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My Food Transition
I’ve been following Ayurvedic medicine on and off for the past year, but since quarantine took place in March (3 months ago) I have made a huge shift in my eating habits. Since I no longer frequent restaurants I have been cooking almost exclusively at home and this has had an immense impact on my lifestyle and eating routine.
In Ayurvedic medicine there is the belief that we all have different body constitutions which are based in physical attributes and our personality. You can take a test here to find out what your type might be. Everyone is born with their natural constitution but life can really throw us out of balance. There are many sources for this including a lifestyle that doesn’t suit us, stress, and especially our state of mind. This creates imbalance in our body. What our food decisions do is support our body in the best way possible while we heal and return to balance.
You see, so much of the stress and imbalance stems from the internal paradigms with which we see the world. This can stem from society, our upbringing, parental and familial influences as well as the Enneagram (which you can read more about here). But when we diverge from our true nature, the chemical nature of our body is actually thrown out of balance. For example, you know the way stress causes tense shoulders? Well being in a consistently stressful environment (among many other situations) sets off the parasympathetic nervous system and disrupts the natural pattern of the body. Energetically speaking, your body is out of wack. This stress creates subtle tensions in the body as well which can accumulate over time. A lot of this stress stems from thoughts and thinking patterns which I also plan to get into on my blog here :)
For me, I am a vata-pitta type. But my body has been out of balance for the past couple of years and so I’ve had an overbundance of pitta energy which has thrown my body out of wack.
Prior to Quarantine I felt regularly irritable, had terrible acid reflux and sinus congestion that would flair up randomly for unknown reasons. I’d have periodic sore throats for seemingly no reason and an uncomfortable dry feeling in my sinuses. I had an intense aversion to hot temperatures and would fall into a whiny, self pitying fit if the weather was too hot. I also felt hangry to the max. I struggled to follow an eating routine because my mind was so focused on tasks and activities and the long list of things I needed to DO that I would project onto my body and my being. As a result I would put off eating only to end up irritable, hangry and desperate for food. So in order to avoid this feeling I needed to eat. A LOT. I ate soooo much. I had to be like stuffed at every meal or I just did not have the energy. It felt very indulgent and I even felt guilty about it. I mean there are starving people who don’t have access to food all over the world, meanwhile I needed SO MUCH or else I just felt awful. What was wrong with me, I wondered. But once I shifted my diet and trained my body to accept a new diet these issues and the need for an overabundance of food have greatly resolved.
The other crazy thing is how dependent I was on meat. For the past 2 months I’ve been following a mostly plant based diet, with some meat here and there. But prior to this I had meat with both lunch and dinner. If I didn’t have meat or an immense amount of protein, OH BOY I would not feel good. But since transitioning to a diet intended to pacify the overabundance of Pitta in my body I no longer have this dependency. I no longer need SO much food to feel full. I feel that my body can function without eating so much food with every meal. I also have less cravings for salt and sugar which is great because my salt cravings before were so intense that at the beginning of quarantine if I didn’t have something salty to snack on I would literally pour salt in my hands and lick it. Yeh. I did that.
In addition to my new diet I’ve not only felt better, I’ve lost 20 lbs and I’m thrilled at how great it is for the environment. Eating a plant based diet is the MOST important thing any person can do for the planet on an individual level. It has more of an impact than not driving at all or driving primarily a hybrid. Isn’t that awesome!? Not only that, but it saves lives! Eating mostly plant based has helped me connect with both my body and the planet. Also, I enjoy cooking now! For the past couple of years I’ve hated cooking and have done it out of necessity but now I actually am starting to look forward to it again.
Here’s the thing. I ate a mostly plant based, low fat diet from my early to mid twenties. Then I got turned onto the Paleo diet and the fad of everyone saying that low carb is the surest way to our health, protein is the way to go, eat like our primate ancesters, eat lots of fat...etc. Basically what people in the Paleo and Keto communities are touting. And when I did that, yes I had this crazy energy burst at the beginning, and yes I lost A LOT of weight. But it was not sustainable. And then when I got off the Paleo plan, I gained so much weight back and surpassed the most I’d ever weighed before in my life. I felt frustrated that I’d lost the body type that I was most comfortable with because it is what I identified myself with throughout my whole adult life. But on top of everything I had this new dependency on meat. And a willful ignorance to the effect of meat production on our planet because, well, I just NEEDED the meat. It was what my body needed. I had no idea that it was throwing off my natural body constitution. I felt so frustrated, the body type I considered my baseline was no longer a thing. But now I feel I’ve reverted back to my baseline state and who I was before stupid Paleo (sorry paleo people).
So, with all that in mind I’m so excited to start this blog chronicling my experience. I also want to share photos of my cooking, and thoughts on what it means to me for the body to thrive. I feel like I’ve entered a lifestyle that is in tune with my body and am looking forward to celebrating this with you :)
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