figured out. So, partially to appease them, I go to the heath center and wow, shocker, they wanna put me on MORE hormones. Now, I've been brought up to trust (to some extent) modern medicine so even though I feel like I know better now, it is still very hard to go against something that a doctor is telling me I HAVE to do. "You need to menstruate at least once every 3 months or else the lining of your blah blah blah blah blah blah... cancer". The C word is something that I don't take lightly. I have a history of it in my family so getting it FREAKKKKS me out. I tried to explain the raw foods thing to her but obviously it fell on deaf ears. So here I am with my little bottle of ugly white pills which will continue to sit on my counter, unconsumed. They did blood work to try to figure out what's wrong with me so I'm kind of hoping that it's something clearly defined that I can just solve in my own way with raw foods. I know raw foodists don't usually get a period but my only concern is that they ended before raw began. We'll see though, hopefully I can get it all figured out.

ALSO, as previously mentioned, I have a strong inclination to believe that my stomach acid levels are ALLLL messed up. I've had loads of digestive problems as I've mentioned on numerous occasions. I thought these were directly linked to the binging (which in a way I'm sure they are) but I haven't BEEN binging and still I have SUPER bad stomach aches and am burping up nasty ass tasty acidy flavor (too much information for ya? haha). Okay so also as previously stated in other blogs, I'm TRYING to learn more about alkalizing and start eating as many alkaline foods as possible. Problem is, there's so many discrepancies with the alkaline VS acid forming list. Why can't people agree on this stuff??? It seems to me that the science of it would be pretty concede and there wouldn't be a lot of room for disagreement. Shows how little I know. I bought some little pH test papers so I'm gonna start testing myself and see how that goes. In the meantime I'll be handling the tummy aches as they come (IE- right effing NOW!) and trying to do the best I can. No toxic thoughts or energy though. We KNOW those are acid forming, no discrepancies there. DETOX starts tomorrow by the way. Twenty dollars with of lemons are juiced up in my fridge and revin' to go! :-))

Recipes, Plans & Count Down to Cleanse Time!

First things first, here are two recipes for ya...

1. Hemp Pesto!

5 cups of basil
1 cup hemp oil
3 TBSP Hemp Seeds
1 TBSP garlic powered or one-two clove(s) of fresh pressed garlic (preferred)
1 TBSP Brewer's yeast (I used raw Parmesan from Eat in the Raw)
Celtic Salt to Taste

2. Easy Avo Dressing

1 avocado
2-3 TBSP lime juice
1 tomatillo
1 pressed garlic clove
Celtic salt to taste

Now onto some exciting things, I'm about to start Master Cleanse #2 on Sunday!!! I think I mentioned that in a recent post. One of my roommates is going to do it with me. The other one was but is a little worried because she already has a really stressful ahead of her and doesn't wanna add another thing. Anyways, I'm pretty excited to go on another cleanse. We'll see how my detox symptoms compare to last time, should be interesting. Right now I'm putting together a plan to use all of the fresh produce in my fridge without buying any more groceries in the next three days. Here's what I have in mind...

TOMORROW:

Breakie- Green Smoothie
Lunch- Shredded squash with tomatoes, sesame oil & spices
Dinner- Some Version of Garlicky Yummyliciousness . I'll try the REAL recipe when I have more of the ingredients in 2 weeks but for now it's gonna be more like eggplant with EVOO, salt, garlic & dried herbs. We'll see how it goes...

FRIDAY-

Breakie- Green Smoothie
Lunch- Gazpacho with avocado
Dinner- More Garlicky stuff??

SATURDAY-

Breakie- Another Green Smoothie :-))
Lunch-Squash noodles with some type of pesto that I can scrounge up, haha.
Dinner- Salad with whatever is left in my fridge, haha. Hopefully there's SOMETHIN' in there :-)

Okay, I'm officially tuckered out now. GOODNIGHT!!! :-)

Alllkallllliiiiizzzzzeee

I'm learning more about alkaline foods and trying to alkalize my body. I'm learning about my own low levels of stomach acid. Just ordered some wheat grass powders and looked up some alkalizing foods. I found this chart on www.essense-of-life.com by just goodsearching it. Check it out and think about it...

...ALKALINE FOODS...		...ACIDIC FOODS...
ALKALIZING VEGETABLES Alfalfa Barley Grass Beets Beet Greens Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chard Greens Chlorella Collard Greens Cucumber Dandelions Dulce Edible Flowers Eggplant Fermented Veggies Garlic Green Beans Green Peas Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce Mushrooms Mustard Greens Nightshade Veggies Onions Parsnips (high glycemic) Peas Peppers Pumpkin Radishes Rutabaga Sea Veggies Spinach, green Spirulina Sprouts Sweet Potatoes Tomatoes Watercress Wheat Grass Wild Greens ALKALIZING ORIENTAL VEGETABLES Maitake Daikon Dandelion Root Shitake Kombu Reishi Nori Umeboshi Wakame ALKALIZING FRUITS Apple Apricot Avocado Banana (high glycemic) Berries Blackberries Cantaloupe Cherries Coconut, fresh Dates, dried Figs, dried Grapes Grapefruit Honeydew Melon Lemon Lime Nectarine Orange Peach Pear Pineapple Raisins Raspberries Rhubarb Strawberries Tangerine Tomato Tropical Fruits Umeboshi Plums Watermelon ALKALIZING PROTEIN Almonds Chestnuts ALKALIZING SWEETENERS Stevia ALKALIZING SPICES & SEASONINGS Cinnamon Curry Ginger Mustard Chili Pepper Sea Salt Miso Tamari All Herbs ALKALIZING OTHER Apple Cider Vinegar Bee Pollen Green Juices Although it might seem that citrus fruits would have an acidifying effect on the body, the citric acid they contain actually has an alkalinizing effect in the system.		ACIDIFYING VEGETABLES Corn Olives Winter Squash ACIDIFYING FRUITS Blueberries Cranberries Currants Plums** Prunes** ACIDIFYING GRAINS, GRAIN PRODUCTS Quinoa Spelt Wheat Wheat Germ ACIDIFYING BEANS & LEGUMES Chick Peas Green Peas Kidney Beans Almond Milk ACIDIFYING NUTS & BUTTERS Cashews Legumes Peanuts Peanut Butter Pecans Tahini Walnuts ACIDIFYING FATS & OILS Avacado Oil Corn Oil Hemp Seed Oil Flax Oil Olive Oil Sesame Oil Sunflower Oil ACIDIFYING SWEETENERS Carob