I have been battling arthritis since I was in my 30’s and I am now 77 years old, but this last fall it became unbearable. I was eating as well as I knew how and I was working out, weight lifting, yoga, Zumba and the Silver sneakers routine. I had been trying to lose weight since I turned 40. I tried a number of diets, Atkins, fasting, and the best that I found at that time was Fat Flush. I had lost 30 pounds, from 220 to 185, and then I hit a plateau. The bottom line is, at this point I didn’t care about the weight, I hurt and my doctor said that I had severe arthritis. The fall of 2015, my doctor started prescribing more and more pain medication. I couldn’t think straight, had no energy and the weight was creeping back.
Then my beautiful healthy daughter said, “I’m tired of not being able to have a decent conversation with my mother.” At that point, the doctor and I realized that taking opiate drugs was not the solution, but the alternatives didn’t seem to work. I spent many hours in bed not being able to do much and depression set in, then the tears began. No more yoga, no more going to the gym, I’ve always loved being active, how could I just sit and suffer.
At this point, I decided that I needed an anti-inflammatory diet, I had been fairly successful with the low-carb diet, but had to work hard at keeping the weight off.
Since I was becoming sedimentary, I found a website, Mindvalley, with all their good ideas and speakers and their philosophy. They were at least giving my mind something to do, but in the meantime, I was trying to put together an anti-inflammatory diet plan for myself, because I have always believed that what we ate definitely effected the way our body felt. Then a miracle happened, I was listening to what I thought was just another speaker when I came across Eric Edmeades. He was talking and for some reason I didn’t even hear that it would help you lose weight, he was saying that it could reduce your pain. I will never forget the day I signed up for this Wild-Fit Quest. I’m a senior citizen, could barely walk at that time, had at least one documented heart-attack, sinus problems, needed to lose weight and generally depressed and very little money. The price almost gave me another heart-attack, but I did it anyway, putting it on my credit card. I refused to tell anyone that I had signed up for this, because my fear was that this was another scam.
Once I started, I had to tell my partner and he took it with ease. We were going to take a trip this spring, so we made plans and had a good time. But almost from the beginning, I started feeling better. My doctors had all said I was dehydrated, so the first week was great, I felt better.
Water and air. I knew about air, I have done all kinds of programs involving breath. I’m a certified re-birther, Reki Master Practioner, among other things. I’ve done a lot of workshops with a friend that studied under Donna Eden.
For some reason I didn’t like water, since I was raised on a back woods farm, the water never tasted good enough to drink after moving into the city. Now I have a reverse osmosis water filter that I drink water from and I like it. Yes, I add trace mins.
Back to the journey, one of the first things Eric told us to remove from our diet, was sugar. I knew I had a problem with sugar, but I didn’t know how addicted I was. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown, that week-end Eric removed sugar. I even cried and said why sugar. I was ready to do dairy, but not sugar. So I went out and purchased 4 large sugar laden cupcakes, handmade from a special sweet shop. The topper was when Monday came around, I could hardly move, didn’t want to get up out of bed. I didn’t want to go to my art class. I was in severe pain. My body hurt, just existing. I think I put it in the Tribe talk somewhere, I never want to hurt that bad again and I will never willing have sugar again.
My history with milk, I remember people saying that when my mother decided to leave, while I was still nursing, my grandmother couldn’t get me to drink any cow’s milk or much of anything else. I kept throwing up the milk, so they bought canned milk. I could keep that down. Actually canned condensed milk was the only thing I would drink. (it’s got sugar in it)
The other thing that has come back to me with this program, was that my Granny always told me to eat my greens, especially in the spring. When I asked why, she told me it was to clean me out. So I had all the answers all around me, but couldn’t put to them.
I was always pencil thin. When I was in college, I was having a hard time eating and the doctors were upset about the lack of weight I had on my body, so the doctors told me to drink a malted milk shake every day, so I could put on weight. The other day, I’m watching my dialogue and up pops, you have been good, why don’t we get a treat, where is the nearest Dairy Queen. Of course, since Eric has been programming me, I knew what that was, and I didn’t do it. Didn’t hurt a bit, and it didn’t hurt me later, like it would have.
The results of the Quest are as follows: I have released at least 20 pounds and still going down. I have gone down at least 2 dress sizes. I don’t have any more sinus problems and am currently not taking any medication for that problem. (First time in 40 years) I no longer seem to have incontinence. My acid reflux seems to have disappeared. My severe joint pain has almost gone totally away. I have a lot more energy. I’m able to walk in the mornings, like I used to. I’m planning to go back to yoga. And I will decide when I will get back into eating differently, for now I don’t want to change anything. I love the alkagizer prime. I even went to my grandson’s wedding, this past week and I’m still releasing weight. I took my nutribullet with me on the plane, flying from one side of the US to the other and back. Even as old as I am I didn’t have a real hard time with Jet lag. Thanks again Eric.