Gary Day 3:
I think one of the things I have noticed the most about this change is the fact the amount of food I am eating to be “full” is reducing more and more. I have been under the opinion for a long time if we changed our diets, we would feel a lot healthier. Do I believe this is going to magically “cure” all of our ills, perhaps not, but if I and my family can feel better – is a journey like this worth the effort?
Things are tasting different, things are looking different. I’m thrilled with the way I am feeling better all of a sudden and wonder what will come next.
Day one was just unbelievable. I watched as Karen pulled a squash out of the oven and as she scraped it out, it looked just like pasta! Add a few tomatoes, basil and a few other items, and we have a wonderful first experience.
Day two brought the bean burgers on a pretzel bun and with oven fries. This was good and spicy.
Day three changed up a bit. We had a garden salad with this wonderful hash brown soup Karen makes – the twist being in added veggies in the stew to give it more power for us.
As I ate this on the third day I started pondering how we decided to change our lives in such a dramatic way. The reason lies in a number of reasons – comments or statistics I’d heard. But for me the thing I noticed after working in an international department was the people I knew from Asia were far more healthy than the people from the western world. Just little hints. I saw my Japanese friends eating rice and fish for breakfast while at the same buffet my western equivalents were eating a rasher of bacon and eggs. When I went out to eat with my Asian friends, we always ate a lot of cooking incorporating more vegetables and meat was the secondary part of the meal. In fact, there is something served in Taiwan called “green vegetable” which is just one of my favorite things in the world. Every time I’d ask a person what the real name was, they’d look at me with this dead-pan Asian look and tell me it was “green vegetable.” OK, it took me years to accept what it was – and I finally did – but I always wonder if there is a name for this kind of plant they cook over there that I love to eat so much. Just as many people had to be forced to eat my vegetables, I was the same when growing up and my experience with things other than meat products just existed of perhaps green beans, black eyed peas, fried okra, and corn of various types.
I am a convert to our church, and the concepts and it’s followed me around for many years until I finally had the opportunity to learn more about our religion, I decided it was right for me and joined. When I joined, I knew they followed a teaching which did not allow members to drink coffee and tea, but I had no idea regarding the entire aspect of the intent of this important revelation to us – because like many other revelations it is something we have to look at and ponder the true meanings behind what the writing of the section means.
As we progress along with this blog, it is our hope we gain more knowledge into the meaning of section 89 when Joseph Smith asked the Lord about a problem they were having during teaching with tobacco. I’ll bet he was surprised to not just get the answer to that, but also the answer to another aspect of how we might treat our bodies as better temples to the Lord.
If you are reading this, believer or scoffer – perhaps somewhere in-between you need to just know something we believe in. If you have a physical body, we believe it is because of a decision you made in the pre-existence to come to the earth to experience things with the eventual goal being to go back and live with our Father in Heaven.
Following this logic, our bodies are actually sacred temples housing our spirit selves and we need to take care of these “temples” we’ve been given by putting the correct things in them through what we put in our mouths.
Day Three Dinner: Hash Brown Soup with Vegetables, salad, Panera Bread
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| Hash Brown Soup, Green Salad, Panera Bread w/Turkey |
