Forums: March 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: follow up to pity party
Created on: 03/12/10 12:12 PM Views: 1508 Replies: 7
cyclingmarge Joined: 03/01/10 Location: Seattle Posts: 31	follow up to pity party Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:12 PM I was definitely coming down with something on Tuesday night. I was so sick I spent the next two days in bed. Naturally, I've had two people suggest my new diet made me sick (ignoring the are hundreds of other reasons) (LOL)
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fiji51904 Joined: 01/12/10 Location: Ontario, CA Posts: 98	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 at 1:16 PM Smile and thank them for their concern...although I would LOVE to know how eating healthy makes you sick??? Heidi
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Califdreamin Joined: 02/28/10 Posts: 11	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM hmmmm - perhaps they think that meat and dairy have flu-fighting ingredients??? Yeah, right! Feel better soon!
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natcristo Joined: 03/01/10 Posts: 46	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM OMG I was sick also for 3 days...the runs...stomach bug..and I got comments like "see your not eating properly..your body is trying to tell you something" and the best "so does this mean your off the vegan thing now?" People drive me nuts..on the good end...I bought ALicia Silverstone book...a little steep here in Canada 35$..and I rented Food Inc..recommended on Oprah yesterday...I cant wait to start reading and watch the documentary.. Natasha www.beautifulbeads.ecrater.com
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mollyhorn Joined: 03/03/10 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 582	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 at 7:41 PM When I first got off sugar and most processed foods, I got really sick for almost 2 weeks. Flu-like symptoms = my body was detoxing from all the crap I'd been putting into it for years. Once it filtered out the worst of those toxins, I felt better than ever! The sugar-haze my brain had been in lifted and I was able to think clearly. Molly Horn
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2meowers Joined: 02/26/10 Location: Sequim, WA Posts: 127	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 3:02 AM Wow! I never felt sick at all or got headaches! I really wonder if you weren't just catching the winter "bug". Just yesterday, one employee was mentioning he was finally getting over his latest cold/flu-like symptoms, after having it run through his wife and kids - for the THIRD time. Asked him did he realize while most everyone at work had suffered colds and other stuff, I didn't catch a thing? Hubby had two colds, but I came through the whole flu/"stuff" season healthy! (No, while I am in the "should get a flu shot age", I did't, and haven't for many years. Figure that is what my immune system is for!) "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch. email
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kclayton Joined: 02/25/10 Posts: 33	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM I've experienced the same thing as 2meowers - I used to get sick all the time (colds and other worse ailments) and since I started eating vegan in February 2009, I have not been sick once. It is absolutely amazing. My husband and parents are completely floored by it. For the prior 4 years, I had to miss at least a month of work a year for some illness or another, and I have not been sick for a single day this year. Crazy. I think it is so amazing that no one would ever believe me if I even told them, but my husband and parents have actually seen it.
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2meowers Joined: 02/26/10 Location: Sequim, WA Posts: 127	RE: follow up to pity party Posted Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:26 PM kclayton wrote: I've experienced the same thing as 2meowers - I used to get sick all the time (colds and other worse ailments) and since I started eating vegan in February 2009, I have not been sick once. It is absolutely amazing. My husband and parents are completely floored by it. For the prior 4 years, I had to miss at least a month of work a year for some illness or another, and I have not been sick for a single day this year. Crazy. I think it is so amazing that no one would ever believe me if I even told them, but my husband and parents have actually seen it. After reading your response to my post, I realize I should have added that I've had the good fortune to be basically healthy most of my life. I'm 57. Yeah, I did get colds when exposed, but that's really it over the years, except for a few episodes of bronchitis, and a couple of times the cold also included fever for a day or so. As I've gotten older, have noticed possible spring allergies. I'm adopted, so cannot look back on family history. Yes, do now take hypothyroid and BP meds since I gained weight over the years. But I've now lost 40 lbs. just by changing diet, and am hoping to get off the BPs when I have my annual in a few weeks. However, to me, the fact that I survived all the stuff I was exposed to at work and in public, and didn't catch any flu-like symptoms or colds this past winter (vegan 8-15-09), makes me a believer in a vegan diet! Yes, I work in food service so wash my hands A LOT! And I don't have children around as additional "bug carriers", but I never even got "just the sniffles"! Truth about an improved immune system after following a vegan diet will come from those that used to get the flu, colds, and stuff etc. Since this challenge started in March, we'll have to see. Maybe some of the longer practicing vegans will post their stories. If my pretty strong system got stronger, think what a change to vegan can do to others! "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch. email
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