So far, it's working great! I've been very busy these last nine months, traveling on a couple of business-vacation trips, exploring new restaurants, and even going to the county fair. I am learning so much about how specific foods affect me, and how my body uses certain foods to increase my energy and stamina more and more.
Whole grains are definitely the way to go if I want to lose weight — they are a sure thing. I've lost 18.6 pounds over this period of time and watched the scales fluctuate up and down in 1 to 2-pound increments each week depending on how much I ate at restaurants versus how much I ate at home.
Also key to my weight loss has been a steady and increasing amount of movement, which included gardening, hiking, and walking in the fresh air.
During this time, my Gonstead chiropractor introduced me to the book, The End of Medicine, by Kaare Bursell, and I consequently started my own special Health Spa with ginger compresses and daikon baths four times a week. Finding daikon leaves in large quantities was quite a challenge and I probably would've had to wait another year to grow my own if it weren't for a produce manager at the New Leaf.
I took that book with me on my trips along with two other very helpful books, Food and Intuition, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Julia Ferre. Stay tuned for book reports on all three.
My husband and I visited several new restaurants both on our trips and locally. Several stand out in my mind, such as Takara's Japanese Restaurant in Capitola that much to my surprise is now finally serving brown rice, and Kumi Japanese Restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada that not only serves brown rice, it is also excellent, tender, and fresh brown rice! Geisha's Japanese Restaurant and Tea House in Capitola-by-the-Sea was a delightful surprise, serving artistically beautiful food including jasmine-brown-rice vegetarian rolls (sustainable sushi).
Similar to My Dream Diner — Burger Number Seven, I have a new dream I want to write about, called "The World Macrobiotic Kitchen And Store" in the Glass Pyramid Building, New York City.
Next on my To-Do List: My first consultation appointment with Cynthia Briscoe at Macrobiotics America to begin another layer of my self-healing journey. I can hardly wait!
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