I'm not certain where this is going today. I am in the middle of a spring cleanse. Nothing major (in terms of the products and processes) I am just using the FlorEssence this spring season. I am not doing any traditional fasting either. Perhaps, however, I should have gone into this a little bit more mindfully but, I guess I expected this to be a physical process not an emotional one.
I think it was about 5 days in to my cleanse and I finally noticed that I was eating everything in site, whether I was hungry or not. Where did that come from? I have not done that in years!! In the process I had contracted some kind of cold virus symptoms (or was it a cleansing reaction?) so I am not certain what caused what and at this point, I don't think it really matters....what mattered was that I was in search of something, and I seemed to be searching primarily for it in sweet foods. Okay, you may laugh, it wasn't in candy bars, hot fudge sundaes, cookies, or pastries as one might imagine...I really do try to stay away from that stuff. But nonetheless, I was consuming more sugar than I usually would. I noticed myself making fruit smoothies, avocado ice cream, and sweet onions to put on wwhhaaattt??? A Hot Dog, OMG...So, It was an Applegate nitrate free hot dog that I placed with my sweet onions on a gluten free bagel, but still, I was eating much more than I needed, not as well as I usually would (while I was on a cleanse, to boot) and I was looking for sweetness.....that no food seemed to really satisfy.
Where has the sweetness in my life gone???? I know it's still there somewhere, a few weeks ago, I know I loved the life I had created for myself. But this cleanse, it stirred something up, it made me recognize something that had been laying dormant and stuck somewhere deep in the cells of my being. I abhor the bitterness, the bitterness of these herbs I am taking, the bitterness that it brings up in me (or better said, the bitterness it points out in my personality), and how it points out how much I want to be a "sweeter" albeit authentic person.
This cleanse has pointed out the bitterness I have for how I have been treated in relationships at times, my intolerances for others behaviors, how I have not always treated others as well as I would have liked when I look with 20/20 hind site vision, and worst of all it is pointing out how I don't really know how I want to handle all of these observations.
I do know is that I need to take action to get in touch with the sweetness that I already have in my life and make a point to appreciate it, savor it, and share it. I also feel like I need to continue to create a life that feels sweet and that feels touching. Mostly, I want to improve my behavior, act more conscientiously so I can like myself better and further open my heart so I can feel touched by my life and the people in it. What I feel most confused about is how much I share about my dis-satisfactions with others. I have tried to live by the premise, "if I have a problem with someones behavior, that's my problem" but what about when it affects my desire/ability to be in the relationship? Don't they deserve to know? Don't they deserve to have the opportunity to change? Do I need to wait until they ask me "what's the problem?" Wouldn't it just be helpful if I shared how I felt without being accusatory or expecting anything to change? Of course........b
That's the emotional aspect, but if you remember, this whole spring cleanse started out in my mind as a physical thing....And that brings me back to sugar and insulin, diabetes and blood sugar control. It's a big topic and problem for many Americans. What can we do naturally to help manage our blood sugar?
1. Eat smaller more frequent meals
2. Eat a low starch, high vegetable, moderate protein, moderate fat diet that is filled with whole grains such as quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat, rather than wheat and simple starches, lean protein such as chicken and fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, and legumes, and healthy fats such as avocado, olive oil, coconut oil, and fats from hemp and chia, and get the sweetness in your diet from a few servings of fruit.
3. If you are simply trying to prevent a blood sugar problem, trying a modified fasting regimen in which you only eat food during a six to eight hour time frame during the day (say 12 - 6pm) and give your body a digestion break offering your body more recuperative time, fat burning time, and time to digest emotionally.
4. Avoid all processed foods, especially those that contain high fructose corn syrup, agave, and fake sweeteners such as truvia, nutrasweet, etc. If you need a sweetener stick with pure stevia or a sugar alcohol such as "zero" or other xylitol product.
5. Get moving, activity helps balance blood sugar and improve the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates.
Also, ask your natural health practitioner about natural blood sugar balancers such as;
1. Green coffee extract
2. Ocotea essential oil extract
3. Braggs Apple Cider vinegar (or other vinegar "with the mother") before meals
4. Bitter melon extract
5. Gymnema sylvestre
6. Alpha Lipoic Acid
7. Cinnamon Cassia
8. Chromium
9. Fennugreek
10. Holy Basil
11. Jambolan seed
12. Anemarrhena rhizome
13. Beta glucans
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