Cursed by clean eating!!!

[caligirl]

So last night I had the mad cravings for a nice little Tri -Tip steak, avo cilantro cucumber salad (evoo, garlic, red vinegar and salt), baked red potato plain (I might add and really baked, no micro) and sautaed mushrooms and onions in evoo, topped it off with a HALF a glass a very nice wine....

Holy mother of god, I was up at 2:30AM heaving my wonderful cullinary creations all over the bathroom, then they decided to come out the other end too.... wtf! I have spent so many years eating clean, that I cant even have steak and wine anymore! NOOOOOOO!!!

everyone else that ate is fine, so I really think it's my system, I'm cursed.... I love to eat! oh no! does this happen to anyone else?
I cant even eat splenda.... chemicals make me hurt.

 

[victoria978]

Here's why. The steak is laced with chemicals. There are antibiotics, growth hormones and other such crap in conventional meats. Try organic steak. It costs more but your stomach will thank you. I eat organic everything. I even transitioned to the macrobiotic diet. Now THAT'S hard! No meat, only fish, but only 2-3 times per week, No dairy, lots of whole grains, beans veggies, no potatoes. People have actually cured themselves of disease by using this diet - like cancer, hepititis, and AIDS.

 

[caligirl]

I have to be careful because I'm really sensative, I only eat organic meat and dairy and 95% of everything else I eat is organic too, excepting some condiments, wasabi, shoyu, things like that.
But usually I'm okay, not great, but okay enough I can eat meat and drink a glass of wine and still function the next day or even hours later.
That would be a hard diet to follow! k to you! I just love fish and chix too much to cut down or cut it out. How long have you been doing it for?

 

[gemini269]

Hey Victoria, im interested as well! I've been vegetarian for 22 years ( im 26 almost) and im looking to get rid of all the chemicals i eat.... its almost ALL i eat! =( tell us about the macrobiotic diet? or if you have any links??

 

[victoria978]

Hey Victoria, im interested as well! I've been vegetarian for 22 years ( im 26 almost) and im looking to get rid of all the chemicals i eat.... its almost ALL i eat! =( tell us about the macrobiotic diet? or if you have any links??

Okay......here's the thing with the macrobiotic diet - It's against federal law to say that anything can treat, prevent, or cure a disease besides a drug. So, I actually broke the law. Isn't that very wrong?! That's why this diet is not blasted into the forefront of medical news. It would put the pharmacies out of business. It's been around forever, though. It detoxes your body of all the toxins and chemicals you've been eating all your life, so you may have what's called a cleaning reaction - It's when your body is trying to rid itself of stored toxins and it temporarily makes you a little sick. ANYHOO - Here it goes. There is very little info publicly out there on it, but there are lots of books. A Japenese couple, Michio and Avelene Kushi brought it to the east coast of the US. It is basically all organic, no meat or poultry, you can have fish about 2X a week. Lots of whole grains and beans. It's hard to explain. Here's 2 books I have "Making the Transition to a Macrobiotic Diet" by Carolyn Heidenry, and "Aveline Kushi's Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking". I actually know someone who cured himself of cancer with this diet in 3 months. It's trial and error with the recipies. Some are good and some are not-let's just say. There is a national chain supermarket called Whole Foods that sells everything you would need for all-organic and macrobiotic diets. Oh, and it uses a lot of sea vegetables, but they are surprisingly tasteless, for the most part, and blend in with the food completely.

 

[jaybois]

Bird flu.

 

[jaybois]

Your probley going to die.

 

[Sassy69]

Well I guess all I can add to this is that I consider steak part of my "clean diet" and I've pounded both steak & red wine (ok not pounded, but consumed both) on competition day after 16 weeks of uber clean diet and had no problems at all. I really don't even consider that to be anything outside of a "clean diet" and have been pretty common parts of at least 4 competition diets I've run w/ some wine cheats in there. The only times I've actually yakked from food has been when it was truly food poisoning.

Just wanted to throw that in - not arguing that there aren't all sorts of shit in the food we eat, but cali, it seems to me tha you may just be particularly sensitive to somethign you ate or maybe it was somethign else somewhere in the meal that made it not sit right.

 

[treilin]

Well I guess all I can add to this is that I consider steak part of my "clean diet" and I've pounded both steak & red wine (ok not pounded, but consumed both) on competition day after 16 weeks of uber clean diet and had no problems at all. I really don't even consider that to be anything outside of a "clean diet" and have been pretty common parts of at least 4 competition diets I've run w/ some wine cheats in there. The only times I've actually yakked from food has been when it was truly food poisoning.

Just wanted to throw that in - not arguing that there aren't all sorts of shit in the food we eat, but cali, it seems to me tha you may just be particularly sensitive to somethign you ate or maybe it was somethign else somewhere in the meal that made it not sit right.

I have had the same affect. Certain times I could eat something and have no problem, and other times it's horrible. When I was eating a lot of uncooked vegetables, and some chicken and then I would try eating like ice cream, mexican, fried food, greasy anything and it would tear me up. Since I have been eating more meat (hormone free from whole foods), organic rice, organic egg whites, pretty much everything clean and then I go into a restaurant and eat I have had no problems as long as I order a meat (not fried), baked veggies, and even drink some alcohol..... Now if order mexican, greasy, fried foods I get the same effect. So I've tried both the organic, and the not organic and have the same effect from "Bad foods" I wouldn't consider what you ate bad foods though.... Everyone's system is a little different though.

 

[Gymgurl]

Could you have had the stomach flu? Since no one else was sick? Victoria I have heard alot of good things and problems going away with a macro diet