It brings me to tears watching my 18 year old daughter begin to slay her obesity problem. Ever since I found out about how antibiotics destroy the gut health, and vaccines carry a real cost, too... (She had c-diff at 6 mos old, and tubes in her ears at 7 mos old and Epstein Barre syndrome at 14 mos old.) Well, I look back at all the antibiotics the docs prescribed her as an infant and see that my going along with status quo medical treatment puts the blame on me just as much as our eff'ed up medical system. I trusted them. I was wrong to do so. And SHE has paid the price all her life with illness after illness, asthma that she has not grown out of, and... OBESITY. The last one is partially due to her destroyed beneficial gut bacteria and my need to feed my kids convenience foods, being a stressed out single mother.
Last month I decided to try a particular diet because Dr. Caryolyn Dean, who I am following for advice on my (now gone due to ReMag use) heart palpitations and IBS-C, suggested a Keto-based diet to heal leaky gut syndrome, which I know I have. I never got around to reading her PDF ebook on it, and so I rushed in the week before my start date to listed to you tube video after video on the subject, frequently out loud after dinner.
One night that week, my daughter came in the kitchen and sat down to ask me questions about "this diet I'm going on". I told her to watch some Dr. Ken Berry videos (who I had found earlier that week). She sat there for a long 45 minutes watching videos of her own accord. I sat there with her as a show of support, even though I had seen all of them already.
She proclaimed that night that she wanted to do the diet with me. I was SHOCKED, happily!
Fast forward to 2 weeks into the diet... I am down 8 lbs and she is down 13! She just texted me and said she hasn't weighed that much since her sophomore year in high school. She's super stoked and REALLY INTO learning and tweaking as she goes along. She's in FB groups, talking to friends who are also on it. Each weekend we are cooking meals together, a week ahead. She's learning to cook from this! She's learning to cook with whole foods! She's given up pasta and bread and sweet tea! She's gaining maturity in how she approaches food.
I could not be more proud of her! <3
And it brings me to tears feeling like I'm helping her get back what I caused her to always do without, her health. She doesn't blame me. But it's so amazing to be able to help reverse what's wrong with my child. She has a long way to go, but she is walking the talk, facing her setbacks, and it's also bringing us a little closer as she learns to "adult" as well.
So happy!
